What can you buy with just 75 cents today? On Sunday, Nov. 15, the handful of change will buy admission to Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont in celebration of its 40th anniversary of its opening to the public. The museum will offer admission for open house tours of the property at the 1975 […]

What can you buy with just 75 cents today? On Sunday, Nov. 15, the handful of change will buy admission to Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont in celebration of its 40th anniversary of its opening to the public. The museum will offer admission for open house tours of the property at the 1975 […]

The University of Mary Washington has launched a UMW Virginia Teacher Scholarship for Graduate Education Programs. The scholarship, which covers 15 percent of tuition, is available for Virginia residents who are educators working in a public or non-public PreK-12 school located in Virginia. Applications for the scholarship are being accepted for the spring 2016 term. […]

Last year, UMW students logged more than 17,200 hours volunteering in the Fredericksburg area community through the Community Outreach and Resources office. The accomplishment has earned COAR recognition on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the fifth straight year. But junior Ola Szczesna believes the student-run organization can do more. She’s challenged […]

On any given set of the award-winning musical Avenue Q, you will find a cast full of fuzzy characters that come to life on stage. At the University of Mary Washington, those puppets are handmade by a team of students and faculty. Featuring a set of 24 unique puppets, UMW’s production of Avenue Q will […]

The University of Mary Washington’s newest gallery exhibition, New Ceramics in the Old Dominion: A Survey of Virginia Ceramics Faculty, features ceramic works by faculty from schools across Virginia. The exhibition will be on display through Sunday, Dec. 6 in UMW’s duPont Gallery. Presenting works by 16 artists, the exhibition includes works ranging from pots […]

The 28th Annual James Monroe Lecture, to be held on Monday, Nov. 9, will feature an examination of the fifth president and the U.S. Army Officer Corps. Samuel Watson, professor of history at the United States Military Academy at West Point, will present “Working toward Stability and Subordination: President James Monroe and the U.S. Army […]

The University of Mary Washington’s Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication will host author and professor Juliette Wells on Tuesday, Oct. 20. Wells will discuss one of Jane Austen’s most recognizable novels, Emma, as it approaches its 200-year anniversary in a lecture titled “Jane Austen’s Emma at 200.” The public lecture will take place at […]

How well do you know the U.S. Constitution? That’s what the University of Mary Washington expects to find out when it commemorates Constitution Day, Thursday, Sept. 17, with an interactive trivia contest that poses that same question. Designed to promote education and engagement around the Constitution, the contest, which is open to the public, will […]