Author: Brynn Boyer

Great news: effective Monday, August 20, faculty and staff will be able to purchase breakfast, lunch or dinner at Seacobeck Hall for the same low price of $5 per meal.  In the past, the lunch meal was the only meal discounted for employees.  While this does mean that the lunch price has increased from $4 to $5, it has been several years since we have had an increase and this remains a terrific deal.  And a $5 dinner is an outstanding benefit!  Enjoy!

– message from Richard Pearce, Vice President for Administration and Finance and CFO

Kelli Slunt, professor of chemistry, served as the head mentor for the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad team.  Twenty of the brightest high school chemistry students were trained by Slunt, three other mentors, and the faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado this June.  Slunt accompanied the top four students to compete at the International Chemistry Olympiad in Washington, D.C.   The team performed well, receiving one gold and three silver metals.  For more information, see http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/07/South-Korea-Dominates-Chemistry-Olympiad.html.

The night before graduation, Laura Allan got a life-changing phone call. Allan, a 2012 UMW graduate, had been accepted to the competitive DC Teaching Fellows program. Less than one month later, she arrived in Washington, D.C., to start an intensive eight-week training session. DC Teaching Fellows, a partnership between District of Columbia Public Schools and […]