Learning & Impact
Learning & Impact
Marketing Class Partners with Students Across the Globe
Studying abroad is as much a part of University of Mary Washington culture as bench-sitting or playing Frisbee on Ball Circle. One-third of each graduating class – about 300 students – spends time learning overseas. UMW students aren’t able to …
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Tragedy Turned Alumna’s Focus to Suicide Prevention
It’s 2 a.m., and there’s a police officer sitting on Julie van Ommeren’s gingham-print loveseat. Another stands by his side. But where is Kyle? She hears someone scream, then suddenly realizes the voice is her own. UMW alumna Julie van …
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UMW Student Lands Competitive Library of Congress Fellowship
History has been a part of Matthew Bova’s life for as long as he can remember. In fact, even longer. The UMW junior’s parents met when they were both historical interpreters at Claude Moore Colonial Farm. Junior Matthew Bova, a …
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Professors Pool Resources to Focus on ‘Compelling Courses’
To teach mitosis, April Wynn has students in her class act out the process, portraying chromosomes that divide into nuclei. The assistant professor of biological sciences hopes to replicate lively exercises like this – but virtually – in the fall. …
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Summer Science Symposium Showcases Student Research
Temperatures soared yesterday, but Allison Grant was cool and calm as she explained how climate change has disproportionately affected low income neighborhoods that are impacted to a greater degree by heat. “Redlining was outlawed over 50 years ago,” said the …
