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 2024 […]
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 as […]
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 […]
Fourteen UMW students recently traveled to Richmond to present at the 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). This annual conference, sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) and held this year April 13-15, 2026, brought together more than 4000 … [Read More...] about UMW Students Present at NCUR 2026
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 … [Read More...] about A Close-Up Look at Historic Preservation Archaeology Lab
On February 27, economics students Josiah Schlechty (Economics and Accounting '26) and Tressa Ballard (Applied Economics and Classical Studies '28) traveled to New York City to attend the 33rd annual Issues in Political Economy (IPE) Conference. The conference is part of the … [Read More...] about UMW Econ Students Present Their Research at NYC Conference
Five UMW undergraduate research students--Ned Gable (Environmental Science and Chemistry '27), Calleigh Keeley (Environmental Science '26), Ainsley Lord (Environmental Science and Conservation Biology '26), Sophia Pedroza (Environmental Science and Conservation Biology '26)--and … [Read More...] about Students present their research on fossils and climate conditions in Scotland
For the first time, a team of undergraduate researchers in the Biological Sciences from the University of Mary Washington participated in the Scholars Transforming through Research Advocacy Program, through Council for Undergraduate Research. Throughout the academic year, … [Read More...] about UMW students participate in Scholars Transforming through Research (STR), CUR’s Advocacy Program`
