Category: Social Sciences

Beyond the Classroom Endowment Funds 10 Internships Spring-Summer 2024

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 […]

Student-run research journal to host its fourth symposium April 26, 2024

Columns – UMW Humanities and Social Sciences Journal is a student-led undergraduate research journal that publishes student research in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Mary Washington. It was formed in the Fall of 2022 by Kate Gruber (Anthropology ’23), Erin Mahoney (Anthropology ’23), Liam Kiely (International Affairs and Geography ’23), and […]

Creating a Mindfulness Curriculum for Children

In the Fall semester of 2023, Dr. Miriam Liss and a group of psychology students worked with Lisa Dolan, head social worker of Spotsylvania County Schools, and Dr. Beth Jerome, Mary Washington class of 2002 and head of WellSpring Child and Family Psychology, to implement a mindfulness curriculum to 3rd graders at Spotswood Elementary Schools. […]

Psychology Students Present Their Research Across the Country

Each year, advanced students in the department of Psychological Science break into research teams to pursue a year-long project under the mentorship of a faculty member. All of these research teams present the results of their projects either on campus, or at regional and national conferences, many present at more than one venue. This spring […]