<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/0,0,3200,3100/ignore_cropper/1/20732_Vet_Day_Ceremony_02_191105.rev.1573143063.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 Celebrates its Veterans with Pomp and Respect</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Merrimack College paid tribute during its annual Veterans Day ceremony at the Sakowich Campus Center’s MPR Tuesday Nov. 5, 2019 to the sacrifices service women and men make for the country.</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/4822-merrimack-celebrates-its-veterans-with-pomp-and" role="button" title="Merrimack Celebrates its Veterans with Pomp and Respect" aria-label="Merrimack Celebrates its Veterans with Pomp and Respect">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/0,0,2405,1603/ignore_cropper/1/20554_T4G_01_1909xx.rev.1568915747.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 Closes Record-Breaking Campaign with Evening of Celebration</h3><p><p> Merrimack College marked the close of its record-breaking <em>Together for Good</em> fundraising campaign with an elegant <em>Together We Did</em> finale celebration Sept. 12, 2019 to honor the incredible generosity and support of the Merrimack community. More than 350 guests, including alumni, friends, faculty and staff, gathered on campus to reflect on the monumental accomplishments of the campaign.</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/4804-merrimack-closes-record-breaking-campaign-with" role="button" title="Merrimack Closes Record-Breaking Campaign with Evening of Celebration" aria-label="Merrimack Closes Record-Breaking Campaign with Evening of Celebration">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/0,0,576,1024/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/0,0,2448,1835/ignore_cropper/1/20734_Austin_Scholars_191101.rev.1573149188.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>Austin Scholars, Professors Heading to International Conference on St. Augustine</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Students from the Austin Scholars living-learning community are traveling with professors to Tunisia from Nov. 8-15. They will have the opportunity to celebrate St. Augustine’s birthday in Carthage where he studied and taught more than 1,600 years ago while representing the College at the “Journées augustiniennes de Carthage.”</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/4823-austin-scholars-professors-heading-to" role="button" title="Austin Scholars, Professors Heading to International Conference on St. Augustine" aria-label="Austin Scholars, Professors Heading to International Conference on St. Augustine">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/0,0,400,259/ignore_cropper/1/20522_We_Are_One_5.rev.1568156589.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 Climbs U.S. News & World Report’s Ranking of Best Colleges</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Merrimack College continued its steady climb up U.S. News & World Report magazine’s Best Colleges rankings this year, leaping from 50th a year ago to 46th on the 2020 list released Monday Sept. 9. It also listed the Merrimack among the top 10 most innovative regional universities.</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/4800-merrimack-climbs-us-news-world-reports-ranking" role="button" title="Merrimack Climbs U.S. News & World Report’s Ranking of Best Colleges" aria-label="Merrimack Climbs U.S. News & World Report’s Ranking of Best Colleges">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/1/20647_Homecoming_03_191005.rev.1570803037.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>We Are One: Merrimack Homecoming Melds Past with Present</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From Macktoberfest to the Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony to the centerpiece football game, Homecoming Weekend offered something for everyone.</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/4814-we-are-one-merrimack-homecoming-melds-past-with" role="button" title="We Are One: Merrimack Homecoming Melds Past with Present" aria-label="We Are One: Merrimack Homecoming Melds Past with Present">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/0,0,400,600/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/0,0,410,300/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>
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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/0,0,3200,2133/ignore_cropper/1/20702_Entrepreneurship_Class_191023.rev.1572882577.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>Annual Entrepreneurship Class Donates Money to Help Food Insecure</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Students in associate professor Joseph Stasio’s Marketing Department entrepreneurship class recently completed an assignment to open, operate and shut down their own businesses with the goal of making money in the process, then donated the $869.22 in profits to offset the cost of Campus Ministry’s annual Thanksgiving Dinner for the food insecure in the Lawrence, Massachusetts 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/4821-annual-entrepreneurship-class-donates-money-to" role="button" title="Annual Entrepreneurship Class Donates Money to Help Food Insecure" aria-label="Annual Entrepreneurship Class Donates Money to Help Food Insecure">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/1/20601_EcoWalk_01_190924.rev.1569856513.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>Students Walk for the Environment</h3><p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Environmentally conscious community members participated in a walk of support for protecting the earth and natural resources Tuesday Sept. 24, 2019.</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/4808-students-walk-for-the-environment" role="button" title="Students Walk for the Environment" aria-label="Students Walk for the Environment">Read more </a> </div></div></div></div></div></section>
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