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The Marist College Board of Trustees elected alumni Maureen O’Rourke ’85 and Robert Shanahan ’83 to the Board during the May meeting held on campus earlier this month.

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.

Myra Young Armstead to speak on "The Hudson River Valley in the Antebellum African-American Imagination"

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.

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.

Marist continues its celebration of National Poetry Month

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.

Indian traditions were on full display as Marist celebrated the South Asian festival of Diwali.

Award-winning CBS journalist Maurice DuBois will deliver the keynote address at the 27th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast in Poughkeepsie on Friday, January 19, 7:15am, at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center.

Marist Named a “Best College Value” by Kiplinger’s for 12th Consecutive Year

The Marist College Singers will perform their annual benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on Saturday and Sunday, November 4 and 5, 2017, in the Nelly Goletti Theatre.

Continuing its long-standing support of Marist, the Poughkeepsie-based James J. McCann Charitable Trust has issued a $2 million grant to the College for replacement and significant expansion of the auxiliary gym and fitness center in the James J. McCann Recreation Center.

Business Leaders of Tomorrow to complete in Mid-Hudson Regional Business

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.

David G. Roskies will deliver the 41st annual William and Sadie Effron Lecture in Jewish Studies on Monday, November 20, 7:00pm, in the Nelly Goletti Theatre.

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.

Cole Porter's classic 1934 nautical-themed musical Anything Goes will be presented by the Marist Theatre Program and Marist College Club of Theatre Arts at the Nelly Goletti Theatre on February 21-25, 2018.

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.