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BtC Endowment Funds Study Abroad Scholarships

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 […]

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. […]

Student Uses Remote Sensing in Geospatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Landscapes

UMW senior Charlie Barbaro (Geospatial Analysis 2027) is a research pro. His first research experience was as a participant in the 2025 Irene Piscopo Rodgers '59 Summer Science Institute. Under the mentorship of Dr. Ping Yin, he conducted a spatial and temporal analysis on … [Read More...] about Student Uses Remote Sensing in Geospatial Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Landscapes