Category: What’s New @ UMW

The Museum Shop at Gari Melchers Home and Studio offers 20% discount on all purchases to UMW faculty, staff and students.  The Museum Shop offers a selection of Melchers branded items ( postcards, prints, mugs and magnets) as well as  unique home decor pieces.  We  offer a fine selection of books, with hard-to-find titles  in categories such as  art, history, biography, gardens and  photography.  Our art supply section is growing.  We  now carry M Graham paints, a very unique, hand crafted brand based on historic formulas and dedicated to using non-toxic materials.

The Museum Shop is open daily, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.  Visit our shop blog at  MuseumShop1.umwblogs.org

Remember, too, that admission to the Gari Melchers Home and Studio is free to staff, faculty and students.  Museum hours are 10 a.m – 5 p.m. Closed Wednesdays.

On Saturday, October 16, 2010 the Office of Admissions will be holding the first Discovery Day of the fall semester. The latest registration numbers indicate that over 300 prospective students and about 1000 total visitors will join us on campus on Saturday!
The Discovery Day schedule includes events and activities for our visitors from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., although we expect our guests to begin arriving on campus earlier in the morning. Expect to see increased foot traffic on campus and a large amount of visitors in the campus dining facilities. Our visitors have been instructed to park in the parking garage, but with the amount of people we expect to attend they will most likely need to seek other parking options throughout campus and on neighboring side streets. Hopefully this information will allow you to plan accordingly for Saturday. Please welcome visitors to the University of Mary Washington.
The Office of Admissions

Date and Time: Saturday October 16, 9 a.m. – noon

Location:  Ball Circle

Parking available at Chandler Hall parking lot off College Avenue

UMW map and directions can be found at http://www.umw.edu/visitors/directions/

Who Can Attend: Open to the public

Content: Fall is a great time for planting!  Bring whatever you have to share: perennials, saplings, bulbs, even gardening supplies you no longer use.  Please label all plants with a common name.  Bring your plants at 9 a.m. and browse around. The exchange will start promptly at 10 o’clock.  Following the exchange, join us as we plant native species to restore the riparian buffer at Woodard Campus Center.  Learn about this important natural filter and how you affect your watershed.

Cost: no charge

Sponsored By: University of Mary Washington

UMW Ecology Club

UMW Sustainability Organizers

Stafford Cooperative Extension Office

Registration Deadline: No registration is required

For more information please email jwilson@umw.edu

This year’s lecture, presented by Richard John, Professor in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, is entitled: “James Monroe and the Communications Revolution in the Early Republic.” Professor John will speak on the epochal communications revolution that originated in the 1790s and accelerated during the presidential administration of James Monroe (1817-1825). He will analyze the main features of this revolution, with a focus on the newspaper press, the postal system, and the stagecoach business. The communications revolution in the early republic led to the creation of large inter-state associations, the mass party, and the nationwide market – three of most important institutions of the age.

Professor John’s lecture will be illustrated with contemporary images; it draws on his own extensive research on the history of communications in the United States.

The lecture – which will be held in the Great Hall in Woodard Campus Center – is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Call x1043 with any questions.

Belmont’s trees are spectacular for their beauty and the stories they tell.  Our new online Tree Tour will be joined in a few weeks by a printed tour available at our Front Desk.

http://www.umw.edu/gari_melchers/belmont/documents/TreeToursmallfile.pdf