UMW’s recent test of its Emergency Notification System was part of Severe Weather Awareness Week, which is designed to refresh, remind and educate everyone about the seasonal threats from severe weather and how to plan and prepare for them. The Virginia Department of Emergency Management partners with the National Weather Service to promote Severe Weather […]
As you advise your students on their course choices in the Summer and Fall, please keep in mind the Modern Languages and Literatures course: “The World on a Plate: A Journey Through Global Cuisines.”This 3-credit, online course fulfills the global and diverse perspectives requirement, is writing intensive and has honors and non-honors sections. There is […]
Thursday, March 19, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. all are welcome for a special lecture by University of Virginia’s Professor Henry Skerritt, Curator of Research at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. In his talk, Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past & Present Together): How a small Aboriginal Australian community took on the Global Artworld, Prof. Skerritt […]
Based out of Washington, DC, Carly Harvey combines Blues, Jazz, Soul, and Indigenous American styles to produce a unique sound. She is the originator of the “Native Scat” — an improvisational fusion of a traditional Jazz scat with Native vocables. In addition to performing as a solo act, Carly is an entertaining and dynamic band […]
Join us for a talk with best-selling author Rebecca Romney!Jane Austen wasn’t a lone genius. She wrote at a time of great experimentation for women writers — and clues about those women, and the exceptional books they wrote, are sprinkled like breadcrumbs throughout Austen’s work.So where had these women gone? In Jane Austen’s Bookshelf, Romney […]
