Assistant Vice President for Gift Planning Jan Clarke was honored at Averett University’s homecoming. Clarke received this year’s Mary Jo Davis Outstanding Alumni Award. Read more in the Danville Register & Bee.

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Assistant Vice President for Gift Planning Jan Clarke was honored at Averett University’s homecoming. Clarke received this year’s Mary Jo Davis Outstanding Alumni Award. Read more in the Danville Register & Bee.

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To mark the 75th anniversary of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Professor of English Gary Richards led the discussion of that play in the One Book, One Festival series at the Louisiana Book Festival on Saturday, October 29, 2022, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This was his tenth time to participate in that series at […]

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Stephen Farnsworth, professor of Political Science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented an online lecture, “Examining Nonvoters and their Perspectives,” to a pre-election meeting of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the Black Women’s Roundtable.Farnsworth also received several recent media mentions, including:Early Voter Turnout in Virginia […]

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Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs, was a featured guest on the WION Wide Angle special program ” Xi Jinping: Decoding one-man rule” on October 27. Professor Larus claimed that Hu Jintao’s abrupt removal from the CCP’s 20th Party Congress indicates that Chinese leader Xi will not tolerate factional disagreements […]

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“Operation STEM Drop” brought laser printers, virtual reality headsets – even robots – to a University of Mary Washington makerspace classroom last week. The story below was originally posted by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCD…

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