Category: What’s New @ UMW

Sixth Annual Mary Wash Giving Day is One for the Books

Cullen ’90 and Rosemary Seltzer ’91 made a perfect match when they met in college.Recently, the alumni couple, who will celebrate 30 years of marriage this summer, made another perfect match – this time for the University of Mary Washington’s sixth annual Mary Wash Giving Day. The Seltzers sponsored a dollar-for-dollar match, up to $6,000, […]

UMW’s Research and Creativity Day Celebrates Student Accomplishments

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 […]

Business Students Bring Knowledge, Professionalism to Case Competition

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 […]

UMW College of Business Classroom Named for Longtime Accounting Professor

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, […]