Category: What’s New @ UMW

Everyone knows that UMW art majors are risk takers. It’s one of the main attributes to doing and making interesting things. But our very own Lauren Horton demonstrated this beyond the studios of Melchers when she rescued a baby osprey that had fallen into the water after trying to catch a fish. The baby, not having “adequately oiled” feathers, was unable to lift out of the water. Here’s where Lauren comes in (or should I say dives in), she got that little fella and swam back to shore while mom and pop watched from above.  After drying the feathers, Lauren let him rest and then watched as he mustered enough strength and courage to give flying another try. Off he went back to the nest with mom and pop on his tail.

Everyone knows that UMW art majors are risk takers. It’s one of the main attributes to doing and making interesting things. But our very own Lauren Horton demonstrated this beyond the studios of Melchers when she rescued a baby osprey that had fallen into the water after trying to catch a fish. The baby, not having “adequately oiled” feathers, was unable to lift out of the water. Here’s where Lauren comes in (or should I say dives in), she got that little fella and swam back to shore while mom and pop watched from above.  After drying the feathers, Lauren let him rest and then watched as he mustered enough strength and courage to give flying another try. Off he went back to the nest with mom and pop on his tail.

The Stafford campus will hold its first-ever blood drive on Thursday, September 22 from 1 – 7 p.m. in University Hall.  If you are interested in donating blood, please email Kevin Caffrey (kcaffrey@umw.edu) to make an appointment.

In case you’ve been under a rock, the UMW website will be moving to WordPress as of October 7. Department website administrators now in Contribute may sign up for classes in how to migrate their Contribute content to the new environment. You will have plenty of time to make the switch.

Initial training will concentrate on structure and accuracy of content, as well as updated links.

Subsequent online and in-person training will devote time to layout, look and feel, using the new UMW designs, and WordPress widgety goodness, to make your site spiffier than ever.

If you are a current department site administrator and would like to sign up for training, please visit the training calendar at:

http://technologytraining.umwblogs.org

To see what’s happening on the project, please visit http://webredesign.umwblogs.org.

In case you’ve been under a rock, the UMW website will be moving to WordPress as of October 7. Department website administrators now in Contribute may sign up for classes in how to migrate their Contribute content to the new environment. You will have plenty of time to make the switch.

Initial training will concentrate on structure and accuracy of content, as well as updated links.

Subsequent online and in-person training will devote time to layout, look and feel, using the new UMW designs, and WordPress widgety goodness, to make your site spiffier than ever.

If you are a current department site administrator and would like to sign up for training, please visit the training calendar at:

http://technologytraining.umwblogs.org

To see what’s happening on the project, please visit http://webredesign.umwblogs.org.