Author: Brynn Boyer

The Potomac Theatre Company in Potomac, Md. will present adjunct instructor Mark Scharf’s plays “Get Stuffed, Replay,” and “Grey Hair and Zits” during its one-act festival, “Wit, Wisdom, Wickedness & Wonderment,” from June 15 to 24.

His play “Hired Gun,” which is semi-finalist for the 2012 Eugene O’Neill National Theater Conference, will be produced in July by the Theatrical Mining Company in Baltimore, Md.  His play “Replay” will also appear at the Spotlighter’s Theatre in Baltimore in August as part of an evening of one-act plays entitled “The Things We Do.”

“Replay” is now available from Heurer Publishing.  Scharf was recently named “Playwright-in-Residence” by the Twin Beach Players, who have commissioned Scharf to write a stage adaptation of “Frankenstein” to be produced in October 2012 for Halloween.

Previously, the Oberon Theatre Ensemble presented a staged reading of Scharf’s play “The Whispers of Saints” on March 25 at The Lambs Club in New York City.

Courtney Clayton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, presented her research at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association on “Preparing Social Justice Teachers: Rethinking Action Research Curriculum for Transformation” as part of Division K – Teaching and Teacher Education/Section 5: Preservice Teacher Education Coursework: Practices to Improve Teacher Knowledge, Understanding, and Application of Subject Matter. She also served as discussant for a paper session titled, “Preparing Teachers to Work with English Language Learners and Immigrant Students”.

AERA is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.

AERA is the most prominent international professional organization, with the primary goal of advancing educational research and its practical application. Its more than 25,000 members are educators; administrators; directors of research; persons working with testing or evaluation in federal, state and local agencies; counselors; evaluators; graduate students; and behavioral scientists.

Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies Stephen Farnsworth’s study “News Coverage of New Presidents in The New York Times, 1981-2009” is referenced in several news articles, including in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Statistics and information from the study, co-authored by Farnsworth and George Mason University’s S. Robert Lichter, appear in the Sunday, April 22 article “A Hard Look at the President” in the New York Times and in the Monday, April 23 article “The 2012 Dogfight” in the Wall Street Journal.

Professor of Mathematics Suzanne Sumner was elected President of the Beta Eta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, an international honorary society for female educators.  Delta Kappa Gamma supports women teachers at the elementary through university levels by providing scholarships to education students and grants for teaching supplies, developing high ideals in the teaching profession, conferring distinction upon women educators and providing leadership development.

The Beta Eta Chapter includes members from the City of Fredericksburg and the counties of Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford.  Beta Eta’s projects include the Virginia Scholars Program, Schools for Africa, and the Beta Eta Scholarship.  In the last two years the Beta Eta Scholarship Committee has made donations to Gloucester County schools for tornado relief and Louisa County schools for earthquake relief.

Seven College of Business faculty members will present their work at the fourth faculty research colloquium on Friday, April 27. The presentations will take place in the Stafford Campus North Building from 1 to 3 p.m.

John St. Clair and Lou Martinette will present “Change Management for Higher Education Learning Management Systems Transitions,” Christopher Garcia will present “Robust Optimization Models for Volunteer Scheduling” and Bob Greene and Margaret Mi will present “A Systems Model for Teaching Human Resource (People) Management.”

Also, Mukesh Srivastava and Lou Martinette will present “Building a Sustainable Competitive Advantage” and Gladys Gomez will present “WISE Fraud Case.”

For presentation abstracts and information about the colloquium, read the full program.