Social Sciences

Ross Keller ’20 (Long Bottom, Ohio) is busy finishing up his last semester at Marietta College. On top of looking for a job and deciding if he should go to law school or earn an MBA, Keller can add one more thing to his résumé. In February, Keller returned from the 2020 NAPE Summit in Houston, Texas, after competing as a Top 4 finalist for...

With all classes canceled at Marietta College on Wednesday, Joe Andler ’15 spent his morning making homemade ice cream outside in the Kremer Amphitheatre. But his preparation techniques were a little unconventional.

Dr. Maxim Boycko, visiting lecturer at Harvard University, will deliver the 34th annual Milton Friedman Lecture at Marietta College. Boycko’s talk begins at 7 p.m., Sunday, March 4th, in the Alma McDonough Auditorium. The program is free and open to the public. Boycko, who has taught economics at Moscow State University and has had research...

Four Marietta College students recently visited New York City where they attended the American Advertising Federation’s student career conference, toured Google’s New York offices and visited with alumni.

Dr. Betsey Stevenson, Member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, is scheduled to deliver address for the 31st annual Milton Friedman Lecture.

McCoy Professor of Education Dr. Bill Bauer will give the keynote address at the State Support Team 16 Conference on Thursday, November 2nd in Chauncey, Ohio.

Three seniors from Marietta College’s Land & Energy Management program were recent recipients of highly competitive scholarships from the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL). This year, the Landman Scholarship Trust awarded just 44 scholarships nationwide. Marietta College’s Ross Keller ’20 (Long Bottom, Ohio), Tyler...

What the 65th annual Wilcox Forensics Tournament lacked in pizzazz, it more than made up for in the appreciation of recognizing 90 years of forensics at Marietta College. Teams from 15 schools, representing four different states, competed on Marietta’s campus on Nov. 1. Twelve different speaking and oral interpretation events were held,...

Marietta College’s Psychology Department claimed the Psychology Jeopardy championship for the sixth time in seven years at the Tri State Psychology Conference at West Liberty University in Wheeling, West Virginia. The team of Daniel Carlsen ’18 (Vincent, Ohio), Megan Hendrich ’17 (Ravenna, Ohio), Brooklyn Howes ’17 (Albany, Ohio), Micayla...

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.

Kathleen Reddy-Smith ’71, a retired diplomat with the U.S. Foreign Service, will begin a yearlong project in the fall of 2014 as the first Schwartz Leader-in-Residence (LIR) at Marietta College.

Economist and Attorney Robert Litan will deliver the keynote address at the 33rd annual Milton Friedman Lecture Series at Marietta College at 7:00 p.m., Monday, April 17th. Litan will make discuss “The Good Economy” in the Alma McDonough Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Litan is a partner with Korein Tillery, LLC., and also is...

On Thursday, April 18th, not a single class will be conducted on Marietta College’s campus. However, it would be easy to make an argument that more learning and academic pursuits will take place than any other day throughout the year. Marietta College is conducting its ninth annual All Scholars Day, which is a campus-wide celebration of...

Four Marietta College students recently presented papers at the “All Politics Is Local” undergraduate research conference at Walsh University in Canton. Those who presented were:

Ashley Klopfenstein ’20 is well aware of the lore of Punxsutawney Phil. She has heard of the groundhog’s prediction skills when it comes to foreseeing an early spring on Feb. 2. However, she had no idea the impact the little guy had anticipating the ups and downs of the United States’ financial markets. “It is quirky, but when you look at...

Growing up in Zanesville, Ohio, Alec Shook ’19 often heard family members talk about working in the oil and gas industry. His interest grew and when he learned about Marietta College’s Land and Energy Management program, he felt he found a career that checked all of the boxes. “I wasn’t too much of a math and science guy, I was more business...

Every college student has been assigned a case study to research and write a report. It’s right up there with group projects and adding a works cited page. Mark Vizza ’98 remembers them all too well, and every case study seemed to come from another era. “It drove me crazy and I wondered to myself, ‘Did nothing of significance happen at any...

Dr. Mark Schweitzer, Senior Vice President with the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, will deliver the 35th annual Milton Friedman Lecture at Marietta College. Schweitzer’s talk on “Opioids and the Labor Market,” begins at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 5th, in the Alma McDonough Auditorium. The program is free and open to the public.

Students in the Sport Facility and Event Management course (SMGT 334) were treated to a high-profile guest lecturer on Thursday: Jenny Carnes, executive director of the San Antonio Local Organizing Committee (SALOC), the group charged with planning, executing, and evaluating the 2018 NCAA® Division I Men’s Final Four® on behalf of the city of...

Marietta College officials recently signed an articulation agreement with  Marshall University’s Lewis College of Business to facilitate admission of Marietta’s students into MU’s new online MBA program. “We are very excited about this new partnership with Marshall,” said Dr. Janet Bland, Marietta College Provost. “We think it will be a...

It’s such a miniscule number it almost doesn’t seem real; 0.0008. That’s the percentage of CPA candidates who won the 2015 Elijah Watt Sells Award — given to those who obtained a cumulative average score above 95.50 across all four sections of the Uniform CPA Examination, passed all four sections on their first attempt and completed testing...

Marietta College’s Grace Johnson, McCoy Professor of Management and Accounting, recently completed two publications.

Marietta College officials are excited to announce the launch of a new initiative aimed at providing entrepreneurship and computer coding skills to area middle school students. As part of the Ely Chapman Education Foundation afterschool program, Marietta College students will be delivering a year-long curriculum to middle school students to...

Marietta College’s Education Department recently inducted nine students into Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society in education, during a special ceremony earlier in April.

Marietta College’s Education Department learned today that it was awarded a $223,000 incentive grant from the Ohio Deans Compact on Exceptional Children. The funding will support the redesign of Marietta’s Early Childhood and Intervention Specialist programs through the adaptation of a merged/blended dual licensure teacher preparation model.