More than 50 University of Mary Washington students are participating in Two Dollar Challenge Week, living on $2 a day in makeshift shelters on Ball Circle through Friday, April 8 to raise awareness of global poverty and microfinance.
UMW Students Take Studies Overseas for Spring Break
Kyle McCartt met a bashful porcupine fish over spring break.
The University of Mary Washington senior biology major encountered the fish in a cave during a snorkeling expedition in the U.S. Virgin Islands with biology professor Steve Fuller's tropical ecology class. The porcupine fish measured what looked like three feet by two feet.
Gari Melchers Home and Garden to Host Spring Open House, April 10
Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont will host a Spring Open House on Sunday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public who will have the opportunity to experience the formal gardens exploding with color as well as the verdant woodland paths and trails. Both the house museum and studio will open for tours throughout the day.Artists are encouraged to paint on the grounds in the plein-aire style Gari Melchers embraced.
UMW Art Students Win Awards
The University of Mary Washington Department of Art and Art History announced its student awards at the opening of the Annual Student Art Exhibition, which will run through Sunday, April 17 at the duPont Gallery.
UMW Relay for Life Raises More than $65,000
The University of Mary Washington's anti-cancer charity fundraiser Relay for Life raised more than $65,000, easily doubling the funds collected in 2010.
Journalist, photographer reunite with activists
In a June 1, 1961, article for Jet magazine, Simeon Booker wrote that "a fist crashed against the head of Charles Person" on a bus in Alabama.
Alan Heffner
Heffner’s strategic management class worked with the board of Cobblestone Children’s Museum to fine-tune its business plan. The museum’s first traveling exhibit, “Amazing Magnets” will be on display at next weekend’s Multicultural Fair. The Free Lance Star reported on the museum at http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/032011/03282011/614961/index_html?page=1
UMW Names Associate Provost for Enrollment Management, Student Services
Fred A. Pierce III has been named associate provost for enrollment management and student services at the University of Mary Washington. Pierce, who currently serves as director of undergraduate programs for the University of Tennessee's College of Business Administration, will oversee all matters related to enrollment, recruitment and student services at Mary Washington. He begins work at UMW July 25.
Janet Cropp
Direct Deposit Sign-up via EagleNet
Beginning Friday, April 1, UMW employees will sign up for non-payroll direct deposit via EagleNet. No need to send voided personal checks through campus mail!
Log onto EagleNet and enroll or change banking information by following the step-by-step instructions at http://www.umw.edu/ap/travel/edi_enrollment.