Shalom Alumni! As many of you have heard, I recently pursued my dream of playing professional basketball. Although you won’t be seeing me in the NBA anytime soon, I somehow found my way into a professional league - in Israel. The past 8 months of living in the Motherland have been anything but ordinary. Allow me to give you a glimpse into my world and explain the bizarre and sometime comical lifestyle of international basketball. Just... Read More »
Nick Johnson (‘06), with Michael Cook (‘05) and Jonathan Cook (‘07), are creating a global community of TM Meditators through their new social networking site AtmaNetwork.com. Alumni News: We love the idea of AtmaNetwork.com! What gave you the idea for this angle on social networking? Nick: There has always been a demand for a website to connect meditators around the world. AtmaNetwork is focused on building socially responsible businesses and organizations that not only provide valuable services,... Read More »
Brendon Thomas (class of 2001) worked his directive magic again this year. Students gave stellar performances. We laughed, we cried, we were amazed. Two of Maharishi School's teams -- an improv team and choral group -- were selected to perform at the Iowa High School Speech Association All-State Festival. The choral reading entitled "A Fairy Tale," written by Brendan Thomas, was a masterful compilation of stories, poems, and songs, both familiar and obscure. Jan Thatcher and... Read More »
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you! With a new documentary film titled, Meditation, Creativity, Peace, David Lynch aims to inspire students across the nation and around the world to learn the Transcendental Meditation technique. The film is part of the David Lynch Foundation’s Student Outreach Initiative and will be shown to students on college campuses worldwide. As part of the Student Outreach Initiative, students have an exciting opportunity to participate in an internship program created... Read More »
by Rohini Grace Last Holiday season, while pursuing the endless rows at Costco, you may have come upon a pyramid of attractive and original scrapbooking kits. If you happened to pick one up and look at who produced it, you would have seen that it was a product of Maharishi School ‘94 alum, Laura Guthrie, proud owner and president of Magpie Graphics. Now, far from the cornfields of Iowa, I talk to Laura in her office... Read More »
As appeared in the May 21st, 2011 issue of MUM Acheivements. MUM alumna Emily Marcus is graduating from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland this month and will begin her postdoctoral training in internal medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in June. Emily always liked science and studied Maharishi Vedic Medicine(SM) at MUM. After an internship with Dr. Nancy Lonsdorf in Fairfield and volunteering at clinics, she decided to pursue medicine. “I found it... Read More »
As appeared in the June 27th, 2011 issue of MUM Acheivements. Minca Borg is a sustainable living major who at the age of 11 moved with her family to Fairfield from Mountain View, California, so that she and her brother could enjoy the benefits of Consciousness-Based(SM) education at Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment. Minca participated in DestiNation Imagination, a creative problem solving contest for high school students, where she developed self-confidence and team-work skills.... Read More »
From an aerial view, Downtown Miami stretches across the ground like a concrete desert: vacant lots, rubble, and at best, overspill parking. To the naked eye, possibilities for turnabout look bleak—especially given the area’s decades-long history of urban decay. However, Mark Lesniak (Maharishi School class of ‘98) is working on a project that will not only transform five acres of this cement wasteland into a lush, sustainable oasis, but can do so within 30 days. On... Read More »
Maharishi School Students Selected to Compete at National Science Symposium
Maharishi School students, Pearl Sawhney (senior) and her brother, Surya (sophomore) won first place March 2 at the Iowa Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (IJSHS) in...
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