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HYBRID
Rescheduled from January 2026
Joella Killian, ElderStudy member and retired UMW Biology professor, will provide a brief introduction to insects and their impact on our world.
Sponsor: Ellen Brown
HYBRID
For 250 years, Americans have celebrated and, in a few cases, not celebrated, Independence Day.
Historian and National Park Service ranger David Lassman will discuss how this summertime holiday has grown and changed.
Sponsor: Charlie Fennemore
HYBRID
Join Sidney Mullis, Assistant Professor of Sculpture at UMW, who has been building a Make-Believe Forest, an evolving installation that asks what happens to our childhood selves as we grow older.
Sponsor: Mary Ann Stana
ZOOM ONLY
MWES Members gather together for a Virtual Wine & Cheese Hour using ZOOM for active discussions of various topics.
Topic: This or That
Sponsor: Donna Lewis
University Hall ONLY
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
A majestic, polyphonic novel about a community‘s efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s.
Discussion Leader: Judy Garland
ZOOM ONLY
UMW Music chair Brooks Kuykendall will explores the earliest days of the orchestra, and Handel‘s new ideas of how to write for it—with music that continues to be familiar to audiences today, more than 300 years later.
Sponsor:
RSVP $
ElderStudy Aperitivo
Similar to the American happy hour, aperitivo goes beyond simply having a drink before dinner. It is a time when Italians meet to relax and socialize after work over a glass of wine or a light cocktail and finger foods.
ZOOM ONLY
The Administration Committee develops policies and plans for operating the organization. It reviews governing documents, updates the Policies and Procedures, monitors finances and projects future needs, proposes the annual budget and member fees.
Members are always welcome to attend our meetings.
Committee Chair: Ellen Brown
ZOOM ONLY
Dr. Randy Reif from the UMW Chemistry Department will discuss ways that over-the-counter acid reflux drugs (Proton Pump Inhibitors) might be useful in treating cancer.
WORKSHOP
Dr. Randy Reif from the UMW Chemistry Department will discuss ways that over-the-counter acid reflux drugs (Proton Pump Inhibitors) might be useful in treating cancer.
This lab experience will enable us to look at cells exposed to these drugs under the microscope to examine what cell death looks like!
Join your fellow ElderStudy members at our annual Potluck Social.
TOUR RSVP
This is a wonderful opportunity to get a firsthand look at the Rappahannock Education Farm, a nonprofit farm whose mission is to reduce hunger and food insecurity in our community by growing and donating fresh produce and teaching people how they can grow some of their own food.
Sponsor: Rosemary Pitts
TOUR RSVP
Barbra Anderson, local history teacher and Events Coordinator of the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, will walk us through Normandy Village.
This 1950s suburb exemplified the mid-century lifestyle.
Sponsor: Mary Ann Stana
ZOOM ONLY
Jessica B Atkinson, General Registrar/Director of Elections for the City of Fredericksburg, will discuss the election procedure in Virginia, the effect of the recent referendum, and the status of the SAVE Act and its effect on all voters.
Sponsor: Carol Wachter