Photo Credit: Robin Bell Dr. Holly Karapetkova is accustomed to seeing her works of poetry appear in printed books and online – but this month, her award-winning poems have been promoted in a more unique way that’s both powerfully modern and illuminating. Using the latest projection technology, Arlington County’s “Visual Verse” series brings a diverse […]
Marilyn Peterson, an adjunct associate professor in Marymount University’s Forensic & Legal Psychology program and a 40-year veteran of the intelligence field, was selected as the first-ever recipient of the International Association for Intelligence Education’s (IAFIE) Lifetime Achievement Award. Her award also includes the additional designation of Distinguished Fellow. Peterson served as the head […]
Despite the strains posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Marymount University’s academic Communication program still produced an engaging Fall 2020 Communication Speaker Series featuring talented professionals across the media industry. Below is a list of speakers, arranged in chronological order leading with the most recent: Professor Christie Phillips’ COMM 206 Introduction to Public Relations class […]
To conclude the fall semester, students from Marymount’s College of Health and Education participated in the University’s first-ever virtual Health Research Day. Research presentations from 18 students in the Health & Human Performance and Nursing departments were selected and posted to a website to showcase their work to a large audience. Both undergraduate and […]
The growth of the Hispanic population in the U.S. has boomed in recent decades, and Hispanics now make up the largest racial or ethnic minority in the country, per U.S. Census data. With that growth has come the emergence of Hispanic Serving Institutions. By definition, Hispanic Serving Institutions – or HSIs – are colleges or universities where […]
Position: Irma Becerra, Ph.D., is the seventh president of Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, a position she has held since 2018. Career highlights: Provost and chief academic officer at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens from 2014 to 2018; vice president, vice provost, entrepreneurship center director and professor at Florida International University from 1996 to 2014. Becerra founded […]
Despite the pandemic, and dozens of COVID-19 cases, Arlington-based Marymount University says the fall semester — conducted with a mix of in-person and virtual classes — was largely a success. “In what has been perhaps the most challenging semester for U.S. higher educational institutions in recent memory, Marymount University has successfully navigated the Fall […]
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines, recently recognized the Marymount University chapter of Phi Kappa Phi as a Circle of Excellence Gold Chapter, the second-highest commendation a chapter can receive from the organization. The award is given to chapters that […]
In what has been perhaps the most challenging semester for U.S. higher educational institutions in recent memory, Marymount University has successfully navigated the Fall 2020 academic semester as planned without any disruptions to its hybrid learning format or in-person living. From mid-August, when residential students first started to move back to campus, to today, […]
Today, the Greater Washington Partnership announced that it has added new university and business partners to the Capital CoLAB (Collaborative of Leaders in Academia and Business). Marymount University was officially welcomed into the group on the academic side, while Deloitte US joined on the business side. The Capital CoLAB, Greater Washington Partnership’s talent and […]
