One of the largest means of producing electricity is through the combustion of coal. Coal ash, its waste product, contains trace metals that can become mobile in the environment. Catherine Crowell, a sophomore majoring in environmental science, examined trace metal contamination within sediment and water samples collected near a coal-burning power station using ICP-OES. Synthetic […]
Mathematics students Hannah Frederick, Ashley Scurlock and Isabella Gransbury traveled to the 2020 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Denver, CO, January 2020–the largest mathematics conference in the world! The three UMW Mathematics majors presented their research with almost 400 other students in the undergraduate poster session of the conference. Hannah’s poster–Using Circulant Matrices for Sharing Secret […]
In fall semester 2019, Dr. Krystyn Moon and a group of fourteen students spent a semester of in-depth research about the experiences of various immigrant groups to the United States. Their work included three trips to Washington, D.C. to conduct research in the records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the National Archives. The […]
In the fall semester of 2019, geography students Kelsey Chavers, Kylie James, Chinnae Faustor, Elizabeth Devine and Thomas Blackburn worked with their faculty mentor Dr. Steve Hanna on a project designed to understand how relationships between presidential plantation museums and communities comprised of descendants of people once enslaved impact visitors’ experiences and attitudes at three […]
In recent years the magnitude of the problem of plastics in the marine environment has become increasingly well-known, but less research has been done in freshwater systems. Thomas Bustamante, a junior majoring in biological sciences, examined the gizzards of five species of water fowl, in order to document the presence of plastic particles and identify […]
