Surrounded by pink – a pink clothes hamper piled high with stuffed animals, a full-length mirror inside a pink frame, two pink rugs rolled up tight – Ana Saravia spoke into her phone. The conversation, held outside her new Randolph Hall room, was with her mom, who was just down Campus Walk helping her other […]
Aiden Anderson poked a needle into a pink silicone tray, weaving black thread through an assortment of pre-cut lacerations. The practice exercise in suturing wounds at Mary Washington Healthcare could come in handy someday for Aiden, a sophomore at the Academy of Technology and Innovation at UMW’s Stafford Campus.He was among about 70 aspiring medical […]
The Virginia Governor’s Office recently announced the appointment of two new members of the University of Mary Washington Board of Visitors and renewed the term of a current member.Kaci Easley of Richmond, director of community engagement and local affairs at Dominion Energy, and Charlie McDaniel of Washington, D.C., vice president of growth and strategy for […]
The green-tinted bottle may have held mustard in the Civil War era, but its eight flattish sides gave University of Mary Washington junior Kai Bryant a brand new idea.“I wanted to prove it could be fully customizable,” Bryant said of a summer project creating archival storage boxes with UMW senior Lily Hollar. With guidance from […]
A historical account of a road that never was is the winner of this year’s University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize.Road to Nowhere: How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore tells the story of the lasting harm caused by the 1957 proposal of a highway slicing through Maryland’s once-vibrant Black middle-class Rosemont neighborhood. […]
