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Thirsk appointed to new role at NYSERNet

NYSERNet, a private not-for-profit corporation created to foster science and education in New York State, announced at its recent Board meeting that Bill Thirsk, Marist's Vice President and CIO, has been selected as the new Board Chair of the subsidiary operating company, NYSERNet.Org.

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.

Marist's B.S. in Accounting a Top Program

Marist has one of the top undergraduate accounting programs in the nation, according to the 2015 "Best Bachelor’s In Accounting Programs" rankings, which were recently released from Accounting.com.

Marist Goes Two for Three

A team of four Marist College sports communication students won this year's undergraduate case study competition held last month at the College Sports Research Institute (CSRI) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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.

#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.

Advising on "The Roosevelts"

As one of a small group of historical advisers for the latest project from acclaimed film maker Ken Burns film, “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,” Associate Professor of History and Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Dr. David Woolner spent a week at Burns’ studio in Walpole, N.H.

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.

Alumni

Marist Again Named a 'Best College Value' by Kiplinger's

Marist has been named to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of the Top 300 Best College Values of 2017. The College is No. 73 on the list of best values in private colleges, according to the top personal finance magazine. This is the eleventh straight year Marist has been on the prestigious list, which features schools that combine outstanding academics with affordable cost.

Rankings and Recognition

Open Doors 2015

Marist College is again among the nation’s leading colleges and universities for international education, according to the 2015 Open Doors Report, the most authoritative source of data on U.S. students studying abroad for academic credit at their home colleges or universities.

Rankings and Recognition

NewsHour's Judy Woodruff Receives Lowell Thomas Award

Judy Woodruff, co-anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour, is the 24th broadcast journalist to receive the Marist College Lowell Thomas Award, which recognizes outstanding individuals in the communications industry, whose lives and work reflect the imagination, courage, ambition, and humanity of the legendary newsman and adventurer for whom it is named.

Academics and Research

Marist College Partners with IBM and Linux Foundation to Support Linux on the Mainframe

Ross A. Mauri '80, General Manager, z Systems, IBM Corporation and Vice Chair of the Marist Board of Trustees, yesterday announced the first Linux-only mainframe, LinuxONE, at LinuxCon in Seattle, Washington. IBM has chosen Marist, along with Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, to host clouds that will provide developers access to a virtual IBM LinuxONE at no cost.

Rankings and Recognition

Opening Doors: Study Abroad at Marist

Marist is among the top colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to sending students to study abroad, according to the latest "Open Doors" report, the Institute for International Education’s authoritative source on international exchange in higher education.

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.

Alumni

Technology Entrepreneur and Alumnus Named to Marist Board

Marist is proud to announce that alumnus and technology entrepreneur Suresh Kothapalli '91MS has been elected to the College’s Board of Trustees. Kothapalli attended his first board meeting as a trustee in May, after being elected at the board’s most recent meeting, in February.

"KORENGAL"

The Marist College chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will host Sebastian Junger, best-selling author of The Perfect Storm and award-winning journalist and filmmaker, for a Jan. 29 screening of his latest film, the Afghanistan war documentary KORENGAL, which picks up where the Academy Award-nominated Restrepo left off. The screening will be followed by a Q & A/discussion session and a book signing.

Academics and Research

Marist Again Named a “Best College Value” by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Acknowledged for Embodying Exceptional Economic and Academic Value

Marist has been named to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of the Top 300 Best College Values of 2016. Marist climbed six spots on the list of Best Private College Values, to 57 from 63. Introduced in 1998, the rankings highlight public schools, private universities and private liberal arts colleges that combine outstanding academics with affordable cost. In addition, Kiplinger has ranked the top 100 best values in each category.

Alumni

A Marist Professor and Her Former Student Come Full Circle

Andrey Pavlov ’02/’03M tried to avoid taking Professor of Strategy Helen Rothberg’s class, but when his friends registered, so did he. Andrey figured it would be better to suffer through Professor Rothberg than to take his capstone course alone. That was nearly 16 years ago, and it was the spark of a magnificent and lasting friendship.