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University of Mary Washington

Index University of Mary Washington

The University of Mary Washington (UMW) is a public liberal arts and sciences university located in Fredericksburg, Virginia. [1]

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American Association of State Colleges and Universities

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) is an organization of state-supported colleges and universities that offer degree programs leading to bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees.

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Anne Rudloe

Anne Rudloe (née Eidemiller, December 24, 1947 – April 27, 2012) was an American marine biologist.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.

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Barbara Halliday

Barbara Halliday is the mayor of Hayward, California, elected to the office by a plurality in the June 3, 2014 California primary election.

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Battle of Fredericksburg

The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside, as part of the American Civil War.

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Bülent Atalay

Bülent Atalay is a Turkish-American educator, author, scientist, and artist.

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California State University, Fullerton

California State University, Fullerton (CSUF or Cal State Fullerton) is a public research university in Fullerton, California.

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Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda

Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1946) was named Poet Laureate of Virginia by the Governor, Tim Kaine, on June 26, 2006.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Claude A. Swanson

Claude Augustus Swanson (March 31, 1862July 7, 1939) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia.

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Claudia Emerson

Claudia Emerson (January 13, 1957 – December 4, 2014) was an American poet.

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Code of Virginia

The Code of Virginia is the statutory law of the U.S. state of Virginia, and consists of the codified legislation of the Virginia General Assembly.

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Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges

The Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) is a consortium of 30 public colleges and universities in 28 states and one Canadian province.

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Cross Examination Debate Association

The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) is the largest intercollegiate policy debate association in the United States.

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David Cain (professor)

David William Cain (born November 5, 1941) is a professor emeritus of religion at the University of Mary Washington and past president of the Søren Kierkegaard Society of North America.

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David Whitaker (politician)

David Whitaker is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Arkansas House of Representatives representing District 85 since January 14, 2013.

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Desiree Marie Velez

Desiree Marie Velez (born June 8) is an American actress.

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El Salvador

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador (República de El Salvador, literally "Republic of The Savior"), is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America.

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Elizabeth Edwards

Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards (July 3, 1949 – December 7, 2010) was an American attorney, a best-selling author and a health care activist.

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Energy service company

An energy service company (ESCO) is a commercial or non-profit business providing a broad range of energy solutions including designs and implementation of energy savings projects, retrofitting, energy conservation, energy infrastructure outsourcing, power generation and energy supply, and risk management.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation.

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First Ladies and Gentlemen of Costa Rica

The First Lady or First Gentleman (Spanish: Primera Dama de Costa Rica and Primer Caballero de Costa Rica) is the title of the wife or husband of the President of Costa Rica.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Frank M. Snowden Jr.

Frank M. Snowden Jr. (July 17, 1911February 18, 2007), was an American professor emeritus of classics at Howard University, best known for his study of blacks in classical antiquity.

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Fredericksburg, Virginia

Fredericksburg is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732 –, 1799), known as the "Father of His Country," was an American soldier and statesman who served from 1789 to 1797 as the first President of the United States.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Governing boards of colleges and universities in the United States

In the United States, a board often governs institutions of higher education, including private universities, state universities and community colleges.

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Governor of Virginia

The Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia serves as the chief executive of the Commonwealth of Virginia for a four-year term.

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Gregory Stanton

Gregory H. Stanton is the Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at the George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

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Hayward, California

Hayward (formerly, Haywards, Haywards Station, and Haywood) is a city located in Alameda County, California in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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James Farmer

James Leonard Farmer Jr. (January 12, 1920 – July 9, 1999) was a civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr." He was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate transportation in the United States.

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Jean Donovan

Jean Donovan (April 10, 1953 – December 2, 1980) was an American lay missionary who was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries—Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and Dorothy Kazel—by members of the military of El Salvador.

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Judge Reinhold

Edward Ernest "Judge" Reinhold Jr. (born May 21, 1957) is an American actor who has starred in several Hollywood movies, such as Ruthless People, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gremlins, and Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will?, and both trilogies for ''Beverly Hills Cop and ''The Santa Clause''.

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Judy Hample

Judy Gayle Hample was an American academic administrator.

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Judy Muller

Judy Muller is an American journalist.

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Julien Binford

Julien Binford (December 25, 1908 – September 12, 1997) was an American painter.

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Karen Olsen Beck

Rita Karen Olsen Beck (born January 31, 1933 Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish American-Costa Rican diplomat, politician and social worker.

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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is one of the most popular green building certification programs used worldwide.

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Liberal arts college

A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Maggie Stiefvater

Margaret "Maggie" Stiefvater (born November 18, 1981) is an American writer of Young Adult fiction, known mainly for her series of fantasy novels The Wolves of Mercy Falls and The Raven Cycle.

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Marion Blakey

Marion Clifton Blakey (born March 26, 1948) is president and chief executive officer of Rolls-Royce North America.

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Mary Ball Washington

Mary Ball Washington, born Mary Ball (November 30, 1708 – August 26, 1789), was the second wife of Augustine Washington, a planter in Virginia, and the mother of George Washington, the first President of the United States, and five other children.

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Nan Grogan Orrock

Nan Grogan Orrock (born November 8, 1943) is a Democratic state senator in the Georgia State Senate for the district 36.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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National Debate Tournament

The National Debate Tournament is one of the national championships for collegiate policy debate, public forum debate, Lincoln-Douglas debate, and other events in the United States.

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Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

The United States Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), named for Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, is located in Dahlgren, Virginia, with a geographically separated command, Combat Direction Systems Activity Dam Neck (CDSADN), located in Virginia Beach, VA, in close proximity to the largest fleet concentration area in the Navy.

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NCAA Division III

Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.

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Normal school

A normal school was an institution created to train high school graduates to be teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum.

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Peace Corps

The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Public university

A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities.

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Rector (academia)

A rector ("ruler", from meaning "ruler") is a senior official in an educational institution, and can refer to an official in either a university or a secondary school.

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Research university

A research university is a university that expects all its tenured and tenure-track faculty to continuously engage in research, as opposed to merely requiring it as a condition of an initial appointment or tenure.

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Richard V. Hurley

Richard V. Hurley (born May 19, 1947) was the ninth president of the University of Mary Washington.

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Ron Smith (American poet)

Ron Smith is an American poet and the first writer-in-residence at St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia.

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Seal (emblem)

A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.

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Shin Fujiyama

Shin Fujiyama is a Japanese-American philanthropist who co-founded Students Helping Honduras.

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Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

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Students Helping Honduras

Students Helping Honduras (SHH) is an international NGO operating in both the United States and Honduras.

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Teresa A. H. Djuric

Brigadier General Teresa A.H. Djuric is a retired United States Air Force brigadier general.

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The Dismemberment Plan

The Dismemberment Plan was a Washington D.C. based indie rock band formed on January 1, 1993.

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The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review is a college admission services company offering test preparation services, tutoring and admissions resources, online courses, and books published by Random House.

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Theology

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.

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Toddy Puller

Linda Todd "Toddy" Puller (born January 19, 1945, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American politician.

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Troy Paino

Troy D. Paino (born December 28, 1962) is the current president at the University of Mary Washington.

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Truman State University

Truman State University (TSU or Truman) is a public liberal arts and sciences university located in Kirksville, Missouri, United States.

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Virginia General Assembly

The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World, established on July 30, 1619.

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William M. Anderson Jr.

William M. Anderson Jr., born January 15, 1942, is an American academic and education administrator.

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WMWC

WMWC is the student-run campus radio station of the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Women's colleges in the United States

Women's colleges in the United States are single-sex U.S. institutions of higher education that only admit female students.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Mary_Washington

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