The inaugural cohort of the Marymount University Graduate Special Education Program kicked off this semester with eleven K-8th grade teachers from Catholic schools in the Diocese of Arlington. The innovative training program, a collaboration between Marymount Universitys School of Education and Human Services and the Arlington Diocese Catholic Schools (ADCS), is the only one of its […]
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First-Year Marymount Students Learn to Serve Others
First-year students not only heard about Marymount Universitys commitment to service during their week-long orientation to college life, they put it into action by assembling 2,000 care packages for teenagers transitioning from foster care to life on their own. The activity was part of the annual Saints Serve Day on Aug. 23. The care […]
Marymount Group Takes Student-Inspired Trip to Panama
After working with severely disabled children at a Costa Rican orphanage as part of a Marymount University service trip, Maria Paredes wanted her peers to do the same thing at a school where she volunteered in her native Panama. I knew it would mean a lot to that school, she said. I knew I […]
Marymount University Receives Federal Grant For Older Adult Falls Prevention Programs in Northern Virginia
Marymount University was one of eight organizations nationally that recently received a two-year $480,000 grant from the Administration on Aging, a program division within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), to embed evidence-based falls prevention programs across Northern Virginia. Both Inova Health Systems and Goodwin House are major partners with significant roles in the grant […]
Public Invited to Sept. 9 Opening Reception at Barry Gallery
Marymount University invites the public to a free opening reception for B+W, an art exhibit featuring the works of Karen Coleman, Dana Jeri Maier, Matthew McLaughlin and Wayne Paige from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9 at the Barry Gallery, 2807 North Glebe Road. The pieces in B+W are made without using […]
Marymount Participates in Hungarian Mass and Pilgrimage
Marymount University hosted a Hungarian Mass and was the starting point for the first Hungarian pilgrimage in the United States on Saturday, Aug. 20, part of a celebration of St. Stephen the Great, that countrys first king and patron saint. The events were particularly moving for Stefan Fedor, president of the American Hungarian Heritage […]
Staff Council Awards Announced
Two longtime Marymount University employees, Aline Orfali, director of International Student Services, and Hazel Sirett, an administrative assistant in the School of Arts & Sciences, were among six employees honored with Staff Council Awards at a luncheon on campus on Aug. 18. Orfali, who has been with Marymount for 20 years, earned a Common Ground Values […]
Ten Years Tracking Turtles in Belize
After a decade of traveling to Gales Point, Belize, to study endangered hawksbill sea turtles, Dr. Todd Rimkus, professor of biology and physical sciences, said the work is not only fulfilling for him as a researcher but more importantly, also makes a difference in the lives of his students and the residents of the small […]
Dr. Todd Rimkus Reflects on Ten Years of Taking Students to Belize
After 10 years of traveling to Belize to study endangered hawksbill sea turtles, Dr. Todd Rimkus of Marymount University said the work is not only fulfilling for him as a researcher, but more importantly, also makes a difference in the lives of his students and the residents of the small village where they stay. […]
Marymount Alumnus Serves with Radical Empathy
Frequent power outages in a rural Ethiopian town and limited social activity opportunities give middle school teacher Jabriel Hasan, now half-way through his assignment as a Peace Corps Volunteer, a lot of time to think about life. What Ive realized is that the purpose of human life, particularly as a Christian, is to embrace the […]
