Cage diving with great white sharks. Swimming alongside humpback whales. Getting close to lions and leopards on an African safari. It sounds like a nature TV show, but it’s not. It’s how Nikki Maticic ’14 spent one summer break as a Mary Washington student. Now she cares for lions, tigers and Andean bears – oh, […]
Department of Biology
Smithsonian Partnership Lets Students Explore Endangered Species
Imagine getting up close and personal with the world’s most endangered species – and then having the chance to save them. Thanks to a partnership with the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation (SMSC), Mary Washington students will soon have that experience. They’ll spend a semester working directly with these animals and learning from Smithsonian scientists and […]
O’Dell Connects Cell Phones, Cancer on ‘With Good Reason’
UMW Associate Professor of Biology Deb O’Dell will be featured on “Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?” on the With Good Reason public radio show. Her interview, which took place last August, is an encore presentation and will air August 3 to 9. The program is broadcast in Fredericksburg on Radio IQ 88.3 Digital on Sundays […]
Brain Injury Leads Biology Major to Public Health Career
Four other people got on the tube with UMW senior Laura Lang that day on North Carolina’s Lake Norman. In the end, Lang was the only one left. She’d hung on the longest to win the summer-break game, but before she had time to celebrate, something happened. Pulled by a boat, the tube caught air, […]
No Brainer: UMW Biology Alum in Prestigious Neuroscience Program
Sarah Roche ’18 did not want to go to college at all. A high school chemistry class had left her feeling so discouraged and incapable that she’d given up on the idea altogether. She visited a litany of Virginia colleges at the urging of her parents anyway. None of them changed her mind. Until a […]
