Jennifer Barry, Assistant Professor of Religion, presented her paper “Remembering Exile: Ecclesiastical Historians and Christian Flight” at Yale University on April 23, 2018. This paper stems out of a chapter from her forthcoming book with the University of California Press titled Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity.
Chiang Publishes Article in Manuscripta Mathematica
Yuan-Jen Chiang, Professor of Mathematics, had a research article “Exponentially Harmonic Maps between Finsler Manifolds” published in Manuscripta Mathematica by Springer in Europe.
College of Business Hosts Second Annual Case Competition
The College of Business held the final round of its second annual Case Competition on Friday, April 27 in Woodard Hall. Beautiful Home Services, Inc, sponsored the event and awarded a total of $6,000 to the top three teams. The final five teams (out of 22) presented on Friday night to a judging panel made up of UMW alumni and administrative staff. More than 45 students and well-wishers, including COB faculty members, watched the presentations. The first place prize of $3,000 went to a team from Dr. Woody Richardson’s MGMT 490 class who self-named their team, “Jen and the Stay at Home Dads”.
Special Campus Dining Hours
All retail Campus Dining locations will close for the summer at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 4. The Top of the UC will serve dinner until 7 p.m. on Friday. During Senior Week (May 7-11), breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served at the Top of the UC according to the following schedule:
Breakfast: 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Lunch: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Dinner: 5 p .m. to 6 p.m.
The Top of the UC will close after dinner on May 11. On Saturday, May 12 breakfast sandwiches, pastries and beverages will be available between 7 a.m. and 12 p.m. at the Jamba Juice eatery on the second floor of the UC. A Commencement Luncheon will be served in the Chandler Ballroom from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Luncheon menu and ticket information are available on the dining web site: UMW.SodexoMyWay.com.
All campus dining locations will be closed May 13-20. The Top of the UC will reopen for summer school meals on Monday, May 21. Summer school hours will be posted on the dining web site by May 16. For further information contact Rose Benedict at rbenedic@umw.edu or 540-654-2169.
Poska Wins Research Grants For Book Project
Professor of History Allyson M. Poska has been awarded three research grants for her new book project Contested Equality: Smallpox Vaccination in the Spanish Empire (1803-1810).
The grants include: a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society and a Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship. Poska was also named an inaugural recipient of Project Development Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. She will be conducting research in Spain and Mexico during her upcoming sabbatical.
Nabil Al-Tikriti Lectures at Virginia Tech – SPIA
On 19 April, Associate Professor of History Nabil Al-Tikriti spoke at Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), in Alexandria, VA. The topic presented was the global humanitarian system and its impact in the Middle East and other zones of crisis. Attendees included both Virginia Tech SPIA graduate students and undergraduate students associated with both Prof. Ariel Ahram‘s class on Global Security (GIA 5514), and the Washington Semester program.
Prof. Al-Tikriti has worked since 1988 in field development and humanitarian relief programs for Africare, Plan International, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders in over a dozen countries in Africa and the Middle East. He also served on the MSF / Doctors Without Borders USA Board of Directors in 2011-17, and as Vice President in 2016-17.
Rafferty Publishes Latest Essay in Presidential Series
Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English, had his essay on Chester A. Arthur, “Smear Campaign (#21),” to appear last week in the new issue of storySouth. This is the latest in his series of essays devoted to the U.S. presidency and the men who have held that office.
UMW Awards Historic Preservation Book Prize
The University of Mary Washington’s Center for Historic Preservation has awarded the 2018 Book Prize to Caitlin DeSilvey for Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving. The Center awards the prize each year to an author whose book has a positive impact on preservation in the United States. “Curated Decay is a beautifully written book that conceptualizes […]
Mary Wash Moves Update
Happy Thursday, Mary Wash Movers! Team BLUE is in the lead! Have you been tracking your steps? Encourage your teammates to log their steps in this document. The challenge ends in 11 days!
Don’t forget – you can participate from anywhere! All steps acquired in 24 hours of the day count. Move that body. Your brain will reap the benefits.
Dasgupta Delivers Two Conference Papers
Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, recently presented two conference papers, “A Counter Discourse to Bollywood: Gender, Nation and Violence in Bengali Partition Cinema” at the Association of Asian Studies Conference in Washington, DC March 22-25 and “An(other) Story: Memory, Trauma and Identity in Muslim Narratives of the Partition” at the American Comparative Literature Association’s annual conference hosted by UCLA in Los Angeles March 29-April 1.