In celebration of Military/Veteran Appreciation Week November 5-9, 2018, Marymount honored the military and veteran community through service-oriented and informative events. Through Operation Care & Comfort, students prepared and decorated care packages for forward-deployed service members. The Office of Military and Veteran Student Services and MU’s Pattern Makers Club hosted an event making teddy bears […]
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Marymount Education Students Work with The Arc
Over 25 Marymount education undergraduate and graduate students participated in the 10th bi-annual transition workshop series with The Arc of Northern Virginia. The Arc supports families and their children with various disabilities, promoting and protecting the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to support their full inclusion and participation in the community. […]
Dr. Becerra Cha-Cha’s Her Way to Victory
Marymount President Dr. Irma Becerra took home the coveted mirror ball trophy as the winner of the 2018 DC’s Dancing Stars Gala. Becerra danced the cha-cha all the way to first place against other local celebrities. Becerra was dancing for her charity of choice, the newly created Sister Majella Berg Internship Fund. The fund is […]
Fine Arts Students Visit Glenstone Museum
Fine Arts students enrolled in Sarah Hardesty’s Senior Project class, FA422, were given a special private visit and tour by Peter Ibenana, Community Outreach Coordinator, to the newly reopened Glenstone Museum in Potomac, MD. The Glenstone Museum incorporates art, architecture, and landscape beautifully and provides a unique and a transformative experience of art. Large scale […]
Global Community Engagement: Forming a Culture of Service
Representing the Center for Global Education, three faculty: Jennifer Tripken (Health and Human Performance), Clara Hauth (Education -Special Education) and Diana Venskus (Physical Therapy) presented: Global community engagement: Forming a culture of service at the the American Association of College and Universities (AAC&U) annual meeting in Seattle, WA. The presentation focused on the developing Interprofessional […]
Marymount University Hosts 2018 Virginia Philosophical Association Meeting
On October 26 and 27, Marymount University’s School of Design, Arts and Humanities (SDAH) hosted the 79th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Philosophical Association in the new Ballston Center. The conference drew more than thirty philosophers from across the commonwealth and the region to hear eight talks on a variety of philosophical topics and attend […]
Students Attend Play’s World Premiere at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Aspiring writers attended the world premiere of Long Way Down, a one-man show about a 15-year-old teen and the impact of gun violence, on Thursday, November 1st at The Kennedy Center with Professor Caroline Bock. The class, EN305: Topics in Creative Writing, is studying writing for young adult literature, and the play is an adaptation of […]
Two faculty to read from creative works
This Thursday, November 8, two faculty from the Department of Literature & Languages will be reading from recent publications of creative work at One More Page Books in Arlington, sponsored by the Washington Writers’ Publishing House. Dr. Holly Karapetkova’s Words We Might One Day Say, a collection of poems that explore love, loss, motherhood, and living between […]
Students Visit Oatlands Historic House & Gardens
Students in Professor Cassandra Good’s history course “Virginia and the Old South” visited Oatlands Historic House & Gardens in Loudoun County, Virginia on October 31st. After reading about life for both black and white families in Loudoun County in the antebellum era, students had a chance to see one of the plantations they read about […]
PT Department Adapts Accessible Cars for Kids
On Thursday, November 1st, the Marymount Physical Therapy Department hosted a Go Baby Go! event to adapt battery powered cars, making them accessible to children with special needs. “Go Baby Go! transforms the lives of children with mobility challenges,” said Brittany Simmons, a Marymount nursing student and the Go Baby Go! project coordinator. “These ‘Build […]
