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Rebecca Callaway ’19 and Mary Dye '20 present their Research and Creativity Day project, a harp on which they used lasers to replace broken strings. Photo by Suzanne Carr.

Technology & Humanity

Technology Strikes High Note for Old Concert Harp

Rebecca Callaway ’19 could see the beauty in the broken. Cracked and unusable, the donated concert harp came to her four months ago hardly worth …

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Air traffic controller Natalie Smith turned to UMW to earn first a BLS and now an MBA to take her career to new heights.

Technology & Humanity

MBA Student Takes Aviation Career to New Heights

Natalie Smith found her passion for planes as a teen. “I love airplanes and aviation, all of it, the way jet engines sound and feel, …

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After a reading assignment that suggested smartphones -- and social media -- were destroying a generation, several students decided to try to go without.

Technology & Humanity

Give Up Social Media? Theatre Students Try

The social media apps lined up on her smartphone – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter – and that is where the UMW senior often found herself, like …

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UMW Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Stephen Farnsworth Received the 2017 Outstanding Faculty Award from SCHEV.

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UMW Professor Publishes Book on ‘Internet’ Presidents

There’s no question the first four presidents of the internet age are different, but Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump share …

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Jennifer Dockeray Muniz '94 is director of America’s Retail Contact Center at Apple. She credits much of her career success with the computer giant to her liberal arts education at Mary Washington, where she majored in English.

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Apple Executive’s Success Proves Power of Liberal Arts

At the end of her final year at Mary Washington, English major Jennifer Dockeray Muniz ’94 put the finishing touches on her last assignment – …

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