Five students from Marywood University’s School of Business and Global Innovation have been selected to participate in the X-Culture Global Business Week in Lublin, Poland, from July 12-19.
X-Culture is an international business plan competition in which students compete on teams composed of other students from around the world on real-life projects, set up by companies seeking to enter international markets.
Shown from left: Joel DiCarli, Gabrielle Troch, Madison Guelho, Daniel Gomez, Michael Romano, and Dr. Chris Speicher, executive director, School of Business and Global Innovation.
Marywood University announces Dunmore students named to the Spring 2023 Dean’s List from each of its colleges. Students who earn a semester GPA of 3.50-4.00 on 12 or more graded credits merit this academic honor.
Dunmore residents named to the Dean’s List from the College of Health and Human Services, as declared by Interim Dean Shelby W. Yeager, M.Ed., LAT, ATC, CSCS, include: Jonah Cogliette, Margaret Davis, Kathleen Kennedy and Alexis Overholtz.
Dunmore residents named to the Dean’s List from the Insalaco College of Arts and Sciences, as declared by Dean Jeffrey Johnson, DMA, include: Max Burke, Caroline Coar, Arianna Costanzi, Emma Eynon, Alyssa Ferrence, Colton Grohs, Jillian Mooney, Lia Schwenk, Isabella Watson, and Rachel Zarubski.
Dunmore residents named to the Dean’s List from the Reap College of Professional Studies, as declared by Dean James J. Sullivan, M.ARCH, RA, AIA, include: Olivia Ciullo, Gianna DiPietro, Frank Golden, Megan Pavlowski, Hunter Robertson ,and Haylee Sileo.
A line of colorful Adirondack chairs is the latest visual addition to the Living City Lab at Marywood University, located in the Insalaco Center for Studio Arts.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony will formally kick off the Living City Lab at Marywood University on Thursday (May 4) at 1 p.m., in the Insalaco Center for Studio Arts, where the Living City Lab at Marywood University is located.
Along with Sister Mary Persico, IHM, Marywood president, Center for the Living City Executive Director Maria MacDonald, invited dignitaries, and guests will be in attendance at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, including Kimberly Dowdell, incoming president of the American Institute of Architects; current and former Mayors of Scranton and Dunmore; and members of the Board of Trustees of Marywood University and the Center for the Living City.
The date of the event is significant, because it marks the birthday of Jane Jacobs and also commemorates “Jane Jacobs Day” and the 2nd Biennial Observe Scranton: Jane Jacobs’s First City Festival in Scranton.
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), a Scranton native, was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building. She had no formal training as a planner, yet her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced groundbreaking ideas about how cities function, evolve, and fail. The impact of her observation, activism, and writing has led to a planning blueprint for generations of architects, planners, politicians, and activists to practice.
The Center for the Living City holds the singular distinction of being the only urbanist organization founded in collaboration with Jane Jacobs. In the years since its 2005 founding by a group of activists, practitioners, and academics, the Center has become a leading global urbanist organization.
Maria MacDonald, program director of interior architecture at Marywood University, serves as the executive director of the Center for the Living City. The mission is to inspire civic engagement and leadership development, invite creative urban solutions, and expand the understanding of the ecology of cities. Keeping the next generation and activists engaged with community and actively participating in their cities is at the heart of the Center’s mission—by everybody, for everybody.
The Living City Lab at Marywood University is a co-created space for experiential learning, where students address global challenges on a local scale. It consists of three key components: education, projects, and networking. Through integrated coursework rooted in urban ecology and sustainability, students across all disciplines create action-oriented local impact, work on real-life public design projects, connect with and learn from community leaders and mentors, and develop strong interdisciplinary career-connected pathways and local relationships.
