In collaboration with the Virginia Talent + Opportunity Partnership (V-TOP), the University of Mary Washington hosted a recent celebration recognizing the region’s 2026 top interns and the employers who hire them.Hosted by UMW Career and Workforce on the Fredericksburg campus, the evening event brought together employers, students, faculty and regional partners to celebrate the organizations […]
Fourteen UMW students presented their original research and creative scholarship last month at the 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Richmond, one of the nation’s premier gatherings for undergraduate researchers.Sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research, the annual conference brought together more than 4,000 students from across the United States and several other […]
Professor of Communication Anand Rao, who is also Director of the Center for AI and the Liberal Arts (CAILA), was alongside a national lineup of artificial intelligence (AI) and leadership experts on June 4 for “The Human Edge: Flourishing in an AI-Driven Workplace,” a panel hosted by George Mason University’s Center for the Advancement of […]
Professor of Psychological Science Holly Schiffrin was quoted by the Italian online newspaper Open for an article titled “School closures are parents’ nightmares: what is “parental burnout”, how it manifests itself and how to fight it.”For the piece, Schiffrin said, “The growing pressure to be constantly present and involved parents not only translates into greater […]
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Tyler Frankel and his students were featured in an article by the Fredericksburg Free Press titled “UMW team tests the waters — literally — with weekly coliform monitoring along Rappahannock.” The piece describes how UMW students collect river water to measure dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH and salinity. The […]
