Category: What’s New @ UMW

The Women’s History Month Committee is sponsoring an event on March 25, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. titled, Fresh Face to the World…Easy, Breezy, No Makeup on that Covergirl. The purpose of the drive is to inform students, faculty, and staff that true beauty is far beyond the general products some individuals administer to their  bodies each day and encourage them to participate in a one-day attempt to eliminate beauty enhancing products from their daily routine.

We encourage everyone to please donate any unused and unopened makeup they may have to benefit this wonderful cause. All donations will go to help the women of Hope House, a local nonprofit organization geared toward assisting homeless women and their families during their journey of regaining financial independence.

Donations can be made throughout the entire month of March to the James Farmer Multicultural Center (Lee Hall, 211). In advance, thank you to all that donate and plan to participate!

The Diversity and Unity Coordinating Committee of UMW is to provide the UMW and Fredericksburg area communities with a Bullying Forum.  Faculty and administrators from UMW’s College of Education, Psychology Department, Counseling and Psychology Services and the Office of Judicial Affairs will facilitate the discussion and serve as experts
in their respective fields.  The purpose of the forum is to provide participants with an opportunity to productively discuss bullying as it comes into conflict with our communities.  Various forms of bullying and its repercussions will be explored from the perspective of the bully, the victims of bullying, as well as the onlookers of these acts.  The forum is scheduled for 6 o’clock in the evening Thursday, February 17, 2011 in Lee Hall Room 412 on UMW’s Fredericksburg campus.  For more information or questions, pleasecontact Lee Gilliam at lgilliam@mail.umw.edu.

March 29, 2011 :: Lee Hall, 411 :: 6 p.m.

The legacy of Black women’s writings in Latin American remains at best one of the least known bodies of literature in the Americas. This presentation takes up that issue as it seeks to confront some of the situations that surround that body of work, at times paying special attention to the writers themselves. Presented by Dr. Dawn Duke, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at The University of Tennessee . Dr. Duke specializes in Afro-Latin American literature and cultural studies.

A member of President Obama’s Select Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnership, Dr. Melissa Rogers, will present a lecture March 16 titled “Continuity and Change: Faith-Based Partnerships under Presidents Bush and Obama.” The presentation will be in the Woodard Campus Center, Red Room, and begins at 4 p.m. Rogers is director of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs, and is the former director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. http://divinity.wfu.edu/rogers.html

Please visit the UMW Bookstore to see our selection of Women’s History titles.

The UMW Bookstore is proudly owned and operated by the University of Mary Washington with proceeds helping to fund…

UMW Health Center

Debt Card Program

Card Access System

Work Study Program

And More.