On Friday, January 25, Marymount hosted the second annual Technology Challenge event. This competitive event was open to students in the categories of Mobile Apps, Gaming, Cybersecurity, Websites, Data Analysis, Technology for Social Good. Participating students submitted a proposal for their entry and Marymount faculty selected the one or two most promising entries from each […]
Month: January 2019
Marymount University Receives Phi Kappa Phi Chapter
Marymount University has received approval for its petition to have a chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi on campus. Phi Kappa Phi, founded in 1897 at the University of Maine, is the only collegiate national honor society that is open to students – juniors, seniors, and graduate students – in all majors and programs. […]
Celebrating Faculty and Student-Faculty Scholarship 2017-2018
Please join us in celebrating the impressive accomplishments of our Marymount faculty. This report documents the many books, journal articles, external conference presentations, and external grants and awards of our faculty during the 2017-2018 academic year. The report also provides the “stories” behind a few representative projects. We wish we could provide the stories behind […]
Barry Gallery Presents: ARTECH
Marymount University is pleased to present ARTECH with multi-media works by Susan Eder, Alexis Gomez, and Jonathan Monaghan. The exhibition focuses on the advancements of modern day technology, its influence on the world around us, and the ways it can be incorporated into the creation of artwork. The three featured artists use their creations to […]
Opera NOVA’s African-American Concert at the Reinsch Library
A concert by Opera NOVA will celebrate African-American Opera Singers past and present at 3 PM on Sunday, January 27 at Marymount University’s Reinsch Library Theatre. Featured in this second annual event will be singers Elise Jenkins, Keith Craig, Jocelyn Hunt, Arianna Rodriguez, Jarrod Lee and accompanist Dr. Elizabeth Hill. They’ll perform favorite opera passages, […]
Global Scholars Seek Global Perspective with Embassy Visit
The Marymount Global Scholars, along with their academic director Dr. Delario Lindsey, visited the embassies of Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts & Nevis, and Saint Vincent & The Grenadines on November 28th. They received tours and presentations from the ambassadors, coordinated by Marymount alum Bernise Springer (11), who is a program assistant at the Saint Lucia […]
2019 Bisson Lecture in the Humanities
Dr. Dorsey Armstrong, a teacher-scholar of Medieval studies from of Purdue University, will give the 2019 Bisson Lecture in the Humanities on Tuesday, January 22nd at 5:30 PM in the Reinsch Auditorium. Her talk is entitled “King Arthur and the Knights of the Public Humanities: Literature in the Classroom, on Guided Tours, and on Screen.” This […]
Balancing Career & Creativity Panel
On November 27, 2018, the English Department hosted an alumni panel on Balancing Career and Creativity, or, “Life After a Humanities Degree.” The panel featured five Marymount English Department Alumni. Nileah Bell is an analyst for the Department of Justice. She works in a writing group with her co-panelists Julie Allen and Mary Nyingi. Her […]
Washington Business Journal: Viewpoint: HQ2 Could Bring Needed Donations for Academics
Irma Becerra said she hopes corporate philanthropy will increase with HQ2’s arrival. The popular press has chronicled many concerns about the arrival of Amazon in Arlington, Virginia, with traffic and housing prices chief among them. Despite the crowding it may bring, I see the arrival of Amazon as a great opportunity for D.C. to become […]
