December 6, 2023

Alumna Leads U.S. Efforts to Introduce Single-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine

March 2, 2021 by
When one of the nation’s top spots in infectious diseases opened up last June, Candice Malone Long ’94 didn’t think twice. For the chance to help when the world was facing a raging pandemic and in need of vaccines and therapeutics? “It was an absolute ‘yes,’” said Long, who has spent 25 years with Johnson […]
Filed Under: Candice Long, COVID, COVID-19, Johnson & Johnson

When the Pandemic Struck, UMW Persevered

December 15, 2020 by
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 Opens ‘COVID-19 in Context’ Course to Community

May 18, 2020 by
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: ,