News Archive
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Merrimack Alumnus, Artist Brings Together Sport and Activism
Eamon White ’13 is an artist, activist and educator whose work has been featured nationally. His portraits have gone viral online and, as a former football player and present-day coach, he is well known for hand-painting cleats and sneakers for players in the NFL.
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Merrimack Professors, Students Launch Youth Civic Engagement Program
Youth Voice is one of Merrimack’s most recent civic and community engagement programs, forming a collaborative network of Merrimack faculty, students and community partnerships to support local youth.
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Hands to Help Leaders Named Engaged Scholars
Rosana Urbaez and Lisbeth Valdez, director and assistant director of Merrimack’s neighborhood resource center Hands to Help, were chosen from a nationally nominated group of community engagement professionals to participate in the 2021-2022 Campus Compact Engaged Scholars Initiative (ESI).
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Merrimack Partners with ACCL to Offer Career Services to Immigrants and Refugees
Professor Shannon Butler-Mokoro, director of Merrimack’s Master of Social Work program, received a Bud Ackerman Foundation grant on behalf of the African Community Center of Lowell (ACCL).
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Merrimack Alumna Named Director of Lawrence Health Center
Ashley Hall ’19 was recently named director of the Merrimack Valley Area Health Education Center (AHEC) in Lawrence, Massachusetts. AHEC is a national network of community health centers aimed at increasing the health care workforce in underserved communities.
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Merrimack Alumni Connections: Physical Education Teachers
Associate Professor Anne Gatling invites local physical education (PE) teachers to present to her health science education classes every spring at Merrimack. The brief course presentations have become a campus favorite and offer Merrimack students the chance to hear from people in the field and develop their network.
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Merrimack Athletics Expands Partnership with Team IMPACT
The Merrimack College Athletic Department will formally expand their longstanding partnership with Team IMPACT for an additional two years, extending the program through the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Merrimack College Announces 2021 Pioneer, O’Brien Scholars
Merrimack College will award full tuition, room and board, comprehensive fees and book stipends to 12 students – 10 under the Pioneer Scholarship Program and two under the recently expanded O’Brien Scholarship Program.
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Merrimack Awarded $50,000 Annually through Cummings Grant Program
Merrimack College joins the ranks of 140 Massachusetts organizations as a recipient of the Cummings $25 Million Grant Program. The program awards annual funding to community-facing institutions based in Middlesex, Essex and Suffolk counties.
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Three Merrimack Professors Receive the Roddy Award
The Edward G. Roddy Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award is given annually to a Merrimack faculty member who goes above and beyond in the classroom. This year, three faculty members received the Roddy Award at both the 2020 and 2021 Merrimack Commencement ceremonies.
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Merrimack Health Sciences Professor Receives NIH Grant
Assistant Professor Leena Bharath, who teaches in the School of Health Sciences, has received $434,000 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The awarded R15 grant will stretch over three years and is intended to support the training of undergraduate students.
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Active Minds Wins Student Organization of the Year
Merrimack’s chapter of Active Minds, a national organization that focuses on broadening mental health awareness, received the Student Organization of the Year Award at the 2021 LEAD Awards Ceremony.
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Audrey Regan Wins 2021 Merrimack Medal
The Merrimack Medal is awarded annually to a senior of outstanding character and achievement of service to their classmates and the Merrimack College community. This year, the award was given to Audrey Regan, president of the Austin Scholars program.
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Merrimack Students Pass The Securities Industry Essentials Exam
More than 20 Merrimack College students have passed the Securities Industry Essentials® (SIE) exam, administered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Passing the exam is a prestigious achievement and demonstrates immense promise for students interested in the finance industry.
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Merrimack College Announces Honorary Degree Recipients
Merrimack College will award honorary degrees for both the class of 2020 and the class of 2021 at this year’s Commencement celebrations. Honorary degree recipients will be recognized for their significant contributions to their communities and for their exceptional examples of Merrimack values.
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Mack Gives Back Tackles Food Insecurity
Mack Gives Back is a community-wide series of service events where Merrimack students, faculty and staff lend a helping hand to local nonprofits and community partners. This year, the program went through a transformation to comply with COVID-19 protocols and packed more than 180,000 meals to address the growing challenge of food insecurity across Massachusetts.
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Working Warriors: Alexa Tejeda ’22 Discovers New Career Possibilities with Supportive Living Neurofit Internship
Alexa Tejeda ’22 holds it all in balance: athletics, academics, and her own career development. As an Honors Program student leader, a varsity swimmer, and an exercise teacher on campus, she’s somehow found time for her latest accomplishment: an internship with Supportive Living as a neurofit intern! We’re so proud to feature her, as she joins us to discuss the new role, balancing time-consuming commitments, and her advice to fellow student athletes.
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2021 LEAD Awards Roundup and Celebration
This year’s virtual LEAD Awards celebration and ceremony recognized excellent students, clubs and organizations that contributed to the Merrimack College community.
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Watch Spring 2021 Spring Concert Live on May 1
Tune in live on May 1 to watch the Department of Visual and Performing Arts’ spring music concert on YouTube.
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Honors Society Welcomes Graphic Design Major Felicia Fishel
Felicia Fishel has been inducted into the Honors Society. As a senior majoring in graphic design, Fishel’s work often focuses on the intersection of art and culture, and her impressive Senior Capstone Project has marked her as a standout artist.
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Renaissance Society Elects VPA Professor as President
Ellen Longsworth, art history professor at Merrimack, has been elected President of the Society for Renaissance Art History.
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No Lab, No Problem: Students Study Local Water Sources
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit in-person engagement, Merrimack’s civil engineering students took their lab work outside to study local bodies of water.
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New Partnership Brings DEI to High School Students
Be the CAUSE (Catalyst for Advocacy and Unified Student Empowerment) is a new community partnership between Merrimack and Central Catholic High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts which aims to bring diversity awareness training to high school students.
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Assistant Professor Appointed to Design Museum Foundation Council
VPA Professor Dan Vlahos shares his design expertise as a Design Museum Council member for the next three years.
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ScholarWorks Publishes Student Paper
Jackie LaRivee examines female empowerment in her research paper published in ScholarWorks.
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Merrimack Gets Technology in the Hands of Lawrence Students
In light of the pandemic’s impact on education and the sharp uptick of remote learning, Merrimack’s Hands to Help connected with Lawrence High School students and administrators to increase accessibility to necessary tools and technology.
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Student Artists Reflect On COVID-19: It’s OK To Not Be OK
Merrimack student artists kicked off a new exhibition, “It’s OK To Not Be OK,” with a virtual opening on Friday, April 2. Housed in McCoy Gallery, the show features work from a newly offered fall 2020 course and grapples with everything from life during the pandemic, to civil rights and the rise of blind patriotism in the U.S. The exhibition will run through Friday, April 16.
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Working Warriors: Luke Groder ’22 Sticks with MassDOT for Summer 2021 Internship
Luke Groder ’22 has a sense of unwavering determination, one which has carried him into a series of incredible opportunities. While earning his bachelor’s in civil engineering, Luke has served as a campus leader, and a great example for fellow students as he works in Residence Life and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Merrimack Graduate Student Named Newman Civic Fellow
Tevin Monroe, a graduate student in Merrimack’s Master of Education in Community Engagement program, received the Newman Civic Fellowship. Monroe will join the national cohort of student fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year as he works to complete his degree entirely online.
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Working Warriors: Erika Torkildsen ’21, Former “Get Hired Up” Intern, Lands Full-Time Offer at Raytheon
Erika Torkildsen ’21 is nothing short of a trailblazer. While pursuing her bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, Erika has taken a variety of leadership roles on campus, with groups such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers. She’s served as an advocate for women in STEM both on and off campus, and after completing a series of internships, has landed her first full-time offer as a systems engineer at Raytheon! Today, Erika joins us to discuss her career development, her favorite O’Brien Center events, and what’s next in her professional life.
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