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Rankings & Recognition

Open Doors 2015

Marist College is again among the nation鈥檚 leading colleges and universities for international education, according to the 2015 Open Doors Report, the most authoritative source of data on U.S. students studying abroad for academic credit at their home colleges or universities.

Rankings & Recognition

NewsHour's Judy Woodruff Receives Lowell Thomas Award

Judy Woodruff, co-anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour, is the 24th broadcast journalist to receive the Marist College Lowell Thomas Award, which recognizes outstanding individuals in the communications industry, whose lives and work reflect the imagination, courage, ambition, and humanity of the legendary newsman and adventurer for whom it is named.

Academics

Marist College Partners with IBM and Linux Foundation to Support Linux on the Mainframe

Ross A. Mauri '80, General Manager, z Systems, IBM Corporation and Vice Chair of the Marist Board of Trustees, yesterday announced the first Linux-only mainframe, LinuxONE, at LinuxCon in Seattle, Washington. IBM has chosen Marist, along with Syracuse University鈥檚 School of Information Studies, to host clouds that will provide developers access to a virtual IBM LinuxONE at no cost.

Rankings & Recognition

Opening Doors: Study Abroad at Marist

Marist is among the top colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to sending students to study abroad, according to the latest "Open Doors" report, the Institute for International Education鈥檚 authoritative source on international exchange in higher education.

Events

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: The Story Continues

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer undergoing cancer treatment whose cells鈥攖aken without her knowledge in 1951鈥攂ecame one of the most important tools in medicine, vital to the development of modern vaccines, cancer treatments, in vitro fertilization techniques, and more. HeLa cells are the most widely used human cell lines in existence. Mrs. Lacks鈥檚 cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she has been virtually unknown.

Alumni

Technology Entrepreneur and Alumnus Named to Marist Board

Marist is proud to announce that alumnus and technology entrepreneur Suresh Kothapalli '91MS has been elected to the College鈥檚 Board of Trustees. Kothapalli attended his first board meeting as a trustee in May, after being elected at the board鈥檚 most recent meeting, in February.

Centers for Excellence

"KORENGAL"

The Marist College chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will host Sebastian Junger, best-selling author of The Perfect Storm and award-winning journalist and filmmaker, for a Jan. 29 screening of his latest film, the Afghanistan war documentary KORENGAL, which picks up where the Academy Award-nominated Restrepo left off. The screening will be followed by a Q & A/discussion session and a book signing.

Academics

Marist Again Named a 鈥淏est College Value鈥 by Kiplinger鈥檚 Personal Finance Acknowledged for Embodying Exceptional Economic and Academic Value

Marist has been named to Kiplinger鈥檚 Personal Finance鈥檚 list of the Top 300 Best College Values of 2016. Marist climbed six spots on the list of Best Private College Values, to 57 from 63. Introduced in 1998, the rankings highlight public schools, private universities and private liberal arts colleges that combine outstanding academics with affordable cost. In addition, Kiplinger has ranked the top 100 best values in each category.