Environmental Consulting Firm Marstel-Day Awarded Multi-Year OASIS Contract Vehicle
Environmental consulting firm Marstel-Day has been awarded a General Services Administration (GSA) multi-year contract vehicle available for use by all federal agencies, referred to as OASIS (“One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services”). According to Marstel-Day President and CEO Rebecca R. Rubin: “This is a timely win, as we recently developed our COVID response capabilities available […]
Pfizer and BioNTech Dose First Participants in the U.S. as Part of Global COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Development Program
First participants dosed at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and University of Maryland School of Medicine Pfizer and BioNTech ramping up manufacturing capabilities to further increase production capacity in 2020/2021 NEW YORK & MAINZ, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) announced today that the first participants have been dosed in the […]
UMW Alumnus Cooks Up Initiative to Save Small Restaurants
Acclaimed chef and restaurant owner Erik Bruner-Yang and his wife welcomed their third child and bought their first home in January. Just eight weeks later, the same weekend they moved into their new house in Washington, D.C., the mayor ordered all city restaurants to close because of COVID-19. The 2007 UMW graduate felt fortunate that […]
UMW Professors Find Creative Ways to Teach Through COVID-19
Teaching at Mary Washington looks a bit different lately. Andi Smith films YouTube videos with her children to demonstrate architectural principles. Zach Whalen uses cartoons to teach a digital studies lesson. Smita Jain Oxford holds Zoom office hours for business majors on her daily jog. When the University moved to virtual classes last month due […]
UMW Announces Operational Plans, Tuition Freeze for Fall
The University of Mary Washington announced today that it intends to resume academic and residential operations on campus as scheduled on August 24, 2020. In a message to the campus community this afternoon, President Troy Paino wrote: “Given what we know at this moment, it is our hope and intention to resume our normal academic […]
Through Pandemic, Research Remains Top Priority at UMW
They put in the hours – late-night study sessions, one-on-one meetings with faculty members, conferences, presentations and projects. All year long, students have been working hard on one of the University of Mary Washington’s top priorities: undergraduate research. A pandemic wasn’t about to stop the 14th annual showcase that highlights all of their efforts. Filled […]
NWFCU Foundation Collects Thousands of Food Items for Local Children
Herndon, Va. (April 21, 2020) – NWFCU Foundation recently ran a weekend meal program drive, collecting non-perishable food items to provide nourishing meals for at-promise children on weekends. The Foundation received almost 4,200 food items and several hundred dollars in donations from generous credit union members, employees and corporate partners, including Whitney, Bradley & Brown, […]
Alumnus Shelters in Honduras to Save UMW-Born Nonprofit
Phoning it in isn’t an option for Shin Fujiyama ’07. At UMW, he threw himself into every assignment, task and responsibility – from serving hungry students in Seacobeck to organizing a thousand-person walkathon. Now, living in Honduras in the midst of a global pandemic, Fujiyama is focused on rescuing the nonprofit he started at Mary […]
Rick Barker Properties (Sister Company to Supply Resources) Announces Acquisition of Former Brockway Glass Distribution Center
Rick Barker Properties, LLC Danville, Virginia Rick Barker Properties is pleased to announce the acquisition of the former Brockway Glass distribution center at 240 Factory Lane in Ringgold VA. Formerly occupied by Owens-Brockway Glass, eToys Direct, and most recently by IKEA, this 152,000 square foot distribution center represents the best leasable space in the warehouse […]
GlaxoSmithKline CEO calls coronavirus vaccine partnership with Sanofi an ‘unprecedented collaboration’
GlaxoSmithKline CEO Emma Walmsley on Tuesday told CNBC’s Jim Cramer that her company’s newly announced partnership with industry peer Sanofi is an “unprecedented collaboration” between competitors. The European pharmaceutical giants are combining their resources to develop a Covid-19 vaccine and aim to produce a batch within the next 20 months. “If we’re successful … we’re hoping to get to hundreds […]
