From mixing paint pigments to mixing music, high school students in UMW’s Summer Enrichment Program signed up for a week of college-level learning paired with outdoor activities in the Fredericksburg area. By day three in the week-long program, they had visited Ferry Farm and Kenmore, picked up litter along the Read more…
Associate Professors of Communication, Dr. Adria Goldman and Dr. Elizabeth Johnson-Young, and Assistant Professor of Communication, Dr. Emily Crosby, presented at the Eastern Communication Association's Annual Conference in Cambridge, MA. Their panel, titled "Social Media and the Changing Current of Health Messaging and Debates," focused on research surrounding discussions of Read more…
A trio of UMW faculty members has received VIVA Open Grants for adopting, adapting and creating open and affordable course materials from the Virtual Library of Virginia that can be made available to students at little or no cost. These grants work to save students money on expensive textbooks and help Read more…
Associate Professor of Communication Elizabeth Johnson-Young presented her paper, "Birth, Trauma, and Communicating Maternal Health" at the annual conference of the Eastern Communication Association in Baltimore, Maryland. The paper was presented during a panel hosted by the Health Communication division focused on maternal and reproductive health. The paper focused on Read more…
Assistant Professor of Communication Adria Goldman was interviewed for an article in Australia entitled, More than a pretty face: Who wins and who loses when beauty trends celebrate cosmetically altered looks that are ethnic, but not too ethnic.
Goldman says the term “Blackfishing” describes “an act of cultural appropriation where someone non-Black Read more…Read more about Adria Goldman.