MIU Achievements
ChangeMakers Conference Inspires New Wave of Student Engagement
Last month MUM held the inaugural conference of ChangeMakers: Disruptors Transforming the World for Good. Hosted by MUM, the David Lynch Foundation, and the Abramson Center for Peace, the event was attended by 600 people, at least half of...
Lani Aulicino’s Case Study Wins International Award
A case study written last fall by MBA student Lani Aulicino in a course on Managing Change for Sustainability has won an international award. She was one of 17 winners of Flourish Prizes out of 503 submissions to AIM2Flourish, a United Nations-supported...
Leslee Goldstein Publishes Study on Empowering Disadvantaged Mothers in Uganda
MUM alumna Leslee Goldstein, PhD just had her study published in Health Care for Women International on how the Transcendental Meditation® technique can empower single, disadvantaged mothers in Uganda. Dr. Goldstein decided to focus her Maharishi...
Hemanth Kumar Reddy Mukka—From Agrochemicals to Organic Farming
Hemanth Kumar Reddy Mukka worked in the agrochemical industry in India for seven years, selling fertilizers and pesticides to farmers. Now he is a student in MUM’s Regenerative Organic Agriculture Certificate Program. When asked about what...
Pondpat Tohsanguanpun–The Importance of Building a Team
Pondpat Tohsanguanpun chose MUM’s MBA for Accounting Professionals Program because her goal was to gain work experience in the U.S. Pondpat earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Thammasat University in Thailand and worked for Ernst...
Faculty Speak to 2,000 Professors at India Conference
College professors in India heard presentations by Professors Anil Maheshwari and Scott Herriott at the Second National Teachers’ Congress hosted by Maharashtra Institute of Technology-World Peace University (MIT-WPU) in Pune, India, in January....
Waqas Hussain Finds the Mathematical Equation for Transcendental Meditation
Waqas Hussain earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Air University in Islamabad, Pakistan. After graduation he worked as a software engineer on a variety of projects, including a system to recognize different stages of Alzheimer’s...
MBA Team Gets Top Score Amid Increasing Competition in Global Business Simulation
A team of MBA accounting students finished in the 99th percentile in an online integrated decision-making simulation that involved 1,271 master’s-degree-level teams worldwide. During the past seven years, MUM has consistently placed at least one team in...
Amanda Hock Simpson—Learning Maharishi Vedic Science Online
Amanda Hock Simpson is a student in the MA in Maharishi Vedic ScienceSM program, which she has been pursuing online for the past two years. She lives in Laguna Niguel, California, with her husband and two children, so MUM’s distance education...
Students Launch Online Literary Magazine
Students in MUM’s BFA in Creative Writing program recently launched Metafore, a new online literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The idea to create the journal started with creative writing student James Davidson, who...
Robert Herron Publishes New Study on TM’s Impact on Veterans’ PTSD
Veterans of the wars in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) found significant relief from their symptoms as a result of practicing the Transcendental Meditation®technique,...
Producer Andrew Runkle’s Short Film Competes at Sundance
As a business and digital media major at MUM, Andrew Runkle got swept up in the world of filmmaking early on and never looked back—thanks to his MUM friends who were in the film program. Andrew is now a successful video producer, with a short film that...
