Category: Professional Notes

Rao Offers AI Webinar to Small Businesses

Professor of Communication Anand Rao co-presented a webinar about AI for Small Businesses on April 3, 2024. My co-presenter was Steve Gladis and the webinar was hosted by the George Mason Enterprise Center. The title was “Level 2: Building Chatbots for Small Business.” The webinar is part of a series offered by Rao and Gladis. […]

Robininson Co-Hosts Experimental Film Festival

Light House Studio will hold its second annual Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival on April 6 at the Vinegar Hill Theatre. The festival was co-founded by Rachel Lane, Jason Robinson and Anna Hogg. Lane is the program director at Light House Studio, Robinson teaches digital art and filmmaking at the University of Mary Washington […]

Liss Shares Cultural Insight With ‘FinanceBuzz’

Professor of Psychological Science Miriam Liss contributed to a recent FinanceBuzz article titled “The Most Laid-Back Cities Across the U.S. 2024.” FinanceBuzz looked at more than 25 factors across some of America’s biggest cities to find out which cities are the most laid-back and relaxed versus which ones are the most uptight and stressed. Featured […]

Spencer Speaks on the Preservation Work of J.J. Ballentine

J.J. Ballentine was the first president of the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, Inc. and according to a 2016 article about him by Michael Spencer, an associate professor of Historic Preservation at the University of Mary Washington, he worked to preserve the City’s historic buildings by “implementing a revolving fund program that purchased properties beginning with the […]