Category: What’s New @ UMW

Ranking Highlights UMW’s Commitment to Sustainability

The University of Mary Washington has earned a spot on a list of the nation’s most environmentally conscious schools. The ranking appears in the 2021 edition of The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges, which profiled 416 U.S. schools demonstrating a commitment to sustainability, based on student academic offerings and career preparation, as well as […]

Mary Talks: “Farmer Legacy: 2020 & Beyond”

Join us ONLINE for the next Mary Talk of the 2020-21 academic year! In January 2020, UMW launched Farmer Legacy 2020: A Centennial Celebration and Commitment to Action to recognize what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. James Farmer, national civil rights icon and Mary Washington College professor from 1985 to 1998. While […]

12 Days of Employee Appreciation

The Staff Advisory Council and Human Resources is pleased to invite you to: 12 Days of Employee AppreciationA few Highlights:11/01/2020 – 12/04/2020 – 20% off at the Book Store11/01/2020 – 12/04/2020 – Daily Gift Card DrawingsAND SO MUCH MORE!!!!

Partnerships Lead Students to Engineering Master’s Degrees

Sophomore Justin Daniels is part of a group building a virtual campus tour where users can order – and “drink” – Katora coffee. Junior Zoe Rafter put her knowledge of voltage and wavelengths to work this semester using a circuit board.New partnerships with Virginia schools give University of Mary Washington students like Daniels and Rafter a […]

Forum Reveals Reality of Racial Issues at UMW

Do you have to be a person of color to be offended by a racial epithet?No, according to Alexandra Polymeropoulos, a junior at the University of Mary Washington. During a lively discussion Wednesday evening in a session of UMW’s U.S. Race & Reality Forum, Polymeropoulos said she is riled every time she hears such language. […]