Author: Erika Spivey

St. Paddy’s Day Celebration

Campus Dining invites you to join us for a St. Paddy’s Day Celebration on March 17 between 4:30 and 7 p.m. in the Magnolia Room at the University Center.  There will be a cash bar featuring Irish and domestic beers. Pub platters with onion rings, potato skins and Irish soda bread will be available for only $5.  There […]

Erchull Presents at Annual Meeting of Association for Women in Psychology

Mindy Erchull recently presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Women in Psychology held in Pittsburgh, Pa.  She presented a paper titled The thin ideal: A “wrong prescription” not an inspiration based on a book chapter in the recently published book, The wrong prescription for women: How medicine and media create a ‘need’ for treatments, […]

Call for Great Minds Stories

Our University of Mary Washington community has a story to tell, a story about students who study abroad in Spain; about alumni who join the Peace Corps and launch businesses; about faculty who bring Think Labs – and the imagination that comes with them – to middle schools.You may have seen these stories shared on […]

Registration Open for Guinness World Records Attempt

Registration is now open for the Guinness World Records attempt at the University of Mary Washington to honor the retirement of its ninth president, Richard V. Hurley. Read the release.UMW will fill the Anderson Center’s Ron Rosner Arena with 2,500 participants on Wednesday, April 13. That means you – it takes a village to break a […]

Learn How to Give an Official High-Five

On Wednesday, April 13, UMW will attempt to break the Guinness World Records title for the most people performing a jumping high-five simultaneously in honor of our “high-fiving” president, Rick Hurley.Guinness World Records has some rules about how to do an official simultaneous jumping high-five. Watch the video so you can score a perfect 10 […]