UMW Campus Community,

The Apogee project to upgrade the UMW MyResNet network is now complete as of Friday, March 1, ahead of schedule. Students in the residence halls need to create a login via the new portal to access the upgraded service. Single sign-on is available, so students can use their umw.edu NetID. In addition, the Apogee wireless network is available to residential students outside of the residence halls. Occasional re-authentication will be required using single sign-on.

For visitors to the residence halls, a guest portal is also available for temporary access up to six hours at a time. Residents should log-in using the new portal to access the faster internet speeds. Instructional posters will be available in each residence halls, and students learn more by reviewing this video of how to connect to the upgraded services.

The wireless network upgrade features faster internet speeds enhanced to 150/50 Mbps with up to 10 devices on the network simultaneously, an increase from prior networks. Residents have a user-based personal area network (PAN) and can connect wireless printers, gamer devices and IoT devices, and these devices should be able to see each other, just like a home network. Users also have an easy PSK (personal share key) for device onboarding.

As part of the service, Apogee continues to offer one click call/chat for student support and specialized gaming support. If you have any questions or issues with the ResNet by Apogee services, contact their 24/7/365 support center at 877-478-8808. They can help you add devices to your account (printers, phones, game consoles, etc.).

If you are experiencing any problems with Apogee Support not resolving your issues, please contact the UMW IT Help Desk to let us know.

Hall Cheshire
Chief Information Officer
hcheshir@umw.edu

Seacobeck Hall

At its 69th annual membership meeting on Saturday, March 9, the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation Inc. (HFFI) recognized people, businesses, and institutions that have made outstanding contributions to preserving the unique cultural heritage and historic built environment of the Fredericksburg area.

UMW’s Seacobeck renovation project picked up an award for recognizing the act of preservation through the rehabilitation of historically significant resources in Fredericksburg. Seacobeck received the E. Boyd Graves Preservation Award, named for one of HFFI’s founding members who played an instrumental role in protecting, preserving, and adaptively reusing some of Fredericksburg’s most recognizable historic landmarks

According to the HFFI press release:

In the UMW project, the university undertook a historically sensitive rehabilitation project to adaptively reuse the 1931 Seacobeck Hall designed by architect Charles Robinson. The project converted the former dining hall into a mix of “classrooms and lab space with the latest technologies, faculty offices, collaboration and group work rooms, student organization spaces, a large assembly space, a curriculum lab, and makerspace,” according to architects at the Richmond firm Hanbury. Members of Hanbury’s design team and the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company joined UMW Capital Outlay Director Gary Hobson in accepting HFFI’s E. Boyd Graves Preservation Award, presented by Professor Michael Spencer, author of UMW’s Campus Preservation Plan and acting Chair of the Department of Historic Preservation.

HFFI’s Board of Directors is pleased to honor these exceptional individuals and organizations for their unwavering commitment to preserving Fredericksburg’s rich history, architectural legacy, and cultural landscape. Their dedication serves as inspiration to us all, reminding us of the important ways that historic preservation nurtures our collective memory and challenges us to learn from the past.

For more information, visit the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation Inc. website.