Category: What’s New @ UMW

UMW Earns Spot in Top-Selling ‘Fiske Guide to Colleges 2022’

For the 14th consecutive year, the Fiske Guide to Colleges has named the University of Mary Washington among the country’s best for delivering outstanding academics and reasonable prices.Among top-selling publications that compare colleges, the prestigious Fiske Guide is often considered the gold standard resource. The 2022 edition, the 38th annual issue, features more than 300 of the […]

Science Symposium Showcases Research That’s Making a Difference

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 disease […]

UMW Trio Heads to Tokyo for Paralympic Games

UMW Assistant Swim Coach Zach Shattuck and Joey Peppersack ’21 are heading to Tokyo soon as members of the U.S. Paralympic Team, along with UMW Swim Coach Justin Anderson ’10 as an assistant coach for Team USA. The Paralympics run from Aug. 24 to Sept. 5.Shattuck and Peppersack have appeared on several regional media outlets:Mary […]

College of Education, City Spin New Type of Story

Each time Melissa Wells has taught “Literature and the Arts in Elementary Classrooms,” her students have partnered with local teachers to create children’s books to use in their classes.That wasn’t an option after the pandemic hit, said Wells, an assistant professor in University of Mary Washington’s College of Education (COE). But her colleague, Leslie Martin, […]