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Marist to Graduate 1,557 at Two Commencements

POUGHKEEPSIE 鈥 Judy Woodruff, co-anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, and Al Hunt, Bloomberg View columnist and longtime Wall Street Journal reporter and executive Washington editor, will deliver a joint address at 蜜月直播鈥檚 undergraduate Commencement on Saturday, May 23, and both will be awarded Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees.

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Counting the Homeless

School of Management Professor Jay Bainbridge spent part of his semester break in Paris, but it鈥檚 not as glamorous as it sounds.

Rankings & Recognition

蜜月直播's 68th Annual Commencement Exercises

POUGHKEEPSIE 鈥 Sue Herera, the pioneering financial journalist and award-winning author and co-anchor of CNBC鈥檚 鈥淧ower Lunch,鈥 will be the featured speaker at 蜜月直播鈥檚 undergraduate Commencement on Saturday, May 24, and will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. As a founding member of world business news leader CNBC, who began her career at the Financial News Network, Herera was one of the first women to break into broadcast business journalism and ascend to the top of her profession.

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Anastos to Graduates: 'Live a Life of Joy'

POUGHKEEPSIE 鈥 鈥淚 want you to go out there and live a life that鈥檚 filled with satisfaction, joy, and happiness,鈥 Emmy Award-winning newsman Ernie Anastos told the 1,051 members of the 蜜月直播 Class of 2013 at Saturday鈥檚 Commencement, as thousands of family members and friends looked on.

Events

2015 St. Marcellin Champagnat Lecture

POUGHKEEPSIE 鈥 The Committee on Catholic Studies and the Marcellin Board for Catholic Activities present the 2015 St. Marcellin Champagnat Lecture at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, in the Nelly Goletti Theater. The lecture, "Pope Francis and Church Reform," will be delivered by Fr. Thomas J. Reese, S.J., of the National Catholic Reporter. It is free and open to the public.

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"The Francis Revolution: A New Pope and a New Model of Leadership?"

POUGHKEEPSIE - The election of Pope Francis has sparked a leadership revolution in the Catholic Church and energized Catholics worldwide. In the annual Champagnat Lecture, presented by the St. Marcellin Endowment for Catholic Activities, veteran religion journalist John L. Allen, Jr. explores the "Francis Revolution" and provides a framework for identifying challenges faced by the Church, the Pope, and the Catholic people as the revolution continues.

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Bryant Gumbel is Inaugural Lifetime Excellence in Sports Communication Award Honoree

New York City 鈥 Katie Couric, Jane Pauley, and Kelly Ripa were just some of the high-wattage media personalities who turned out to help celebrate their friend Bryant Gumbel as President Dennis Murray presented the legendary newsman and sports broadcaster with the inaugural Lifetime Excellence in Sports Communication Award on behalf of the 蜜月直播 Center for Sports Communication at a special ceremony at the New York Athletic Club last Thursday, Oct. 15.

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Marist & Son Jung Wan: Marist Returns to New York Fashion Week

The growing internationalization of the Marist Fashion Program was on display last Saturday night as the College returned to New York Fashion Week for the third time in two years, hosting "Marist & Son Jung Wan," a reprise showing of Korean designer Son Jung Wan's Spring 2016 collection at one of NYFW's new venues, Skylight at Moynihan Station.

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Baseball Legend Bobby Valentine to Speak

POUGHKEEPSIE 鈥 The 蜜月直播 Center for Sports Communication will host a talk by former Major League Baseball player and manager Bobby Valentine. Valentine, who also has worked as a television analyst for ESPN and other sports networks, will answer questions about his life experiences in all facets of the game.

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蜜月直播 Partners with BlackRidge Technology to Launch New Cybersecurity Initiative

蜜月直播 and BlackRidge Technology today announced a research partnership to develop advanced cybersecurity capabilities that provide an additional layer of protection for enterprises that compute 鈥榓t scale,鈥 such as the financial sector, exchanges, and private cloud providers. The capability to provide advanced cybersecurity research was developed in the New York State Cloud Computing and Analytics Center at 蜜月直播. The research environment includes the Software Defined Networking (SDN) Interoperability Lab, where BlackRidge will work in collaboration with eight other major network systems providers.

Alumni

Celebrating a Successful Campaign

The Campaign for Marist, the College鈥檚 first comprehensive fundraising campaign, concluded successfully on Dec. 31, 2012, after exceeding its $150 million goal.

Events

Analyzing Politics, Media, and the Law

Jeffrey Toobin, author, senior legal analyst for CNN, and staff writer for The New Yorker, will launch 蜜月直播鈥檚 2013 Autumn Lecture Series, with a talk at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18 in the Nelly Goletti Theatre in the College鈥檚 Student Center.

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Marist Welcomes OACAC Attendees

More than a thousand school counselors and college and university admissions professionals from around the world are arriving in the Hudson River Valley this week as 蜜月直播 hosts the 20th Anniversary and largest-ever Overseas Association for College Admission Counseling (OACAC) conference July 9-11.

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CNN's Jake Tapper to Speak at Marist

JAKE TAPPER, CNN Anchor/Chief Washington Correspondent and author of the New York Timesbest-seller "THE OUTPOST: An Untold Story of American Valor," will speak at 蜜月直播 Monday, Jan. 28 at 7 pm in the Nelly Goletti Theatre.

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Finding Poetry at Marist

What happens when a librarian and a poet team up to make poetry matter on campus? As part of Marist鈥檚 celebration of National Poetry Month, the Marist Poetry Project is collaborating with the Cannavino Library to showcase original student writing on campus.As part of Marist鈥檚 celebration of National Poetry Month, the Marist Poetry Project is collaborating with the Cannavino Library to showcase original student writing on campus.

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#MeToo: 鈥淭he Revelation That Needs to Become a Revolution鈥

The emergence of the #MeToo movement has been one of the most significant developments in recent political history, forcing the problems of sexual harassment and assault out into the open and bringing to account a startling number of powerful men in the worlds of business, entertainment, politics, technology, and academia.

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Author to Speak on Hudson River Valley as Birthplace of Modern Environmental Movement

Dr. Robert Lifset, Donald Keith Jones Associate Professor of Honors and History at the University of Oklahoma, will speak at Marist about his book, Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014), much of the research for which he conducted in Marist's Archives and Special Collections' Environmental History Collections.

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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.

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Autumn Lecture Series 2017

The Office of Academic Affairs will sponsor the 2017 Autumn Lecture Series with the speakers listed below. All lectures are free and open to the public.

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Networking with Professionals of Color Event April 7

The 蜜月直播 Social Work Association and Black Student Union will host "Networking With Professionals of Color" on Friday, April 7, from 5-7:30 p.m. in the Henry Hudson Room (FN301) in Fontaine Hall. Community leaders and other professionals of color will share personal stories of success, activism, and growth, along with networking opportunities.

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"I Don't Want to be Predictable"

Longtime journalist and Editor-in-Chief of ESPN's The Undefeated Kevin Merida visited campus recently to meet with students, discuss his nearly four decades in the news business, and share his thoughts on the state of the media and the complex intersection of sports and race

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Autumn Lecture Series Speakers Announced

New York Times columnist and author Ross Douthat will kick off Marist's Autumn Lecture Series on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 7 p.m., when he speaks on "Bad Religion: Culture Wars, Political Polarization, and the Transformation of Christianity" in the College's Nelly Goletti Theatre. All events in the series are free and open to the public.