Marymount is the first Washington, DC, area university to offer the Master of Arts in Forensic and Legal Psychology. You can capitalize on the University’s alliances and proximity to key agencies important to study in this field – organizations such as the FBI (Including the NCAVC), NCIS, ATF, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the […]
In mid-May, approximately 975 students will receive their degrees over the course of three days during Marymount University’s 70th annual commencement ceremonies. The newest graduates of the mission-based Catholic university will hear from three distinguished commencement speakers – influential Virginian James Dyke, Jr., entrepreneur and philanthropist Sheila Johnson and business leader Donald Graham. Both […]
Position: Irma Becerra, Ph.D., is the seventh president of Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, a position she has held since 2018. Career highlights: Provost and chief academic officer at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens from 2014 to 2018; vice president, vice provost, entrepreneurship center director and professor at Florida International University from 1996 to 2014. Becerra founded […]
Class of 2019 Major Criminal Justice (B.S.) Bio After graduating this May with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Criminal Justice, Stephanie Downing was selected to receive a prestigious, fully-funded Critical Language Scholarship to study Hindi in Jaipur, India this summer. The Critical Language Scholarship is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program offered by […]
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B.A., Hendrix College
M.A., University of Dayton
Ph.D., University of Dayton
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Dr. Matthew Shadle joined the Marymount faculty in 2014, and lives in northern Virginia with his wife. His research focuses on the role of identity and imagination in theological and ethical reflection on contentious social issues. For example, his book The Origins of War: A Catholic Perspective (Georgetown, 2011) draws on both theology and political science to explore the role of identity in contributing to armed conflict. His current research focuses on the evolution of how Catholics have imagined the global economy over the past five decades, in both official teaching and in the lived experience of Catholics.
Dr. Shadle’s work has been published in several scholarly journals, and he is active in the College Theology Society. His scholarship also engages the broader public; he has spoken to numerous church groups, presented at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, and writes for the blogs Catholic Moral Theology and Political Theology Today.
Dr. Shadle is a supporter of experiential learning. He has brought students to Peru to study the Catholic Church in Latin America, and has led students in projects on campus and in the broader community focused on immigration, environmental sustainability, and human trafficking.
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B.Ph., Miami University of Ohio
M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
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Thriving in a global community requires we have an understanding of how to work with people who come from many different types of backgrounds. In this context, Dr. DeWitt’s scholarship and teaching focus on how experiential learning can engage and empower all students. She is interested in understanding strategies that lead to a shared understanding and facilitate collaboration. She has presented at international conferences on the effective design of globally networked learning as well as intercultural teaching and learning. She is currently co-authoring a book titled Navigating Place-based Learning: Mapping for a Better World. Her previous research focused on ways to infuse ethics across the curriculum.
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B.E., Nankai University
M.S., Tianjin Polytechnic University
Ph.D., Boston University
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Dr. Michelle Liu is currently a full professor of Information Technology and Cybersecurity. She joined Marymount University in 2008. Previously she was a research assistant in the Boston University Institute for Leading in a Dynamic Economy (BUILDE) in Boston, MA. She received her doctoral degree in Information Systems from Boston University where her thesis topic was “Design Architecture, Developer Networks and Performance of Open Source Software Projects.” She also holds a master’s of Management degree in MIS from Tianjin Polytechnic University in China and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in International Trade of Textiles from Nankai University, China.
Her scholarly work appears in Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, The Coastal Business Journal, American Journal of Management, Information Systems Education Journal, The Learning Organization, among others. Co-authoring with her colleagues, she has won two Best Paper Awards, one Distinguished Paper Award, and one Best Paper Finalist Award at international and national conferences including 2021 EDSIG Conference, 2019 SEINFORMS, 2017 Eastern Academy of Management International Conference, and the 2013 ISECON.
Dr. Liu has been both PI and Co-PI for several NSF and NSA grants during her tenure at Marymount. She is a Certified Electronic Records Management Practitioner (ERMp) and a Certified Cyber Intelligence Investigator (CCII).
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Dr. Liu’s inquiries of scholarship are to explore and provide better understanding as of how to design and deploy different cybersecurity tools, technologies, frameworks and policies to secure the cyberspace. Her scholarly work mainly focuses on three areas: (1) renovate or innovate STEM education (focusing on IT/ IS and cybersecurity programs and curricular) to increase workforce diversity and readiness; (2) explore how emerging technologies would impact, interact with, or co-evolve with users, existing organization structure and culture; and (3) investigate various phenomena, trends, incidents, and human behaviors in cybersecurity and provide better understanding as of how to design and deploy different cybersecurity tools, technologies, frameworks and policies to secure the cyberspace.
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Song is an associate professor of Interior Design at Marymount University and a LEED Accredited Professional. She holds B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Interior Environmental Design from South Korea and an M.S. in Design Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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As a design educator with over 17 years of teaching, Song received a teaching award from Iowa State University in 2010 as Best Studio Professor of the Year from the College of Design, and exemplary Faculty Mentor award from the Office of the Provost in 2015. Joining Marymount in 2018, she instructs undergraduate students in sketching and rendering for ideation, and advanced color theories and application. At the graduate level, she teaches the health and well-being design practice studio, advanced color and light studies, professional development, and seminars, plus guides thesis studies or design projects and research.
Her contribution to the program’s curriculum development includes the new interdisciplinary healthcare design studio sponsored by the HDR Architecture, Inc. in Omaha, NE, and the health and well-being graduate practice studio sponsored by Waldon Studio Architects in Washington, D.C.
A strong advocate of interdisciplinary collaboration in design education, she is an active member of the IDEC, IIDA, and ASID, and serves as a Board of Directors at for IDECF (Interior Design Educators Council Foundation).
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Song’s major research interests are wayfinding design and concepts in architectural interior spaces, evidence-based design research and practice in healthcare design education, innovative method of design communication and visualization featuring environmental color and creative approaches to the design scholarship. Her works have been internationally and nationally recognized from peer-reviewed publications, award competitions and exhibitions juried international, national, and regional conferences and meetings.
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Ph.D., Economics, University of Bordeaux
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Dr. Amel has been a faculty member at Marymount University since 2017. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Bordeaux (France). She also holds a B.S. in Economics and two master’s degrees in International Economics and Finance.
Her main research interests are focused on industrial policy, cluster policy, economic growth, innovation and monetary unions. She has manipulated large datasets and has published in peer-reviewed journals. For instance, she used quantitative skills to analyze the selection process of a cluster policy through a logit model, and to capture its impact on firms’ performance in the optic/photonic industry by combining a propensity score matching procedure and a differences-in-differences estimation. This work was published in 2019 in the peer-reviewed journal Regional Studies and was supported by a public grant overseen by the French National Research Agency. Dr. Amel collaborates with the University of Bordeaux on research projects related to competitiveness.
Dr. Amel has been teaching economics at several institutions since 2009. She has received a Turnitin Global Innovation Award in 2018 for her efforts to address academic integrity issues, and she offers her economic expertise to the ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys. She speaks four languages and has lived in France, England and Scotland before settling in the DC area.
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B.S., Agnes Scott College
Ph.D., Emory University
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For the past few years, Dr. Elsa Schaefer has run a campus research group that includes Marymount students in the fun and intuitive process of epidemiological modeling. She has been able to financially support student research with funding from the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, the National Science Foundation, and Marymount’s own DISCOVER program. Her students are presenting at multiple undergraduate research conferences locally and nationally, and study more globally with a larger research group in mathematics and science here at Marymount.
Dr. Schaefer’s doctoral work was in Partial Differential Equations and Differential Geometry with applications to optical system design. She subsequently studied computational fluid dynamics, focusing on jet flows near the speed of sound. Her present interests are in computational epidemiology, and in particular disease models for cholera and tick-borne diseases. She has published research in multiple journals and books, including the Journal of the Optical Society of America, the SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, and Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering. Her past work in transonic aerodynamics and her current work in cholera modeling has enjoyed support from the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Schaefer has also been a part of several successful National Science Foundation grant proposals that have helped to bring technology and scholarships into Marymount’s Mathematics program.
She was a 2009 Honors Fellow with the University’s Honors Program.
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