The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) recently announced the 2nd Class of AWM Fellows, including researchers, mentors, and educators who are committed to creating a more inclusive mathematics community. Judy Green of Marymount University was selected among 23 others as a fellow “For her role as a founding member of the Association for Women […]
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Marymount and Accenture Facilitate One Journey Festival
On Monday, October 8, Marymount University partnered with Accenture in a facilitated brainstorming and strategy session to design One Journey Festival 2019. This important festival is a large-scale celebration of refugee talents and contributions and will take place on the grounds of the National Cathedral in late June 2019. Marymount sponsored the inaugural One Journey […]
History Class Visits Alexandria Historic Site
Marymount students enrolled in Professor Cassandra Good’s history course “Virginia and the Old South” visited Alexandria’s Freedom House Museum on October 17, 2018. The museum’s building was once the site of the nation’s largest slave trading firm, Franklin and Armfield. Students heard about recent archaeological work on the site from a member of the city’s […]
Dr. Holly Karapetkova attends literary arts conference in Florida
Dr. Holly Karapetkova gave a poetry reading and presentation at The Other Words Conference last week in Tampa, Florida. The Other Words Conference, sponsored by the Florida Literary Arts Coalition, brings together educators, writers, editors, publishers, grant administrators, directors of writers’ retreats, and other interested groups and individuals with the goal of advancing the literary […]
Trivia Night
On Tuesday, September 18, Team “Comm and Get It!!,” composed of Dr. McFarlane and Communication majors Renardo ONeal, Antónia Rikk, and Shana Flores, as well as English Professor Dr. Otten, competed in the Professor/Student Trivia Night Team-Up put on by First Year Experience. The night involved students and professors from across all majors. Going into […]
Public Speaking course to visit Greece in Spring 2019!
During the Spring 2019 semester, Dr. McFarlane’s CMD 101: Public Speaking course will be part of the Global Classroom Series. Because the Greeks were the first to organize standards for the so-called art of public speaking, students will be spending Spring Break in Greece, the birthplace of rhetoric and modern public speaking. The primary goal […]
Good Storytelling Stays the Same, Regardless of the Medium
Students in Dr. McFarlane’s CMD 101 Introduction to Media Communication and CMD 307 Broadcast Writing and Delivery courses visited the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on Wednesday, September 26. Paul Franz, the CSIS Andreas C. Dracopoulos Chair in Innovation and Creativity and the director of technology in the Ideas Lab gave a presentation […]
Department of History and Politics Hosts Annual Constitution Day Luncheon
Marymount University’s History and Politics department allows students to apply what they are learning in the classroom to co-curricular events on campus. One of Marymount’s most popular events is the Constitution Day Luncheon. This annual event honors the American founding through a prominent keynote speaker who is able to provide a unique perspective on one […]
Ethelbert Miller Reads from His New Book of Poetry
Yesterday E. Ethelbert Miller, a beloved figure on Marymount’s campus, joined us for our biannual poetry series. Miller read from his new book If God Invented Baseball, and discussed the context of some of the poems and the process of the book’s creation. He also read from some newer poetry, including a series on Nat […]
Marymount Students, Faculty, and Staff attend Zadie Smith talk at the Arlington Public Library
“You will have to take liberties, you will have to feel free to write as you like, even if it is irresponsible.” Zadie Smith On the evening of Thursday, October 4, Marymount’s department of Literature & Languages sponsored an outing to hear award-winning British novelist Zadie Smith speak at the Arlington Public Library. […]
