First-year University of Mary Washington student Brianna Miles had a plan for besting her opponent in the Rocky River Log Roll challenge – keep her fleet planted and move her body just a bit. And it worked!The giant inflatable game was one of many matches set up last week on Jefferson Square for a uniquely […]
Posters and presentations filled UMW’s Hurley Convergence Center on Friday, April 21, 2023. Complex art projects transformed the ground floor of the Cedric Rucker University Center. Music emanated from the Weatherly Wing of Seacobeck Hall, and master’s research projects on effective teaching methods stretched into the evening.In the newly named Leigh Frackelton Classroom in Woodard […]
The challenge: Take three separate California-based street-sweeping companies and combine them into one new business with the equipment, personnel, contracts and management to succeed despite potential competition from the biggest player in the industry.That was the “case” posed in the fifth annual Case Competition, a contest in which teams of UMW business students tackle a […]
When Professor Emeritus Leigh Frackelton retired from the University of Mary Washington’s College of Business (COB) in 2021, the pandemic left little room for fanfare.Rob Strassheim ’96 wanted something more for his former professor, who taught business law and accounting at the University for 35 years.“Leigh is an institution here at Mary Washington,” said Strassheim, […]
Bagpipe music will fill the air and graduates will don their brand-new blue regalia, as the University of Mary Washington prepares for its 112th Commencement, scheduled for May 6, 2023. About 1,000 graduates and their families will celebrate their academic accomplishments and student success in person on Ball Circle during the Saturday ceremony.A livestream will be […]
