<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/shawnee-state-mot-students-receive-deans-award-celebration-scholarship.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>05/15/2025</pubDate><title>Shawnee State MOT students receive Deans’ Award at Celebration of Scholarship</title><categories>Innovation</categories><description>Shawnee State University Master of Occupational Therapy students, Ally Barber, Bekah Badgett, Allison Haines, and Merrick Clinger presented their research at this year’s Celebration of Scholarship academic conference on campus. Their research project, “The Use of Occupation-Based Assessments for Evaluation of CMC Osteoarthritis in Appalachia: A Survey”, earned them the Deans’ Award for their work.</description><author/><image><img src="/sites/default/files/2025-05/Deans-Award-2025.jpg" alt="students with award certificates"/></image></item>