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Sugar is a Time(ly) Topic for Professor of Health Sciences
August 12, 2019

Merrimack College assistant professor of nutrition Juliana Cohen, of the School of Health Sciences, was a featured expert in the recent Time magazine article exploring whether sugar is as bad for children as it is for adults.

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Science Inspires Sculptor to Challenge Sense of Space and Expectations
June 26, 2019

Visual and performing arts assistant professor Jonathan Latiano is an installation sculptor who works in big, bold ideas that are so complex he’s hired students as studio assistants using a Provost Innovation Grant through the SCURCA program to help him this summer.

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Meeting Focuses on Prison Courses to Reduce Re-Offending
June 17, 2019

Merrimack College hosted a meeting of schools studying ways to provide college-level courses to inmates as a means of keeping them from reoffending after their release.

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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/0,0,576,1024/ignore_cropper/1/20387_Flying_Squirrels_01.rev.1563798135.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>Research into Squirrels Takes Flight on Campus</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instruction/Liaison Librarian <a href="/live/profiles/1623-catherine-wong/_p/s">C.J. Wong</a> led a team of three students and two assistant professors in the installation of nesting boxes for flying squirrels in the woods behind parking lot K this summer, to learn whether there are any of the nocturnal animals in the area.</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/4769-research-into-squirrels-takes-flight-on-campus" role="button" title="Research into Squirrels Takes Flight on Campus" aria-label="Research into Squirrels Takes Flight on Campus">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/0,0,2400,1553/ignore_cropper/1/20432_NancyStudio2.rev.1566307677.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>Summer Break Offers Professors Time for Research, Including Art</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Associate professor of visual and performing arts Nancy Wynn went on the 20th annual Pellegrinaggio pilgrimage to Italy last spring and is using the experience as inspiration for her latest artwork series.</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/4785-summer-break-offers-professors-time-for-research" role="button" title="Summer Break Offers Professors Time for Research, Including Art" aria-label="Summer Break Offers Professors Time for Research, Including Art">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/0,0,410,300/ignore_cropper/1/20535_40under40a.rev.1568319260.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>Merrimack Trustee and Bouchard Center Director Named to Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Boston Business Journal recently named Merrimack College Trustee Marques D. Torbert and Michaele Morrow, managing director of the Bouchard Center in the Girard School of Business to its <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2019/08/26/meet-the-bbjs-2019-40-under-40-honorees.html?iana=hpmvp_bost_news_headline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">prestigious 40 Under 40 list</a>.</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/4801-merrimack-trustee-and-bouchard-center-director" role="button" title="Merrimack Trustee and Bouchard Center Director Named to Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40" aria-label="Merrimack Trustee and Bouchard Center Director Named to Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40">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/0,0,400,600/ignore_cropper/1/20419_Juliana_Cohen.rev.1565635177.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>Sugar is a Time(ly) Topic for Professor of Health Sciences</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Merrimack College assistant professor of nutrition <a href="/live/profiles/453-juliana-fw-cohen/_p/f">Juliana Cohen</a>, of the School of Health Sciences, was a featured expert in the recent Time magazine article exploring whether sugar is as bad for children as it is for adults.</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/4781-sugar-is-a-timely-topic-for-professor-of-health" role="button" title="Sugar is a Time(ly) Topic for Professor of Health Sciences" aria-label="Sugar is a Time(ly) Topic for Professor of Health Sciences">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/0,0,1800,1798/ignore_cropper/1/20408_Global_Mgmt_Winners_190719.rev.1565274473.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>Sustainable “Glamping” Plan Earns Honors at Global Symposium</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two students from Merrimack College competing against peers from around the world earned top honors in the international 2019 X-Culture Global Symposium business management competition in Calgary, Canada in July.</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/4780-sustainable-glamping-plan-earns-honors-at-global" role="button" title="Sustainable “Glamping” Plan Earns Honors at Global Symposium" aria-label="Sustainable “Glamping” Plan Earns Honors at Global Symposium">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/0,0,1700,917/ignore_cropper/1/20321_Cailin_Currie_Swims.rev.1561127682.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>Hitting her Stride in Berlin, Sophomore Looking to Paralympics</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cailin Currie ’21 recently returned from the Paralympics World Series in Berlin where she competed in the tune-up swimming meet leading into qualifying races for next summer’s Paralympics games in Tokyo.</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/4752-hitting-her-stride-in-berlin-sophomore-looking-to" role="button" title="Hitting her Stride in Berlin, Sophomore Looking to Paralympics" aria-label="Hitting her Stride in Berlin, Sophomore Looking to Paralympics">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/0,29,1369,1400/ignore_cropper/1/20394_Leslie_Reynolds.rev.1564584206.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>Merrimack Alum Serving as Interim Chief Ranger at Yellowstone</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leslie Reynolds ’91 has traded great white sharks for grizzly bears this summer while she takes a break from her job as chief ranger at the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/caco/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Park Service’s Cape Cod National Seashore</a> to serve as the interim chief ranger at <a href="https://www.nps.gov/yell/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yellowstone National Park</a>.</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/4772-merrimack-alum-serving-as-interim-chief-ranger-at" role="button" title="Merrimack Alum Serving as Interim Chief Ranger at Yellowstone" aria-label="Merrimack Alum Serving as Interim Chief Ranger at Yellowstone">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/0,998,2201,3200/ignore_cropper/1/20428_School_Supplies_Aa.rev.1565961874.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>School Supplies Handed Out to Hundreds of Underserved Children</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Merrimack College’s <a href="/about/offices_services/hands-to-help/index.php">Hands to Help</a> handed out 300 backpacks stuffed with school supplies for students from kindergarten through high school on Aug. 12. There everything from notebooks, pencils, binders, folders and even Crayons included in the bags.</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/4784-school-supplies-handed-out-to-hundreds-of" role="button" title="School Supplies Handed Out to Hundreds of Underserved Children" aria-label="School Supplies Handed Out to Hundreds of Underserved Children">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/0,0,400,259/ignore_cropper/1/20506_We_Are_1_190903.rev.1568037842.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>Merrimack Students Start School Year in Search of Knowledge and Wisdom</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Merrimack College started the 2019-2020 school year with its traditional Academic Convocation and Mass of the Holy Spirit, encouraging students to recognize the many opportunities for personal, academic and spiritual growth available to them; and to work in union with the supportive community willing to help them make the world a better place, while becoming better versions of themselves.</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/4798-merrimack-students-start-school-year-in-search-of" role="button" title="Merrimack Students Start School Year in Search of Knowledge and Wisdom" aria-label="Merrimack Students Start School Year in Search of Knowledge and Wisdom">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/0,0,200,200/ignore_cropper/1/16177_14013-mc-centered-cmyk-jpg.rev.1492891152.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>See What Our Talented Faculty Have Been Up To</h3><p>Merrimack professors across all disciplines have been winning awards, publishing papers, participating in academic panels and workshops, and featured in the media. </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="https://www.merrimack.edu/about/offices_services/communications/notable-quotable/" role="button" title="See What Our Talented Faculty Have Been Up To" aria-label="See What Our Talented Faculty Have Been Up To">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/0,0,1024,683/ignore_cropper/1/20480_Move-In_01_190830.rev.1567442597.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>Praise for Organization Amid the Hustle and Bustle of Move-In Day</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Merrimack College community came together in welcoming the class of 2023 to campus at the start of the Labor Day Weekend Aug. 30. Upperclassmen arrived en masse at the end of the weekend.</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/4793-praise-for-organization-amid-the-hustle-and-bustle" role="button" title="Praise for Organization Amid the Hustle and Bustle of Move-In Day" aria-label="Praise for Organization Amid the Hustle and Bustle of Move-In Day">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/0,0,200,300/ignore_cropper/1/20600_Lunch_in_Lawrence_01_190923.rev.1569849605.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>‘Lunch in Lawrence’ Brings Colleagues and Local Community Together</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rosana Urbaez ordered the seafood dish Mar y Tierra with platano maduros and white rice off the menu at the Terra Luna Cafe Sept. 23, 2019 when she and about 20 others enjoyed the first-ever installment of the Lunch in Lawrence program initiated by the <a href="/live/profiles/1579-fr-raymond-dlugos-osa/_p/s">Rev. Ray Dlugos, O.S.A.</a></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/4807-lunch-in-lawrence-brings-colleagues-and-local" role="button" title="‘Lunch in Lawrence’ Brings Colleagues and Local Community Together" aria-label="‘Lunch in Lawrence’ Brings Colleagues and Local Community Together">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/364,947,2400,2982/ignore_cropper/1/20391_Rosana_Urbaez_190724.rev.1564064159.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>Merrimack, Charity Partner to Aid Schoolchildren</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Merrimack’s Hands to Help/Manos Para Ayuda program is holding its third annual Back to School Supply Drive for underserved school children in nearby Lawrence, Massachusetts this month. Director Rosana Urbaez would like to fill 300 backpacks with almost everything students in grades 1-12 will need to start the academic year.</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/4770-merrimack-charity-partner-to-aid-schoolchildren" role="button" title="Merrimack, Charity Partner to Aid Schoolchildren" aria-label="Merrimack, Charity Partner to Aid Schoolchildren">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/0,0,400,267/ignore_cropper/1/20617_Chapel_Renos_02_190927.rev.1570457119.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>Renovations Underway on Chapel in Austin Hall to Give it a New Look</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are more renovations moving forward on Our Mother of Good Counsel Chapel on the second floor of Austin Hall, beginning with new windows and including installation of a pipe organ.</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/4806-renovations-underway-on-chapel-in-austin-hall-to" role="button" title="Renovations Underway on Chapel in Austin Hall to Give it a New Look" aria-label="Renovations Underway on Chapel in Austin Hall to Give it a New Look">Read more </a> </div></div></div></div></div></section>
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