Lessons in the Sciences: Mary Washington Alumnae Advance STEM Careers
February 9, 2024 by Jill Laiacona
A young woman leaves New York to earn a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at a small Virginia women’s college in the 1950s. After graduate school, she becomes a revered electron microscopist – but not without the challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated field. Consequently, she spends her life helping female students at her […]
Filed Under: Alvey Scholarship, Anne Hope Scott, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Department of Computer Science, Docia Atanda, Endowment, Harrison Miles, Irene Piscopo Rodgers, Jerri Barden Perkins, Marilyn Shull Black, Office of University Advancement and Alumni Engagement, Science, Sofia Taylor, Top Stories Tagged With: Department of Biology, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Department of Mathematics, STEM
Science Symposium Showcases Research That’s Making a Difference
July 20, 2021 by Jill Laiacona
University of Mary Washington junior Karissa Highlander has spent the summer researching an infectious illness. But not the one scientists have been focused on for the past 18 months. Instead, Highlander, a biomedical sciences major, has been working on new treatments for tuberculosis. Though rare in the United States, antibiotic resistant strains of the deadly […]
Filed Under: Beyond the Classroom Endowment, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Department of Computer Science, eoldham, gmorriss, jcollins, llee, Melanie Szulczewski, tfrankel, Top Stories Tagged With: Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Department of Mathematics
Summer Science Symposium Showcases Student Research
July 23, 2020 by Jill Laiacona
Temperatures soared yesterday, but Allison Grant was cool and calm as she explained how climate change has disproportionately affected low income neighborhoods that are impacted to a greater degree by heat. “Redlining was outlawed over 50 years ago,” said the UMW senior, citing the discriminatory lending practice that prevented minorities from purchasing homes. “Yet it […]
Filed Under: Department of Computer Science, eoldham, jcollins, Summer Science Symposium, Top Stories, vmakhija Tagged With: Department of Biology, Department of Chemistry, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Department of Mathematics, Department of Physics, pgrothe, Summer Science Institute
Alumna, COO Scales Cybersecurity Career
June 16, 2020 by Jill Laiacona
Throughout her four-year college career, Megan Carter Shepherd ’94 broke records with the Mary Washington swim team, winning championships and earning a top spot in the Capital Athletic Conference. But Goolrick Pool wasn’t the only place she made a splash. Double majoring in math and computer science, Shepherd dove into numbers, equations and formulas – […]
Filed Under: Cybersecurity Certificate, Department of Computer Science, Top Stories Tagged With: Department of Mathematics
Alumna, COO Scales Cybersecurity Career
June 16, 2020 by Jill Laiacona
Throughout her four-year college career, Megan Carter Shepherd ’94 broke records with the Mary Washington swim team, winning championships and earning a top spot in the Capital Athletic Conference. But Goolrick Pool wasn’t the only place she made a splash. Double majoring in math and computer science, Shepherd dove into numbers, equations and formulas – […]
Filed Under: Cybersecurity Certificate, Department of Computer Science, Top Stories Tagged With: Department of Mathematics
UMW Pathway Provides Grad-Level Engineering Opportunities
October 22, 2019 by Jill Laiacona
Engineers share a lot in common with superheros. The latter leap tall buildings in a single bound, fight evil-doers and travel faster than a speeding bullet. The former design sustainable and safe infrastructure, combat cyber-crime and create signals that move at lightning speed. UMW students aren’t caped crusaders, but they need to be prepared to […]
