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The years surrounding Marietta College’s centennial anniversary were anything but smooth sailing.

Herman Boone, whose inspirational story was captured in the Disney film “Remember the Titans,” will be speaking at Marietta College’s Alma McDonough Auditorium at 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 25. Boone’s appearance on campus is part of the College’s celebration of Black History Month, and it is free and open to the public.

Marietta College’s Education Department is hosting representatives of Ohio’s Best Disability Rights Advocates as part of a panel that will address issues affecting people with disabilities with a focus on children at 6 p.m., Wednesday, April 25th, in the Alma McDonough Auditorium. Joining the panel will be Kristen Hildebrant, Senior Attorney...

Marietta College’s Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, with the assistance of the Marietta community and College community, recently collected 2,000 pounds of food items that will be donated to local food pantries. “I could not be happier with all of the work done by so many of the members in the community,” said Robert Felton ’18 (Wheeling, West...

Intersection, a concert blended with classical, jazz Latin, Broadway and film music, will perform in Marietta College’s Frederica G. Esbenshade Series at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 2. The performance will be held in the Alma McDonough Auditorium.

Marietta College’s Dr. William Bauer, Associate Professor of Education, has been accepted to present at the 2012 Hawaii International Conference on Education. The conference will be held Jan. 5-8 in Honolulu. Bauer’s submission, “Youth Leadership Forum for High School Students with Disabilities: A Model for Success in Developing Skills in...

By now many of you in the Marietta College community have become aware of the unfortunate incident last week (Jan. 17) that took the life of Andrea "Andi" Parhamovich '00, who was a civilian working in Iraq. News reports have indicated that Ms. Parhamovich, 28, was killed in an ambush of her convoy as it traveled through one of Baghdad's most...

Marietta College is hosting “Raising Awareness: Fighting Against Human Trafficking and Drug Abuse,” from 6:00-9:00 p.m., Thursday, September 7th. The presentations and panel discussion, which are spearheaded by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office, will take place in the Timothy O. Cooper Auditorium in Thomas Hall. The event is free...

Dr. Vernon Smith, Professor of Economics at the Chapman University in Orange, California, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address for Marietta College’s 32nd annual Milton Friedman Lecture. Smith will begin his presentation — “On Changing False Beliefs: Two Cases from Experimental Economics and their Economic Implications” — at 7 p.m.,...

Fans of the Etta Express can now express their pride a little better, thanks to memorabilia being sold in the College Bookstore. Last week, Marietta won the NCAA Division III National Championship in Grand Chute, Wis., after besting Wheaton in a 7-2 win and finishing 5-1 in the series. It’s the team’s sixth national championship — the first...

Jay Sefton, the 2008 Winner of LA Weekly’s Best Solo Performance, will be bringing his award winning play, The Most Mediocre Story Never Told! to Marietta College at 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 19, and 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 21. Each performance will be in the Hermann Fine Arts Center. The show is about Sefton’s experience growing up in...

It's almost impossible not to hear or read something about cybersecurity these days, and issues related to it are on the rise. The 2018 Ellis L. and Jennie Mae Krause Lecture in Science at Marietta College will focus on “What’s wrong with your pa$$word?” as Dr. Lorrie Cranor delivers the address at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 10th, in the Alma...

Marietta College recently received a grant for $1,375 from the Marietta Community Foundation to deliver a special session of PioPitch for Ely Chapman’s After School Middle School and Marietta High School students. The Junior PioPitch is scheduled for 4:00-5:00 p.m., Thursday April 27. This event will take place in Thomas 124 on the campus of...

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, author of Karma’s Footsteps, will speak at Marietta College’s annual Black History Month dinner at 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 17. The dinner will be conducted in the Andrews Hall Great Room.

Aleece Dye ’11 learned on her first day as an employee at Marietta College that the Office of College Relations can be an extremely busy place. Less than a month on the job she believes she’s starting to settle in as the Publications Coordinator. Dye, who graduated from Marietta in May with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, replaced...

 Janet Weirick, who has more than a decade of higher education experience, has been named Associate Director of Major Gifts in Marietta College's Office of Advancement. Weirick, who spent three years as the Associate Director of Development at Manchester College in Indiana, began at MC on July 1. At Manchester, her responsibilities included...

Marietta College has two performance ensembles — Symphonic Ban and Oratorio Chorus — that are open to participation from members of Marietta and the surrounding communities.

Marietta College’s Admission Office has recently announced its open house schedule for the 2015-16 academic year, and it kicks off with a Pioneer Day — general open house — on Sunday, Oct. 25. The first open house will run from 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Prospective students can register for open houses online at www.marietta.edu/open_house or by...

During his first year of running his own photo studio and gallery, business was so slow for Jason Noble ’99 that he used to sit on the front doorstep and play guitar for the thousands of people rushing back and forth. Boy how things have changed since those early days in 2002. Now Noble, along with his wife, Danielle Boettcher Noble ’99, runs...

The March 2018 PioPitch, sponsored by the Marietta College Entrepreneurship Program, will welcome two entrepreneurs who are using their talent and creativity to invigorate the local arts and history scene. The session is scheduled for 4-5 p.m., Thursday, March 1, in the Timothy O. Cooper Auditorium (Thomas Hall 124) on the Marietta College...

Ohio native Gavin George, a 13-year-old pianist who made his concerto debut at 7 with the Newark-Granville Symphony, will perform at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, November 20th, at the Peoples Bank Theatre in downtown Marietta. The concert is free and open to the public, but tickets must be reserved through the theatre’s website at peoplesbanktheatre....

New York City artist Joe Nanashe will exhibit "Joe: A Self Portrait" in Marietta College's Gallery 310 starting Friday, Jan. 17. The exhibition is free and open to the public until March 21. “Joe: A Self Portrait” is the culmination of 29 months of work combing through 144 films that contain character(s) named Joe. Subjectively edited with...

Marietta College is pleased to announce the summer schedule for community show at the Anderson Hancock Planetarium have been set and reservations are currently being taken for the May showing of “Seven Wonders.” Seven Wonders, along with a season star discussion, is scheduled for 7 p.m., Thursday, May 19, as well as 2 and 3:30 p.m., Sunday,...

Marietta College's chapter of Student Global AIDS Campaign is sponsoring "Get Tested! Week" from April 30 through May 6. The week's events are also co-sponsored by The American Red Cross and the Washington County Health Department. There will be free and confidential HIV testing from 7-10 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2, and Thursday, May 4, in...

Serving as an invitational exhibition of multi-generational female artists from around the East Coast, “I Embody...”, the first Gallery 310 exhibition of the fall semester, is sure to be of interest to many throughout the campus and local community. “I Embody...” will be on display in Gallery 310 from Sept. 1 through Oct. 6, with an opening...