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2020-December-14-New Location For Etsu Health Covid- Testing Site, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 14, 2020) – The ETSU Health COVID-19 community collection site that delivers PCR molecular test results in 24 hours is moving to a new location at the East Tennessee State University Parking Garage, located at the corner of State of Franklin Road and Jack Vest Drive.

Beginning Monday, Dec. 14, the COVID-19 collection site will become a drive-through testing site, operating on the second floor of the parking garage. Pre-registration through the ETSU Health website (www.etsuhealth.org) is required for tests.

Previously, the site was hosted at the Johnson City Community Health Center. However, as the …

2020-December-14-Nsca Minority Scholarship, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY – (Dec. 14, 2020) Ai Ishida, a doctoral candidate in the sport physiology and sport performance program in East Tennessee State University’s Clemmer College, is the recipient of the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s (NSCA) Minority Scholarship for 2020.

The $2,000 scholarship is designed to encourage minorities to enter the field of strength and conditioning.

Ishida began the ETSU doctoral program in 2018 and also works with the ETSU women’s soccer team as a sport scientist where he assists coaches in developing plans for improving physical performance. He received his B.S. degree in sport sciences from Waseda University …

2020-December-12-Etsu Fall 2020 Commencement, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 12, 2020)  – East Tennessee State University conferred more than 1,400 degrees today during its Virtual Commencement Ceremony at 10 a.m.

The ceremony featured special congratulatory remarks from U.S. Congressman Dr. Phil Roe and U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, as well as ETSU alumnus and Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield, who plays Henry Roswell on ABC’s “For Life.” During his time at ETSU, Busfield was involved with the theatre program and worked closely with faculty members Daryl Frank and Bud Frank. He has appeared as a regular or recurring character in 18 series, including “thirtysomething,” “The West Wing” …

2020-December-11-Reading Through The Pandemic, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 11, 2020) -- East Tennessee State University’s Language and Culture Resource Center (LCRC) has devised a way to help students experiencing financial difficulty during the COVID-19 pandemic, and at the same time, lay the foundation for a specialized library of books about language and culture that students can use in years to come.

The program, “Reading Through the Pandemic,” takes LCRC funds generated by interpretations and translations to buy books about language and culture for qualifying students, according to Dr. Felipe Fiuza, director of the LCRC and assistant professor of Spanish in the ETSU Department of Literature …

2020-December-11-Informational Webinar, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 11, 2020) – An informational webinar is planned for Wednesday, Dec. 16, for those interested in an upcoming Paralegal Certificate Course© to be offered by The Center for Legal Studies (CLS).

The webinar and course are being hosted locally by the Office of Professional Development at East Tennessee State University.

The informational webinar will be offered Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 9 p.m. (8 p.m. Central). Registration is available at https://bit.ly/3a3DNgm. The recorded webinar will be made available to registrants who are unable to attend the live event.

In this webinar, which will be held via Zoom, …

2020-December-09-University High Romps In Win Over Kachea, University School, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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2020-December-09-Renaissance Child Winter Enrichment, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 9, 2020) – Children in grades K-6 are invited to attend the Renaissance Child Winter Enrichment program at East Tennessee State University from Monday-Wednesday, Dec. 21-23.

This three-day STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) experience, hosted by the ETSU Office of Professional Development, includes a field trip to the ETSU Planetarium with an emphasis on the winter sky and space.

Counselors have planned a variety of holiday arts and crafts, games and winter fun enrichment activities for campers, with outdoor play included as weather allows.

Campers may be dropped off at Sam Wilson Hall at 8 a.m. …

2020-December-08-Intersection Of Covid-19 And Substance Use Disorders, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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Kate Beatty and Michael Meit

JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 8, 2020) – Dr. Kate Beatty and Michael Meit, faculty in the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health’s Center for Rural Health Research, have co-authored an article in the Journal of Appalachian Health.  

The article, “Rural Appalachia Battling the Intersection of Two Crises: COVID-19 and Substance Use Disorders,” discusses rural Appalachia’s great risk of unforeseen side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including increased mortality from substance use disorders.

Dr. Margaret Miller, alumna of East Tennessee State University’s MD/MPH program, is lead author of the article. Dr. Rebekah …

2020-December-08-New Clemmer College Dean, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY – (Dec. 8, 2020) Following a national search, Dr. Janna Scarborough has been named dean of the Clemmer College at East Tennessee State University.

Scarborough joined the ETSU faculty in 2006 and has served as interim dean for the past 20 months.  For six years, she served as chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Services and also held an associate dean appointment in the Clemmer College before assuming the interim deanship in March 2019.

Last year, she spent a semester as a Presidential Fellow working closely with President Brian Noland and the ETSU senior administration team. …

2020-December-07-Bailey Davis To Become First Graduate Of Rehabilitative Health Sciences Major, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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h2 class=""> Bailey Davis A native of Crossville, Tennessee, Davis will become ETSU's first student to complete the RHSC-BS major.

JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 7, 2020)  – When Bailey Davis graduates on Dec. 12, 2020, she will become the first East Tennessee State University student to complete a bachelor of science in the new rehabilitative health sciences major.

Davis, a native of Crossville, Tennessee, came to ETSU knowing she wanted to become an occupational therapist. But when she entered as a freshman, the rehabilitative health sciences major, B.S. (RHSC-BS), which is designed to prepare students for a variety of health-related professions, …

2020-December-04-Fall 2020 Virtual Commencement, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 4, 2020) – East Tennessee State University will host a virtual Commencement Ceremony for the Class of 2020 on Saturday, Dec. 12.

This ceremony honoring the university’s August and December graduates will be streamed live beginning at 10 a.m. at etsu.edu/classof2020. For a more personalized experience, graduates and their families and friends will select and stream a specific ceremony for their college or academic program. Viewers may also stream the ceremony and arrange a watch party on the ETSU Facebook page (facebook.com/easttennesseestateuniversity). 

In addition, WCYB-TV 5 will broadcast the virtual Commencement Ceremony at 12:30 …

2020-December-03-Two German Companies Join Innovation Labs Soft Landings Program, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 3, 2020) –  Two companies based in Germany, senswork Inc. and Steel Service Krefeld, USA, are receiving an accelerated introduction to United States business practices, regulations, and culture through the Soft Landings Designation held by the East Tennessee State University Innovation Lab. 
Since 2015, the Innovation Lab, a high-tech business incubator located at 2109 W. Market St., has been a member of the International Business Innovation Association’s (InBIA) Soft Landings network that offers support for businesses entering or expanding into a new country. Soft Landings designees help companies make contacts in a new country more quickly …

2020-December-03-Uh's Kaleb Meredith In The News, University School, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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2020-December-03-Student Pharmacist Earns American Indian Graduate Center Scholarship, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 2, 2020) – East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy student pharmacist Chandler Parton (’22), of Fall Branch, Tennessee, has earned a prestigious, merit-based scholarship from the American Indian Graduate Center. He is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Tribe.

This is the second year in a row Parton has earned the $20,000 Science Post Graduate Scholarship from the American Indian Graduate Center.

The scholarship provides financial assistance to eligible American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduate, graduate and professional degree candidates to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research in and opportunities …

2020-December-02-2020 3mt Winners, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 2, 2020) – Doctoral student Sharon Bigger won East Tennessee State University’s recent 2020 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition with a presentation on “Advance Care Planning Protocols and Hospitalization, Rehospitalization, and Emergency Department Use in Home Health.”

Sharon Bigger

This competition, created at the University of Queensland, Australia, provides graduate students the opportunity to develop professional presentation and research communication skills.  Participants distill lengthy, complex projects into engaging, three-minute presentations designed for …

2020-December-02-Dr Jonathan Moorman Receives Va Grant To Study Covid-19, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 2, 2020) – Dr. Jonathan Moorman of East Tennessee State University was recently awarded a $330,000 Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Merit Review Award by the Department of Veterans Affairs to study immune responses to COVID-19. 

The project, “Characterizing trained immune responses to COVID-19,” was one of 18 funded studies awarded from a pool of 104 applications received from VA Medical Centers across the country.

“The new project’s goals are to determine the importance of innate immune responses in responding to repeat exposure to viral antigens following COVID-19 recovery and  identify ‘trained’ innate immune memory responses to …

2020-December-02-Duncan Serving On Nasem, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY – (Dec. 2, 2020) Dr. William Duncan, vice provost for research at East Tennessee State University, has been named by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to its committee on Assessment of NIH Research on Autoimmune Diseases.

He and the other committee members have been charged with providing a general overview of epidemiologic trends in autoimmune diseases, with particular focus on the research efforts by the National Institutes of Health.  They will be closely examining the NIH research portfolio with particular attention to issues such as risk factors, diagnostic tools, barriers to diagnoses, treatments and …

2020-December-02-Student Pharmacist Earns American Indian Graduate Center Scholarship, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (December 2, 2020) – East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy student pharmacist Chandler Parton (’22), of Fall Branch, Tennessee, has earned a prestigious, merit-based scholarship from the American Indian Graduate Center. He is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Tribe.

This is the second year in a row Parton has earned the $20,000 Science Post Graduate Scholarship from the American Indian Graduate Center.

The scholarship provides financial assistance to eligible American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduate, graduate and professional degree candidates to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research in and opportunities …

Iba Newsletter [December 2020], Communications Department, Office Of The Registrar

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2020-December-Postgraduates Honored At Virtual Ceremony, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy honored its postgraduate pharmacy residents and fellows on Thursday night in a virtual graduation ceremony.  

Speakers included Dr. Brian Noland, ETSU president; Dr. Debbie Byrd, dean of the pharmacy school; Dr. David Linville, executive vice provost for academics and health; and Dr. Ralph Lugo, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice. 

In addition, program directors shared remarks and presented the graduates with program certificates. They included Dr. Katelyn Alexander, community pharmacy residency program director; Dr. Brian Cross, ambulatory care residency program director; Dr. David Stewart, internal medicine residency program …

2020-December-01-A Zoom Holiday Party With The Nolands, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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Season's Greetings

Wishing everyone a safe, healthy and happy holiday season

You're invited to view a "very virtual" holiday party

featuring

East Tennessee State University President Brian Noland and First Lady Donna Noland

and a familiar cast of characters

2020-December-01-A New Look Expanded Services For The Nave Center, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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ELIZABETHTON (Dec. 1, 2020)  – The East Tennessee State University Center for Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the Nave Center underwent extensive renovations this year, expanding services offered at the interdisciplinary, interprofessional clinic located in Elizabethton.

This facility has served as an academic space for ETSU since 1976 and has transformed over the years into an interdisciplinary clinic with multiple areas of practice that serves community health care needs and educates ETSU students who are pursuing a variety of careers in the rehabilitative and diagnostic health sciences.

During the summer, former classrooms and lab spaces were transformed into additional SLP …

2020-December-01-Enjoy Retirement, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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Congratulations to the following members of the East Tennessee State University family who retired in December.  Thank you for your service!

Fred J. Alsop III – Professor, Biological Sciences, 48 years

Gary D. Burkette – Professor, Accountancy, 28 years

Mary Elizabeth Cradic – Office Manager, Office of the President, 27 years

Bruce Dalton – Professor, Social Work, 17 years

Joseph G. Disque – Professor, Counseling and Human Services, 26 years

Edward J. Dwyer – Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, 44 years

Brian G. Evanshen – Research Specialist, Environmental Health, 30 years

Richard J. Felts – Boiler Mechanic, Power House Operations, 22 …

2020-December-01-Governors School Applications, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY – The Governor’s School for the Scientific Exploration of Tennessee Heritage, offered by the East Tennessee State University Center of Excellence for Appalachian Studies and Services, is now accepting applications for summer 2021. The School will run from May 30-June 25.

Students live on the ETSU campus and earn three hours of college credit. Rising juniors and seniors in Tennessee high schools or home schools are eligible to apply, but applications must be submitted through the school counselor. Interested students should see their school counselor. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2021. More information is available at …

2020-December-01-Going Places, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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Rebecca Fugate is a family-focused solutions counselor with the Center for Community Outreach and Applied Research. She was previously a travel counselor with World Travel Service Inc. She holds an M.A. in psychology-clinical counseling from The Citadel.

Bridget Garland is an assistant HIPAA compliance officer in the Office of HIPAA Compliance and Security after serving ETSU Physicians as EHR director. She holds a master’s degree in English from ETSU.

Brianne A. Hayes is the bursar in Business and Finance after serving as bursar at the University of Memphis. She holds a B.S. degree in accounting from the University of South …

2020-December-01-Quinn Wins Sodexo Sweepstakes, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY – Quinn Daniels, a student at East Tennessee State University, was recently named one of 30 randomly selected winners in Sodexo’s “Spread the Joy Sweepstakes” as part of its fall resident dining promotion series.

This national prize sweepstakes focused on positive things that may be spread – like joy to others – giving students across the United States the chance to win one of 30 $500 donations made in their names to the campus food pantry or local hunger-related charity of their choice. According to Sodexo, “this comes at a time when food pantries are deeply in need …

2020-December-01-Dr Timir Paul Receives Grant To Study Peripheral Artery Disease Treatments, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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Dr. Timir Paul

JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 17, 2020)  – Dr. Timir Paul of East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine has received a $200,000 research grant from the University of Texas Southwestern to evaluate the “real world” effectiveness and use of non-stent and stent-based therapies among patients treated with peripheral artery disease.

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a narrowing of the peripheral …

2020-December-01-Welcome To The Etsu College Of Nursing, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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As the largest nursing program in Tennessee, the ETSU College of Nursing has a long history of preparing nurses and nurse educators to make a difference in health care in the Appalachian Highlands and beyond. A few of headlines from 2020 provide a glimpse of the College’s impact and reach.

Rankings & Accolades

Curriculum Innovation

Top in Tennessee: ETSU College of Nursing was recently named the No. 1 RN to BSN program in the state of Tennessee …

2020-December-01-Ibma Awards 2020, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (December 2020) – East Tennessee State University’s Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country Music Studies program won big earlier this fall in the virtual 2020 International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Convention and Awards.

Haselden Ciaccio

The weeklong event was highlighted by the presentation of an IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award to the ETSU program’s founder, Jack Tottle. The IBMA Industry Awards are given each year to professionals dedicated to furthering bluegrass …

2020-December-01-Students Collecting Clothing Items For The Homeless Community, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

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JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 1, 2020)  – Students at East Tennessee State University are holding a donation drive this week to collect goods for the homeless community in the Appalachian Highlands. The drive is hosted by the Street Medicine Interest Group (SMIG), an interprofessional coalition of students from within the ETSU Health colleges.

The drive will take place Wednesday, Dec. 2 and Saturday, Dec. 5 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., and on Sunday, Dec. 6, from noon to 4 p.m. Donations can be dropped off at the ground level of the ETSU parking garage off Jack Vest Drive. This will …