Professor of History Allyson Poska earned a COVID-19 Rapid-Response Grant from the Social Science Research Council, in partnership with the Henry Luce Foundation and with the support of the Wenner-Gren, Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations. These highly competitive grants went to 62 recipients – out of 1,300 […]
Today or tomorrow, faculty and staff will receive an email from the UMW Campus Police Community Advisory Panel (CAP). President Paino established CAP as an independent panel to examine the role of UMW Campus Police in our community in light of the current events in Fredericksburg and around the country.CAP will propose recommendations to President […]
Assistant Director of the James Farmer Multicultural Center Chris Williams was featured on PBS’s American Portrait: A National Storytelling Project. He discussed the legacy of civil rights icon and late Mary Washington history professor Dr. James L. Farmer Jr., and how JFMC helps students today make connections between civil rights, social justice and anti-racism movements […]
Rosalyn Cooperman, Professor of Political Science, appeared on WAMU’s Morning Edition to discuss early voting in Virginia ahead of the 2020 presidential and congressional elections.Early Voting In Virginia Kicks Off With Long Lines Around The Polls
Elizabeth Freund Larus, Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, commented on CBN News on U.S. bans of popular Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat. In her September 18 interview, Professor Larus warned that TikTok, a Chinese video-sharing social networking service, feeds the facial recognition and user data that it collects to China. […]
