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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/0,0,1800,1798/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/0,0,410,300/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/0,0,400,259/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>
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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/0,0,400,600/ignore_cropper/1/20458_Andrea_Cohen.rev.1566911714.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>New Poetry from Writers House’s Andrea Cohen</h3><p><p> Andrea Cohen, executive director of <a href="/academics/the-writers-house/index.php">The Writers House</a> at Merrimack College, marked the publication of her sixth book of poetry, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nightshade-Andrea-Cohen/dp/1945588357/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Andrea+Cohen&qid=1563909643&s=books&sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Nightshade”</a> this week.</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/4788-new-poetry-from-writers-houses-andrea-cohen" role="button" title="New Poetry from Writers House’s Andrea Cohen" aria-label="New Poetry from Writers House’s Andrea Cohen">Read more </a> </div></div></div></div></div></section>
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