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Student Leadership Symposium Call for Proposals

The Student Leadership Committee is putting out a call for proposals for the 2020 Leadership Symposium. This symposium will target current and future club leaders and will aim to share both basic and intermediate leadership concepts.Topic examples include: Recruitment & Retention Conflict Competency Leadership and Wellness Leadership Transitions Any relevant topic will be considered. The […]

Brovero Honored with Debate Award

Adrienne Brovero, UMW’s Director of Debate, was recently recognized by the Barkley Forum for Debate Deliberation and Dialogue as this year’s recipient of the Melissa Maxcy Wade Award Honoring Debate as a Public Good at the Atlanta Season Opener Debate Tournament. The award is presented at the Season Opener each year to a person in […]

Crosby Presents Research on Sports Communication and Social Justice

Emily Deering Crosby, Assistant Professor of Communication, recently presented her research at the International Communication Association Preconference “Sports Communication and Social Justice” held at American University. Her research, entitled “Larry Nassar and Rhetorical Monster-Making: Political Subversion in the #MeToo Sports Era,” explores the rhetorical process of “monster-making” (Ingebretsen, 1998) as it unfolded during the 2018 […]

Farnsworth Publishes Chapter in Book Edited by Dr. Mark Finney ’99

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is author of a book chapter, “Studying the Presidency after 9/11: Re-considering Presidential Character in Domestic and International Contexts,” which was published in 9/11 and the Academy: Responses in the Liberal Arts and the 21st Century World. The […]

UMW Theatre’s The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] Closes Sept. 29

UMW Theatre presents The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] By Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield September 19-29A company of actors storms the stage and takes on the Bard of Avon—37 plays and 154 sonnets—in a 97-minute madcap romp through the entire canon (but not the one you studied in English class). Fasten […]