Marshall University News

Two years ago, Robin Capehart was named the 32nd president of West Liberty State College.

Statement from Marshall Interim Athletic Director David Steele regarding the passing of longtime Herald Dispatch writer Ernie Salvatore Friday, July 3, 2009 "On behalf of the athletic department, I would like to express our deepest sympathies to the Salvatore family.

A new charity raffle is helping to raise money to build a new place to treat children at Cabell Huntington Hospital.

COURTESY: MARSHALL SPORTS INFORMATION David Steele, associate athletic director for finance at Marshall University, has been appointed the universitya s interim athletic director, President Stephen J. Kopp announced today.

July 1, 2009 Rahall Tours Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Cabell-Huntington Hospital By Huntingtonnews.net Staff Huntington, WV -- Rep.

Governor Manchin will sign a new law that could help secure the futures of autistic children.

Matt Schiffbauer was only 5 seconds off lead. COURTESY: MARSHALL SPORTS INFORMATION Marshall University freshman Matt Schiffbauer finished fifth in the 1500 meters race at the U.S. National Junior Championships at the University of Oregon's Heyward Field on Sunday.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has suspended efforts to analyze a decades-long backlog of DNA evidence from thousands of rape and sexual assault cases, blaming a lack of cash and staff.

Main Category: Seniors / Aging Also Included In: Medical Students / Training Article Date: 26 Jun 2009 A highly successful and innovative training program that prepares chief residents at medical schools to diagnose and treat health problems common to older adults -- and to prepare the medical students and residents who they help train to do the ...

June 25, 2009 Animal Advocates to Chain Themselves to Doghouses Special to Huntingtonnews.net Huntington, WV -- Several members of the Marshall University student organization The Vegan and Vegetarian Life Society, along with other local activists will put themselves 'in the doghouse' in order to raise awareness about the inhumanity of keeping dogs ...

About 200 young people are on the Marshall University campus for freshman orientation.

Cabell Huntington Hospital and Marshall University's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has added a third fellowship-trained orthopedic hand surgeon as Dr.

Morale within Marshall University's largest college is as low as it's ever been and a series of problems have caused matters to come close to physical confrontation, according to an internal review of the college's dean prepared by a five-member university committee.

Marshall University has received a $198,000 federal grant for the study of flammable liquids in relation to suspicious fires.

If you'd never heard of Jon and Kate a few months ago, you probably know them now.

Marshall Universitya s Board of Governors Thursday approved a tuition and fee increase of $169 per semester for all full-time undergraduate resident and metro students for fiscal year 2009-2010. Tuition and fee increases of $240 for undergraduate non-resident students also were approved.

Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 ; 12:52 AM Post Comment Updated Thursday, June 18, 2009 ; 01:19 AM The event was designed to encourage growth of West Virginia's biometrics industry.

While students from throughout the region will be participating in the third annual Timber Flute Festival at the Randolph County Community Arts Center, members of the community are encouraged to attend the concerts, lectures and contra dance associated with the weeklong festival Sunday through June 26.

"Banjo Women in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky," a multimedia exhibit of photographs, text, and audio that celebrates the role of women in the development of banjo music in Appalachia, has opened in the Special Collections Department of Marshall University Libraries.

Local labor organizations and activist groups are holding a health care town hall meeting in Huntington on Saturday.