High-Schoolers Get Set to Face Off at Second Innovation Challenge @ Dahlgren
October 20, 2022 by Guest Author
Picture robots navigating a maze as sonar sounds echo through the room. The High School Innovation Challenge @ Dahlgren Robotics Competition has students assembling robots and using skills in command and control, detection, navigation and sensoring to compete for cash prizes and a year’s worth of bragging rights. And it’s back for its second year! […]
Filed Under: Innovation Challenge @ Dahlgren, Top Stories, Troy Paino Tagged With: NSWCDD
UMW Move-In Day Is No Sweat for Students, Parents
August 19, 2022 by Laura Moyer
By 9:15 Wednesday morning, resident advisor Max Steinbaum had already introduced himself a few dozen times, greeting the first-year students moving into Randolph Hall, their parents and a few wide-eyed younger siblings. If a key lesson of college is efficiency, Max taught it by example on the University of Mary Washington’s first move-in morning – […]
Filed Under: Kelly Paino, Residence Life and Housing, Troy Paino Tagged With: Events, Move-In
UMW Presidential Address Ushers in the 2022-23 Academic Year
August 17, 2022 by Lisa Chinn Marvashti
University of Mary Washington President Troy Paino kicked off the fall semester – and the 2022-23 academic year – Tuesday morning during an in-person address to faculty and staff. “I haven’t been able to welcome you like this for a while,” Paino said from the stage in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium. The start-of-the-semester assembly […]
Filed Under: Top Stories, Troy Paino
New Vice President Brings Ideas for Advancement
June 3, 2022 by Laura Moyer
When Katie Turcotte becomes UMW’s vice president of advancement later this month, she’ll fill a much-needed role – helping to bring the university forward from pandemic constraints and bolstering its liberal arts and sciences mission. Who better to lead the University of Mary Washington’s development team than a “nonprofit and philanthropy nerd”? That’s how Turcotte […]
Filed Under: Advancement, Katie Turcotte, Top Stories, Troy Paino
Student Affairs Pros Recognize UMW’s ‘Rock Star’ President
May 17, 2022 by Laura Moyer
University of Mary Washington colleagues have long known how committed President Troy D. Paino is to the student experience – and to the faculty and staff who work day in and day out to make it the best it can be. Now, student affairs professionals throughout the Southeastern United States are spreading the news. NASPA, […]
Filed Under: NASPA, Top Stories, Troy Paino Tagged With: ceric5ne, crucker, jlandpha, pcatullo
Drizzly Weather Couldn’t Dampen UMW Commencement
May 7, 2022 by Lisa Chinn Marvashti
Rain fell relentlessly over the Fredericksburg region this morning, but at the University of Mary Washington’s 111th Commencement, a rainbow of umbrellas signaled bright skies ahead for nearly 1,200 graduates. Back on Ball Circle for the first time in three years, the signature ceremony marked the culmination of years’ worth of work by students earning […]
Filed Under: Class of 2022, Jeffrey McClurken, Kathryn Warlick, Sheila Shadmand, Top Stories, Troy Paino Tagged With: Commencement
Eagle Awards Celebrate Campus Leaders, Dean Rucker
April 18, 2022 by Jill Laiacona
University of Mary Washington senior Brianna Reaves was presented with the Grace Mann Launch Award during the annual Eagle Awards last Thursday. Held in person for the first time since the pandemic, the event honored more than a dozen campus leaders in the University Center’s Chandler Ballroom. A newly established award was presented to Cedric […]
Filed Under: Center for Community Engagement, Eagle Awards, Office of Student Activities and Engagement, Top Stories, Troy Paino Tagged With: crucker, James Farmer Multicultural Center
Supporting STEM: Innovation Challenge @ Dahlgren Targets Critical Area Need
April 15, 2022 by Lisa Chinn Marvashti
“STEM” learning – science, technology, engineering and math – has been a priority for decades. But fewer young people in the U.S. are pursuing these subjects, and that puts the nation at risk. The Innovation Challenge @ Dahlgren represents a powerful partnership set to take aim at this critical need in the Fredericksburg region. The […]
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College of Education Countdown is Complete: Six Things About Seacobeck
April 8, 2022 by Lisa Chinn Marvashti
Future educators began filling its classrooms and meeting spaces this semester, but a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday made it official: Seacobeck Hall is the new home of the University of Mary Washington’s College of Education and Office of Disability Resources. A years-long renovation transformed the building – which served as a dining hall for decades – […]
Filed Under: College of Education, pkelly3, Top Stories, Troy Paino Tagged With: Seacobeck
UMW Gives Student’s Bookmobile Project a Lift
March 16, 2022 by Jill Laiacona
Hollis Cobb’s days growing up were bookended. He read each morning before school and snuggled in for family story time before bed. “I can appreciate how important it was that we had access to books and parents who had time to read to us,” said Cobb, now a junior English major at the University of […]
