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Marietta welcomes 2024 Schwartz Leader-in-Residence
Joanita Bbaale Senoga overcame great adversity in her homeland of Uganda - surviving the tyrannical genocide of the Edi Amin regime, achieving a college education, and finding ways to educate children whose families had no way of affording their school...
Jan 17, 2024, 2:00pm EST

Stunning exhibition of Japanese prints, contemporary landscapes opens at Gallery 310 on February 8
The Marietta College Art Department and Gallery 310 are pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, "Color Expanses," featuring Japanese ukiyo-e prints from the late Dr. Richard M. Krause '47 collection and contemporary landscape paintings by Columbus...
Jan 16, 2024, 1:00pm EST

Marietta cornhole team finishes second at national college championship
Hunter Stone '24 (Findlay, Ohio) came to Marietta College to play soccer, but this past fall he found a new athletic adventure - cornhole. In December, the Sport Management student teamed up with Parker Dinan '23, PA'25 (Nashport, Ohio), and brothers ...
Jan 9, 2024, 12:00pm EST

Marietta's Senior Art and Design Capstone Exhibition opens January 19
Marietta College's Art Department is pleased to announce the Annual Senior Art & Design Capstone Exhibition, featuring the projects by eight seniors, which will open on Friday, January 19, with a reception from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The exhibition runs throu...
Jan 8, 2024, 3:00pm EST

Marietta College honors the late Dr. King with week of service
In keeping the tradition of honoring the life and works of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Marietta College has planned a host of educational and service events. "The 2024 King Center theme is, 'It Starts with Me: Shifting the Cultural Clima...
Jan 5, 2024, 2:00pm EST

Marietta College Board welcomes 1974 grad to its ranks
For Robert Goldsmith '74, Marietta College played a key role in helping to shape his adult life - professionally and personally - and he has consistently valued and supported the College since joining The Long Blue Line. In January 2024, Robert began ...
Jan 4, 2024, 12:00pm EST

Marietta to host economist Elaine Buckberg for Milton Friedman Lecture
Marietta College will host Dr. Elaine Buckberg, Senior Fellow at the Salata Institute for Climate Sustainability at Harvard University, as the speaker for the 40th annual Milton Friedman Lecture on Monday, January 29, at 7:00 p.m. in the Alma McDonough...
Jan 3, 2024, 1:00pm EST

Marietta College ranks well among small colleges in Ohio
The 2024 Academic Influence rankings list Marietta College as the 13th-best small college in Ohio, according to a report from AcademicInfluence.com - an online academics and data tracking publication. The rankings compared all 52 small colleges in the...
Jan 2, 2024, 4:00pm EST

Marietta College opens campus veterans center
After a year of planning and fundraising, Marietta College officially celebrated the opening of the Veteran and Military Student Center this fall. Jason Nulton, the College's Community Engagement Coordinator in the McDonough Center for Leadership and ...
Dec 23, 2023, 11:00am EST

MC dedicates Dr. Barbara Diggs Lyles House in honor of first female Black graduate
When Barbara Diggs Lyles '51 arrived on campus in the 1940s, the young woman was met by College administrators with anything but enthusiasm. Despite having immense pressure and expectations to be a perfect student, Lyles became the first female Black g...
Dec 20, 2023, 10:00am EST