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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
