POUGHKEEPSIE – Judy Woodruff, co-anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, and Al Hunt, Bloomberg View columnist and longtime Wall Street Journal reporter and executive Washington editor, will deliver a joint address at Marist College’s undergraduate Commencement on Saturday, May 23, and both will be awarded Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees.

Photos from the 68th Annual Commencement

School of Management Professor Jay Bainbridge spent part of his semester break in Paris, but it’s not as glamorous as it sounds.

POUGHKEEPSIE – Sue Herera, the pioneering financial journalist and award-winning author and co-anchor of CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” will be the featured speaker at Marist College’s undergraduate Commencement on Saturday, May 24, and will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. As a founding member of world business news leader CNBC, who began her career at the Financial News Network, Herera was one of the first women to break into broadcast business journalism and ascend to the top of her profession.

POUGHKEEPSIE – “I want you to go out there and live a life that’s filled with satisfaction, joy, and happiness,” Emmy Award-winning newsman Ernie Anastos told the 1,051 members of the Marist College Class of 2013 at Saturday’s Commencement, as thousands of family members and friends looked on.

POUGHKEEPSIE — The Committee on Catholic Studies and the Marcellin Board for Catholic Activities present the 2015 St. Marcellin Champagnat Lecture at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, in the Nelly Goletti Theater. The lecture, "Pope Francis and Church Reform," will be delivered by Fr. Thomas J. Reese, S.J., of the National Catholic Reporter. It is free and open to the public.

The 4th annual Hudson valley conference

POUGHKEEPSIE - The election of Pope Francis has sparked a leadership revolution in the Catholic Church and energized Catholics worldwide. In the annual Champagnat Lecture, presented by the St. Marcellin Endowment for Catholic Activities, veteran religion journalist John L. Allen, Jr. explores the "Francis Revolution" and provides a framework for identifying challenges faced by the Church, the Pope, and the Catholic people as the revolution continues.