Category: Professional Notes

McDonald Talks ‘Super Tuesday’ With The Conversation

Assistant Professor of Political Science Jared McDonald shared his expertise with media, earning recent mentions, including: Super Tuesday voters turn out to select parties’ presidential nominee (Courthouse News Service) “There are enough delegates out there that that if things changed dramatically, Nikki Haley could start reeling off wins and amass enough delegates,” said Jared McDonald, […]

Parker’s Hunt for Mary Washington Grave Continues to Make Headlines

Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation Katherine Parker’s work with UMW students to locate Mary Washington’s grave continues to catch media attention. Mary Washington’s Grave Location a Mystery (Mount Vernon Gazette)The team was led by historians from Washington Heritage Museums, and a professor from the University of Mary Washington who manned the GSSI Ground Penetrating Radar apparatus […]

Rao Presents at International AI Conference

Anand Rao, Chair of Communication and Digital Studies, attended the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) meeting in Vancouver, Canada, to share research on the development of AI tools to support the teaching of argumentation and debate. He and his co-authors had a poster presentation at the AAI Conference’s AI4Education Workshop titled “Augmented […]

Farnsworth Shares Primary Predictions on WTOP

Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies Stephen Farnsworth shared his political predictions with Washington, D.C.-based radio station WTOP. In the segment, titled “Primary in Virginia,” Farnsworth said, “I think Nikki Haley will do better in Virginia than she will do in most of the other states on […]