Marymount Universitys Ballston Center continues to receive accolades. The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the International Interior Design Association recently gave the architecture firm Gensler the Award of Honor for its work on the complex in the 60,000-100,000 square foot category. The organization, which serves the Washington Metropolitan Area, Northern Virginia, Baltimore and Annapolis, held its Premiere […]
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Marymount Student Raises $54,000 to Fight Malaria Through Nothing But Nets
Marymount University sophomore Kevin Strickland has been holding bake sales for the past seven years to raise money for Nothing But Nets, a global grassroots campaign that fights malaria. So far, hes raised $54,000. And Im going to keep doing this for as long as malaria exists, said Strickland, a Springfield resident who began […]
Board of Trustees Selects Dr. Irma Becerra as Marymount Universitys Next President
Arlington, Virginia The Marymount University board of trustees is pleased to announce today that Dr. Irma Becerra will become the seventh president of the University on July 1, 2018. Currently provost and chief academic officer at St. Thomas University, Dr. Becerra is known for expanding educational access for students and keenly targeting programming to […]
Cancer Doesnt Stop Marymounts Sprinkel from Triathlons and Boston Marathon
With temperatures in the high 30s, gusting winds and heavy rain, Katie Sprinkel didnt feel like finishing this years Boston Marathon. But her husband and their three children were out in the foul weather, cheering her on. So were her parents. So were hundreds of thousands of spectators. It was pretty bad out there, […]
Marymount Holding Art Exhibition in Conjunction with One Journey Festival
Marymount University will present Border (Untitled), an exhibition on the state of culture, art, and politics surrounding immigration and refugees. It will be held at Marymounts two art galleries, with two free receptions scheduled: from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 18 at Cody Gallery at the Ballston Center; and from 6 to 8 […]
Marymount Invites Public to Business Model Design Competition on May 4
Marymount University is inviting the public to its School of Business Administrations 38th Deans Review Panel from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday, May 4 at the Ballston Center Auditorium, 1000 North Glebe Road. The DRP-38 is a business model design competition of undergraduate student projects. Four finalist teams will compete and present to […]
Marymount Professor Awarded NIH Grant to Research Cognitive Decline, Dementia
Dr. Catherine Diaz-Asper has earned Marymount Universitys first National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant, which will support the assistant professor of psychologys work on a new screening test for cognitive decline and dementia using speech recorded by telephone. Too many of us know, or know of, people with Alzheimers disease, but we need to […]
Marymount Students Share Study-Abroad Experiences
Katherine Sanchez, a junior biology major at Marymount University, always considered herself to be independent. She commutes to school from Alexandria and works part-time. But spending a spring semester in Melbourne, Australia, gave the concept of independence a whole new meaning. When you find yourself in another country for a semester, it really redefines what […]
Marymount Lecturer Presents at Mexico City Conference on Mindfulness
When Dr. Molly Dunn taught at a public middle school in inner city Chicago, she had to cope with the stress of high stakes testing and teaching in a poor district plagued with crime and gang activity. I started to go to a yoga studio on Sunday evenings to get my mind in the right […]
Author Discusses Muslims and the Making of America at Marymount University
There has never been an America without Muslims. That was a key point made April 10 in a talk at Marymount University by Dr. Amir Hussain, author of Muslims and the Making of America, published in 2016 by Baylor University Press. Hussain was the keynote speaker at this years Interfaith Forum, which drew 100 audience […]
