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UMW Hosts the MABUG 2018 Conference in October

July 30, 2018 by

UMW is excited to host the MABUG 2018 conference, “It’s Revolutionary,” scheduled to take place October 14-16, 2018 at the Expo Center.

What is MABUG?  The Mid-Atlantic Banner Users Group (MABUG) is an association of colleges and universities in Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Tennessee, and West Virginia. This group hopes that through communication and sharing, member institutions will maximize the use of  Banner, our enterprise software application, and its related products.

Join us for three days of presentations and informative sessions as well as opportunities to network with Banner users from other universities and to meet with vendor partners.  If you do not have three days, please consider attending or participating in some of the conference.  There are many ways to participate.

We especially need representatives from UMW to present at the conference. Experienced speakers are NOT required.  Presentations are allotted 50 minutes, which can include time for questions.  MABUG presentations in the past have taken many forms: an explanation of good practices or tips; a discussion or sharing of ideas; and a tutorial.

There are lots of ways to show enhancements you have made to techniques, processes and operations related to Banner.

Please follow the link to submit your presentation proposal:

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=E8mlZpm3iEqGBkHQQRdiZ_nL-me0vipCiQW40WJitBtUMjU3SVFaVkExTE5OUklMVzZaOTdGVjlNMCQlQCN0PWcu

Not interested in presenting? Prefer to work behind the scenes? There are lots of ways to help!  Contact Pam Lowery for volunteer opportunities.

For more information: http://www.mabug.org/about-mabug-2018/

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Foss Presents Paper at International Conference

July 26, 2018 by

John Andrén Foundation International Conference attendees

On June 9, Professor of English Chris Foss presented a paper (in partial fulfillment of his Summer 2018 Faculty Research Grant) entitled As he is no longer beautiful he is no longer useful: Reading Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Happy Prince’ through the Lens of Disability Studies at the inaugural John Andrén Foundation International Conference on Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, held in Ystad, Sweden.

Wilde’s representation of disability in “The Happy Prince” is not without its issues, particularly the possibility it ends up ascribing an exclusively pejorative status to disability if it can only be some sort of martyrdom rather than a valued form of difference that need not preclude one from leading a happy, fulfilling life.  Still, with his story’s divine endorsement of the shabby blind statue and the dead bird (the latter now arguably inscribed as an ugly, useless body in his own right after his decaying remains are discarded as worthless trash), Wilde also allows for readers to arrive at a decidedly different and fundamentally positive response to disability than the still-popular view of it as some sort of divine punishment or retribution.

In this alternative take, we are encouraged to value (indeed, to privilege), to love—not just a tolerance of love for bodies society traditionally has devalued as deviant and/or discarded as dangerous, but more profoundly a celebration of the love of and by bodies embraced precisely for, rather than in spite of, their difference and diversity.

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Middle East Report Published Al-Tikriti Article on Battle of Mosul

July 25, 2018 by

On June 18, 2018, the Middle East Report (MER) published an article Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti submitted, entitled “Civilians in Mosul’s Battle of Annihilation.” This article was partially informed by Prof. Al-Tikriti’s service as MSF / Doctors Without Borders USA Vice-President in 2016-17, when he attended presentations on violence and participants’ conduct during the 2016-2017 Battle of Mosul.

Article Abstract: “Understanding the course of events and identifying the participants in the battle of Mosul is a difficult task. What is certain is that all parties neglected the fate of civilians and were unable to provide proper emergency medical relief. An examination of the battle is crucial to understanding the evolution of international humanitarian law in conflict zones. ”

MER Issue #286 Article Link: https://www.merip.org/mer/mer286/civilians-mosuls-battle-annihilation.

Publication Date: June 2018
Citation: Al-Tikriti, Nabil. “Civilians in Mosul’s Battle of Annihilation.” Middle East Report (MERIP) 286 (2018): 28-30

For the full article, see: https://www.academia.edu/37114216/Civilians_in_Mosuls_Battle_of_Annihilation.

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Campus Dining Announces Summer Closing

July 24, 2018 by

The Top of the UC will end food service for the summer immediately following breakfast at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, July 27th.   Service will resume the week of August 13 for early arrivals.

Those serving times will be posted on the Campus Dining web site at UMW.SodexoMyWay.com in early August. For additional information, e-mail Campus Dining at Dining@UMW.edu.

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STEM Students Probe World Problems

July 24, 2018 by
Weather patterns. Climate change. Cell death. These are among more than a dozen STEM-based topics tackled by University of Mary Washington students during this year’s Summer Science Institute, an intensive, fully funded 10-week research opportunity that culminates this week. Working with professors in their field of study, 20 undergraduates took the reins on projects that […]
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Gately performs with National Symphony Orchestra

July 19, 2018 by

Doug Gately recently performed with the National Symphony Orchestra for their televised A Capital Fourth concert on July 4 that featured The Temptations, Jimmy Buffet, Beach Boys, Rene Fleming, Joshua Bell, and more.  He is also performing with NSO for the Bernstein at 100, A Celebration concert, July 27 at Wolftrap.

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New MyTime Minute Post on the Payroll Website

July 19, 2018 by

A new MyTime Minute post is available on the Payroll website at http://adminfinance.umw.edu/payroll/mytime-minute/.

This Week’s Topic:  Timecard Approval Colors

Subscribe to the MyTime Minute to receive email notifications when a new MyTime Minute is published.

For more information or questions related to MyTime Minute, please contact payroll@umw.edu.

If you are experiencing a technical issue with MyTime, please contact the IT Help Desk at 540-654-2255.

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Magrakvelidze Gives Invited Talk

July 18, 2018 by

Dr. Maia Giving Talk

Dr. Maia Magrakvelidze, assistant professor in the Physics Department, was invited to give a talk on June 20 at the Department of Computational Mathematics at Georgian Technical University in Tbilisi, Georgia, called Dissociation Dynamics of Diatomic Molecules in Intense Laser Fields.

The computation modeling methods Dr. Maia is using was the subject of interest of the Department, and future collaboration opportunities were discussed.

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Magrakvelidze and Killian Present at International Conference

July 18, 2018 by

Maia Magrakvelidze, assistant professor of physics, and her student Hannah Killian, presented the results of their research at the 49th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics held May 28 to June 1, 2018 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The presentation, in the Time-Resolved Electron Dynamics and Attosecond Spectroscopy, was titled “Relative Delay among Br and Kr 4p, 4s, and 3d Photoionization.”

These results will hopefully help current experiments for investigating the time delay in photoionization processes of different systems.

The travel expenses were covered by UMW.

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Nguyen and Magrakvelidze Attend Summer Faculty Development Workshop

July 18, 2018 by

Dr. Hai Nguyen, associate professor and chair of the Physics Department, and Dr. Maia Magrakvelidze, assistant professor of physics attended “Computation is an integral part of the education of every undergraduate physics student” workshop (PICUP) at UW River Falls on July 15-20. The workshop is designed to help physics instructors implement computational component in their classes. In addition it provides a great opportunity to connect with people who already have a good experience in teaching with computational component in their lower or upper level physics classes.

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