April 26, 2024

UMW Welcomes New Year, New Students, New Offerings

September 6, 2023 by
The fall semester is underway – in a big way – at the University of Mary Washington, with lots of new students on campus and plenty of fresh opportunities on tap for the 2023-24 academic year. Of the more than 1,000 new students in the incoming class, 260 transferred to Mary Washington from other schools. […]
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Alumna Pledges Gift Match to Beyond the Classroom Endowment

May 25, 2021 by
Long before she led the effort to modernize food safety for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Catherine O’Connor Woteki ’69 was a student lab assistant in Combs Hall. “Doing behind-the-scenes prep work and just being able to hang around the lab was so helpful,” she said of her 1968 position in Mary Washington’s biology department. […]
Filed Under: Beyond the Classroom Endowment, College of Arts and Sciences, Keith Mellinger, Top Stories

UMW Offers Free Course to All: ‘Life After COVID’

May 13, 2021 by
Building on the enthusiastic response to last year’s COVID-19 in Context course, the University of Mary Washington is offering another free, open-to-all series in June. Life After COVID, delivered to homes, backyards and porches via Zoom and YouTube, will run Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 1 to July 1. “We view opportunities such as the Life […]
Filed Under: Anand Rao, COVID, Elizabeth Lewis, Keith Mellinger, Life After COVID

UMW Offers Free Course to All: ‘Life After COVID’

May 13, 2021 by
Building on the enthusiastic response to last year’s COVID-19 in Context course, the University of Mary Washington is offering another free, open-to-all series in June. Life After COVID, delivered to homes, backyards and porches via Zoom and YouTube, will run Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 1 to July 1. “We view opportunities such as the Life […]
Filed Under: Anand Rao, COVID, Elizabeth Lewis, Keith Mellinger, Life After COVID

UMW, Marstel-Day to Present Climate Series

April 1, 2021 by
At the University of Mary Washington’s 2014 commencement ceremony, College of Arts and Sciences Dean Keith Mellinger heard something he knew he’d never forget. A patch of garbage, estimated to be twice the size of Texas, is floating in the Pacific, Mellinger said, and is the largest of five offshore zones accumulating in the world’s […]
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‘J-term’ Helps Students Engage, Gain Credits

January 13, 2021 by
College students often spend the final weeks of winter break watching movies, playing video games and writing résumés for jobs and internships. Now, a University of Mary Washington offering called the January-term, or “J-term,” allows them to earn college credits for these and other types of activities. Before UMW’s spring semester begins – remotely on […]
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‘J-term’ Helps Students Engage, Gain Credits

January 13, 2021 by
College students often spend the final weeks of winter break watching movies, playing video games and writing résumés for jobs and internships. Now, a University of Mary Washington offering called the January-term, or “J-term,” allows them to earn college credits for these and other types of activities. Before UMW’s spring semester begins – remotely on […]
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Free UMW Course Turns COVID-19 Inside Out

June 10, 2020 by
Political leaders and health experts who communicate the impact of COVID-19 to the public are just like anyone else. Some hit the mark. Some don’t. Understandable terms, relatable ideas and the confident presentation of useful information are key to delivering a successful message, said UMW Professor of Communication Anand Rao. And competent public discourse during […]
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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: ,

UMW to Offer Japanese Language Courses

January 29, 2020 by
Spending a semester in Japan, UMW senior Kaitlin Viloria was in a shop when a young woman asked her a question. The woman spoke no English and Viloria’s Japanese was limited, but they still managed to strike up a conversation. Viloria wishes she was more proficient, she said, “but in that moment, I was proud […]
Filed Under: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Elizabeth Lewis, Japanese Language Program, Jose Sainz, Keith Mellinger, muehara, Top Stories Tagged With: ,
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