Senior Sofia Szczepankiewicz (Biomedical Sciences ’26) wants to help cure cancer. Her independent research, conducted under the mentorship of Dr. Laura Sipe, investigates whether a common antidiabetic drug, metformin, can pharmacologically trigger a self-eating process called autophagy in triple negative breast cancer cells and that, when combined with a platinum-based chemotherapy named either cisplatin or […]
Spring 2023 was filled with good news from several of our UMW Studio Art and Art History graduates.In March, Sarah Zhou was awarded a prestigious Virginia Museum of Fine Arts fellowship for 2023-2024, to pursue her painting. Zhou commented that:My art has always been a part of my life where I can explore interests and […]
Valeria Ortiz Jimenez and Dylan Crann have a lot in common. They’re both majoring in Biomedical Sciences, both graduating this coming May, and both will be beginning Dental School in the fall–Valeria at Harvard University, and Dylan at University of Pennsylvania. They both also had excellent academics while at UMW, as well as great experience […]
