Cindy Ramirez was 8 years old when her sister was injured in a sledding accident that broke her sacrum, a pelvic bone that supports the weight of the upper body.“I was really nervous, but all I could think about in that moment was how I could help her,” said Ramirez, now a senior at the […]
Cage diving with great white sharks. Swimming alongside humpback whales. Getting close to lions and leopards on an African safari.It sounds like a nature TV show, but it’s not. It’s how Nikki Maticic ’14 spent one summer break as a Mary Washington student.Now she cares for lions, tigers and Andean bears – oh, my! – […]
Imagine getting up close and personal with the world’s most endangered species – and then having the chance to save them.Thanks to a partnership with the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation (SMSC), Mary Washington students will soon have that experience. They’ll spend a semester working directly with these animals and learning from Smithsonian scientists and George […]
Assistant Professor of Biology Parrish Waters was featured in an article in Inside Higher Ed entitled “Looking Back on this Year’s Classroom Experiments.” In a previous article from last fall, professors across the country shared the technologies they were planning on testing in the classroom; now they reflect on their successes and shortcomings. According to […]
Sarah Roche ’18 did not want to go to college at all. A high school chemistry class had left her feeling so discouraged and incapable that she’d given up on the idea altogether. She visited a litany of Virginia colleges at the urging of her parents any…
