Marymount University invites the public to a free opening reception for its upcoming exhibition, “In a Minute,” from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 7 at the Barry Gallery. The exhibit will feature the Senior Thesis Exhibition works from Grant Gallas, Emma Grzymkowski, and Jamie McDonnell. The exhibition is a visualization of the potential […]
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Baseball Team Commits to Seven Days of Service
The Marymount University baseball team is committed to seven days of service to the local community. To achieve this, the team is divided into seven groups, each tasked with planning an event and coordinating directly with their organization of choice to carry them out. So far the team has completed events involving C.R.i. (Choice. Respect. […]
Interior Design Community Comes Together for Marymount Alumna
Recently, the Marymount and DC design communities have come together to support a Marymount alum in need. Livi Pejo, an Interior Design 2014 alumna and designer at the DC firm IA was critically injured when she was hit by a car in the fall of 2017. She suffered very serious injuries and will require a long […]
Archivists Discuss WWI Film at Leverett Memorial Lecture
The Department of History and Politics hosted its annual Leverett Memorial lecture on November 7. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War on November 11, 1918, Criss Austin and Carol Swain of the National Archives treated faculty and students to a discussion on “Preserving and Making WWI […]
Marymount Honors Veterans With a Week of Events
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 […]
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 […]
