Taylor Irezumi: MUM Student, Model, Writer, and Artist [Gallery Post]
Taylor Irezumi is a woman of many talents – modeling, writing, and visual art, to name just a few.
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Tara De Santis (VEDA) Hits High Note with First Release
Welcome to the MIU music blog! For my first entry I will be talking about Tara De Santis, a second year Media and Communications student at MIU.
Tara has been composing and singing since she was 15 years old, but as she explains, her passion really took off when she signed up for Digital Music Production class last year.
Abdul Sheikh Receives Outstanding Accounting Professional MBA Award
In May 2015, program director Andy Bargerstock presented the award for the most outstanding Accounting Professionals MBA graduate to Abdul Ghani Sheikh. This is not the first time Sheik has received an award while at MIU. In August 2011, he participated on the Baldwin Team, the first team at MIU to place first in the Capsim Foundation Simulation—an online business simulation.
Student Song Goes Viral
A single with lyrics by student Tara De Santis has gone viral, with over 28,000 views on Soundcloud.com the first month it was released.
Ethiopian New Year 2015 [Gallery Post]
Last weekend, MIU’s Ethiopian community held their largest annual celebration: Ethiopian New Year. Students, staff, faculty, and community members of all cultural backgrounds joined together to enjoy traditional food, dancing, performances, and socializing. You can learn more about what makes this holiday unique at last year’s blog on the subject.
Below, we’ve included more than 40 pictures of the event. Enjoy, and contact us if you’re included in the pictures and want a copy for yourself!
All photos are property of photographer Emanuel Schachinger.
The Fall 2015 Welcoming Party Rocked with Musical Guests Dagmar
Every January and every August is a precious time for all of us here at Maharishi International University. During those months we have an influx of all-new students, whose presence helps make the quality of life on our campus all the more rich and exciting. We are always so thrilled to have these new faces around that we feel it’s worth celebrating!
MUM College of Business Welcomes new MBA Class
The first class that all new MBA students at Maharishi International University take is the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI). SCI consists of 33 lessons from Maharishi and lays a intellectual and experiential foundation for all other classes at MIU. The main objective of the course is to help students both understand and experience consciousness the “source of the thinking process,” and therefore as a profound basis for all understanding all academic disciplines. In addition to discussions and videotapes on these principles, the new students are also taught how to practice the...
ComPro Welcome Lunch August 2015 [Gallery Post]
On August 25th, 2015, we officially welcomed 68 new MS in Computer Science students to MIU from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, India, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, USA, and Viet Nam. See photos of the lunch below in the gallery!
Jaimini Boender: Outstanding Student in Mathematics
Jaimini Boender received the Outstanding Student Award in mathematics at the 2015 graduation awards ceremony. He also came in second at the 2015 MIU Knowledge Fair for his presentation on real numbers. Jaimini not only demonstrated depth of knowledge, but he spoke with confidence and enjoyment. “I thrive on a challenge in a group,” he said.
Momone Maley Revamps Library Garden
Momone Maley is known to many at MUM for being a very hard working student. Having been involved with many different projects at MUM ranging from farming to beekeeping, Momone has learned and achieved a lot in her time here. Now she is close to earning her MBA degree, but even with all of the responsibilities that come with earning a master’s degree she still finds time to pursue her sustainability projects. Last year she decided to dedicate her time toward breathing new life into a section of land next...