UMW Honors Students Earn Early Selection to Med School
July 8, 2021 by Jill Laiacona
When Shreya Murali was in high school, she got the chance to observe an open-heart surgery. She watched, mesmerized, as the surgeon cut through the sternum to reveal the patient’s beating heart. “At that moment, I knew I wanted to be in that room one day,” said prospective physician Murali, now a rising junior at […]
Filed Under: GWU Med School Early Selection, Mara Scanlon, Top Stories Tagged With: Honors Program, kslunt
UMW Professors Find Creative Ways to Teach Through COVID-19
April 29, 2020 by Jill Laiacona
Teaching at Mary Washington looks a bit different lately. Andi Smith films YouTube videos with her children to demonstrate architectural principles. Zach Whalen uses cartoons to teach a digital studies lesson. Smita Jain Oxford holds Zoom office hours for business majors on her daily jog. When the University moved to virtual classes last month due […]
Filed Under: Carole Garmon, Center for Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, College of Education, Digital Learning Center, Elizabeth Lewis, jburrow, Kashef Majid, Mara Scanlon, mwells, Top Stories, Zach Whalen Tagged With: alsmith, jbroome, jdavis7, jslezak, lmcmi6lq, mbenson4, soxford, tgrana, vrussel3
UMW Senior Does Groundbreaking Autism and Gender Research
May 14, 2019 by Jill Laiacona
Ren Koloni wants to make academia a more welcoming place for people like them. And at the University of Mary Washington, Koloni found space where they could do just that. Koloni, who identifies as transgender and nonbinary – neither male nor female – and uses they/them pronouns, is autistic and has multiple disabilities. UMW appealed […]
Filed Under: Department of Sociology, English, Linguistics and Communication, Mara Scanlon, tciteroni, Top Stories Tagged With: cfoss, Honors Program, jlee8, kslunt, lsimpkin, Office of Disability Resources, Women's and Gender Studies
