Marymount administrators, faculty and staff officially welcomed the Class of 2023 this past Thursday at the New Student Convocation in the Rose Benté Lee Center. Convocation is a longstanding tradition held to celebrate the new academic year and mark the transition of incoming students to the Marymount community. Following an introduction by new Student […]
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Marymount professors awarded NSF grant to train next generation of cybersecurity educators
Two Professors of Information Management at Marymount University, Dr. Diane Murphy and Dr. Donna Schaeffer, received a joint $481,761 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create and implement an innovative program to address the need for more teachers in the cybersecurity field. Their proposal, titled CyberTeach: From Cybersecurity Professional to Cybersecurity Professor, […]
New Marymount Provost brings leadership, experience to new role
Marymount is proud to welcome the university’s new Provost, Hesham El-Rewini, Ph.D., P.E., who officially begins his duties on campus this week. Dr. El-Rewini is a proven leader in higher education, and assumes his new position with nearly 30 years of experience at both private and public universities. He also brings to Marymount a successful […]
Interprofessional Education Course Supports School Community in Panama
In the Spring 2019 semester, ten Marymount pre-service special education teachers, nursing, and health profession students worked together to support the San Pedro Nolasco School, a small Catholic school in one of the poorest provinces in Panama. These students were part of a Marymount course, ED 540 – Burunga, Panama with San Pedro Nolasco School, through […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
