A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Professor Laura Mentore will be featured on the With Good Reason public radio program in an encore presentation that airs Aug. 19-25.
In the show, “It’s a Jungle Out There,” Mentore discusses her research with the Waiwai, an indigenous people of Guyana, and how she discovered the path of a special songbird from the rainforest to New York City. Read more.
Earlier this summer, UMW President Troy Paino visited the annual Department of Historic Preservation archaeological field project.
The current excavations are focused on an antebellum garden associated with an 1840s slave quarter and kitchen quarter complex in Stafford County. The project has been led by incoming Assistant Professor Lauren McMillan for the past three summers.
Members of Mary Washington’s incoming class traded tablets and cell phones for campfires and bug spray to live off the grid, so to speak, for three days and two nights.
And they loved it.
More than 48 hours with no Wi-Fi, no social media. Not even showers. Read more
Stop by UMW’s own Weight Watchers@Work from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. on Thursdays in the Hurley Convergence Center, Room 111. A Weight Watchers’ representative will share ways you how you can steal some find time for yourself as well as lose weight without sacrificing your favorite foods.
The Commonwealth of Virginia offers Weight Watchers at special pricing to state employees. Those eligible for the health benefits program also may be reimbursed for half the cost of services, once they have completed program requirements.
If you have questions, please contact Julia Coates at jcoates@umw.edu or Martha Link at mlink@umw.edu.