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Merrimack in India - Celebrating Women Solar Engineers
March 12, 2019
Our faculty-student team members traveling in India during Spring Break 2019 had the chance to meet the Solar Mamas at Barefoot College.
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Faculty Panel to Explore ‘Designer Baby’ Ethics
February 19, 2019
A panel of experts will meet at 4 p.m. Feb. 28 in Cascia Hall to discuss the moral and ethical dilemmas of altering the DNA in human embryos. A team of scientists in China recently announced it had altered the DNA of twins while they were still embryos in order to make them HIV-resistant.
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Tolle Lege Reception to Celebrate Merrimack’s Authors and Editors
January 22, 2019
McQuade Library will host its 16th annual Tolle Lege Reception Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. in the Writers House, to celebrate the faculty, staff, students and alumni who published scholarly works in journals, books and online publications during the past year.
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The Provost Briefing discusses important news, announcements and social activities for the academic community at Merrimack College. We usually send the briefings on Monday mornings and then archive the briefing here.

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2019

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<section class="content-fluid-slider-container content-fluid dark section" style="background:url('/live/image/gid/67/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,400,259/ignore_cropper/1/20179_Rich_Miller_01_190410.rev.1555339269.jpg'); background-size:cover;"><div class="container"><div class="row no-gutters"><div class="col-lg-9"><span class="label">Office of Communications and Marketing</span><h3>Science and Faith Come Together in Search of Solutions to Climate Change</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For organizers of the April 10 conference “Religion, Science and Ecology: Shared Responsibility for the Future,” it is time for science and religion to work together in saving our planet from climate change.</span></p></p></div><div class="col-lg-3"><div class="d-table h-100 "><div class="d-table-cell align-middle"><a class="btn float-right" href="/live/news/4719-science-and-faith-come-together-in-search-of" role="button" title="Science and Faith Come Together in Search of Solutions to Climate Change" aria-label="Science and Faith Come Together in Search of Solutions to Climate Change">Read more </a> </div></div></div></div></div></section>
<section class="content-fluid-slider-container content-fluid dark section" style="background:url('/live/image/gid/67/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,590,471/ignore_cropper/1/20183_Syrian_Migrant_Routes_Map.rev.1555362310.jpg'); background-size:cover;"><div class="container"><div class="row no-gutters"><div class="col-lg-9"><span class="label">Office of Communications and Marketing</span><h3>Performance to Put Human Face on Women Refugees in Mideast</h3><p>Laila Farah, associate professor of women’s and gender studies at DePaul University, and Isis Nusair, associate professor of international studies and women’s studies at Denison University, have been collecting stories of women refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Syria. </p></div><div class="col-lg-3"><div class="d-table h-100 "><div class="d-table-cell align-middle"><a class="btn float-right" href="/live/news/4720-performance-to-put-human-face-on-women-refugees-in" role="button" title="Performance to Put Human Face on Women Refugees in Mideast" aria-label="Performance to Put Human Face on Women Refugees in Mideast">Read more </a> </div></div></div></div></div></section>
<section class="content-fluid-slider-container content-fluid dark section" style="background:url('/live/image/gid/67/width/1000/height/500/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1600,1067/ignore_cropper/1/20193_cummings.rev.1555530564.jpg'); background-size:cover;"><div class="container"><div class="row no-gutters"><div class="col-lg-9"><span class="label">Office of Communications and Marketing</span><h3>Philanthropist Bill Cummings tells students to “look for an opportunity and do something with it”</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work hard and save your money,”</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">billionaire philanthropist Bill Cummings advised students gathered Tuesday, April 16, at the Dr. Alfred L. Arcidi Center to learn about his storied career, chronicled in his new autobiography, “Starting Small and Making It Big: An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Billion-Dollar Philanthropist.”</span></p></p></div><div class="col-lg-3"><div class="d-table h-100 "><div class="d-table-cell align-middle"><a class="btn float-right" href="/live/news/4723-philanthropist-bill-cummings-tells-students-to" role="button" title="Philanthropist Bill Cummings tells students to “look for an opportunity and do something with it”" aria-label="Philanthropist Bill Cummings tells students to “look for an opportunity and do something with it”">Read more </a> </div></div></div></div></div></section>
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