A young woman leaves New York to earn a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at a small Virginia women’s college in the 1950s. After graduate school, she becomes a revered electron microscopist – but not without the challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated field. Consequently, she spends her life helping female students at her […]
One of Hannah Stottlemyer’s most memorable moments at the University of Mary Washington came on a Global Medical Brigades trip to treat underserved communities in Panama. There, she put her majors in biomedical sciences and Spanish into practice when she extracted a patient’s tooth and watched his sudden relief. Having this experience as an undergraduate […]
Jerri Barden Perkins, MD, came to Mary Washington aspiring to become a doctor. Growing up in a home where money was tight, a “small scholarship” of $100 made a huge difference, she said. Now she’s helping current students succeed through her own gifts to UMW, including the John C. and Jerri Barden Perkins ’61 College of […]
