“The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century” closes on Feb. 27.
Stop by to check out the exhibition that everyone is talking about!
Gari Melchers Home & Studio is open daily, except Wednesdays, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
New Director of IT Security
The Division of Information Technologies is pleased to announce the hiring of Raymond Usler as Director of IT Security and ISO. As Information Security Officer, Ray will administer UMW’s information security program. He is responsible for planning and directing efforts to safeguard the university’s data from unauthorized access, modification, or dissemination to ensure its confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Ray comes to UMW from Macomb Community College in Michigan where he served as Manager of Information System Security. He holds a BS in Business Administration from Central Michigan University, and CISSP and CISM certifications, and is a member of several information security associations.
Ray joined UMW on February 10. He reports directly to the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO and works in Tyler House on the Fredericksburg Campus.
Online Credit Card Payments Now Accepted
The Finance Office is pleased to announce that University departments, through Commerce Manager, can now accept online credit card and e-payments for UMW-sponsored events, conferences, workshops and other one-time programs.
Policies and Procedures for handling incoming payments have been updated and posted on the Finance website.
All events must first be approved by the Associate Vice President for Finance and Controller before departments collect any funds. Departments that currently collect funds are requested to submit updated procedures to Marta Smith to maintain current authorization. Please contact Marta Smith with any questions. Training will be held in March 2011 for all authorized collection sites.
Discovery Day, Feb. 21
The Office of Admissions will hold the first Discovery Day of the spring semester Mon., Feb. 21. The latest registration numbers indicate that nearly 300 prospective students–and about 1,000 visitors in all–will visit the Fredericksburg campus on Monday!
The Discovery Day schedule includes events and activities for our visitors from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., although we expect our guests to begin arriving on campus earlier in the morning. Expect to see increased foot traffic on campus and a large amount of visitors in the campus dining facilities. Our visitors have been instructed to park in the parking garage, but with the amount of people expected, they will likely need to seek other parking options throughout campus and on neighboring side streets.
Hopefully this information will allow you to plan accordingly for Monday. Please feel free to help us in welcoming our visitors to the University of Mary Washington.
Sincerely, UMW Office of Admissions, 540/654-2000
New Faculty Publication
Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature, edited by Scott M. Powers, Associate Professor of French at the University of Mary Washington, is now in stock at the UMW Bookstore.
“Confronting the twentieth century of the Christian Era, a century of horrors and marvels, Scott Powers has assembled a diverse group of young scholars to explore literary representations of evil in the French language, beginning with Jean-Paul Sartre but global in its perspective. Works studied include French, Belgian, Algerian, and Guinean writers, ending with two major chapters on The Kindly Ones, the controversial prize-winning masterpiece of the Franco-American Jonathan Littell, the Holocaust being the prime test for the adequacy of verbal narrative. Urgently relevant for its moral scope, taking into account poststructuralist/postmodern theories, and quite readable, Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature is a book of wisdom, courage, and lucid interpretation.” –Edward K. Kaplan, Brandeis University
New Display at the James Monroe Museum
JMM student interns Rebecca Lee and Rachel Frederick have completed an addition to the museum’s exhibit on “The Making of a Revolutionary.”
Called “The Continental Soldier: Young and Far Away from Home,” it shows through a display and an interactive component what life was like for James Monroe and the other young men who joined the revolutionary forces. Rachel and Rebecca researched, designed and installed the exhibit on their own, and they’ve done a great job.
We hope you’ll come by and see it! Remember, UMW faculty and staff always enter free.
New exhibit component at JMM: "The Continental Soldier: Young and Far Away from Home"
UMW Experts Analyze Egypt Events
The dynamic political situation in Egypt is not a revolution–at least, according to UMW’s revolution expert, John Kramer.
Recyclemania Off to a Strong Start
Recyclemania kicked off at UMW and on other university campuses across the country February 7, and UMW students, staff and offices recycled a whopping 6,993 pounds of materials during the first week of the annual nationwide competition.
“Seascape” Closes Feb. 20
Edward Albee’s “Seascape,” by UMW Department of Theatre and Dance; duPont Hall, Klein Theatre; February 10-12 and 17-19, 8 p.m., February 13 and 20, 2 p.m.; AfterWords post-performance discussion, February 13; $10 general admission, $8 students and seniors; (540) 654-1111.
Faculty Research Grant Awards
These College of Arts and Sciences faculty members submitted Faculty Development Grant proposals in November, and following review by the Committee on Faculty Development and Grants, the CAS Dean made these awards for the 2011-12 fiscal year:
- Jason Davidson, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, ” ‘We Gotta Get out of this Place’: US. Allies’ Decisions to Withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan.”
- Mindy Erchull, Department of Psychology, “Objectification, Sexualization, and Sexual Agency.”
- Jacqueline Gallagher, Department of Geography, Textbook on Field Methods in Mobile GIS and GPS.
- Debra Hydorn, Department of Mathematics, “Correcting for Error in GPS Postion to Improve the Linear Association Between Satellite and Field-Collected Measurements of Elevation.”
- Rosemary Jesionowski, Department of Art and Art History, “Proof of Experience.”
- Janusz Konieczny, Department of Mathematics, “Conjugacy in Semigroups.”
- Ben LaBreche, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, “Samson Agonistes and the Critique of Liberalism.”
- Elizabeth Lewis, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, “Women and Charity in Spain, 1786-1939.”
- Leslie Martin, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, “Making Sense of Need: Organizational Constructions of Homelessness and Solutions.”
- Maya Mathur, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, ” ‘Big Fish and Little Fish’: Comic Economics on the Jacobean Stage.”
- Keith Mellinger, Department of Mathematics, “Cap partitions of affine spaces.”
- Laura Mentore, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, “The Social Significance of Competitive ‘birdsport’ among Guyanese Men.”
- Marjorie Och, Department of Art and Art History, “Community and Friendship in the Letters and Portraits of Vittoria Colonna.”
- Jennifer Polack-Wahl, Department of Computer Science, “iPod for Education: Teaching Resource for the Future.”
- Sheshalatha Reddy, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, “Two Chapters on Indian-English Periodical Literature.”
- Debra Steckler, Department of Psychology, “An Investigation of the Foundation of Arnett’s New Life Stage: Emerging Adulthood.”
- Abbie Tomba, Department of Biological Sciences, “Identification of Larval stages of trematodes (Family Opecoelidae) parasitizing freshwater snails (Family Pleuroceridae).”