UMW Director of Jazz Studies Doug Gately and UMW students were in recently for the annual Jazz4Justice show with the Town Talk talkshow. Listen here.The annual fundraiser,Jazz4Justice, for Legal Aid Works and music scholarships will be held at Dodd Auditorium at UMW on. November 4th at 7:30 at Dodd Auditorium. Tickets at the door or […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of Political Science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented an online lecture, “President Biden’s Struggle to Shape the Political Narrative: White House Communication in Contentious Times,” to students at McGill University in Montreal. The talk drew on Professor Farnsworth’s book, “Presidential Communication and Character,” published […]
Professor of Psychological Science Miriam Liss was quoted in a New York Post article about happiness titled “10 unhappiest states list reveals some surprises.” “It is important to live where you can afford housing without being financially stressed and where you can build some sort of community and develop strong friendship networks,” Liss said. “Research […]
Professor of Anthropology Eric Gable contributed to an article titled “Why separating fact from fiction is critical in teaching U.S. slavery,” which ran in the Times Union. The article starts: “Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: ‘Instruction includes how slaves developed […]
Last year the US government imposed semiconductor export controls on China amid concerns that the country was using civilian technology for military purposes. Elizabeth Larus writes that these and other measures such as the denial of license applications by the US Commerce Department and nuclear nonproliferation controls have put US trade, investment, and defense industry lobbyists […]
