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Eleven seniors make up Marietta College's homecoming court
Marietta College's student body will begin voting for the 2017 Homecoming queen and king on Thursday, October 19th during the lunch and dinner hours at Gilman Dining Hall. The 2017 Homecoming Court is made up of six potential queens and five potenti...
Oct 18, 2017, 2:00pm EDT
National Athletic Trainers' Association President-elect to speak at College
Tory Lindley, Northwestern University's associate athletic director and head athletic trainer, is speaking to classes at Marietta College on Thursday, Oct. 26 and Friday, Oct. 27. Lindley is the president-elect of the National Athletic Trainers' Ass...
Oct 18, 2017, 1:00pm EDT
Music alumni to perform during Homecoming festivities
More than 750 alumni and friends are registered for Marietta College's 2017 Homecoming, but four are former music students who will perform at different times on Saturday, Oct. 21st. "We are excited to have some of our Marietta College music alums r...
Oct 17, 2017, 1:00pm EDT
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Students, employees volunteering for Make a Difference Day
More than 100 Marietta College students and employees will participate in the annual Make a Difference Day activities from 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Oct. 28th. About a dozen projects are planned, but according to Maribeth Saleem-Tanner, Director of Civ...
Oct 16, 2017, 4:21pm EDT
Biochemistry major wins Miss West Virginia USA pageant
In the days leading up to Marietta College's four-day break, biochemistry major Casey Lassiter '18 (Spencer, West Virginia) went through two rigorous interviews for entrance into graduate physician assistant programs. But rather than taking the foll...
Oct 16, 2017, 9:35am EDT
Ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for Music Therapy facilities
Ten months after receiving a generous $1 million gift from Don '81 and Leslie Straub Ritter '85, Marietta College is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the renovated Music Therapy facilities and recording studio at 4:30 p.m., Friday, ...
Oct 13, 2017, 6:00pm EDT
Marietta College honored as a Tree Campus USA for 2016
Marietta College was recently recognized as a Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation. Marietta is one of only 344 colleges and universities to receive this special distinction, which sets it apart from other schools and shows the College's comm...
Oct 10, 2017, 4:00pm EDT
'Last Chance U' star Brittany Wagner to speak at Marietta on March 1
Brittany Wagner, who quickly became the star of the Netflix docu-series Last Chance U, will visit Marietta College on Thursday, March 1st, to lecture about the importance of students maintaining focus on their academics. Marietta College's Sports Ma...
Oct 5, 2017, 3:00pm EDT
Marietta a recipient of Fund for Positive Engagement Award
Campus Compact, a Boston-based nonprofit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has announced 40 college and university recipients of grants to bring people together across lines of difference from its Fund for Positiv...
Oct 5, 2017, 11:00am EDT
WSJ study puts Marietta among the best in student success
Marietta College ranks No. 230 nationally in the 2018 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education survey of more than 1,000 U.S. colleges and universities released last week. "WSJ provides, in my opinion, one of the most comprehensive and fair evalua...
Oct 4, 2017, 1:13pm EDT