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November Wagner Wealth Management Student-Athlete of the Month
Junior men’s basketball star T.J. Jones has been named as the UMW Wagner Wealth Management Athlete of the Month for November.
Jones opened the season with a game-high 23 points as Mary Washington topped then-#26 ranked Randolph-Macon College on the road in the season opener. He has continued to impress, gaining CAC Player of the Week Honor Roll twice. He leads the 3-2 Eagles with 19.0 PPG.
UMW Wagner Wealth Management Athletes of the Month
September – Emma Olson (volleyball)
October – Jenna Steele (field hockey)
November – T.J. Jones (men’s basketball)
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Foss Presents Paper Celebrating the Work of Claudia Emerson
On Nov. 13, Professor of English Chris Foss presented a paper titled “‘The body’s own account’: Disease, Disability, Death and the Argument for Life in the Poetry of Claudia Emerson” at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association annual convention in Durham, N.C. The paper celebrates Claudia’s unflinching consideration of disease, disability and death in her most recently published book, Impossible Bottle, a work throughout which Claudia consistently refuses to airbrush the experience of pain and suffering while simultaneously refusing to succumb to despair.
Indeed, Impossible Bottle powerfully testifies to the meaningfulness and the value of all lives touched by disease, disability and death. Ultimately, Claudia discards any vision of some sort of final disconsolate decline in the face of a dogged disease like cancer, or some sort of defeatist surrender to a death without dignity, and instead gifts us all with a brilliant argument for life that not only envisions but also enacts a truly compelling embodiment of a heartening resilience that remains elastic, fresh and enlightening.
Meet Our New Employees
Please join us in extending a warm UMW welcome to our newest employees:
Kirk Darrough – Docent for Gari Melchers Home and Studio.
Trudy Hardcastle – Docent for Gari Melchers Home and Studio.
Karen Howard – Desk Attendant for Eagle Landing.
Caitlin McCabe – Residence Life Area Coordinator.
Zamara Montalvo-Perez – Financial Assistant.
Thomas Schukis – Grounds Lead Worker.
Junaid Shahid – Undergraduate Admissions Program Support Technician.
Dr. Lee Skallerup Bessette – Instructional Technology Specialist.
Lisa Stone – Lead Housekeeping Worker.
Once again, welcome to University of Mary Washington!
Harris Presents Paper at Slavic Studies Conference in Philadelphia
Department of History and American Science Professor Steven E. Harris presented his paper, “The Soviet Martyrdom of an Aeroflot Stewardess in the Age of Détente,” at the 47th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies in Philadelphia, Nov. 19-22, 2015. At this same conference, Harris was also a panelist on the roundtable titled “Motion & Urbanity: Visual Symbolism, Sites of Mobility & the Built Environment in the Tsarist and Soviet Empire,” where he discussed his current work on the history of Soviet airports.
Winner for November HR Fitness Challenge
Congratulations to Caitlin DeMarco, library assistant at UMW’s Stafford campus, for being the winner of the November HR fitness challenge! She earned a FitBit Flex for all her lunchtime workouts.
Spring 2016 Public Events Calendar Deadline, Dec. 11
Are you hosting a public university event during the spring 2016 semester? Submissions for the spring 2016 public events calendar are due by Friday, Dec. 11, so the calendar can be shared with local media before the university closes for break.
In the past, events have been submitted to the Office of Media and Public Relations via email. Moving forward, all events will be submitted directly to the UMW Calendar via the calendar submission form. Once submitted, the Office of Media and PR will review the events and approve them for the calendar. All events submitted MUST be marked as PUBLIC in order to be included on the “Public Events Calendar” and be sent to local media contacts and calendars.
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to submit via the form and mark your event as public: https://vimeo.com/145686661. To get started, go to http://www.umw.edu/events/ and click “Post Your Event.”
Questions may be directed to Erika Spivey at espivey@umw.edu or 540/654-1274.
UMW Holiday Gathering, Dec. 11
President and Mrs. Richard Hurley cordially invite you and your guest to a holiday gathering on Friday, Dec. 11, at the Jepson Alumni Executive Center from 6-8 p.m. Brompton will be open. Please RSVP by Wednesday, Dec. 9, at eventsrsvp@umw.edu.
