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Summer Gym Hours and Fitness Programs Announced

Summer Fitness ProgramsThis summer, Campus Recreation is offering fitness programs exclusively for UMW employees: Total Body Workout and Lunchtime Yoga.Each fitness program is 5 weeks long, meets twice a week, and costs $30 for the 5-week session. That’s 10 workouts! Can’t make a few of them? That’s okay! There’s no penalty for missing a few […]

Summer Dining Hours

Campus Dining has resumed dining services at the Top of the University Center. Meals will be served Monday through Friday as follows: Breakfast 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Dinner 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. While menu options are scaled back for the summer, allergen-free selections and vegan or vegetarian […]

MyTime Upgrade Complete

The MyTime upgrade is complete!  The flash-free version has been reviewed and is fully operational.You must use the MyTime link at the top of the UMW home page to access MyTime. If you previously had MyTime saved as a favorite or bookmarked, you will need to delete that link and create a new favorite or […]

McClurken Presents Multi-day Workshop on Digital Liberal Arts Pedagogy in Beirut

From May 3rd to 5th, UMW’s Chief of Staff and Professor of History and American Studies Dr. Jeffrey W. McClurken ran a workshop on Collaborative Digital Liberal Arts Pedagogy: Integrating Projects and Methodologies into Your Course at DHI-B (Digital Humanities Institute — Beirut) held at the American University of Beirut. The participant group of 25 […]

Whalen Publishes Essay of Media Archaeology in Digital Studies

Zach Whalen, Associate Professor in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communications, recently had his article “Teaching with Objects: Individuating Media Archaeology in Digital Studies” published in The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/teaching-with-objects-individuating-media-archaeology-in-digital-studies/.Abstract: “Media archaeology presents a framework for understanding the foundations of digital culture in the social histories of technological media. This […]