“The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century” closes on Feb. 27.
Stop by to check out the exhibition that everyone is talking about!
Gari Melchers Home & Studio is open daily, except Wednesdays, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The Division of Information Technologies is pleased to announce the hiring of Raymond Usler as Director of IT Security and ISO. As Information Security Officer, Ray will administer UMW’s information security program. He is responsible for planning and directing efforts to safeguard the university’s data from unauthorized access, modification, or dissemination to ensure its confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Ray comes to UMW from Macomb Community College in Michigan where he served as Manager of Information System Security. He holds a BS in Business Administration from Central Michigan University, and CISSP and CISM certifications, and is a member of several information security associations.
Ray joined UMW on February 10. He reports directly to the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO and works in Tyler House on the Fredericksburg Campus.
The Finance Office is pleased to announce that University departments, through Commerce Manager, can now accept online credit card and e-payments for UMW-sponsored events, conferences, workshops and other one-time programs.
Policies and Procedures for handling incoming payments have been updated and posted on the Finance website.
All events must first be approved by the Associate Vice President for Finance and Controller before departments collect any funds. Departments that currently collect funds are requested to submit updated procedures to Marta Smith to maintain current authorization. Please contact Marta Smith with any questions. Training will be held in March 2011 for all authorized collection sites.
The Office of Admissions will hold the first Discovery Day of the spring semester Mon., Feb. 21. The latest registration numbers indicate that nearly 300 prospective students–and about 1,000 visitors in all–will visit the Fredericksburg campus on Monday!
The Discovery Day schedule includes events and activities for our visitors from 10 a.m. to 3 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 expected, they will likely need to seek other parking options throughout campus and on neighboring side streets.
Hopefully this information will allow you to plan accordingly for Monday. Please feel free to help us in welcoming our visitors to the University of Mary Washington.
Sincerely, UMW Office of Admissions, 540/654-2000
Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature, edited by Scott M. Powers, Associate Professor of French at the University of Mary Washington, is now in stock at the UMW Bookstore.
“Confronting the twentieth century of the Christian Era, a century of horrors and marvels, Scott Powers has assembled a diverse group of young scholars to explore literary representations of evil in the French language, beginning with Jean-Paul Sartre but global in its perspective. Works studied include French, Belgian, Algerian, and Guinean writers, ending with two major chapters on The Kindly Ones, the controversial prize-winning masterpiece of the Franco-American Jonathan Littell, the Holocaust being the prime test for the adequacy of verbal narrative. Urgently relevant for its moral scope, taking into account poststructuralist/postmodern theories, and quite readable, Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature is a book of wisdom, courage, and lucid interpretation.” –Edward K. Kaplan, Brandeis University
