Marymount is excited to announce the Summer 100! opportunity. Register for a 3-credit summer course and you will receive a $100 book voucher for summer classes! Here’s how it works: Once you have registered for at least a 3-credit Summer 2019 course, you may claim your one-time voucher at the Student Accounts office in Rowley from April 29, 2019 – July 19, 2019. In order […]
Month: April 2019
Education students travel to Ugandan primary school
Two Marymount Education Department faculty members traveled with students and teachers to our partner primary school in rural Uganda, the Arlington Junior School (AJS). This was Elizabeth Langran’s and Mary Gibson’s fifth and sixth trips, respectively. During each trip, Marymount organizes workshops on active learning strategies to teachers at AJS and other outreach public schools, […]
Appollonie’s@Marymount Addresses Food Insecurity in Our Community
Appollonie’s@Marymount is a campus-wide initiative that resulted from collaborative efforts of students, faculty and staff at Marymount. “Appollonie’s Campus Cupboards is an opportunity for our community to embrace our RSHM heritage as we navigate the challenges of the world in which we live,” said Christina Rajmaira, Dean of Student Life. “Working together, we acknowledge that […]
Announcing Partnership for a Healthier America
We are proud to announce our three-year commitment to expand healthier options on campus through its collaboration with Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) – a leading organization working with the private sector to ensure that all children and young adults have the opportunity to live healthy, active lives. Marymount is one of more than […]
Prize-Winning Author Mary Karr Visits Marymount
On April 18, the first day of Easter Break, Marymount students were out in force to hear author Mary Karr talk about writing, trauma, memoir, and more. Spanish minor and Biology major Aya Raihanoune introduced the author. Karr’s first memoir, The Liar’s Club, was the shared text read this year by all first-year composition students at […]
Dr. Kimberly Meltzer publishes book on the Expansion of Opinion and Commentary in U.S. Journalism
Dr. Kimberly Meltzer’s new book, From News to Talk: The Expansion of Opinion and Commentary in US Journalism, was published in April 2019 by the State University of New York Press. The book examines what journalists think about the movement toward often opinionated, sometimes uncivil, talk in news. It provides an important intervention in debates about […]
Alumna helps curate MARVEL: UNIVERSE OF HEROES exhibit at The Franklin Institute
Ariel (McManus) Odinson (MU alumna and English minor, class of 2012) is working on the MARVEL: Universe of Heroes exhibit that will open April 13th at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA. Ariel is a Curatorial Programs Assistant at The Franklin, and she is also a Museum Educator at the Mütter Museum. Congratulations, Ariel! While she was an […]
Four Marymount Students Present at the Virginia Humanities Conference
This April, four Marymount students attended the 2019 Virginia Humanities Conference, hosted by Virginia Wesleyan University in Virginia Beach, VA. The conference, focusing this year on the theme of “The Fluid Humanities,” asked scholars from a variety of perspectives to consider how the humanities respond to topics as diverse as rising seas, water scarcity, accelerated […]
Fine Arts Students Visit Torpedo Factory
On April 8, students in Professor Sarah Hardesty’s Advanced Studio and Figure Drawing classes, as well as Advanced Studio students from Professor Mary Proenza’s Painting and Printmaking courses, got a tour of the Torpedo Factory studios and galleries by Daniel Guzman, curator of Public Programs at the Torpedo Factory. We heard from the Curator of […]
Communication Students Visit Politico Headquarters
On Thursday, April 4, students enrolled in Dr. Kimberly Meltzer’s Communication Special Topics seminar in Journalism and Politics were given a special tour of Politico’s headquarters in Rosslyn, Virginia, by CEO Patrick Steel, himself! They met Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Matt Wuerker, saw an editorial meeting taking place, and had a private question and answer session […]
