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Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 [social_share/]   HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Jayme Waldron often can be found crawling through dense brush in search of the largest venomous snake in North America—the eastern diamondback rattlesnake. An assistant professor of biology at Marshall University, she has spent much of her career tracking the snakes to learn more about how and where they

Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Chemical Alliance Zone’s Chemicals and Materials Commercialization Fund has awarded $20,000 to a Marshall University scientist to help bring to market a technology he has developed for repairing skin injuries. The award to Dr. Jingwei Xie of the Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (MIIR) will help Xie’s research team

Monday, July 22, 2013 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Miaozong Wu of the Center for Diagnostic Nanosystems at the Marshall University School of Pharmacy has been awarded a $750,000 grant from NASA to lead a team of researchers investigating the muscle and bone loss associated with space travel. Wu’s three-year project was one of only 14 funded nationally

Friday, July 19, 2013 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Scouts attending this week’s 2013 National Scout Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Reserve are getting the opportunity to explore state-of-the-art virtual technology and 3-D printing, thanks to Marshall University’s engineering and advanced manufacturing programs. Hundreds of Scouts each hour are visiting the Jamboree exhibits sponsored by the university’s Center for

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University’s Center for Environmental, Geotechnical and Applied Sciences and the West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center at Marshall University have announced the installation of a hydro generator to be used as a demonstration and education project in the Morris Creek Watershed near Montgomery. Installed in conjunction with the Morris Creek

Thursday, May 30, 2013 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Twelve undergraduate students from eight institutions are spending their summer doing biomedical research in Marshall University’s laboratories. The students are participating in nine-week programs sponsored by the West Virginia IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (WV-INBRE) and the university’s Summer Research Internship for Minority Students (SRIMS) program. Dr. Elsa I.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University faculty members and students have been awarded 13 grants totaling $107,000 for aerospace-related research and educational programs. The grants from the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium support projects of scientific interest to NASA. The projects funded at Marshall range from a study to explore how obesity affects