December 21, 2024

EagleEye

A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff

Dahlgren Gift Benefits UMW College of Education

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“Operation STEM Drop” brought laser printers, virtual reality headsets – even robots – to a University of Mary Washington makerspace classroom last week. The story below was originally posted by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD): NSWC Dahlgren Division Gifts STEM Materials to University of Mary Washington By NSWCDD Corporate Communications FREDERICKSBURG, Va.  –  […]

Disability Studies Course Gains Acceptance at UMW

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One in four Americans lives with a disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the University of Mary Washington, it’s one in eight. “With those sorts of numbers, it’s mind-boggling [that] disability doesn’t have more automatic inclusion when people think about diversity,” said UMW Professor of English Chris Foss. As the […]

UMW History Professor Nabil Al-Tikriti Receives Prestigious Fulbright Grant

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Thanks to a prestigious 2018-2019 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti will spend the next 10 months researching centuries-old manuscripts and archives in Azerbaijan. Al-Tikriti will concentrate on 15th- and 16th- century intellectual history as well as Sufi movements and their connections to the significant political dynasties of […]

Konieczny Presents at American Mathematical Society Meeting

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Janusz Konieczny, professor of mathematics, gave a talk, A new definition of conjugacy for semigroups, in the Special Session on Recent Trends in Semigroup Theory at the meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, Oct. 8-9, 2016.

Rabson Co-edits Anthology of Japanese Literature in Translation

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Steve Rabson, Adjunct Instructor at the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies, has published Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, co-edited with Davinder Bhowmik, from University of Hawaii Press. The anthology presents English translations of fiction, poetry and drama written from the perspectives of an oppressed minority in Japan.