Come to our Health & Wellness Fair on Wednesday, March 27 for demonstrations, product samples, information and lots of great door prizes – including a $100 Visa gift card! You’ll find massage therapists, fitness consultants, reflexology practitioners, health care providers, and many other representatives of businesses and service groups that promote health and wellness of mind, body, and spirit. Please plan to join us at Seacobeck Hall between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. on March 27. For more information about the Fair, please contact Rose Benedict at rbenedic@umw.edu.
Cultivating Careers
More than 300 UMW students annually participate in internships that provide real-world skills.
Jim Groom Presents at SUNY’s Online Summit Conference
Jim Groom presented a talk titled “Open by Design: Open Educational Experiences” at SUNY’s 14th annual Learning Network Summit for Online Learning conference on February 28th, 2013. Below are the slides for the talk and you can see a video archive of the session here.
Students Lend a Hand to Local Habitat for Humanity Project (FOX 31 News)
Va. Schools Honored for Community Service Work (Associated Press)
After Roads Deal, Virginia Gov. McDonnell Faces Republican Identity Crisis (The Washington Post)
UMW Talent Takes Over LibertyTown Arts Workshop (The Free Lance-Star)
Eagles Split Pair in Road Trip (The Free Lance-Star)
Multicultural Fair Volunteer Meeting, 3/25
The Multicultural Fair is one of the largest, most anticipated events hosted at the University of Mary Washington. The Multicultural Fair features over 30 performances, multicultural vendors, great ethnic food, and kid-friendly activities. If you are interested in serving as a volunteer, please attend the Multicultural Fair meeting on Monday, March 25 at 4 p.m. in Lee Hall, room 412. For additional questions about volunteer opportunities, go to the James Farmer Multicultural Center’s website at http://students.umw.edu/multicultural/fair/volunteering/, or contact the James Farmer Multicultural Center at 540-654-1044, or email at umwjfmc@gmail.com.
Srivastava and Martinette Present at International Conference
Mukesh Srivastava, associate professor of management information systems in the College of Business organized the fourth annual International Conference of the Association of Global Management Studies held March 4 and 5 at the University of California at Berkeley.
Louis Martinette, associate professor of leadership, presented “Perceived Customer Value: A Research Agenda Toward a Uniform Measure” with his co-authors Alice Obenchain-Leeson and Mukesh Srivastava.
Srivastava presented two additional papers on “Profiling Sustainability Curriculum in AACSB Schools” and “The Perception of Quality for Users of E-Learning Environments: Development of a Multidimensional Measure,” which is a co-authored paper with professors Daniel Tomiuk and Josefina Segarra from the University of Quebec.
This years’ keynote speaker, Richard Lyons, Bank of America Dean and Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley spoke on “Creating Innovative Leadership at the conference.
Of the 73 papers submitted, 23 papers were accepted for presentations representing nine countries – Australia, China, Canada, Germany, India, Korea, Taiwan, U.K. and the U.S. All papers presented at the conference were published in the 2013 (4th) International Conference Proceedings of the AGMS.
The Association of Global Management Studies 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.

