Preparing tomorrow’s Catholic school leaders is Marymount professor’s passion

Catholic School Leadership Program director reflects on her career

  In this episode of “Faculty in Focus,” we hear from Sr. Patricia Helene Earl, Professor of Education and Director of Marymount University’s Catholic School Leadership Program (CSLP), and learn about her roots in Catholic education, the CSLP mission and her unwavering faith and love for Marymount and the Catholic community as a whole. Why Marymount? […]

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Interior Design alumna named 2023 ‘Ones to Watch’ award winner

Interior Design alumna named 2023 ‘Ones to Watch’ award winner

  Cathleen Gruver, an award-winning interior designer and 2015 graduate of Marymount University’s Interior Design master’s program, has been named a 2023 ‘Ones to Watch’ award winner by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). ASID’s ‘Ones to Watch’ program identifies and recognizes rising leaders in the interior design industry who demonstrate exceptional leadership potential […]

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Marymount’s Donald Lavanty retires after 45 years of service

Marymount's Donald Lavanty retires after 45 years of service

  After a prolific 45-year career of impactful service at Marymount University, Professor Donald Lavanty retired this past spring. Originally specializing in health care policy and legislation in Washington, D.C., Lavanty arrived on campus in the fall of 1979 through a mutual friend’s recommendation to guest lecture on health policy to Marymount Nursing students. Despite […]

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Marymount alumna awarded $8,500 Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship

Marymount alumna awarded $8,500 Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship

  MaryEllen Haas, a Marymount University alumna from the Class of 2020, has received an $8,500 fellowship from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.  The organization’s Fellowship Program gives $1.3 million annually to select Honor Society members, easing the financial hardship of […]

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Education professor Dr. Elizabeth Langran chosen for AI fellowship

Education professor Dr. Elizabeth Langran chosen for AI fellowship

Photo courtesy of Camille Dempsey Dr. Elizabeth Langran, a longtime Marymount University professor of Education, was selected as a member of the inaugural cohort for the AI Explorations for Educator Preparation Programs (EPP) Faculty Fellowship by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). With a focus on accelerating innovation in education, those selected for […]

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Dr. Patricia Heyn contributes to national Healthy Brain Initiative

Dr. Patricia Heyn contributes to national Healthy Brain Initiative

  Last month, the Alzheimer’s Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the latest version of the Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) Road Map, which provides public health officials across the nation with a set of strategies to promote brain health and improve the quality of life for people living with dementia […]

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Center for Optimal Aging’s racial health equity research project accepted at two international conferences

Center for Optimal Aging’s racial health equity research project accepted at two international conferences

  The latest research project spearheaded by Marymount University’s Center for Optimal Aging, focusing on racial health equity and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has been accepted at two notable international science conferences – the 2023 Cochrane Colloquium in London and the What Works Global Summit in Ottawa, Canada. The prestigious international conference […]

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President Becerra speaks at Holy Child commencement ceremony

President Becerra serves as keynote speaker at Holy Child commencement ceremony

  Seventy-one seniors graduated last week from the Connelly School of the Holy Child in Potomac, Md., and Marymount University President Irma Becerra was on hand to inspire them and lend words of wisdom as their commencement keynote speaker. Holy Child, a Catholic college preparatory school, is committed to the intellectual, spiritual, artistic, physical and […]

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MU’s Phi Kappa Phi installs 93 inductees during initiation ceremony

MU’s Phi Kappa Phi installs 93 inductees during initiation ceremony

  Marymount University’s chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi – the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines – inducted 93 new members during a ceremony held last month at the Ballston Center. These honorees are among approximately 25,000 students, faculty, staff and alumni initiated into Phi […]

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Saints find purpose through internships in health care, senior living

Saints find purpose through internships in health care, senior living

Portions of this story are repurposed with permission from Goodwin Living – click here for their website story. In health care, Marymount University is dedicated to providing quality education to improve the lives of patients and clients in the ever-changing landscape of the field, and its graduates go into much-needed roles both now and in […]

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