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Baseball Legend Bobby Valentine to Speak

POUGHKEEPSIE – The Marist College Center for Sports Communication will host a talk by former Major League Baseball player and manager Bobby Valentine. Valentine, who also has worked as a television analyst for ESPN and other sports networks, will answer questions about his life experiences in all facets of the game.

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Marist College Partners with BlackRidge Technology to Launch New Cybersecurity Initiative

Marist College and BlackRidge Technology today announced a research partnership to develop advanced cybersecurity capabilities that provide an additional layer of protection for enterprises that compute ‘at scale,’ such as the financial sector, exchanges, and private cloud providers. The capability to provide advanced cybersecurity research was developed in the New York State Cloud Computing and Analytics Center at Marist College. The research environment includes the Software Defined Networking (SDN) Interoperability Lab, where BlackRidge will work in collaboration with eight other major network systems providers.

Alumni

Celebrating a Successful Campaign

The Campaign for Marist, the College’s first comprehensive fundraising campaign, concluded successfully on Dec. 31, 2012, after exceeding its $150 million goal.

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Analyzing Politics, Media, and the Law

Jeffrey Toobin, author, senior legal analyst for CNN, and staff writer for The New Yorker, will launch Marist College’s 2013 Autumn Lecture Series, with a talk at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18 in the Nelly Goletti Theatre in the College’s Student Center.

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Marist Welcomes OACAC Attendees

More than a thousand school counselors and college and university admissions professionals from around the world are arriving in the Hudson River Valley this week as Marist College hosts the 20th Anniversary and largest-ever Overseas Association for College Admission Counseling (OACAC) conference July 9-11.

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CNN's Jake Tapper to Speak at Marist

JAKE TAPPER, CNN Anchor/Chief Washington Correspondent and author of the New York Timesbest-seller "THE OUTPOST: An Untold Story of American Valor," will speak at Marist College Monday, Jan. 28 at 7 pm in the Nelly Goletti Theatre.

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Finding Poetry at Marist

What happens when a librarian and a poet team up to make poetry matter on campus? As part of Marist’s celebration of National Poetry Month, the Marist Poetry Project is collaborating with the Cannavino Library to showcase original student writing on campus.As part of Marist’s celebration of National Poetry Month, the Marist Poetry Project is collaborating with the Cannavino Library to showcase original student writing on campus.

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#MeToo: “The Revelation That Needs to Become a Revolution”

The emergence of the #MeToo movement has been one of the most significant developments in recent political history, forcing the problems of sexual harassment and assault out into the open and bringing to account a startling number of powerful men in the worlds of business, entertainment, politics, technology, and academia.

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Author to Speak on Hudson River Valley as Birthplace of Modern Environmental Movement

Dr. Robert Lifset, Donald Keith Jones Associate Professor of Honors and History at the University of Oklahoma, will speak at Marist about his book, Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014), much of the research for which he conducted in Marist's Archives and Special Collections' Environmental History Collections.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: The Story Continues

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer undergoing cancer treatment whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital to the development of modern vaccines, cancer treatments, in vitro fertilization techniques, and more. HeLa cells are the most widely used human cell lines in existence. Mrs. Lacks’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she has been virtually unknown.

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Autumn Lecture Series 2017

The Office of Academic Affairs will sponsor the 2017 Autumn Lecture Series with the speakers listed below. All lectures are free and open to the public.

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Networking with Professionals of Color Event April 7

The Marist College Social Work Association and Black Student Union will host "Networking With Professionals of Color" on Friday, April 7, from 5-7:30 p.m. in the Henry Hudson Room (FN301) in Fontaine Hall. Community leaders and other professionals of color will share personal stories of success, activism, and growth, along with networking opportunities.

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"I Don't Want to be Predictable"

Longtime journalist and Editor-in-Chief of ESPN's The Undefeated Kevin Merida visited campus recently to meet with students, discuss his nearly four decades in the news business, and share his thoughts on the state of the media and the complex intersection of sports and race

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Autumn Lecture Series Speakers Announced

New York Times columnist and author Ross Douthat will kick off Marist's Autumn Lecture Series on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 7 p.m., when he speaks on "Bad Religion: Culture Wars, Political Polarization, and the Transformation of Christianity" in the College's Nelly Goletti Theatre. All events in the series are free and open to the public.