Binge-watching C-SPAN from his great-grandmother’s couch was just the beginning for Tylik McMillan.“That’s the only thing she watched,” he said. And as he sat there, too, seeing politics play out on the screen, he pictured himself – and other young men and women of color – with their own seat at the table.Now 27, McMillan […]
It’s been a big year for the University of Mary Washington. As the calendar year concludes, we take a look back at the prior academic year in our annual Year in Review 2022-23.Read the online edition of the 2022-23 Year in Review.Flip through the online publication to meet our most recent graduates, follow along with […]
Forrest Anthony Parker – founding director of the University of Mary Washington’s James Farmer Multicultural Center (JFMC) and co-creator of its annual Multicultural Fair – passed away on the first day of the new year, Jan. 1, 2024.Parker will be remembered at Mary Washington, particularly by the many students he inspired, the positive impact he had […]
Adrianna Giddings leaves her white cane behind and makes her way to the front of the room.Drip-drop, drip-drop … Tasha Page-Lockhart’s Tears flows through the University of Mary Washington’s Chandler Ballroom, and Giddings breathes it in. “It’s like I’m in my own bubble,” she said of the performances she delivers with UMW’s Praise Dance Team, of which she […]
One of Hannah Stottlemyer’s most memorable moments at the University of Mary Washington came on a Global Medical Brigades trip to treat underserved communities in Panama. There, she put her majors in biomedical sciences and Spanish into practice when she extracted a patient’s tooth and watched his sudden relief.Having this experience as an undergraduate was […]
