Maharishi greenhouses teach organic farming Nov 6, 2007
Submitted Biology professor Steve McLaskey plants snap beans inside a greenhouse at Maharishi University of Management ... When Eric Carter dives into his studies at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, hes not necessarily buried in books ... Visitors are welcome at the Maharishi University of Management and its farm. (Quad-Cities Online)
Counter-culture heroes to open hippie uni Oct 30, 2007
The Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, was established in 1971. Donovan and Lynch are visiting lecturers and professors. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Donovan aims to put students on higher plane Oct 27, 2007
Donovan and Lynch were joined yesterday by quantum physicist John Hagelin and Dr Bevan Morris, president of the Maharishi University of Management in the United States. . (Guardian Unlimited)
City council sets public hearings Oct 24, 2007
Also Monday, a request to keep bees on the Maharishi University of Management campus was granted. M.U.M. student Elisabet Humble said several students and faculty members are interested in learning how to keep bees. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Boy Scout's Eagle project to put in new welcome sign Sep 28, 2007
"At night it's going to look really nice when the car headlights shine on the silver metal around the buildings," Fulcher said, referring to the design which depicts the Fairfield Arts ntion Center, Jefferson County Courthouse and a Maharishi University of Management dome. Creative Edge is donating the granite for the project, but has requested $3,500 to pay for labor, materials and a steel frame. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Don't miss these sites in Iowa Jul 17, 2007
The maharishi now lives in Holland, but nearly 1,000 of his followers still attend his Maharishi University of Management, where they meet at 5 each evening to meditate ... Maharishi University of Management is www. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Out of the way Iowa Jul 8, 2007
The maharishi now lives in Holland, but nearly 1,000 of his followers still attend his Maharishi University of Management, where they meet at 5 each evening to meditate. After some early friction, the TM followers and the farmers have melded into a mellow community that has a thriving art scene, a world-class spa and hotel that recently hosted the Beach Boys, and gourmet shops and restaurants befitting a big city. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Maharishi's followers set up shop on Wall Street Jul 2, 2007
Though he established the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, he has stumbled in developing properties including a Chicago hotel that was eventually sold and a proposed S. o Paulo skyscraper that was abandoned after Brazil stalled on approval. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Campus security flaws seen in slayings Jun 13, 2007
In March 2004, Shuvender Sem, who has a history of mental illness, stabbed to death a fellow student at Maharishi University of Management in Iowa just hours after attacking another student in a classroom. Joel Wysong, the university's dean of men, had taken Sem to his apartment after the first attack "to keep an eye on him," Wysong said in a police statement. (USA Today)
David Lynch weekend to explore meditation, more May 24, 2007
"Everyone is very excited to welcome people who are interested in the unique approach to education that Maharishi University of Management offers," he said. "Everybody's really happy to show off Fairfield and all its rich history." The weekend will include a variety of workshops and presentations. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Iowa airports receive $41 million in federal funds Apr 16, 2007
Frequent fliers in Fairfield include those traveling to the Maharishi University of Management and The Raj Ayurveda Health Spa as well as customers going to Barker Company, Ltd. plants that make display and refrigeration cases in nearby Keosauqua and Centerville. "Next year we're hoping to use the money for a new snow plow, which we need desperately," he said. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
More TB cases suspected Apr 14, 2007
as to whether any of the cases noted are, to our knowledge, individuals residing on our campus," stated Ken Chawkin of the Maharishi University of Management media relations office in an e-mail to The Ledger this morning. "Because this is an investigation being conducted by the Iowa Department of Public Health, it would be improper for us to comment one way or another on this matter. " Chawkin said the university would referred any further questions to the state's health department. According to... (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Matt Neznanski: Step It Up for conservation, good sense Apr 13, 2007
Think what you will about the TM movement or the nearby Maharishi University of Management, but there's something to be said about the progressive thinking that is happening in this town. Last summer, Des Moines Social Magazine called the city "unapologetic" about being an eccentric place. (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
CVB announces grant recipients Apr 7, 2007
Recipients of grant monies include Flavors of Fairfield Bicycle Festival, Iowa Rod and Custom Promotions, Maharishi University of Management - David Lynch weekend and the Society of Fairfield Italian Americans - All Things Italian Festival. The CVB also will fund ongoing activities Art on Barns, Artisan Gallery and the Jefferson County Trails. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Transcendental Meditation Can Help Combat Congestive Heart Failure Mar 14, 2007
This study was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health-National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, in a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania with the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management. Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by University of Pennsylvania. (Science Daily)
Conger, Blair honored as citizens of year Mar 3, 2007
Shafer recited a long list of "types of folks whose lives have been touched, and sometimes orchestrated, by this gentle, yet persistent, ever tenacious visionary" including: Fairfield and Maharishi schools, Maharishi University of Management, Boy Scouts, Fairfield Farmers' Market, Fairfield Arts ntion Center, Fairfield Art Association, 1st Fridays Art Walk, Fairfield City Council, Jefferson County Supervisors Jefferson County Hospital Board of Trustees, Jefferson County Historic Preservation... (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Transcendental meditation reduces congestive heart failure, new study shows Mar 2, 2007
"This present finding is consistent with previous research demonstrating that the Transcendental Meditation program reduces factors that contribute to the cause or progression of heart failure, such as high blood pressure, stress, metabolic syndrome, left ventricular hypertrophy (enlargement of the heart) and severity of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)," said Robert Schneider, M.D., F.A.C.C., co-author of the study and director of the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention at... (EurekAlert!)
College-building in Africa: Alumna founds school with limited resources Jan 29, 2007
She received her undergraduate degree at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, before attending GW for graduate business school. "I chose GW because it is in the capital of the United States," Dawit said. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
More pandits to arrive in Vedic City Jan 26, 2007
Although 200 new arrivals are expected soon, Jim Karpen with the Maharishi University of Management public affairs office said their arrival is not imminent. The pandits, who first started arriving Oct. 28 with their cooks and assistant cooks, are being brought to the United States to achieve the Maharishi Effect and foster harmony and peace in the world. (Washington Journal, IA)
Butler estate vs. M.U.M. lawsuit in discovery phase Jan 20, 2007
The wrongful conduct lawsuit brought against Maharishi University of Management by the Levi Butler estate is still in the discovery phase. Stephen Eckley of Belin Lamson McCormick Zumbach Flynn in Des Moines, the attorney for the Butler family, said both sides of the lawsuit are in the process of interviewing witnesses and gathering further information. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
San Diego too laid back to meditate? Dec 31, 2006
He's now in Fairfield, Iowa, where the Maharishi University of Management is based. That's the school founded in 1974 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who introduced Transcendental Meditation to the Western world about 50 years ago. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Practitioners of Transcendental Meditation head to Iowa Nov 29, 2006
"The solutions of our forefathers haven't worked," said Cardinal, 25, who attends Maharishi University of Management in nearby Fairfield ... Maharishi University of Management: http://www. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
WP: Meditation gets serious in the Midwest Nov 14, 2006
The three joined a flow of more than a thousand people headed about a mile north of town to the Maharishi University of Management (MUM) and its pair of golden domes, 25,000-square-foot structures that rise above the rolling farmland's barns and silos. There, the pilgrims sat on mats, chairs or the hardwood floor with their backs to a massive altar, facing eastward toward a blank wall. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Permanent housing being built for pandits Nov 11, 2006
Golden Triangle Media. Saturday, November 11, 2006. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Video Games Get Serious Oct 19, 2006
This was the concept video game designer Allen Varney proposed when he was recruited by a group of well-heeled recent graduates from the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, to create a video game that would convey Hindu principles of nonviolence. As Varney amusingly recounts for the gaming magazine , things didn't turn out as planned. (Utne.com)
University has increase in new student enrollment Sep 15, 2006
Enrollment at the Maharishi University of Management continues an upward trend, with 303 new students having enrolled or being expected to enroll as of late August, representing a 49 percent increase in new students compared to a year ago. The number of new students this fall includes 73 undergraduates and 150 graduate students, as well as 80 students at the university's partner institution in China. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
School asks for its $13,000 tax bill to be suspended Sep 14, 2006
She explained the school had been working with Maharishi University of Management lawyer Bill Goldstein to complete the appropriate papers when he was called out of town for a family emergency; the result being that the papers were filed Feb. 2, one day after the deadline. For a complete story, read the Sept. 13 Fairfield Ledger. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Meditation May Help Brain Handle Pain Aug 10, 2006
D., of the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. According to Maharishi University's Web site, students and faculty there practice transcendental meditation. (CBS News)
Transcendental Meditation reduces the brain's reaction to pain Aug 9, 2006
Dr. Orme-Johnson, now retired and lives in Seagrove Florida, was formerly Chairman of the Psychology Department and Dean of Research at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. David's vita. (EurekAlert!)
Thousands of yogic flyers gathering to create peace Jul 27, 2006
"Our government is desperate for the peaceful, coherent national consciousness that only we can provide," quantum physicist and Maharishi University of Management Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy director John Hagelin wrote in a letter to governors and sidhas last week. "More than ever, America needs a powerful upsurge of positively and true invincibility -- on the basis of indomitable peace." According to Hagelin, Maharishi is calling for 2,500 governors and sidhas to fly... (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Hospital trustees to select architect for new facility Jun 30, 2006
InVision has experience with sthapatya veda architecture because it is involved with the new Maharishi University of Management student dining facility. The HGA firm team members said sthapatya veda elements could be used in a plan for the Fairfield facility. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Search continues for missing woman Jun 23, 2006
The search covered Chautauqua Park, Lamson Woods, the area behind Agapeland Preschool and Child Care Center, Depot Street -- where Brobston had previously lived, the area near Fairfield Ready Mix, the area behind the former drive-in theater, Maharishi University of Management, Waterworks Park, an area on Pleasant Plain Road where Brobston had acquaintances, the trailer courts, abandoned areas, storage units, railroad cars, the Fairfield square and alleyways. Because of the condition Brobston was... (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
TM believers want schoolsto use practice Jun 21, 2006
The institute is part of the Maharishi University of Management, a school where all students and teachers practice TM.. "Most of the kids who have behavioral problems are relegated to medication regimens," he said. (Greenwich Time)
Chant 'Om' for Better Heart Health Jun 15, 2006
"It's possible to use the mind-body connection to tap into the body's own inner intelligence to bring about changes in physiology to reverse the risk of diabetes and heart disease," said Dr. Robert Schneider, director of the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention at the Maharishi University of Management in Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa. Schneider is also a co-author of the book Total Heart Health. (MEDLINEplus)
Meditate on heart health Jun 13, 2006
The research team included doctors from the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. The school was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who started a movement to teach meditation worldwide and was a guru to the Beatles and the Beach Boys. (MSNBC -- Health)
Meditation as medicine Jun 13, 2006
The researchers collaborated with Dr. Robert Schneider of the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention at the Maharishi University of Management in Iowa. The scientist studies the medical benefits of this specialized meditation and provided the California researchers with certified transcendental meditation teachers to train their patients. (Newsday -- Health)
'Super-sized' trusses transported to Fairfield May 26, 2006
At noon, Jeremy Patterson House Moving started out from Engineered Building Design (EBD) in Washington to truck 70 super-sized trusses to Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield. The official escort is required by the Department of Transportation since the oversized load, being moved on a six wheel drive MAC truck, will occupy both of the two lanes of Hwy 1 between here and Fairfield. (Washington Journal, IA)
Maharishi meets the Bible Belt May 23, 2006
Maharishi University of Management ... The main administrative building on the Maharishi University of Management campus is built according to Vedic architecture ... In 1971, he conceived a university now called the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. (USA Today -- News)
Young adults not showing up for shots May 9, 2006
Of the 400 measles-mumps-rubella vaccine doses available from the Jefferson County Public Health Nursing Service, McKeever gave out only 30 doses during three special clinics held April 26 on the Maharishi University of Management campus and April 27 and 28 at her office. "I don't know why it was a small turnout," said McKeever. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Vaccine is cornerstone of mumps prevention Apr 22, 2006
According to Jefferson County Public Health nurse Vickie McKeever, the clinics will be from 1-4 p.m. Wednesday on the Maharishi University of Management campus; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. both Thursday and April 28 at the public health office. "We're focusing on college-age Iowans because, as a group, they are the most likely to spread and transmit the virus to other groups, as well as get it themselves," said Iowa public health director Mary Mincer Hansen. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Council committee looking at TIF for subdivision Apr 19, 2006
Martin Brett of Vastu Design said the TIF request to fund better quality roads in the Maharishi University of Management North Campus Village subdivision will not only make the lots sell at a higher price, but also sell faster. "We do believe that if we're showing people good looking streets up top, then it would get on your rolls faster," Brett said. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
Weekend event offers look at consciousness, TM Mar 28, 2006
John Hagelin, left, and David Lynch listen to a question being asked by a participant, whose photo is projected on the screen behind them, during the Lynch Weekend Saturday at Maharishi University of Management. They came from all across the United States, from as close as Iowa City and as far as California and New Jersey, converging on the Maharishi University of Management campus, making Fairfield a weekend mecca for 1,000 people interested in consciousness, Transcendental Meditation, David... (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
M.U.M. denies allegations of wrongful conduct Mar 3, 2006
Golden Triangle Media. Friday, March 03, 2006. (Fairfield Daily Ledger, IA)
