Forty years ago, May Sligh ’88 wandered across the Mary Washington campus with her classmates as Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science and Biology Michael Bass identified trees. She can still recall him pointing out the white oak (quercus alba), red maple (acer rubrum), and American sweetgum (liquidambar styraciflua) to his students.“I knew that I had […]
As temperatures soared near triple digits last Wednesday, the weather formed a compelling case for Ava Spencer’s research on how extreme heat impacts Fredericksburg’s most marginalized communities.“I wanted to look at these issues from a sociological perspective, in a way that could help people,” said Ava, a rising senior majoring in environmental science at the […]
