News Archive
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During a presidential election season in which Islam has been a polarizing issue, Merrimack College’s Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations is co-sponsoring a visit to the Merrimack Valley by one of the country’s leading figures in interfaith relations Sept. 19. -
The Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations is honoring four people during its annual Feast of Faiths and Awards Dinner with special guests President Christopher E. Hopey, Ph.D. and Archdiocese of Boston Cardinal Seán O’Malley at the Rogers Center for the Arts Tuesday evening. -
“My experience competing on the women’s basketball team, and being a part of the greater Merrimack community that is dedicated to service, has contributed to where I am today.” -
Merrimack College pilgrims on the 17th annual Pellegrinaggio left campus St. Patrick’s Day for Italy, on a quest to learn more about St. Augustine and the religious order he founded. -
Working in shifts along three assembly lines, more than 100 volunteers packed about 15,000 meals for the Merrimack Valley’s food-insecure Feb. 11. -
Merrimack is creating its own City of God, empowering new students to serve others while working on their academics and personal growth in a living-learning community scheduled to open in the fall of 2016. -
These students are members of the Interfaith Alliance at Merrimack. They recently held two “interventions” to combat Islamophobia by engaging with the community in order to get to know everyone better and dispel any fears or stereotypes. -
Three to five grants will be awarded to encourage the development of interfaith courses for graduate and undergraduate curricula, as well as for professional development programs. The deadline has been extended and submissions are now due by February 29, 2016. -
A swell of interest in the Catholic faith among the Merrimack College students and prospective students has led the college to introduce a Catholic Studies minor. -
Our campus newspaper, The Beacon, interviewed Maria Haseeb ’16 and Shareef Kotb ’16 -
Our annual remembrance of the Nazi Holocaust brought students to Temple Emanuel of Andover to hear Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, the Muslim director of the Holocaust Center at Manhattan College. -
Wiesenthal Center’s “The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust 1933-1945” Poster Exhibit at McQuade -
Joseph Kelley, professor and director of the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack recently met Pope Francis during a trip to the Vatican. -
Merrimack College spring graduate Joseph LaTorre has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program fellowship to work in Nepal. -
If you missed Diana Eck on April 15th, you can now watch her on YouTube! -
Sunday, April 5, is Easter, but Saturday also marks the start of Passover for the Jewish faith. On Tuesday, Rabbi Robert Goldstein held the 18th annual model Seder for Merrimack College students to show them the roots of the Last Supper. -
Panelists for a symposium on Freedom of Speech, Religion, and the Press that met March 25 as part of Merrimack College’s Social Justice Week agreed terrorism against the media can’t be justified socially or religiously, even when newspaper stories or cartoons are offensive. -
A 30-member-strong pilgrimage from the Merrimack community is in Italy, following in the footsteps of St. Augustine and learning about his life and work. -
and expresssions of sorrow and sympathy. -
against Islamophobia and all forms of hate. -
Volunteers from Merrimack and interfaith communities throughout the Merrimack Valley packaged over 12,000 meals for donation to the Merrimack Valley Food Bank Feb. 4. -
Merrimack College Professor Joseph Kelley, director of the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, talks about the attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left 11 people dead, allegedly in response to its satirical treatment of the Prophet Muhammed. -
Kiara Huntress (2015) is serving as Editorial Assistant for HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. She replaced Jonathan Stringi who graduated May 2014.
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Yousef Waleed Meri accepted this year’s $25,000 Goldziher Prize during a festive ceremony at the Rogers Center for the Arts. -
Rabbi Yehuda Sarna and Imam Khalid Latif told the story of their unlikely friendship as the Jewish and Muslim chaplains at NYU. Joined by Iqra Iftikhar ’14 and Yaniv Havusha, Resident Director, it was an afternoon of storytelling to create bridges of understanding. Now on YouTube! -
The O’Brien Center for Student Success was featured in the latest edition of the Merrimack College newspaper, The Beacon. The article highlights the services that we offer to students and stresses the importance of using our Center early and often. Read the feature article about the O’Brien Center for Student Success >>
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Shareda Hosein, of Quincy, laid a carpet on the floor of the new Common Prayer Room on the second floor of the Sakowich Campus Center to perform the zuhr prayer, which is one of the five daily prayers for Muslims Wednesday. -
Rabbi Yehuda Sarna grew up in an orthodox Jewish home in Montreal. He went to a seminary, then moved to Israel and lived in a yeshiva worshipping from 6:30 a.m. to midnight. -
Results from NACE’s 2014 Recruiting Benchmarks Survey indicate that when it comes to on-campus resources, college recruiters rely most heavily on the campus career centers.
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The September 2014 Salary Survey report published by National Association for Colleges and Employers states “overall average starting salary for Class of 2014 college graduates stands at $48,707, up 7.5 percent from the average of $45,327 posted by the Class of 2013 at this time last year.”
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Jan. 19, 2017 —
Merrimack College’s Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations is continuing its long tradition of encouraging relations among the three great monotheistic religions, and for the first time will announce three national awards this spring. -
Jan. 10, 2017 —
Assistant Professor of Health Sciences April Bowling and a group of Harvard researchers have released their findings that structured exercise can be helpful to young students with behavioral disorders. -
Dec. 16, 2016 —
Confetti flew as college officials surprised 11 Austin Preparatory School seniors Dec. 15 with the announcement that they were admitted to Merrimack’s class of 2021. -
Nov. 22, 2016 —
Professor Joseph T. Kelley, director of Merrimack’s Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, is heading to Algeria for a first-of-its-kind academic conference on St. Augustine Nov. 28 to 30. -
Nov. 10, 2016 —
Merrimack College, founded in 1947 to educate World War II veterans, honored those who served with a Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 10 in the Sakowich Campus Center. -
Nov. 8, 2016 —
About 1,300 students, faculty and staff fanned out across the Merrimack Valley and the city of Boston, helping nonprofits and municipal agencies, during the college’s Mack Gives Back day on Nov. 5.
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Jan. 17, 2017 —
Graduate student Emily Martin appeared on an episode of popular game show Wheel of Fortune that aired Jan. 12, 2017, and even though she was winning until the final moments, she missed out on first place by a single letter. -
Dec. 28, 2016 —
Early Action II deadline for undergraduate admission - January 15. -
Dec. 9, 2016 —
Advent and Christmas have always been a favorite time of the year. The air is crisper, the twilight shines with purples and pinks, the scent of pine and wood fires fill the air. It is time to gather for the telling stories, for singing, for sharing our lives and traditions with each other. -
Nov. 22, 2016 —
Merrimack College’s students, faculty, staff and school boosters donated about 118 Thanksgiving dinners, complete with turkeys and the fixings, to Lawrence-based Neighbors in Need this year to help make Thursday’s holiday more enjoyable for the food-insecure. -
Nov. 10, 2016 —
New York Times reporter Kim Barker, who covered Afghanistan and Pakistan and wrote the best-selling comic memoir “The Taliban Shuffle,” will be the first presenter in the 2016-17 President’s Speaker Series.
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Jan. 12, 2017 —
Dan Sarofian-Butin, professor and founding dean of Merrimack’s School of Education and Social Policy, has been named to the American Enterprise Institute’s Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings for the fifth straight year. -
Dec. 21, 2016 —
Allan T. Weatherwax, Ph.D., dean of the School of Science and Engineering, has been named senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Merrimack College. -
Nov. 30, 2016 —
Elizabeth “Lizz” Egan ’17 spent a month this summer teaching disabled children how to walk and working in a garden growing food for the most impoverished of people in South Africa. -
Nov. 16, 2016 —
More than 60 members of Merrimack College’s Class of 2017 recently wrapped up a two-day retreat focused on developing and polishing professional networking skills. -
Nov. 9, 2016 —
Dan Butin, founding dean of the School of Education and Social Policy, examined in spring what then-GOP contender Donald Trump thought about higher education and found reason for hope.