Maryann DiEdwardo, author and researcher

Health educator, artist and author, Maryann DiEdwardo Ed.D. E-RY500, is committed to promoting QiGong, Yoga and Tai Chi for health improvement. She is an outstanding public speaker who has lead seminars for groups in art, cancer therapy through yoga, qigong for chronic illness, haiku, meditation, mindfulness, and education. Maryann received the Northampton Community College Project Aware Outstanding Service Award and holds a volunteer position for The National QiGong Association Research and Education Committee (Terminology Task Force). She was nominated for the National QiGong Board in 2013 and Award Nominations at University of Maryland University College in 2012 include a nomination for the 2012 UMUC Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award (Drazek award) and the UMUC Teaching Recognition Award (TRA), two important awards in the UMUC Faculty Award and Recognition Program.
A member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, Himalayan Institute, and Yoga Alliance, she is an experienced registered certified yoga instructor and a member of the Tai Chi Yang Family Association. She is currently Adjunct Professor for Lehigh University in Pennsylvania where she teaches research writing techniques to Graduate students for the Computer Science and Engineering Department Graduate School and Adjunct Associate for the University of Maryland University College where she teaches writing, literature, and research.
She has written 20 books and noteworthy articles about healing, such as The Horse Keeper: The Healing Gifts of Painting and Writing about Horses, a collection of remembrances based on nature, especially horses, as guides. Maryann has presented at the annual Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching Washington, DC in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Maryann DiEdwardo contributes original research on importance of her own practice of yoga, t’ai chi, and journaling. She studied theatre arts, jazz dance and ballet, then started to focus on the marital arts including tai chi and qigong for thirty years with masters in the United States. Her newest free E-Book entitled
Lesson Plans for Restorative Yoga and T’ai Chi
is available online at http://maryannpasdadiedwardo.wikispaces.com/E-Book



Case Study Research
In 2004, statistical results of Dr. DiEdwardo’s case study research suggest that pairing music and linguistic intelligences in the college classroom improves students’ grades and abilities to compose theses statements for research papers in courses that emphasize reading and writing skills (DiEdwardo 2004). In initial study in 2003, Maryann refined Howard Gardner’s (1993) definition of music as a “separate intellectual competence” and compared music intelligence to linguistic intelligence. Furthermore, through acknowledgement of MI Theory, educators infuse cognitive abilities of students by helping them “think” as one of her students suggested. Her article, “Pairing Music and Linguistic Intelligences” was published in the Record, Vol. 41, No. 3, Spring 2005. Kappa Delta Pi, International Education Honors Society.