UMW Concert Band Presents Season Finale
The University of Mary Washington Concert Band presented its season finale performance on Friday, April 12.
The free concert was held in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium.
The concert featured works from various genres and styles, including Percy Grainger’s “Lincolnshire Posy” and Malcolm Arnold’s “Four Scottish Dances.” The program also included Patrick Burns’ “Seize the Day,” “Be Thou My Vision” by American composer David Gillingham, “The March of the Belgian Parachutists” and “Danza Final” by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera.
For more information, contact Kevin Bartram, director of the orchestra, at (540) 654-1012.
UMW Hosted Psi Chi Research Symposium
Bruce Rybarczyk, associate professor and director of clinical psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, delivered the keynote address at the 28th annual Psi Chi Symposium for Undergraduate Research in Psychology at the University of Mary Washington. The lecture, “The Sleep System: Your Owner’s Manual for Maintenance and Repair,” was held on Friday, April 19 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Chandler Hall, Room 102.
As part of the symposium, psychology students presented their research during sessions on Thursday, April 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday, April 19 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Chandler Hall, Room 102. A reception followed the conclusion of the symposium on Friday.
Ryabarczyk is a faculty member and director of the clinical psychology program at VCU. His research focuses on understanding and facilitating the psychological adaption to chronic medical illness and disability. Ryabarczyk’s studies, which have been published in numerous scholarly journals and book chapters, include coping mechanisms and intervention techniques for recovering patients and behavioral sleep medicine.
Sponsored by UMW’s chapter of Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology, the symposium provides a forum for students to share their research and findings with professors and peers.
For more information, contact Mindy Erchull, associate professor of psychology, at (540) 654-1557.
Office Sustainability Tip of the Week Wrap Up
With the Spring 2013 semester quickly coming to a close, we wanted to thank everyone for reading the “Office Sustainability Tip of the Week” series throughout this academic year. Hopefully you enjoyed reading the entries and learned some new information that you can put into practice in your daily lives (in AND outside of the office). We covered a lot of ground, so here’s a quick re-cap of the different topics we discussed with links to the original articles:
Utilizing MS Outlook to Conserve Paper
Conserving Energy in the Office
Coffee & Sustainability (K-Cups)
Whoa — that’s a lot of topics! We know you’ve probably already committed each one to memory, but feel free to go back and read through each one to see if you may have missed anything. We guarantee you’ll learn something new! The PCS Action Group members that came up with ideas, wrote, and edited the “Office Sustainability Tip of the Week” series this academic year were Kevin Caffrey, Elizabeth Sanders, Robert Louzek, and Dre Anthes.
Jim Groom invited to Open Learning Hackathon at MIT
As part of an attempt to start imagining what open systems for publishing and sharing a community’s work—as UMW has done exceptionally well with UMW Blogs, ds106, and Domain of One’s Own—Jim Groom (the Director of the Division of teaching and Learning Technologies) has been invited to the Open Learning Hackathon at MIT this weekend to work with a range of thinkers to start framing an architecture that might harness and expose the power of loosely coupled syndication systems modelled on the qweb rather than monolithic information systems..
Story Ideas about Graduating Seniors
The Office of News and Public Information welcomes interesting or notable story ideas about graduating students. We share the ideas with local and regional news media and add them to our list of future story possibilities.
If you know of a student who has a noteworthy accomplishment or who has another type of unique story, please send a description of the student’s achievement and/or background to Marty Morrison at mmorris3@umw.edu or Brynn Boyer at bboyer@umw.edu. Please include the student’s contact information, including cell phone number if available.
Please send your ideas by the end of business on Friday, April 19, so that suggestions can be passed on to the news media in a timely manner.
Jeffrey Pugh Named Excellent Eagle Employee
Congratulations to Jeffrey Pugh, A/V Systems Manager, who has been selected as the Excellent Eagle Employee for the month of April. A parking spot of his choosing has been reserved for him through the end of the month.
Here is what one of his co-workers said about him:
“I would like to recommend Jeff Pugh for the Excellent Eagle Employee. We have had several recurring AV/IT issues at the Stafford Campus that he was able to get resolved in a timely matter. He responded immediately to troubleshoot the problems and got the issues taken care of. Jeff is always professional, follows through with everything he does and takes initiative. Jeff is a great asset to UMW.”
To nominate someone who you believe is an Excellent Eagle Employee, send an email to Priscilla Sullivan (psulliva@umw.edu) with Excellent Eagle Employee in the subject line. In your email, be sure to list the person’s name, department, work location (with the most convenient parking lot), and of course, the reason why you believe they should be recognized. Please spread the word to other employees about this wonderful opportunity to recognize a co-worker(s).
Act! Speak! Build! Week Events
As part of national Act! Speak! Build! Week, UMW’s Community Outreach and Resources (COAR) will hold activities and events from Wednesday, April 10 through Tuesday, April 16. COAR encourages faculty, staff and students to participate:
Wednesday, April 10 — Hunger Banquet — Woodard Campus Center’s Great Hall from 6 to 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 11 — Picnic Table Build for Habitat for Humanity — outside Lee Hall — 3 to 6 p.m.
Monday, April 15 — Assembling Snack Packs — outside Lee Hall — 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tuesday, April 16 — TOMS’ A Day Without Shoes — outside Lee Hall — 12:15 to 4:45 p.m.
experience what different types of terrain feel like for those without shoes
Tuesday, April 16 — Dance Walk — Fredericksburg campus — 5 p.m.
For more information, contact COAR at coarumw@gmail.com.
Walk for Mental Wellness, 5/4
The Mental Health America (MHA) of Fredericksburg will hold its sixth annual Walk for Mental Wellness on Saturday, May 4. The one or three-mile walk, which begins at 10 a.m. at Hurkamp Park, will raise money for people with mental illnesses in the Fredericksburg community. The walk also will include music, a moon bounce, food, and a silent auction featuring art by local artists. For more information or to register, visit http://www.mhafred.org/ or call (540) 371-2704.
Study Created by Stephen Farnsworth Garners Media Attention
A new Virginia public opinion survey sponsored by UMW’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies and created by Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science, has generated considerable media attention, with two front-page news stories on the poll in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and reports in a variety of media outlets, including Slate.com, the Daily Kos, the American Prospect and the Washington Post.