Category: Undergraduate Research

Summer Science 2025 Symposium Winners

  The University of Mary Washington Irene Piscopo Rodgers ’59 Summer Science Institute is a program that offers UMW science majors an opportunity to participate in a summer-long, research project supervised by a faculty member. This year, 30 students in 7 STEM disciplines conducted research on campus, as well as field research from Florida, to West Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay, […]

Students and Faculty Map Historical Housing Restrictions in Fredericksburg

In March, Brendan O’Connell (’25 Historic Preservation) delivered a presentation titled “Data Analysis and Geocoding” with Dr. Moon and Dr. Hanna at the Virginia Forum, which was held at Sweet Briar College in Amherst, VA. This presentation was the result of their work together on RestrictedVA, a collaborative student project that researches and maps the […]

Student shares research at National Women’s Studies Association

Zoey Young (’24), a double major in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, recently attended the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference in Detroit, Michigan and presented a research poster titled “Trans Identity and Theory in Contemporary American Poetry.”  This research came from a capstone thesis, directed by Professor of English, Dr. Mara Scanlon. […]

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. […]