Our UMW students are going places with their research! During the 2024-2025 academic year, 77 students received undergraduate research grants from the College of Arts and Sciences to present their research work at professional conferences across Virginia and the country: from Charlottesville to Chicago, San Diego to San Antonio, and everywhere in between. In the […]
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. […]
Anthropology is the study of human cultures, and there is no better way to study them than with firsthand experience. That is what UMW senior Ariana Adamek (’25) did in the summer of 2024 with the support of a Beyond the Classroom scholarship. A double major in anthropology and theatre, Ariana spent a month in […]
James Rollison (’25), studied abroad during his spring break in 2024 in England, studying “The Business of Football” with UMW professors David Henderson and Ken Machande. James toured London, Blackburn, Manchester, and Liverpool with a group of other UMW students. While there, he attended two Premier League, one Championship, and one Champions League soccer matches […]
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 […]
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 … [Read More...] about Basque Loanwords: Study abroad inspires ethnolinguistic research
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 … [Read More...] about Wanted: Dead and Immunogenic: Investigating a therapeutic strategy to induce death in breast cancer
A look at the headlines in the news, or even just scrolling our personal social media feeds, it is evident that online political discussions are fraught with problems from misinformation to toxic exchanges between users. For the past two semesters, students Garrett McKenzie … [Read More...] about Students research AI and political discourse in Project Frozone
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 … [Read More...] about Consilience: Exploration of Medical Poetry to Enhance Clinical Empathy
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 … [Read More...] about Critically Engaging Students with Historical Narratives in the “History Wars”
