Category: Announcements

Internal announcements of interest to faculty and staff.

DIII Week–Wednesday

UMW Colleagues,Did you know that NCAA’s Division III is the largest of the three NCAA divisions with 450 schools?  Over 183,500 student-athletes play for the love of their sport—they receive no scholarships for athletics.  So why would a student-athlete continue to play his or her sport AND why would he or she choose UMW?Let’s hear […]

DIII Week–Tuesday

UMW Colleagues, Athletics is an integral part of the UMW community.  This spring semester alone we’ve had the excitement of both men’s and women’s swimming winning the Capital Athletic Conference championships for the 16th and 26th consecutive times, respectively. We sent swimmers to the NCAA swimming championships and several came home as All Americans.  Our women’s […]

Make history. Lend a hand!

The following message is from the Division of Advancement and University Relations:How many times in your life do you get to be a part of setting a world record? What a unique opportunity we have at UMW on April 13 — not only have we scheduled an attempt to break a Guinness World Record (our […]

DIII Week–Monday

UMW Colleagues,Today we begin a weeklong recognition of UMW’s student-athletes as we celebrate the NCAA’s Division III week, April 4-10!  Athletics is an important component of life at the University of Mary Washington and each day this week we will be featuring comments from student-athletes competing in various sports.  UMW student-athletes play for the love […]

Trail to Freedom Tour, April 16

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s James Farmer Scholars Program will be hosting a Trail to Freedom tour, April 16, 2016. The tour will begin at the University of Mary Washington and the bus will travel to Falmouth beach, Chatham Manor, the Rowser Building, and Aquia Landing in Stafford, where participants will enjoy a provided lunch […]