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Picturing New Connections: Belmont Event Targets Alzheimer’s

Let’s Go to the Fair! Thursday, September 8, 10:30am Gari Melchers Home & StudioGari Melchers Home & Studio is partnering with the Alzheimer’s Association, Greater Richmond Chapter, to offer Picturing New Connections—a small, welcoming program for people with early stage memory loss, their families or care partners. These interactive tours include guided discussions in the […]

Grothe Pens Opinion Piece on Area’s Urban Heat Islands

An opinion piece by Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Pamela Grothe Pamela Grothe, titled “Commentary: Urban heat islands make climate change worse,” ran in The Free Lance-Star on Sunday, Aug. 21. Along with her co-author, Adam Lynch, a river steward with Friends of the Rappahannock, Grothe wrote: Little was known about Fredericksburg’s urban […]

Rettinger Talks Academic Integrity With ‘Times Higher Ed’

Professor of Psychological Science and Director of Academic Integrity Programs David Rettinger spoke to Times Higher Education for a story titled, “Zero cheating is a pipe dream, but we still need to push academic integrity.” In the article, Rettinger and Erica Price Burns, who leads the research practice at Whiteboard Advisors, offer key points for […]

Kelly Comments on Local Teacher Shortage

College of Education Dean Pete Kelly contributed to a Fredericksburg Today article titled “An ‘enormous hat rack’: Here’s everything educators want you to know about the local teacher shortage. At the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, there were 1,000 vacant teaching positions across the state, an already untenable situation according to the University of Mary […]