Interim Provost Ian Newbould spoke to the faculty on April 25. Please view his remarks. Newbould, who arrived at UMW on April 16, will serve as UMW’s chief academic officer during the 2012-2013 academic year.
His career in higher education spans more than 30 years, and includes presidencies at three institutions. Most recently, he served as president of Richmond, the American International University in London, U.K.
At the Stress Free Zone this week, students found more than just crafts and snacks–they found pets.
Diesel(pictured left), a cane corso mastiff, has been a therapy dog for four years. He also has been seen at Mary Washington Hospital, the Marine Corps Marathon and Wounded Warriors events like the Polar Plunge. This is the first year that the therapeutic dogs have visited the Stress Free Zone.
Graduate assistant Whitney Hanlin said the dogs’ presence doubled the number of students who attended the event from last year.
The Stress Free Zone is sponsored annually by the Office of Student Activities and Engagement.
There, students had the options of tie-dying T-shirts, coloring, doing crafts, snacking on cookies, crackers and gummy candy, and playing with the dogs from the Rappahannock Area Comfort Canines.
“It’s just a way to support our students,” said graduate assistant Meg DeMaria. “We just want to make this week as easy as possible for them.”
Hundreds of students, faculty, staff and community members came together last weekend on UMW’s Fredericksburg campus for Relay for Life, an annual event to raise awareness for cancer research, celebrate survivors and honor and remember those who fought cancer.
Despite wet weather, more than 400 people gathered in Great Hall on Saturday, April 21 for the opening ceremony. Many stayed throughout the night for the Survivor Lap, Luminaria Ceremony and various contests and activities.
According to The Bullet, UMW’s Relay for Life has raised more than $47,000.
University of Mary Washington students Brendan Oudekerk, Meghan Hobbs and Sean Simons are among 18 college and university students selected for the summer 2012 College Leaders Program at the Sorensen Institute of Political Leadership.
Hobbs and Oudekerk are senior international affairs and political science and economics and political science majors, respectively, and Simons is a junior political science and political communication major.
The College Leaders Program (CLP) gives students the practical skills and political knowledge to become effective advocates in government and business. CLP curriculum is focused on energizing youth leaders, promoting civic engagement and preparing future leaders to be ethical and responsible citizens in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The four-week course is held over the summer on the University of Virginia grounds.
The Sorensen Institute was founded as the Virginia Institute of Political Leadership in 1993 in hopes it would identify and bring together Virginia’s emerging political leaders. More than 1,200 Virginian students have graduated from the Institute.
Civil Rights leader and former Mary Washington professor James Farmer’s reflection lectures are now available online as part of a digital archive. Four students constructed the archive as part of Associate Professor of History Jeff McClurken’s “Adventures in Digital History 2012” seminar.
Seniors Laura Donahue, Michelle Martz and Caitlin Murphy and junior Kelsey Matthews worked with McClurken and members of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies team to archive 13 of Farmer’s lectures from 1983. Farmer taught civil rights history at Mary Washington and was Commonwealth Professor of History at the time of the reflection lecture series.
To learn more about the project or to view the lectures, visit http://jamesfarmerlectures.umwblogs.org/.
