Author: Brynn Boyer

HeartChase Fredericksburg will turn the University of Mary Washington’s Fredericksburg campus into a High Tech Scavenger Hunt playing field, where teams of four will race against the clock to find and complete heart healthy checkpoints for any activity level. This event is modeled after the hit TV show, “The Amazing Race.” During the event, you will be given the locations for the checkpoints through the HeartChase app on your smartphone (only one team member needs to have a smartphone). Once the checkpoint is found, there will be a fun, heart healthy activity that needs to be completed to receive the points for that checkpoint. There will be a total of 10 checkpoints as well as multiple hidden treasure QR codes to scan along the way. The team with the most points that makes it back to Game Central before the game ends is crowned HeartChase Champion!

Register to participate: http://honor.americanheart.org/HeartChaseFredericksburg

Bird Song: No Idle Chatter  

Sun, March 11, 2 p.m.
Illustrated Presentation
Dr. Andrew Dolby, University of Mary Washington Biology Department Chair and Virginia Society of Ornithology President will introduce the anatomy, physiology, and ecology of bird song and will explain the modern tools that biologists are using to decipher their hidden messages. Bird song may sound like nature’s pleasant background music to our ears, but for the birds, singing is serious business. The lecture will be held at Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont and is free for members of Friends of Belmont or included with regular museum admission.

From the Office of Human Resources.  Please contact Judy Kwitnieski Jkwitnie@umw.edu or Lynne Lee llee5@umw.edu with any questions.

Dear UMW Faculty and Staff,

In support of the University’s efforts to maintain a respectful work environment and in some cases, our compliance with state and federal guidance, all full time and part-time faculty and staff are asked to complete each of the following  5-15 minute, online, policy related courses by March 30, 2012.

Supervisors and department chairs are asked to complete the separate and more detailed curriculum due to their greater responsibility for the establishment  and maintainance of work environments that are both respectful and legally compliant. For purposes of this training, supervisors are defined as anyone who supervises one or more part-time or full time employees.  A description of the courses within each curriculum is listed below. A checklist for supervisors is available here as a reminder to refer to after the training is complete. Supervisors and department chairs are only required to complete the Supervisor curriculum.

ACCESSING THE CURRICULUM IN THE KNOWLEDGE CENTER

Login and Passwords: The 2012 Required Training curricula are available online through the UMW Knowledge Center, https://covkc.virginia.gov/UMW. All faculty and staff who previously participated in a course in the Knowledge Center should already have a login and password. If you forgot your login and/or password, you can request that it be sent to you via email, by clicking on the “Forgot Login” and/or “Forgot Password” link from the UMW Login page.

For those who have never used the Knowledge Center, please register using these instructions.

Note to Adjunct Faculty:  Adjuncts new to the University this academic year should contact Judy Kwitnieski or Lynne Lee for access. Adjuncts who participated in the online information security training last spring should already have logins and passwords.

Viewing the Courses: Please plan to view the courses at a time that best meets your schedule.  If it is easier to view courses together in a meeting, the supervisor or chair should send us the names of the meeting participants and we will enter their completion. Instructions for taking the courses in each curriculum are are attached to this message and are also found at http://adminfinance.umw.edu/edp/employee-development-training/knowledge-center/.

To access employee curriculum, please download the “Accessing Employee Required Training” document.

To access supervisor curriculum, please download the “Accessing Supervisor Required Curriculum” document.

Keith Mellinger, associate professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, together with a colleague from Kean University in N.J., recently published “The Spider and the Fly” in the College Mathematics Journal, a publication of the Mathematical Association of America.

The Spider and the Fly puzzle, originally attributed to the great puzzler Henry Ernest Dudeney, and now over 100 years old, asks for the shortest path between two points on a particular square prism. The authors explore a generalization, find that the original solution only holds in certain cases, and suggest how this discovery might be used in the classroom.

Six University of Mary Washington faculty members in the College of Business presented papers at the 2012 International Conference on Global Management Studies on Monday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 6 in Cambridge, Mass. The conference, held at the Harvard Faculty Club, was organized by the Association of Global Management Studies.

Faleh Alshameri, visiting assistant professor of accounting and management information systems, and Debra Hockenberry, visiting instructor of management, presented “The Map is Not the Territory: The Missing Patient in the Electronic Medical Record.” Raul Chavez-Negrete, chair of management and marketing and associate professor of leadership, presented “Leading Multinational Teams in Global Projects: A Total Quality Management (TQM) Perspective Using Quality Circles and Internal Audits.”

Wei Chen, assistant professor of management and marketing, presented “Differences in Future Time Orientation and Team Performance.” Louis Martinette, associate professor of leadership, and Mukesh Srivastava, associate dean of the College of Business and associate professor of accounting and information systems, presented “Instrument Development: Perceived Customer Value.”

Of the 72 papers submitted, 26 from nine countries – Austria, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Pakistan, Taiwan, Tunisia and the U.S. – were accepted for presentation.

Association of Global Management Studies (AGMS) promotes research and advances the knowledge of global management educators, researchers and practitioners. Founded in 2009 by Srivastava, it publishes two journals, the “International Journal of Global Management Studies” and the “International Journal of Global Management Studies Professional.”

For more information about the conference and the Association of Global Management Studies, visit http://www.association-gms.org.