Marymount University News

It is easy to caught up in the negative news of the day, and overlook the many positive things that happen all around Southern California.

June Abrams has started a photography/videography business. LADERA RANCH A semester at sea changed the course of June Abrams's career.

Local charter school founder Steve Barr, a national figure in school reform, has repaid his organization more than $50,000 after an internal review determined that expenses he had charged were undocumented or unjustified.

New position: surgeon for Richmond Surgical Specialists, specializing in minimally invasive general and bariatric surgery Previous position: clinical instructor, minimally invasive and bariatric surgery at the University of Virginia Birthplace: Germany Education: bachelor of science, Marymount University; associate in applied science , Marymount ...

One Saturday a month, men and women, lay and religious, representing the cultural kaleidoscope of Southern California gather from across the breadth of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, and from surrounding dioceses, to study Scripture at the Catholic Bible Institute.

Parishes, schools and public performance venues will offer concerts to celebrate the fast-approaching holiday season.

Announcement is made of the engagement of Shakira L. Bendolph and Malek Earl Simpson.

Fairfax resident Sarah Hamaker has an entry in the two latest a Chicken Soup for the Soula books.

Intellicheck Mobilisa, Inc. , a global leader in access control and wireless security systems, recently hired William H. Roof, Ph.D. as Chief Scientist.

Greening Your Small Business is a new book out this month by Jennifer Kaplan , a partner in Greenhance , a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm working with large and small businesses to gain better insight into their impact on the environment.

Red Bluff resident Grant Cottier, a sixth grade student at Berrendos Middle School, attended the 2009 Johns Hopkins University Center For Talented Youth Fall Awards Ceremony.

Foreign students and their dependents contributed about $17.6 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2008-2009 academic year, according to a study from NAFSA: Association of International Educators .

Wendy Binder wasna t interested in a Pleistocene battle of the sexes when she started X-raying skulls of saber-toothed cats from the famed La Brea Tar Pits.

Steve Barr, founder of Green Dot Charter Schools, is stepping down from being chairman of the board.

The founder and chairman of Green Dot Public Schools is stepping down to work on a oenational education issues,a a spokeswoman for Barr said Friday.

HEATH -- Many people think of Thanksgiving as a day for family, football and pumpkin pie.

When the Alliance for College-Ready Schools turned to Loyola Marymount University's Center for Math and Science Teaching to try LMU's program, they didn't expect to make so much progress so quickly.

In this week's issue, TMG Partners and The Related Cos. have been tapped as master developers for a $1 billion 77-acre mixed-use project in the S.F. Bay Area; Seavest Inc.

He was never an altar server. He dropped out of his confirmation class at 16. He lost his faith in God and the Church.

Karen Juckett of Springfield was one of 25 lucky sweepstakes winners who recently returned from a cruise with "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek to the GalA pagos Islands, the "Land of Darwin." In the first-ever such expedition with Trebek, sweepstakes winners and their guests traveled aboard the National Geographic Endeavour from Oct.