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If the Class of 2018 walked away from the 2014 Matriculation ceremony with only one talking point it would have to be Marietta College cherishes tradition.

As part of Black History Month, Marietta College's Office of Diversity & Inclusion is hosting a special two-day showing of the Oscar-nominated movie "12 Years a Slave," on Friday, Feb. 21, and Saturday, Feb. 22. Both showings will take place in the Alma McDonough Auditorium at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 and 2 p.m. Feb. 22.

A three-student team from Instructor Lori Smith’s Advertising & Public Relations class placed in the semifinals of the 2014 EFFIE Collegiate Brand Challenge. All of the students in the class worked in three-person teams and developed an integrated marketing communication case for the client.  U by Kotex.

Dr. Karyn Sproles, Provost, delivered a charge to the students and faculty during the 2014 Matriculation ceremony at Dyson Baudo Recreation Center. Listen to it here.  

Ask any student and they’ll tell you a snow day never happens at Marietta College. On Monday, Feb. 3, they got a special treat and first “snow day” in five years.

Thirteen Marietta College seniors were inducted into the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa society, which was established in 1860 at the College. The ceremony was held in the Trustee Conference Room of the Dyson Baudo Recreation Center on Monday, April 28.

Brett Lomman ’17 (Commodore, Pa.) always knew he was meant to be a student at Marietta College, but he didn’t always have a plan for what he’d do once he started here. 

Marietta College’s Physics Department has scheduled six presentations for the spring 2014 Physics Colloquium schedule.

Don’t sit inside on a nice spring day, come on down to the 16th annual Community Baseball Day and be a part of the one of Marietta College's best traditions.

In less than two weeks, Marietta College’s campus will be abuzz with more than 350 first-year students ready to start the fall semester. While some of them will have arrived earlier than the scheduled May 21 Move-In Day for a variety of activities, the majority of the Class of 2018 will officially join Marietta College on this day.

Marietta College’s Office of Civic Engagement has eight programs scheduled for MLK Week, which will run from Jan. 20-28.

Beginning in November 2014 and extending through the Spring Semester, the Marietta College Legacy Library will be hosting Modern Art from the Krause Collection, an exhibit of four contemporary paintings from around the world. The paintings are available for public viewing in the Schwartz Fireplace Lounge on the first floor of the Legacy...

In a nearly vacant Rickey 166, Tiffany New ’14 (Carroll, Ohio) was practicing her presentation one last time.

Forbes Magazine ranks Marietta College among “America’s Top Colleges,” according to its 2014 rankings, which were released recently. Marietta is ranked 414th overall in this year’s Forbes’ ranking of the 650 best colleges and universities in the nation. Marietta also ranks 18th among all Ohio four-year schools.

In June 2012, the Marietta College Police Department set its sights on becoming an accredited agency through the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) — a first for Marietta.

Marietta College is one of eight Ohio institutions that received a Dominion Foundation Higher Education Grant for 2014.

As the McDonough Leadership Conference continues to grow each year, what makes it even more impressive is how the event is organized and presented by Marietta College students.

Just as you enter Coach Stacia Shrider’s office in Dyson Baudo Recreation Center, you’ll notice a “Safe Zone” decal on her window.

Marietta College’s Theatre Department is closing out the fall semester with a double-bill of “The Wayfarer” by Valery Briusov and “The Love Talker” by Deborah Pryor.

Mairetta College student Monica Short studying abroad this semester at IAU College in Aix-en-Provence, France participated in the 11th annual international student conference on U.S.-European relations entitled “Peace and Conflict in an Age of Total Surveillance.” Taking place on IAU’s Aix-en-Provence campus, the event was co-sponsored by...

Gathering in a first floor lab in Rickey Science Center, a group of 17 teachers broke into small teams to work through a variety of lab experiments that will improve their ability to teach a specific physics topic to their high school students in the coming academic year.

Marietta College has been included among the best schools on the new Social Mobility Index (SMI) survey, which is co-sponsored by CollegeNet and PayScale. The SMI ranking emphasizes economic mobility and the extent that a college or university helps its students with family incomes below the national median to improve their social and...

Marietta College’s forensics team closed out the 2013-14 season by earning four awards and finishing 30th in the Overall Individual Events Sweepstakes at the Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Tournament in Indianapolis, Ind.

At the end of October, the various cultures represented on campus — from students who studied abroad, to the religious and societal cultures that make up Marietta College will be celebrated. The inaugural Multicultural Day at Marietta College, which is to be hosted by Pioneer Activities Counsel, will be held Friday, Oct. 24.

Bill Owen of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be the speaker for the 2014 Ellis L. and Jennie Mae Krause Lecture in Science. Owen’s lecture will focus on Voyager and space exploration at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 20, in the Alma McDonough Auditorium. NASA’s Voyager program launched two space probes in 1977 and both are still traveling...