Author: Brynn Boyer

UMW’s Economics of Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector course was featured in the June edition of Virginia Business magazine in the article “Philanthropy’s Next Generation.”  On the cover, left to right and front row to back, are Gretchen Houser, assistant director of annual giving and a student in the fall 2010 class, Robert S Rycroft, professor of economics, and Kate Gibson and Will Zebian, students from the fall 2011 class.

Daniel Preston, editor of the Papers of James Monroe, was a guest at the monthly meeting the Fredericksburg Masonic Lodge on Friday, June 8.  The Grand Master presented Preston with a certificate of appreciation for the books on Monroe that he donated to the Lodge’s library.

Anne Timpano, director of UMW Galleries, currently has two works of art in the exhibition ReRoot: Exploring Iterations of Place Through Identity and Community at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.  The exhibition opened on Monday, June 2 and runs through Thursday, August 2.

The works include “Re:Generations,” a mixed media linocut print (2009), and “The Climbing Tree,” a digitally printed artist’s book incorporating photographs and text (2011).  Both works reference family ties and childhood memories.