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Professor will discuss redistricting process; The Free Lance-Star
Professor Chad Murphy, faculty sponsor of the University of Mary Washington map-drawing team that drew state redistricting maps, will be the speaker for the general meeting of the Fredericksburg PC Users Group on Thursday.
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/042011/04102011/617928/printer_friendly
ART >> UMW students win awards at annual exhibit; The Free Lance-Star
Elizabeth Bradley, a University of Mary Washington junior who attended Mountain View High School in Stafford County, stands with her award-winning painting, ‘Over the Edge.’ Bradley’s work won the Melchers Gray Purchase Award at the college’s annual Student Art Exhibition, which runs through April 17 at the duPont Gallery. Another UMW student from Stafford County, senior Tenee Hart, received the Emil Schnellock Award in Painting for ‘The Goats.’ Senior Gina Dargan of Fredericksburg took the Department Award for Textile Design for ‘Untitled: I Love Her Too.’ Among students receiving honorable mention awards were senior Lauren Horton of Dahlgren for digital media, junior Ashleigh Buyers of Stafford for mixed media, and Hart for photography.
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/042011/04102011/618781
Area journalists win Press Women awards; The Free Lance-Star
Donna Harter Raab, University of Mary Washington‘s senior director of Advancement Communications, first, general report; second, four-color print newsletter.
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/042011/04082011/618739
Poverty Simulation Sparks Discussion at UMW; http://fredericksburg.patch.com
More than 50 University of Mary Washington participated in Two Dollar Challenge Week, living in makeshift shelters on Ball Circle to raise awareness of global poverty and microfinance.
http://fredericksburg.patch.com/articles/poverty-simulation-sparks-discussion-at-umw
Education news for Monday, April 4; Richmond Times-Dispatch
Mary Washington teacher
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Claudia Emerson, an English professor at the University of Mary Washington, will be inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers during the Conference on Southern Literature.
Emerson, a former Virginia poet laureate, will be inducted with 11 other writers, including “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee, during the April 14-16 conference in Chattanooga, Tenn.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2011/apr/04/TDMET02-education-news-for-monday-april-4-ar-947888/