UMW Student Wins Second Place at Undergraduate Research Symposium
Healthy Living Series
Please join us on the third Thursday of every month at 7 pm in the Wellness Resource Center located in the Fitness Center at Goolrick Hall for our Healthy Living Series. The focus of these presentations are on living well and making healthy choices. Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to attend!
Oct. 21st – Open House
Nov. 18th – Nutrition
January 20th – Exercise
February 17th – Healthy Relationships
March 17th – Sleep Hygiene
April 21st – Alcohol
The Series is sponsored by CAPS, the Health Center, Judicial Affairs, and the Campus Rec. Fit.Center. For questions, please call 540-654-1053.
UMW Student Creates Model to Examine Stream Dynamics
Richard Finkelstein
Richard Finkelstein, Dean, Arts and Sciences, and Professor of English, published an article on Shakespeare, “Pericles, Paul, and Protestantism,” in this summer’s issue of Comparative Drama. He has another article on Shakespeare, “The Comedy of Errors and the Theology of Things,” forthcoming in the Spring, 2012 issue of Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900.
Discounts to UMW Community
The Museum Shop at Gari Melchers Home and Studio offers 20% discount on all purchases to UMW faculty, staff and students. The Museum Shop offers a selection of Melchers branded items ( postcards, prints, mugs and magnets) as well as unique home decor pieces. We offer a fine selection of books, with hard-to-find titles in categories such as art, history, biography, gardens and photography. Our art supply section is growing. We now carry M Graham paints, a very unique, hand crafted brand based on historic formulas and dedicated to using non-toxic materials.
The Museum Shop is open daily, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Visit our shop blog at MuseumShop1.umwblogs.org
Remember, too, that admission to the Gari Melchers Home and Studio is free to staff, faculty and students. Museum hours are 10 a.m – 5 p.m. Closed Wednesdays.
Mara Scanlon and Brady Earnhart
English Professors Mara N. Scanlon and D. Brady Earnhart’s interview about Walt Whitman and the famed poet’s experiences as a Civil War nurse will be rebroadcast on the public radio program “With Good Reason” beginning Saturday, October 16.
In 1862, poet Walt Whitman went to Fredericksburg to search in field hospitals for his brother who had been wounded in a Civil War battle. Shocked by the bloodshed, Whitman worked as a nurse for years through the end of the war. Scanlon and Earnhart say Whitman helped heal wounded soldiers just as he hoped his poetry could mend the war-torn nation.
Their interview, “Whitman at War,” can be heard online at withgoodreasonradio.org/2010/10/whitman-at-war-2, and it will be rebroadcast on WCVE 88.9 FM Oct. 16 at 4:30 p.m. and on WAMU 88.5 FM Monday, October 18 at 12:30 a.m.
Earnhart and Scanlon worked with UMW instructional technology specialist James Groom on the digital humanities project “Looking for Whitman: The Poetry of Place in the Life and Work of Walt Whitman.” Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the project involved collaboration with three other universities.
At UMW in fall 2009, Scanlon, Earnhart and Groom taught “Digital Whitman,” a seminar incorporating the Whitman archive at the Library of Congress as well as the nearby site of a Civil War hospital, Chatham. A website designed by Groom, http://lookingforwhitman.org, connected students enrolled in the UMW course with counterparts at universities in New Jersey and New York—each in areas pivotal to Whitman’s life and work. As students investigated those locations, they shared research via digital platforms.
Scanlon, associate professor of English, received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Earnhart, visiting assistant professor of English, received a bachelor’s degree from The College of William and Mary, an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
To listen to other UMW faculty interviews broadcast on “With Good Reason,” visit http://www.umw.edu/news/faculty.
“With Good Reason” is the only statewide public radio program in Virginia. It hosts scholars from Virginia’s public colleges and universities who discuss the latest in research, pressing social issues and the curious and whimsical. “With Good Reason” is produced for the Virginia Higher Education Broadcasting Consortium by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and is broadcast in partnership with public radio stations in Virginia and Washington, D.C.
1st Discovery Day of Fall Semester this Saturday
On Saturday, October 16, 2010 the Office of Admissions will be holding the first Discovery Day of the fall semester. The latest registration numbers indicate that over 300 prospective students and about 1000 total visitors will join us on campus on Saturday!
The Discovery Day schedule includes events and activities for our visitors from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 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 we expect to attend they will most likely need to seek other parking options throughout campus and on neighboring side streets. Hopefully this information will allow you to plan accordingly for Saturday. Please welcome visitors to the University of Mary Washington.
The Office of Admissions
Annual Security Report Available Online
The University of Mary Washington Department of Public Safety has published the 2010 University of Mary Washington Annual Security Report in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Campus Security Act. New to the report this year are policies and procedures on fire and fire safety systems, as well as statistical analysis for reports of fires in UMW residence halls during the previous calendar year. The report can be viewed online at http://www.umw.edu/police/2010_annual_security_report/default.php
Paper copies of the report may be obtained at the University of Mary Washington Public Safety Department located in Brent Hall, from the Office of Human Resources located in Fairfax House, or by printing a copy directly from the website.
Annual James Monroe Lecture: Monday, October 18, 7 p.m.
This year’s lecture, presented by Richard John, Professor in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, is entitled: “James Monroe and the Communications Revolution in the Early Republic.” Professor John will speak on the epochal communications revolution that originated in the 1790s and accelerated during the presidential administration of James Monroe (1817-1825). He will analyze the main features of this revolution, with a focus on the newspaper press, the postal system, and the stagecoach business. The communications revolution in the early republic led to the creation of large inter-state associations, the mass party, and the nationwide market – three of most important institutions of the age.
Professor John’s lecture will be illustrated with contemporary images; it draws on his own extensive research on the history of communications in the United States.
The lecture – which will be held in the Great Hall in Woodard Campus Center – is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Call x1043 with any questions.