Three team national championships, seven individual national championships and 308 All-American athletes – that’s UMW Athletics’ record to date. Just this year, three teams won CAC titles, one team advanced to the NCAAs and men’s rugby won the USA Rugby’s D1AA fall championship. And yet, that’s not the score card that UMW Athletics keeps. As […]
UMW Professors Transform Education with Open Textbooks
Highlighting? Not allowed. Underlining? Don’t even think about it. That was Caitie Finlayson’s approach to textbooks as a college student. As one of many undergrads who relied on financial aid, she kept pages pristine so the books could be resold for a small portion of the original – and often hefty – sum. Years later, […]
Giving Day Builds a Future for UMW Students
Building with Habitat for Humanity. Measuring the trees on UMW’s historic campus. Diving with faculty for coral samples on Christmas Island. These are just a few of the things that UMW students are doing on a given day – and it’s largely made possible through the generosity of the university’s donors. UMW’s civically, socially and […]
UMW to Hold Second Annual Giving Day
The University of Mary Washington will hold its second annual giving day on Tuesday, March 20. During Mary Wash Giving Day, donors can make gifts at givingday.umw.edu from midnight through 11:59 p.m. Gifts received during this time will celebrate the UMW spirit of giving back and help fill the gap—since funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia […]
UMW Inspires Student to Start LGBTQ+ Bookstore
It was in high school that UMW junior Andy Unger first realized that books about the LGBTQ+ community were rare finds. But it wasn’t until he arrived at UMW that it really clicked: This was a problem he could solve. “As a kid, I spent all of my time reading every book I could find,” […]
