Category: What’s New @ UMW

Homecoming shirts still available for purchase

Homecoming 2021 shirts are still available for purchase through Class Council. These gray, long-sleeve shirts are being sold for $15. Let Class Council know if you’re interested in purchasing a shirt by submitting this form and they will be in touch with you about payment and shirt pick-up.If the hyperlink above does not work, here […]

New Position, Grant Bolster UMW’s Center for Prevention and Education

Marissa Miller wants University of Mary Washington students to know that when they disclose incidents of sexual assault, intimate partner violence and stalking, they will be heard and supported.“Many assume they’ll have to come in and share their story,” said Miller, who recently became the director of UMW’s Center for Prevention and Education, or CPE. […]

Marketing Course Puts Food Waste on the Menu

Becca Winicour stands on her tiptoes to snag a soy yogurt off the top shelf, as Maggie Ellis, grocery scanner in hand, consults another classmate.“I found three blueberry ones,” she said, “but they’re not even a month old.”These University of Mary Washington seniors are enrolled in a new course called Alleviating Food Waste, which explores the […]

Reflections on the Mary Washington Experience

Watch the first episode of the new ‘Leading Lives’ video series focusing on the stories behind philanthropy.In the late 1960s, John Thompson regularly traveled from Blacksburg to Fredericksburg to visit his future bride, Phyllis Newby. After graduating from Mary Washington in 1969, Phyllis joined John at Virginia Tech, began a fulfilling teaching career, and received […]