If you venture into the basement of Combs Hall, you’ll find a large room at the end of the hall with a wide fish-tank-like window. This space is the UMW Historic Preservation Department’s Archaeology Laboratory (Combs 012) and is a dynamic space for teaching, volunteering, and analysis. Dr. Katharine Parker, Associate Professor of Historic Preservation, […]
Wiley Prior (Spanish 2026) spent Spring semester 2025 in Bilbao, Spain, as part of the UMW study abroad program there. Wiley, who is a Spanish major, enjoyed interacting with the Basque people, taking in as much as possible. In addition to further developing his skills in Spanish, he also experienced the vitality of the Basque […]
Why might lovers of literature listen to what a student headed to medical school says about poetry? And how can a student of poetry clarify patient care for medical clinicians? Rebecca Cherian (Class of 2026), a major in Biomedical Sciences and minor in English, might answer in one word: Consilience. Consilience is the strong concurrence […]
In their fall 2024 FSEM “History Wars: Schools, Museums, and Monuments”–taught by Assistant Professor of Education Dr. Alex Honold–Tyler Crockett (Historic Preservation ’28), Nick Thodal (History ’28), and Sarah Yatzeck (History ’28) conducted original research on distinct historical or contemporary representations of the past as they appear in schools, public spaces, or popular media. Sarah […]
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 Library that supports student research and creativity where students and faculty can meet, […]
