Eagle Dining is again sponsoring the “Helping Hands Across America” Food Drive. Non-perishable food items are being collected for donation to the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank and Fredericksburg Presbyterian Food Pantry. Food collection boxes are located at cashier stations in all dining facilities and also in the UMW Book Store. Food will also be collected at a curb-side drop off site outside Seacobeck Hall between 12 PM and 5 PM on Thursday, November 29. Anyone needing collection boxes or more information may e-mail Rose Benedict at rbenedic@umw.edu.
Ben & Jerry Share “Radical Business Philosophy” at Fredericksburg Forum, 11/10
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream will present “An Evening of Entrepreneurial Spirit, Social Responsibility, and Radical Business Philosophy” at the Fredericksburg Forum on Saturday, Nov. 10. The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium.
The Fredericksburg Forum is the first UMW event to be certified as a “Virginia Green” event, which will employ ‘green’ practices of recycling, waste reduction, and energy and water conservation. The green certified event also is in keeping with the university’s dedication to sustainability, initiated by the President’s Council on Sustainability in 2009.
The Forum’s speakers, Cohen and Greenfield, served the first Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in Burlington, Vt., in 1978. Since then, the company has grown into a multi-million dollar entity with an international presence. Cohen and Greenfield received the Corporate Giving Award from the Council on Economic Priorities in 1988 and were named U.S. Small Businesspersons of the Year by President Ronald Reagan the same year. Their best-selling 1997 book “Ben & Jerry’s Double-Dip: How to Run a Values-Led Business and Make Money, Too” uses their experiences at the helm of Ben & Jerry’s to illustrate their views on socially responsible business. Greenfield currently serves as president of the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation.
Discounted tickets for faculty, staff and students are $15, and are available in George Washington Hall, Room 308 or at (540) 654-1276. For more information, visit www.umw.edu/forum.
UMW’s CVC 2012
par·tic·i·pa·tion [pahr-tis-uh–pey-shuhn]
noun
1. an act or instance of participating.
2. the fact of taking part, as in some action or attempt: participation in a celebration.
3. a sharing, as in benefits or profits: participation in a pension plan.
This week we all had the opportunity to participate in one of the most wonderful privileges we have as Americans. What a truly good feeling, that participation in something big and important. Have you considered participating in CVC? An important thing to remember about participation is this: Every.Little.Bit.Matters. That’s right. It’s not how much you participate, but that you do. Just like voting, your participation makes a difference. And with the holidays looming, you can make a gift on behalf of a friend or loved one AND make a difference. Thank you again for considering participation in UMW’s CVC 2012. Feel free to contact Lori Izykowski with any questions.
U.S. Passport Agency Coming to UMW, 11/16
Do you plan to study, volunteer, research or travel abroad and need to either renew your passport or get a new passport? If so, you are in luck – the U.S. Passport Agency is going to be in Lee Hall, Room 434, on Friday, Nov. 16 from 9 a.m. to noon. Please sign up for an appointment through the Center for International Education (CIE). Appointments will take 5 to 10 minutes, provided you have your paperwork filled out correctly and picture in hand. Sign up today for an appointment – contact Leslie Leahy in CIE at lleahy@umw.edu or 540.654.1434. Appointment are available to friends and family members too! Pictures can be taken at our local CVS –stop by CIE for a coupon!
— Leslie Leahy, Study Abroad Coordinator for the Center for International Education
Festival Brings Musicians to UMW This Weekend
The Department of Music at the University of Mary Washington will host the second annual Electroacoustic Barn Dance from Thursday, Nov. 8 through Saturday, Nov. 10. The three-day electronic music festival will include the works of more than 70 artists and composers from across the country presented in 13 concerts. All concerts are free and open to the public.
Most of the performances will take place in UMW’s Pollard Hall and Monroe Hall, with additional performances at The Blarney Stone and 909 Saloon in historic downtown Fredericksburg. The festival will begin with Concert I at 8 p.m. on Thursday, and will continue throughout the weekend, concluding with Concert XIII at 10 p.m. on Saturday. The most up-to-date concert information, as well the specific times and locations for each performance, can be found at facebook.com/ElectroacousticBarnDance.
The festival has garnered attention at universities across the country, including Columbia University, the University of Alabama, the University of Florida and Chatham University.
Mark Snyder, assistant professor of music and the festival’s director and organizer, received submissions from approximately 180 composers and musicians to participate in this year’s festival. Prominent and innovative artists from all over the county will travel to UMW to perform and showcase their art. Snyder said the Barn Dance will be the place to hear and experience sound in different ways as well to see instruments being played in a way the audience might not have seen before.
“A lot of the people who will be here are in the cutting edge of making things that people haven’t been making before in terms of music, sound design and film,” said Snyder.
Several UMW professors will perform during the festival, including Snyder himself, as well as students from Snyder’s electronic music class.
“It makes me very proud [that] the students will be mixed in with all of these major established electroacoustic composers,” he said.
For more information, contact Mark Snyder at msnyder@umw.edu.
Biology Faculty Present and Judge at Statewide Meeting
Deborah O’Dell, associate professor of biology and president-elect of the Virginia Academy of Science, presided over the Virginia Academy of Sciences Undergraduate Research Meeting on Saturday, Oct. 27 at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College. Deborah Zies, associate professor of biology, was the invited speaker and spoke on “Smith-Magenis Syndrome: An Investigation of a Human Genome Disorder.” Lynn Lewis and Kathryn Loesser, professors of biology, served as judges for the research grant recipients along with Deborah Zies, Deborah O’Dell and Carleitta Paige, adjunct faculty member of biology. Faculty sponsoring students in competition for a $500 undergraduate research grant were: Lynn Lewis who sponsored Kathleen Blevins and Ryan Green, Theresa Grana, assistant professor of biology, who sponsored Sarah Marzec and Daniel Browne, and Andrew Dolby, professor of biology, who sponsored Abbigal Kimmit and Michael Carlo. Ryan Green was awarded a grant for his research project “A Study of Chloroquine’s Antiretroviral Characteristics.”
Chad Murphy is Guest on Al-Jazeera and Voice of America
Chad Murphy, assistant professor of political science, was a featured guest on Voice of America on Thursday, Nov. 1. In the segment “Unemployment Remains Key Factor for U.S. Voters,” Murphy argued that U.S. voters would look at the overall unemployment trends during the election.
Murphy also provided live political analysis on election night for Al-Jazeera’s English television network.
Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin Publish Research
Associate Professors of Psychology Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin’s research article “Maternal Guilt and Shame: The Role of Self-Discrepancy and Fear of Negative Evaluation” appears in the Journal of Child and Family Studies, published online on Oct. 19, 2012. Liss and Schiffrin co-wrote the article with Kathryn Rizzo ’12. The study shows mothers who compare themselves to other mothers and fear that others are judging and evaluating them experience the emotions of both guilt and shame – emotions that have been shown to lead to negative mental health consequences.
Stephen Farnsworth Offers Analysis for International Audience
An interview with Professor of Political Science Stephen Farnsworth appeared in a MacNeil/Lehrer Production documentary about American political advertising and the presidential election.
The documentary, “Making Democracy,” has aired during the past week in more than 20 countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Farnsworth also was a featured guest for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s election night coverage.
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