University of Mary Washington
cordially invites you to the ceremony for the
Rededication of Monroe Hall
September 16, 2011
4 p.m.
RSVP by Monday, September 12th, to:
EventsRSVP@umw.edu or call 540-654-1087
October 11, 2024
A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
by Brynn Boyer
University of Mary Washington
cordially invites you to the ceremony for the
Rededication of Monroe Hall
September 16, 2011
4 p.m.
RSVP by Monday, September 12th, to:
EventsRSVP@umw.edu or call 540-654-1087
by Brynn Boyer
Fredericksburg, Va. – University of Mary Washington senior Morgan Lamon is one of only five undergraduate students selected to the 2011 U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) Scholarship Program.
Lamon, who received a $5,000 USGIF scholarship, joins 19 other winners from high schools, undergraduate programs and graduate programs across the country. USGIF is a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to promoting the geospatial intelligence field.
Scholarship recipients were chosen based on their academic and professional excellence in a field related to geospatial intelligence. Qualified candidates were selected by USGIF’s scholarship subcommittee.
Lamon, a geography major with a certificate in GIS, is a member of the varsity softball team. This spring, she was named to the 2011 All-Capital Athletic Conference Softball Team. Lamon, daughter of Bob Lamon and Hannah Cafferty, is a 2008 graduate of Oakton High School.
The University of Mary Washington is a premier, selective public liberal arts and sciences university in Virginia, highly respected for its commitment to academic excellence, strong undergraduate liberal arts and sciences program, and dedication to life-long learning. The university, with a total enrollment of nearly 5,000, features colleges of business, education and arts and sciences, and three campuses, including a residential campus in Fredericksburg, Va., a second one in nearby Stafford and a third under construction in Dahlgren, Va., which will be a center of development of educational and research partnerships between the Navy, higher education institutions and the region’s employers.
by Brynn Boyer
A rare 1537 book from Simpson Library’s Special Collections holdings is currently on loan to the University of Virginia Art Museum for its exhibit, “Variety, Archeology, and Ornament: Renaissance Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice.” Titled “Regole generali di architetture sopra le cinque maniere degli edifice,” the book is written by the renowned Italian architect Sebastiano Serlio.
The exhibit focuses on the crucial role of prints in the transition from manuscript to printed architectural treatises during the Renaissance. Along with the library’s loan and the museum’s own holdings, the curators selected pieces from various other repositories, such as The Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale Center for British Art, noting that “the exhibition affords a unique opportunity for the study of rare books and prints drawn from several national libraries.” The exhibition will be on view at the University of Virginia Art Museum through December 18, 2011.
For more information about the exhibit, visit http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/on_view/exhibitions/Variety_Archeology_Ornament.php
by Brynn Boyer
University of Mary Washington faculty member Mukesh Srivastava has been selected to receive a Fulbright Specialist grant for 2011-12. Srivastava, associate dean of the College of Business and associate professor of management information systems, will spend the month of October in Tunisia to develop a graduate program in management and information technology for the Tunis Business School at Tunis University. He is the first faculty member of the College of Business to receive a Fulbright award.
As a recipient of the Fulbright Specialist grant, Srivastava will work with Tunis Business School faculty to refine and implement a new master’s program in information technology. His work at Tunis University will strengthen connections between Tunisia and the United States, allowing for future collaborations including student exchanges, abroad programs and visiting faculty.
by Brynn Boyer
Fredericksburg, Va. – University of Mary Washington faculty member Mukesh Srivastava has been selected to receive a Fulbright Specialist grant for 2011-12. Srivastava, associate dean of the College of Business and associate professor of management information systems, will spend the month of October in Tunisia to develop a graduate program in management and information technology for the Tunis Business School at Tunis University. He is the first faculty member of the College of Business to receive a Fulbright award.
As a recipient of the Fulbright Specialist grant, Srivastava will work with Tunis Business School faculty to refine and implement a new master’s program in information technology. His work at Tunis University will strengthen connections between Tunisia and the United States, allowing for future collaborations including student exchanges, abroad programs and visiting faculty.
“This grant gives us the opportunity to share expertise developed in graduate programs at Mary Washington and to learn more about how other international universities are engaging their business schools,” said Srivastava. “It also will expand the global reach of UMW through the development of student and faculty exchanges and research collaborations with Tunis Business School.”
Srivastava is one of more than 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel this year through the Fulbright Specialists Program. The program, created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholars Program, provides short-term academic opportunities to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at post-secondary academic institutions around the world.
Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement. Among thousands of Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist, Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Craig Barrett, chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation.
by Brynn Boyer
Topic of Discussion: What is Social Justice?
Purpose: Engage students, faculty, and staff to discuss issues of social justice together in an informal setting
When: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 @ 12:00 noon
Where: Woodard Campus Center, Meeting Room 4
Please e-mail Matthew Johnson (mjohns22@umw.edu) to suggest a topic of discussion for future lunches and volunteer to lead a session.
Questions?
Please contact the James Farmer Multicultural Center
(540) 654-1044
by Brynn Boyer
Jim Groom, instructional technology specialist, presented the closing plenary at Elon University’s 8th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference on August 18, 2011. His presentation “Independent Domains – Thresholds to Teaching and Learning on the Open Web” featured the innovative work being done by faculty and students at UMW in regards to teaching and learning technologies. Following is an excerpt of the positive reception of the session from Elon University’s Teaching and Learning Center blog as well as the slides and audio from his presentation.
In the closing plenary, Jim Groom, in a lively display of humor and insight, posited that independent domains and open web tools provide students, faculty, and people outside the university from all walks of life and around the world opportunities to express, exhibit, and be discovered online with the encumbrance of institutional rules and regulations. He described how MWU [sic] applied simple blog technology (WordPress MU) to create a living nexus of business, information, and highly creative self-expression. The platform also enabled unprecedented participation in open courses by people from around the world.
Groom also published a piece on the problems of learning management systems in the crowdsourced book published by the University of Michigan Library titled Hacking the Academy.
This volume was assembled and edited by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University from the best of over 300 submissions received during a spirited week when the two editors actively solicited ideas for how the academy could be beneficially reformed using digital media and technology. For more on the unusual way this book was put together, please start with Cohen and Scheinfeldt’s preface.
by Brynn Boyer
Matthew Hunsinger, assistant professor of psychology at Mary Baldwin College, has been named Graduate-in-Residence for the University of Mary Washington’s Department of Psychology.
Hunsinger will visit the Fredericksburg campus for three days, including Thursday, September 15 for a public lecture, “Paths to Improving Intergroup Relations: Decreasing Intergroup Bias in a Diverse World.” The talk will take place in Combs Hall, Room 139 at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
During his visit, Hunsinger will talk to psychology classes to discuss his work as a research psychologist and meet with students who are interested in experimental social psychology.
by Brynn Boyer
The University of Mary Washington is in the top 25 on a list of “best food” at colleges and universities compiled by Newsweek and The Daily Beast. UMW comes in at number 19, with a “best campus dining” score of 5.3 out of 7.
Other Virginia schools on the list include Virginia Tech and James Madison University.
by Brynn Boyer
Fredericksburg, Va. – Matthew Hunsinger, assistant professor of psychology at Mary Baldwin College, has been named Graduate-in-Residence for the University of Mary Washington’s Department of Psychology.
Hunsinger visited the Fredericksburg campus for three days, including Thursday, September 15 for a public lecture, “Paths to Improving Intergroup Relations: Decreasing Intergroup Bias in a Diverse World.” The talk took place in Combs Hall, Room 139 at 7:30 p.m. and was free and open to the public.
During his visit, Hunsinger talked to psychology classes to discuss his work as a research psychologist and met with students who are interested in experimental social psychology.
After graduating with honors in psychology from UMW in 2001, Hunsinger received a master’s degree in cognitive science from Illinois State University and a doctorate in experimental social psychology from the University of Massachusetts. His research examines variables that influence bias against others based on race, ethnicity and gender. At Mary Baldwin, Hunsinger teaches courses in social cognition, cognitive psychology, conflict resolution and learning and behavior.
The Graduate-in-Residence program began in 1995 as a part of career advising within the psychology department, to help expose psychology majors to UMW graduates working in their field. Each year, the psychology department faculty nominates alumni who participate in interesting work in the psychology field.
The Graduate-in-Residence program is partially funded by the Campus Academic Resources Committee. For more information about the Graduate-in-Residence program, contact the Department of Psychology at (540) 654-1054.