Despite the challenges that Fall 2020 posed for UMW students and faculty, including strict protocols about in-person contact in classrooms and labs as well as restrictions on travel, UMW was able to continue its commitment to student learning and to fostering undergraduate research and creativity. Many students and faculty across the university pursued individual and […]
This 2019-2020 academic year we have been celebrating ten years of the Women’s and Gender Studies program (see “Dynamic Decade: Women’s and Gender Studies Turns 10“) at Mary Washington. Every year this program hosts its own Undergraduate Research Forum in March as part of UMW Women’s History Month celebration. This is always a special event, […]
Hina Zafar is a 2019 UMW graduate with a major in Psychology and a minor in Business Spanish. In her last semester of school, she worked with Stafford Junction for a semester-long internship. Stafford Junction is a non-profit organization that provides educational resources to low-income families in Stafford County in order to help them become […]
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 […]
