When the Pandemic Struck, UMW Persevered
December 15, 2020 by Anna Billingsley
Eager to begin her college career at Mary Washington, Sarah Bazemore moved into Willard Hall in September, stocking her room with masks and sanitizer. Little did she know that she would end her first semester living in Marshall Hall under quarantine. Bazemore and two of her friends were among several dozen students who were either […]
Filed Under: Coronavirus, COVID-19, esouthe2, Jeffrey McClurken, Tim O'Donnell, Top Stories, Troy Paino
UMW Libraries’ Collection Captures COVID-19 History
May 20, 2020 by Guest Author
Reference Librarian Peter Catlin planned to get married in Virginia Beach in May. But the state’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order canceling public gatherings put a kink in his wedding plans. Instead, after many attempts, the couple got special permission from Fredericksburg’s clerk of circuit court, who married them on the sidewalk outside the city courthouse. The […]
Filed Under: Call to Contribute, Coronavirus, sappleby, Top Stories Tagged With: awhite4, cparsons, pcatlin, Simpson Library, Special Collections and University Archives, UMW Libraries
UMW Opens ‘COVID-19 in Context’ Course to Community
May 18, 2020 by Anna Billingsley
Those who think they’ve heard everything that can be said about COVID-19 can guess again. Experts at the University of Mary Washington are sharing their perspectives through COVID-19 in Context, an eight-week online summer course starting June 1 that will be open free of charge to not only UMW students, faculty, alumni and staff, but also the […]
Filed Under: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Keith Mellinger, Summer 2020, Top Stories Tagged With: distance learning, rcooperma
