On a mild Friday night in early October, Professor of Theater Gregg Stull watched with keen eyes as a group of students worked through a scene of Steven Sondheim’s “Into the Woods,” which opens in Klein Theater Thursday, Nov. 1. The musical is a coming-of-age story featuring the fairytale characters most anyone will remember from […]
UMW Students Reach Out to Neighbors (The Free Lance-Star)
Northern Va. Could Be Pivotal for Romney, Obama (Real Clear Politics)
Successful UMW/MWHC Outreach Event
The University of Mary Washington (UMW), in collaboration with Mary Washington Healthcare (MWHC) and the City of Fredericksburg, hosted a ‘How to do Business’ seminar on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 in the Anderson Center. The seminar was attended by approximate 170 vendors and business partners and focused on providing interested businesses with the tools and resources needed to gain contracts with UMW and MWHC.
The event participants included representatives from the UMW Small Business Development Center (SBDC), Virginia e-Procurement (eVA), the Department of Minority Business Enterprise (DMBE) and the Virginia Department of Business Assistance (VDBA). After presentations from Alan Edwards – MWHC VP for Supply Chain Solutions, Erma Baker – UMW Assistant VP for Business Services & CPO and Gary Hobson – UMW Capital Outlay Director, attendees were allowed to ask questions of representatives from each division in a breakout session. Additionally, the SBDC assisted any vendor who was interested in starting their application to be eVA or DMBE registered.
The ‘How to do Business’ seminar is the first collaborative outreach event of the current fiscal year and the UMW Procurement Services department plans to continue outreach to the community and available small local vendors.
Free Lance-Star Article: http://news.fredericksburg.com/newsdesk/2012/10/16/umw-hospital-groom-partners/
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Last Faculty/Staff Tennis Clinic, 10/29
The last free faculty and staff tennis clinic will be held Monday, Oct. 29 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the outdoor tennis courts.
The men’s and women’s coaches and players will work with all levels of experience and abilities.
Registration is required so the tennis coaches can notify you of any changes or cancellations due to weather, and to send reminders the day before the clinic.
To sign up or to be on our mailing list for future faculty and staff offerings at the tennis center, email Todd Helbling at thelblin@umw.edu.
Keith Mellinger Publishes Research Article
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics Keith Mellinger recently had his article “The de Bruijn–Erdős theorem for hypergraphs” published in the journal Designs, Codes and Cryptography. The article was co-authored with mathematicians from the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of California in San Diego, and Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Doug Sanford Publishes Article on Urban Slavery
Professor of Historic Preservation Douglas Sanford published the article “Towards an Archaeology of Urban Slavery: Contextual Predictions” in the Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology.
President Hurley on UMW’s CVC 2012
By now, most faculty and staff are aware that UMW has started its Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign for 2012. Hopefully you were able to stop by and visit with some of the non-profits that were in the Red Room immediately following the employee luncheon on Tuesday, October 16. One of the non-profits on hand that day was the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank. Coincidentally, an article appeared in The Free-Lance Star that same morning, with the headline “Area food pantries trying to meet growing demand”. Here is an excerpt from that article:
“So far this year, 20,000 people in the area received services through the food bank partner agencies and programs each month, Oliver said.
That is 5,000 more individuals than last year. The food bank distributed nearly 3.6 million pounds of food so far in 2012.”
Consider this, from the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank’s web site: “For every $10 donated, we are able to provide 30 meals to hungry children and families.” While we are all aware of the tough economy and the increasing costs of daily living, some of us have definitely been hit harder than others. That is why I’m asking you to please consider participating in CVC this year. The Fredericksburg Area Food Bank is just one example of the over 1200 non-profits listed in the CVC 2012 Directory. Be sure to look at the directory, either on the CVC web site or by requesting a paper copy from one of the UMW CVC Ambassadors. And remember, if you have recently participated in a fund raising event or have already given to a listed non-profit (any time between March 1 and December 30, 2012), you qualify as a CVC participant. Please contact Lori Izykowski at lizykows@umw.edu with any questions related to this year’s campaign.
Scott Powers Co-Authors French Language Textbook
Associate Professor of French, Scott Powers co-authored the 9th edition of Interaction: Langue et Culture. Published by Heinle, Interaction is an intermediate-level textbook of French language and Francophone cultures used in university classrooms across the United States and abroad.
Third Annual Symposium Draws 200 Literacy Leaders
The third annual Literacy Leaders Symposium, hosted by the University of Mary Washington College of Education in partnership with Stafford County Public Schools, brought together more than 200 literacy leaders from across the region on Wednesday, Oct. 17. Bill Brozo, professor of literacy at George Mason University, was the keynote speaker.
More than 200 literacy leaders from across the region came together Oct. 17 for the third annual event.
“A boy’s love of reading doesn’t begin with scholarship…it begins with discovery,” said Brozo, who first discovered his own love of reading as a child when he broke his arm playing baseball. The professor spoke about closing the literacy achievement gap for boys and described techniques that could be implemented by literacy leaders.
The author of numerous articles and books on literacy development for children and young adults, including “Bridges to Literacy for Boys,” Brozo’s research focuses on adolescent and content literacy, secondary literacy reform, struggling learners and closing the literacy achievement gap for boys.
“Help show boys that they can read about what they like to do,” said Brozo, who suggested all-boy book clubs and matching reading materials to extracurricular interests among other techniques for teachers.
Bill Brozo speaks with a former student after his keynote speech at the third annual Literacy Leaders Symposium at the University of Mary Washington Stafford campus.
“I’m not suggesting that these are great pieces of literature, but who knows where it leads a boy,” he said. “All of us start humbly down this path of literacy.”
Before teaching at the GMU Graduate School of Education, Brozo taught reading and language arts in junior and senior high schools. He regularly travels to Macedonia to provide technical support to secondary teachers. He also frequently speaks at professional meetings around the country and consults with teachers and administrators to discuss enriching the literature culture in schools.
The symposium, “Literacy Leadership: Catalyst for Change,” also featured presentations from Richard Long, director of government relations at the International Reading Association, who spoke about policy trends impacting literacy leaders, and Tracy Robertson, English coordinator for the Office of Middle and High School Instructional Services at the Virginia Department of Education, who spoke about the impacts of the 2010 English Standards of Learning.
In addition, K-12 teachers presented numerous small-group breakout sessions focused on literacy instruction. Session topics included “Running Records Made Easy” and “Ed Tech 101: Technology Tools for the Literacy Teacher.”