On December 2, Associate Professor of Middle East History Nabil Al-Tikriti presented a paper entitled “Ibn-i Kemal’s Confessionalism and the Construction of an ‘Ottoman Islam'” at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Conference in Washington, D.C.
Student callers ended the fall Phonathon session with a grand total of $382,104 in gifts and pledges. During the nine-week calling session, 20 student callers and four student supervisors headquartered in Hamlet House reached out to UMW alumni and parents. They attempted 68,282 calls to receive a total of 4,419 pledges and 548 outright gifts by credit card.
The Office of Advancement hosted the callers for a celebration banquet at the Jepson Alumni Executive Center on December 7. The next calling session begins February 6, 2012.
Starting in January 2012 the EagleOne Card Center located in Lee Hall, Room 110 will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday – Friday.
Faculty and staff with a valid UMW ID are eligible and can activate their EagleOne debit account with an initial deposit of $25 or by signing up for automatic payroll deduction.
EagleOne is now accepted at over 20 off-campus locations and virtually everywhere on campus.
Jack Bales, reference and humanities librarian, wrote a letter to the editor that is featured in the December 2011 issue of Vine Line, the official magazine of the Chicago Cubs. The letter discusses the exhibit, “Before They Were Loveable Losers: The Pennant-Winning Chicago Cubs,” that has been on display in the Simpson Library since September, and includes two images of the exhibit. The exhibit will remain up until December 16.
Artwork by Anne Timpano, director of UMW Galleries, was featured in an article that appeared in the November 13-19 issue of New Europe, a weekly European newspaper that is based in Brussels and circulates to 49 countries.
The article discussed selected work from the current exhibition “Coming Out of the Closet: Clothing Art as an Emergent Form” at the Brogan Museum of Art and Science in Tallahassee, Fla. Timpano’s work was among the selected work discussed and her mixed media paper doll, “Venus as Fiona Fashion,” was one of the pieces from the exhibition illustrated in the article.
