UMW Tree Festival
October 19th, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM | Jefferson Square
Join the Office of Sustainability on Jefferson Square, Thursday, Oct. 19th for UMW’s annual Tree Festival! Speak to local environmental organizations, student green clubs and climb UMW’s amazing trees! Interested in tabling during the event? Email sustainability@umw.edu.

UMW’s contractor for fire systems (Convergint) will be completing inspections and performing routine maintenance of the systems in all buildings on the Fredericksburg, Stafford and Dahlgren Campuses, starting this first week of October. The work is expected to continue through the end of November.

The starting schedule is posted online at https://students.umw.edu/safety/fire-safety-inspection/, and we’ll share updates there. Signs will be placed on the entrances of each building the night prior to the inspection and testing to indicate when the work will take place.

For academic and administrative buildings, work will occur in the early morning, prior to classes and business hours and will typically take place between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. You may hear one short ring of the alarm when the inspection is complete, as it is part of the required test.

In residence halls, work will take place after 9 a.m. and the contractor will be accompanied by a staff member. Again, you may hear one ring of the alarm as the test wraps up in a building.

If you have any questions, please contact Director of Emergency Management and Safety Brandy Ellard at bellard@umw.edu.

Campus Dining and the UMW Athletic Department are co-sponsoring Sodexo’s annual “Stop Hunger” food drive from October 23^rd – November 1^st. We hope to get a broad campus and community participation in this food drive, so that we can help our campus pantry, the Gwen Hale Resource Center, as well as the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank get the resources they need to feed hundreds experiencing food insecurity. Here are some items they like to keep in stock:

·         Mac n’ Cheese
·         Canned Fruit
·         Rice
·         Instant Potatoes
·         Canned Vegetables
·         Dehydrated Milk
·         Dry or Canned Beans
·         Canned Meat
·         Pasta & Sauce
·         Hot or Cold Cereals

Courtesy of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, there will be collection bins for each team and support staff group located on the main level of Goolrick Hall throughout these dates. Please consider helping out where you can!

The following message comes from the Department of Police and Public Safety:

Campus Community,

UMW’s Annual Security Report has been published for 2023 and is available online at  https://www.umw.edu/police/2023-annual-security-report/. Print copies can be obtained at the UMW Police Department in South Hall, or by calling 540-654-1025.

This annual report chronicles the previous three calendar years, with statistics for crimes that occurred on campus, in designated off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by the University of Mary Washington, and on public property within or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus. Also included are campus safety and security policy disclosures, programs in prevention, safety and security; sexual offenses or sexual misconduct; emergency response; and fire statistics for on-campus residential housing.

This report is published each year by October 1 to meet the reporting requirement of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act), as well as meet the requirements of the Higher Education Opportunity Act to publish an annual fire safety report.

We encourage members of the community to use this report as a guide and a reminder that individual responsibility matters. Thank you for your continued cooperation and collaboration to care for the safety and security of everyone.

If you have any questions regarding this year’s Annual Security Report, please contact Chief Michael Hall by email at mhall2@umw.edu.

Global Cafe 2023
October 3rd, 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | Top of the CRUC
The Center for International Education and University Dining invites you to join us at Global Cafe on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, at the top of the CRUC from 5 – 8 PM. Come and taste foods from around the world! From 5 – 7 PM you will be able to visit information tables about study abroad opportunities at UMW and receive stamps on your “passport” to be entered into a raffle.

Dear colleagues,

I invite you and your students to the events below. Please consider announcing these events to your students.

The Leidecker Center for Asian Studies invites you to participate in its annual “Gardens for Peace” event, as participating Japanese Zen Gardens throughout North America sponsor events to honor the UN’s International Day of Peace (Sept. 21).

Join us for the following events, all of which will take place in the UMW Zen Garden behind James Farmer Hall (weather permitting):

Wed. Sept. 20, noon: Community Zen Garden Clean Up, when we prepare the Zen Garden for raking Toshiko Tanaka’s peace design. Ms. Tanaka is an artist, peace activist and survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She created patterns that represent her desire for world peace.

Wed. 9/27 at noon: Guided Walking Meditation in the Garden

Wed. 10/4 at noon: Brief meditation and Zen Ensō Circle Painting

Angela Pitts

Professor of Classics

Co-Director of the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies

Director of Contemplative Studies