After 17 years of service to both the University and Foundation, Peggy Simpkins is retiring. Peggy served as the executive assistant to the CEO and was instrumental in ensuring the smooth running of the Foundation, its office, and its Board of Directors. Board members and staff alike congratulate Peggy on her retirement and thank her […]
Dear Colleagues,As indicated in an email from the UMW Cardinal Human Capital Management (HCM) Project Team sent by Anna Billingsley on February 8th , Cardinal HCM will go live in April 2022.Cardinal HCM is a statewide data system replacing several of the Commonwealth’s aging systems, including the Personnel Management Information System (PMIS), the Benefits Eligibility […]
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Tyler Frankel has been awarded a $92,037 First Award Wildlife Grant by the Morris Animal Foundation. Designed to assist early career scientists in establishing a successful research program, the funds from this award will support an intensive two-year project examining the impacts of Virginia coal ash repositories on […]
Assistant Professor of Marketing Kelly Yoon was chosen to receive the Journal of Consumer Psychology’s 2022 Early Career Contributor Award, based on her paper, “Perceived Costs versus Actual Benefits of Demographic Self-Disclosure in Online Support Groups,” published in the 2021 (31/3) volume of Journal of Consumer Psychology.This JCP Early Career Contributor Award is given to the […]
Assistant Professor of English Brenta Blevins recently presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication 2022 Virtual Conference. Blevins presented as part of the cross-institutional panel “Informal Reading Groups as Inclusionary Practice for Facilitating Graduate Students’ Disciplinary Access and Professionalization.” Analyzing an informal, multi-year reading group, the panel identified how professional reading groups produce […]
