Surbhi Kumar and Kaci McNeave, graduate students in Marymount’s Health Care Management program, received second and third place in the National Capital Health Executives (NCHE) essay competition of Fall 2019. Their essays were selected from a large pool of candidates among other local universities (George Washington University, George Mason University and Georgetown University) offering Health Care […]
Category: Saints On the Go
Volunteers from Physical Therapy program building house for Nicaraguan family in need
True service is a marathon, not a sprint. While it’s true that you can do good in the short term by serving others, there is little that compares to the lasting good that comes from continual reinvestment of service in the same location. This year, students from the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Marymount […]
MLK Day of Service hosted by Marymount’s Saints’ Center for Service”
The Saints Center for Service recently coordinated with Volunteer Arlington to serve as a host site for the organization’s annual MLK Day of Service on Jan. 20. The event brought together more than 40 members of the greater Arlington community, including U.S. Rep. Donald Beyer (D-VA). Participants visited campus, connected with the Arlington Street People’s […]
Doctoral Cybersecurity student to host Saudi Arabia’s first Global Cybersecurity Forum
Ali Alasmari, a doctoral student in Cybersecurity at Marymount University and a member of the Diplomatic Corps from Saudi Arabia, is on the planning committee for Saudi Arabia’s first global forum on cybersecurity. The conference will be held in Riyadh in February. The discussions aim to strengthen international collaboration to create a secure and prosperous cyberworld, […]
Alexandria high school teacher, Marymount graduate featured in The Washington Post
This article was originally featured on The Washington Post’s website. The teenagers slid into chairs, slipped off earphones and stared at questions printed in a language they could barely understand. What is fiction? What is a folk tale? What is a fairy tale? Henry Garcia, one of two dozen students in Classroom A-305 […]
Marymount University STEAMing in Uganda with the Mosquito! Module
This article was originally featured on the Smithsonian Science Education Center’s STEMvisions Blog, and was written by Dr. Rajdev, Rachel Cotton and Sarah Roegner. In July of 2019, Dr. Usha Rajdev embarked on a journey to provide STEM education to teachers and institutions in Uganda. Over the course of two weeks, she met with one university and […]
Marymount sociology class campaigns for Paralympics to win Nobel Peace Prize
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn. Inspired by those words, Marymount professor Dr. Leszek Sibilski has taken them to heart in his Sociology 131 class. The 59 students enrolled in the course, who come from all walks of life, have become active participants in their […]
Marymount’s Education Department hosts Peer Mentor Leadership Institute
Marymount University’s Education Department hosted the first Peer Mentor Leadership Institute (PMLI) on Oct. 30, 2019. Forty-five students from Diocese of Arlington high schools Bishop OConnell, Bishop Ireton, Paul VI and St. John Paul the Great attended. The PMLI was a collaboration between Marymount and the local high schools to create a day of training […]
Ten members of Marymounts Saudi Students Association travel to Youth Forum in New York
How can we balance purpose with profit? That question is what drove 300 young people from more than 75 countries to attend the inaugural Misk-OSGEY Youth Forum in New York this September. Participants with an extraordinary commitment to leadership and building a better world gathered at this event to engage in a series of hands-on […]
Marymount junior gains global perspective through Catholic Worldview Fellowship
Stephanie Harangozo, a junior at Marymount University studying psychology and theology, spent four weeks this past summer in Europe focusing on her faith through the Catholic Worldview Fellowship. The program is a month-long educational, cultural, leadership and spiritual encounter that allows participants to discover what their Catholic worldview is and how it can be applied […]
