“Caring for Our Common Home” has been cancelled.
Merrimack College has cancelled campus-wide events with 50+ people through April 6th, which includes our March 19th conference on “Caring for Our Common Home: Ethical and Scientific Approaches.” We are in conversation about presenting this important program at a later time and will update this page as we have more information.
Read moreFeed Your Neighbor packed 32K meals!
Building community through service, our interfaith coalition of volunteers broke last year’s record of 24K meals.
Read moreCall for Papers: “Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology”
For a conference which will convene in Jerusalem from May 25-28, 2020
Read moreAustin Scholars, Professors Heading to International Conference on St. Augustine
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.”
Read moreStudents Walk for the Environment
Environmentally conscious community members participated in a walk of support for protecting the earth and natural resources Tuesday Sept. 24, 2019.
Read moreSummer Break Offers Professors Time for Research, Including Art
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.
Read moreAustin Scholars Join Celebration of New University in Bogotá
Three students from Merrimack College’s Austin Scholars living-learning community recently traveled to Bogotá, Colombia with the program’s director, Sr. Jeanne Gribaudo, C.S.J., and professor Joseph Kelley to attend a conference with Augustinian scholars from the Americas, Europe and the Philippines as part of a celebration marking the opening of the Order of St. Augustine’s newest university.
Read moreScience and Faith Come Together in Search of Solutions to Climate Change
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.
Read moreFormer EPA Chief to Speak at Merrimack Conference
Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will be the keynote speaker Wednesday at Merrimack’s Religion, Science and Ecology conference.
Read moreAustin Scholars run program on Antisemitism
Through film and discussion, hate and intolerance are confronted.
Read moreCollege Interfaith Prayer Service Delivers Message of Hope
About 200 people left their comfort zone on a recent frigid winter evening to participate in Where We Dwell Together: the 16th Annual Interfaith Prayer, presented by the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations.
Read more‘Feed Your Neighbor’ event breaks record, teaches justice
At the fifth annual Feed Your Neighbor at the Sakowich Campus Center, volunteers of different faiths and traditions gathered with one goal Feb. 6: to help the hungry.
Read moreFeed Your Neighbor 2019 packs 24,000 meals
Since we inaugurated this program in 2015 we have doubled our meal count.
Read moreTemple Emanuel, Merrimack College students remember Crystal Night, precursor to the Holocaust
Exactly 80 years ago, Nazi thugs and paramilitary gangs attacked Jews throughout Germany, burning their synagogues, vandalizing their businesses and killing at least 91 of them.
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