Category: What’s New @ UMW

Fitbit Challenge and Other SAC News

STAFF ADVISORY COUNCIL NEWSSAC MIXER Thanks to all who were at Home Team Grill for the mixer last week! Your SAC members hope you had a great time.SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE UMW’s SAC is coordinating with a local school again this year to provide much-needed school supplies. Collection boxes will be available soon. Get ready!FITBIT CHALLENGE […]

Greetings from President Paino

Dear Colleagues, I hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend.  My family and I arrived in Fredericksburg a couple of weeks ago and have been busy getting settled into Brompton (much work still to do) and our new lives in Virginia.  We are all very excited to be members of the University of […]

We Can Help West Virginia Flood Victims

To the UMW Community:As you have probably seen in the news, our neighbors in West Virginia have been affected in horrific ways by devastating floods<http://www.wearewvproud.com/category/315538/pray-for-west-virginia-flood-disaster-2016> over the past week.  For at least one of our UMW colleagues, the impact has been personal. Angela Lilly, director of Training, Evaluation and System Support (TESS), is from the affected […]

Particles of Change

Cancer may be up against some of the brightest minds in the University of Mary Washington’s physics department. That, and a collection of nanoparticles smaller than the human eye can see.Physics Chair Hai Nguyen and rising senior physics and mathematics double major Pengcheng Zhang are crafting a project that could lead to groundbreaking cancer research.This cutting-edge […]