Our UMW students are going places with their research! During the 2024-2025 academic year, 77 students received undergraduate research grants from the College of Arts and Sciences to present their research work at professional conferences across Virginia and the country: from Charlottesville to Chicago, San Diego to San Antonio, and everywhere in between. In the […]
Zoey Young (’24), a double major in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, recently attended the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference in Detroit, Michigan and presented a research poster titled “Trans Identity and Theory in Contemporary American Poetry.” This research came from a capstone thesis, directed by Professor of English, Dr. Mara Scanlon. […]
Anthropology is the study of human cultures, and there is no better way to study them than with firsthand experience. That is what UMW senior Ariana Adamek (’25) did in the summer of 2024 with the support of a Beyond the Classroom scholarship. A double major in anthropology and theatre, Ariana spent a month in […]
James Rollison (’25), studied abroad during his spring break in 2024 in England, studying “The Business of Football” with UMW professors David Henderson and Ken Machande. James toured London, Blackburn, Manchester, and Liverpool with a group of other UMW students. While there, he attended two Premier League, one Championship, and one Champions League soccer matches […]
Only three years after establishing our College of Arts and Sciences Beyond the Classroom Endowment, we have already begun to make a big impact in the student experience at Mary Washington. This past spring and summer ten CAS students with majors in diverse fields from Historic Preservation to Computer Science put their classroom learning into […]
The University of Mary Washington recently introduced its new space highlighting the importance of undergraduate research and creativity at UMW, the UMW Research and Creativity Collaborative (or RCC for short). The RCC is: a physical space on the main floor of Simpson … [Read More...] about UMW opens new Research and Creativity Collaborative
This past summer, Madison Hinton (Studio Art and Computer Science '26) participated in a 6-week plein air painting program at the American College of the Mediterranean’s Institute of American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France. She captured light and color directly from … [Read More...] about UMW student practices the art of plein air painting in France
For the past two years, UMW Physics majors have traveled to Conway, SC, for a research experience, similar to our UMW on-campus Summer Science Institute. They live on the campus of Coastal Carolina University and work in the Environmental Fluids Laboratory (EFL) co-directed by … [Read More...] about UMW Physics Students Research the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
The University of Mary Washington Irene Piscopo Rodgers ’59 Summer Science Institute is a program that offers UMW science majors an opportunity to participate in a summer-long, research project supervised by a faculty member. This year, 30 students in 7 STEM … [Read More...] about Summer Science 2025 Symposium Winners
In March, Brendan O'Connell ('25 Historic Preservation) delivered a presentation titled "Data Analysis and Geocoding" with Dr. Moon and Dr. Hanna at the Virginia Forum, which was held at Sweet Briar College in Amherst, VA. This presentation was the result of their work together … [Read More...] about Students and Faculty Map Historical Housing Restrictions in Fredericksburg
