Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Dr. Jangwoon “Leo” Lee, gave a presentation titled “A Stochastic Galerkin Method for Stochastic Control Problems” at the Uncertainty Quantification Conference hosted by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in North Carolina.
Zach Whalen, assistant professor in the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication, recently gave presentations at major conferences. First, at the 2012 convention of the Modern Language Association, Whalen contributed his paper to a session on “Close Playing: Literary Methods and Video Game Studies.” Whalen’s paper, “Close Enough,” adopts the literary model of close reading toward understanding the physical technology of videogame screens.
And at the 2012 conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Whalen chaired a session on “Code Studies and Videogames” and presented his own paper, “‘//create magnetic children’: Videogame Code as Critical Paratext,” a comparative analysis of the source code of two art games.
On Tuesday, March 27, Faleh Jassem Alshameri, professor of computer and information systems, was granted a patent for “Automated Generation of Metadata for Mining Image and Text Data” from the U.S. Patent Trademark Office.
The patent, first filed in March 2008, is a tangible, computer-readable medium that is encoded with instructions for automatically generating metadata. It is an automated metadata system using digital objects to reduce the volume of the dataset and allowing users to perform a search easier and quicker.
The minutes from the President’s Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, April 4 are available as a PDF. Topics in the minutes include the new campus center and the budget.
Seven University of Mary Washington professors have been named to the Princeton Review’s inaugural publication of “Best 300 Professors.” The list of best professors, announced Tuesday, April 3, features 300 teaching faculty members from 122 public and private colleges and universities.
Profiled in the publication are Beverly Almond, adjunct professor of English; Dan Hubbard, associate professor and chair of accounting and management information systems; Miriam Liss, associate professor of psychology; Jeffrey McClurken, associate professor and chair of history; Warren Rochelle, professor of English; Gregg Stull, professor and chair of theatre; and Steve Watkins, professor of English.
“We are thrilled to have seven professors recognized among the top in the nation,” said President Richard V. Hurley. “Our more than 350 talented and dedicated master teachers inspire our students daily, and their work in and out of the classroom underscores the university’s commitment to be the best public liberal arts and sciences university in the country.”
For biographies of all seven professors, read the full news release from Tuesday, April 3.
