It’s time for COAR’s annual Head Start Gift Box Drive! Each year we ask students, faculty and staff to fill boxes full of necessities and toys for children 3 to 5 years old in the Head Start programs in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania schools.Boxes can be checked out now through Nov. 22 in the University Center Lobby from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. […]
UMW Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Pam Grothe has published a paper – Enhanced El Niño‐Southern Oscillation Variability in Recent Decades – in Geophysical Research Letters. The biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal of geoscience is published by the American Geophysical Union.The article includes the following plain language summary:Recent modeling studies suggest El Niño will intensify due to greenhouse warming, Grothe’s paper states. Here, new coral […]
College of Business Dean Lynne Richardson’s weekly column in The Free Lance-Star discusses the dynamic of hiring for optics. Read HIRING FOR OPTICS.RICHARDSON: Hiring for opticsI WAS talking with someone recruiting for a newly created position with fairly structured duties. The organization chose to do an internal search, wanting to promote from within.The message from […]
Khaled Elgindy will discuss his new book, “Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians from Balfour to Trump,” on the U.S. role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The talk will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Lee Hall, Room 411. A key adviser to Palestinian peace negotiators from 2004 to 2009, […]
The College of Business (COB) will honor alumni at two separate events next Thursday and Friday.The Executive-in-Residence Business Leaders Breakfast on Thursday, Oct. 17, will feature UMW alumnus Pat Filippone ’88, owner of the 7th Inning Stretch, which owns and operates minor league baseball teams. Pat is a veteran of 29 seasons of professional baseball with a […]
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