Making DC their classroom, sociology students boarded a bus to explore historic street art created by Latino artists in DC neighborhoods. In decades past, the neighborhoods of Columbia Heights, Petworth, Mount Pleasant, and Adams Morgan were home to a vibrant Latino immigrant community. Murals are a public representation of the lived experience of neighborhood residents […]
Month: May 2019
Marymount signs MOU with American University of the Emirates
Marymount recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the American University of the Emirates for joint academic programs. The first initiative of the group was fourteen masters students in the cybersecurity and information technology programs visiting Dubai and Abu Dhabi where they would meet with government representatives, several US companies working in the region, and academics […]
2019 Marymount University Commencement
Congratulations to our Class of 2019! Graduating is part of a bigger story, just as our Saints are a part of a bigger community. This past Saturday, May 18, and Sunday, May 19, 2019, our commencement ceremonies took place in the DAR Constitution Hall in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. We congratulate the graduates and […]
Sociology Students Participate in Innovative Global Classroom
Students taking “Topics in Human Rights” during the Spring 2019 semester experienced a global perspective, one of the hallmarks of a Marymount education. Building on a partnership between their two universities, Marymount’s sociology professor Matt Bakker and professor Terry Graham from ITESO University in Guadalajara, Mexico, brought their students together for a semester of innovative, […]
Tactile Hallucinations Exhibit
The Marymount University Cody Gallery exhibit, “Tactile Hallucinations” exhibit was recently featured in the museum review section of the Washington Post. In his article, author Mark Jenkins, reviews several local art gallery exhibits. In reference to the Cody Gallery exhibit, he talks of the artists’, Barb Smith, Roxana Alger Geffen, Alex Ebstein, Samantha Bittman, and […]
MU Students, Faculty Celebrate Math at National Math Festival
Marymount University (MU) faculty and students teamed up with National Math Festival to volunteer at this premier event on May 4, 2019. Accompanied by MU Mathematics faculty, Dr. Alice Petillo and Dr. Jacquelyn Rische, more than twenty MU students volunteered with the Association for Women in Mathematics and Geometric Balloon Bending booths. The National Math […]
Virginia Collegiate Honors Council Conference (VCHC)
Marymount honors students who were accepted to present at the Virginia Collegiate Honors Council Conference (VCHC) at James Madison University. One of the most exciting things that happened during the conference is that freshman honors student Katie McShea, who presented her work from my honors 101 Food Ethics seminar, was rated one of the top three oral […]
RT Live: News with Rick Sanchez
Dr. Becerra was recently invited to impart her knowledge about whether a four-year degree is still necessary and the change in the gap between men and women’s attainment of post-secondary degrees over the last eighty years on the RT America news program, News with Rick Sanchez. The conversation ranged from the benefits of a liberal arts […]
