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Annual Shakespeare Conference returns to Marietta June 28-30
The world's most famous playwright is coming to Marietta. At the end of June, the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference will return to Marietta College for the first time since 2012. This is the 43rd annual meeting of the OVSC, a regional academic orga...
Jun 6, 2019, 9:06am EDT

Marietta College announces new additions to Board of Trustees
As leaders in their respective industries, Stephanie Esparza Peloquin '06, Brian Brucken '94 and Jack Hopkins '65 have much to offer as the newest alumni to join Marietta College's Board of Trustees. "One of the greatest testaments of the quality of...
Jun 4, 2019, 8:00am EDT

Marietta College offering five new majors starting in Fall 2019
This fall, Marietta College's students will see some major - as well as some minor - additions to their educational opportunities. In keeping with the increasingly diverse academic interests of students, Marietta will offer five new majors, six new ...
Jun 3, 2019, 2:00pm EDT

New program helps international students speak fluent English
For Marietta College's international students, learning to speak fluent English is important from an academic standpoint but it's important for social reasons, too. Organizers of the English Conversation Partner program say the more confident Intern...
May 21, 2019, 1:00pm EDT

Marietta College's Executive Director of Major Gifts & Planned Giving receives CFRE recertification
Marietta College's Jarrett Stull, Executive Director of Major Gifts & Planned Giving, has recertified as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) according to CFRE International. Stull joins more than 6,300 professionals around the world who hold the ...
May 17, 2019, 9:00am EDT

Marietta College inducts three students into music honorary
Marietta College's Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music recently inducted three musicians into the music honorary Mu Psi Kappa. This was the third class to be inducted into Marietta's chapter of the honorary. The musicians who were inducted incl...
May 10, 2019, 2:00pm EDT

Marietta College inducts 16 students into business honoraries
Marietta College recently inducted 12 students into Tau Pi Phi, the national business honorary, and four students into Omicron Delta Epsilon, the national honorary for economics. Students inducted into Tau Pi Phi were Tianhui Cao '21 (Shanghai, Chin...
May 6, 2019, 1:00pm EDT

Graduates learn friendships, experiences just as important as earning a diploma
Barbara Fitzgerald '73 enjoyed sharing stories about her career, her travels around the world, and her strong connection to her alma mater during Marietta College's 182nd Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 5. In the end, though, what she stressed ...
May 5, 2019, 6:00pm EDT

2000 Marietta College graduate to serve as Schwartz Leader-in-Residence in 2019-20
Jaime Cleland '00 will return to Marietta College next school year as the 2019-20 Schwartz Leader-in-Residence. Currently, she is an acquisitions editor at the Modern Language Association where she works with college professors to develop books on t...
May 2, 2019, 5:47pm EDT

Seven Marietta College seniors inducted into prestigious Phi Beta Kappa
Seven Marietta College seniors were inducted into the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa society, which was established in 1860 at the College, during a ceremony that was held in the Betty Cleland Room on Monday, April 29. The inductees, who will graduate M...
May 1, 2019, 11:00am EDT