Author: Hilary Kanter

2017 Health & Flexible Benefits Open Enrollment May 1-15

It’s time for Open Enrollment!  This is your opportunity each year to make changes to your health care or flexible spending accounts (FSAs).  Have no health plan coverage changes and not enrolling in an FSA? Nothing is required.Make your decisions with care. See the Spotlight newsletter for more information.EmployeeDirect for health benefits is under construction, […]

SAC News

Virginia Public Service Week: SAC’s Virginia Public Service Week event is next week!  Sign up now for volleyball. No need to sign up for Giant Jenga, Giant connect 4, or Cornhole. Just show up Tuesday, May 9, anytime between 11:30 and 1 and join the fun!  Fitness Center demos are at 11:30 (Yoga for the […]

Liss and Students’ Research Paper Accepted for Publication

Professor of Psychology Miriam Liss and four students from her research seminar had a paper accepted for publication by the journal Personality and Individual Differences. The paper is titled “How Extraversion, Neuroticism, Attachment Style and Fear of Missing Out Predicted Social Media Use and Addiction.”Liss and her students found that fear of missing out was […]

Farnsworth Presents Research on Presidential Politics

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented a research paper titled “President Obama’s Use of New Media: Enacting the Affordable Care Act and Defining Presidential Character” at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association in Vancouver, Canada.