Ana Valentin, a doctoral student in Cybersecurity at Marymount, has been selected to present her research at the 2019 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference this October in Bellevue, Wash. The conference, sponsored by the American Statistical Association, aims to bring together hundreds of female statistical practitioners and data scientists to highlight their achievements […]
Category: Saints On the Go
Dr. Brian Flanagan Receives 2019 Excellence in Publishing Award
The Association of Catholic Publishers, an organization that seeks to provide visibility to, advocacy for, and sustainability of published Catholic content, has awarded Dr. Flanagan’s book, Stumbling into Holiness: Sin and Sanctity in the Church (2018), the first prize in the category of theology in the 2019 Excellence in Publishing Awards. Read the full press […]
Interprofessional Education Course Supports a School Community in Panama
In the Spring 2019 semester, ten Marymount pre-service special education teachers, nursing, and health profession students worked together to support the San Pedro Nolasco School, a small Catholic school in one of the poorest provinces in Panama. These students were part of a Marymount course, ED 540 – Burunga, Panama with San Pedro Nolasco School, through […]
Professor Flanagan Gives Murnion Lecture
Marymount theology professor, Dr. Brian Flanagan, was asked to be the 2019 Msgr. Phillip J. Murnion Lecturer at the March 29, 2019 Catholic Common Ground Initiative. Flanagan’s talk, “Dialogue in a Humbled Church” spoke to the need for the Catholic church to combat polarization in the church and country through a humble approach to dialogue. […]
Civil War and Reconstruction- A D.C. Tour with MU Students
The White House, Ford’s Theatre, the Renwick Gallery, and many more historic sites were all stops on tours designed by students in Professor Cassandra Good’s Civil War and Reconstruction course. Working in small groups, students crafted walking tours in various neighborhoods in the DC area that highlighted events and themes from the Civil War era. […]
Marymount Represented at UN STI Innovation Forum
Dr. Ana Lado, professor of education, presentated and exhibited at UN Headquarter’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Forum, Summit and Round Tables, May 13-16. The topic was the success and progress towards reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. […]
DC as our classroom
Making DC their classroom, sociology students boarded a bus to explore historic street art created by Latino artists in DC neighborhoods. In decades past, the neighborhoods of Columbia Heights, Petworth, Mount Pleasant, and Adams Morgan were home to a vibrant Latino immigrant community. Murals are a public representation of the lived experience of neighborhood residents […]
Marymount signs MOU with American University of the Emirates
Marymount recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the American University of the Emirates for joint academic programs. The first initiative of the group was fourteen masters students in the cybersecurity and information technology programs visiting Dubai and Abu Dhabi where they would meet with government representatives, several US companies working in the region, and academics […]
Sociology Students Participate in Innovative Global Classroom
Students taking “Topics in Human Rights” during the Spring 2019 semester experienced a global perspective, one of the hallmarks of a Marymount education. Building on a partnership between their two universities, Marymount’s sociology professor Matt Bakker and professor Terry Graham from ITESO University in Guadalajara, Mexico, brought their students together for a semester of innovative, […]
Tactile Hallucinations Exhibit
The Marymount University Cody Gallery exhibit, “Tactile Hallucinations” exhibit was recently featured in the museum review section of the Washington Post. In his article, author Mark Jenkins, reviews several local art gallery exhibits. In reference to the Cody Gallery exhibit, he talks of the artists’, Barb Smith, Roxana Alger Geffen, Alex Ebstein, Samantha Bittman, and […]
