UMW President Troy Paino took one for the team this morning. In fact, he took one for all 27 of Mary Washington’s Division III varsity sports teams, trading his presidential look for a wetsuit and skimming down a thousand-foot waterslide. Nearly 2,000 people signed up for Slide FXBG, a giant slip ‘n slide that took […]
UMW’s ‘First Letter’ Campaign Addresses Incoming Freshmen
After hauling in luggage and setting up beds, tired – and sometimes teary – family members gathered in the University Center to pour their emotions onto paper last week. The Mary Wash Move-In Day First Letter Campaign for Parents and Families was conceived to ensure incoming freshmen have a piece of mail waiting for them […]
O’Dell Links Cell Phones, Cancer on ‘With Good Reason’
UMW Associate Professor of Biology Deb O’Dell will be featured on “Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?” set to begin airing Saturday, Aug. 18, on the With Good Reason public radio show. The program, broadcast in Fredericksburg on Radio IQ 88.3 Digital at 2 p.m. Sundays, explores O’Dell’s research on the possible carcinogenic effects of one of America’s favorite […]
‘Digital Storytelling’ Spins High-Tech Tales at UMW
It was a camera-microphone combo. That much was clear. But amid all the gadgets and gizmos, the group at the table could only guess what to do with the orange and white rings that came with it. That’s when Tricia Creason-Valencia spoke up. A cinema professor from Santa Clara University in California, she said they […]
NPR Journalist Kicks Off UMW’s Digital Pedagogy Lab
Humans and technology are better together, according to National Public Radio education journalist Anya Kamenetz, just like the powerful mythological centaur that’s half-man and half-horse. The message she delivered to educators from around the world is that we need a little of both, and that one should not exist without the other. Kamenetz created the […]
