Category: What’s New @ UMW

UMW Theatre Returning for 2025–26 Season with Hand to God

UMW Theatre resumes its 2025–26 season with Hand to God by Robert Askins, a darkly comic, Tony Award–nominated play that blends humor and discomfort to explore faith, morality, and human expression. Directed by School of the Arts Director Gregg Stull, the production brings to the Klein Theatre a story that begins modestly—with a grieving teenager […]

Enterprise AI System Coming Soon in Spring 2026

We’re excited to share that in spring 2026, we plan to launch UMW’s official generative AI platform, based on Cloudforce’s NebulaONE. As an enterprise solution, across all of UMW’s core functions, this platform will be developed deliberately to support broad access to AI, enable advanced academic and pedagogical innovation, and maintain clear governance and data protections.We anticipate that […]

Summer Enrichment Program Application Now Open

The UMW Summer Enrichment Program is now accepting applications for its 2026 session, offering rising 10th–12th graders an immersive, weeklong residential experience designed to spark curiosity and build academic confidence. The program will be held July 12–18, 2026, and provides students with a firsthand look at college life through engaging coursework and enrichment activities led […]

Turn a New Page With Wintertime Reads by UMW Faculty and Alumni

Offering readers fresh perspectives to explore during the winter season, recently published works from University of Mary Washington faculty and alumni span history, international relations, poetry, young-adult fiction and more.The new titles and their authors are: NATO After Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Threat Perceptions and Their Consequences by Professor of Political Science and International Affairs […]

A Flurry of Research, Creativity and Inquiry on Display at UMW Fall Symposia

Students across the University of Mary Washington capped off their fall semester with an unexpected snow day that only added to the excitement of presenting original research and creative work developed over months of effort.Across a series of end-of-semester symposia—held in multiple academic departments and only slightly reshuffled due to the weather—students shared the outcomes […]