Author: Brynn Boyer

Martin Luther King Day Art Workshop
Drawing for the Rest of Us:  An Introduction to Drawing
Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sixth grade through adult

pencil sketch by Gari Melchers

This workshop is an introduction to basic drawing tools, warming-up exercises, and techniques that can be used to help build a foundation to experience the joy of drawing.

Cost:  $20 members and UMW staff/students; $25 non-members.  To register, contact Education Coordinator Michelle Crow-Dolby at 540/654-1851.

Janusz Konieczny, professor of mathematics, published four research articles (the last two as a co-author): “Centralizers in the semigroup of injective transformations on an infinite set” in the Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, “Infinite injective transformations whose centralizers have simple structure” in the Central European Journal of Mathematics, “Automorphisms of endomorphism semigroups of reflexive digraphs” in Mathematische Nachrichten, and “Minimal paths in the commuting graphs of semigroups” in the European Journal of Combinatorics. He was an invited speaker at the “Workshop on Universal Algebra, Complexity and Constraint Satisfaction Problems” in Lisbon, Portugal, and gave an invited seminar talk at the Center of Algebra of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Dawn Bowen, associate professor of geography, had a paper, “Resistance, Acquiescence, and Accommodation: The Establishment of Public Schools in a Conservative Old Colony Community,” published in the Mennonite Quarterly Review in October, as well as two entries published in the Encyclopedia of Geography. In November, at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, she presented a paper, “Experiential Learning in the Field: Short-Term Study Abroad Programs,” and was elected to the organization’s Honors Committee.

Gary Richards, assistant professor of English, recently published two articles. “The Artful and Crafty Ones of the French Quarter: Male Homosexuality and Faulkner’s Early Prose Writings” is included in Faulkner’s Sexualities, a volume published by University Press of Mississippi in 2010. The second article, “Queering Katrina: Gay Discourses of the Disaster in New Orleans,” appeared in the 2010 special issue of the Journal of American Studies devoted to the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who was among the "Big Six" leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, will give the commencement address at the University of Mary Washington’s 2011 undergraduate graduation ceremony Saturday, May 7 on the Fredericksburg campus.