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Oil & Gas Technical Exhibition draws hundreds of students, community members to campus

For Julia Losco '21 (Wexford, Pennsylvania) and Alex Dimon '21 (Perkasie, Pennsylvania), the first-ever Marietta College Oil & Gas Technical Exhibition was successful in achieving its goal. The event, which was held in the Dyson Baudo Recreation Cen...

Nov 10, 2017, 5:00pm EST

Opera Workshop performance free, open to public on Nov. 14th

Marietta College's Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music is conducting an Opera Workshop performance - The Old Maid and the Thief - at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 14th, in Hermann 217. The opera, which is under the direction of Instructor of Voi...

Nov 9, 2017, 1:00pm EST

Chip Pickering and Dr. Meike Schleiff — two entrepreneurs working to solve problems beyond the borders of the U.S. — will be featured at the November 16th PioPitch at Marietta College.

Global, social entrepreneurs featured at College's PioPitch on Nov. 16th

In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week - an event celebrated by 10 million people in 170 countries - two entrepreneurs working to solve problems beyond the borders of the United States will be featured at PioPitch at Marietta College. Design...

Nov 9, 2017, 10:42am EST

Patrick Taylor ’21 of Columbus, Ohio, is the 37th recipient of Marietta College's Rickey Scholarship.

Rickey Scholar's passion for football, physics being fulfilled at Marietta

In high school, Patrick Taylor '21 (Columbus, Ohio) just assumed he would go to college and study engineering. Then he took a physics class and his outlook changed. "After taking a physics class during my senior year of high school, I just changed m...

Nov 8, 2017, 4:00pm EST

Marietta professor receives Excellence in Community Impact Award

McCoy Professor of Education Dr. Bill Bauer is the 2017 recipient of the Excellence in Community Impact Award, presented by the Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence (OCALI). Established by the Ohio State Legislation in 2005, OCLI's mission is to...

Nov 6, 2017, 4:00pm EST

Marietta College featured in 2018 Colleges of Distinction guidebook

Marietta College has been recognized as one of America's "Colleges of Distinction" for 2018 by a national guidebook and online resource, citing Marietta as a "perfect fit for students who are naturally curious with a pioneering spirit to match." Sin...

Nov 6, 2017, 3:00pm EST

Guest of honor, Kenneth Ferrell, spoke at the annual Marietta College White Coat ceremony on October 21st. After attending the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps School and being stationed for two years, Ferrell was handpicked by Dr. Eugene Stead, now considered the founder of the PA profession, to join a cohort of four students to matriculate into the first PA program in the country at Duke University.

Class of 2019 PA students honored during annual White Coat ceremony

Thirty-seven members of Marietta College's Physician Assistant Studies Class of 2019 participated in the annual White Coat ceremony held on Saturday, October 21st. The ceremony marked a day of transition for the Physician Assistant (PA) students as ...

Nov 1, 2017, 4:00pm EDT

College's annual Multicultural Festival scheduled for November 3rd

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 30, 2017 Contact: Tom Perry, Executive Director of Communication & Brand Management, (740) 376-4408 College's annual Multicultural Festival scheduled for November 3rd More than 20 cultures represent...

Oct 30, 2017, 3:00pm EDT

College's Jazz Combo, Floodstage performing in Jazz Concert Nov. 7

Marietta College's Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music is conducting a Fall Jazz Concert at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 7, in the Alma McDonough Auditorium. "The Jazz Concert is one of our lightest concerts on our concert schedule," said Marshall...

Oct 27, 2017, 3:00pm EDT

World-class cellist to perform in College's Esbenshade Series

The Esbenshade Series at Marietta College is pleased to welcome world-class cellist Sujari Britt at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 12, at Peoples Bank Theatre. Britt began her formal training at the age of 4, following her study on the violin and piano. Sh...

Oct 27, 2017, 12:00pm EDT

About Marietta College

The roots of Marietta College reach back to 1797, when it was known as the Muskingum Academy. Since receiving its charter from the state of Ohio in 1835, Marietta has continued to mature into one of the finest small, contemporary liberal arts colleges in the Midwest. U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and Forbes.com consistently rank Marietta among the best small, liberal arts colleges in the nation. The College offers its more than 1,200 undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue 44 majors, 52 minors and five pre-professional programs, which prepare students for careers in dentistry, law, medicine and veterinary medicine. Marietta also has a 3-2 binary engineering program and graduate programs in Psychology and Physician Assistant Studies.