Category: Professional Notes

Larus Debates on Turkish News

Elizabeth Freund Larus, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs and Pew Davis Fellow for Peace at Middlebury College, debated Chinese officials on Turkey’s Turkuvaz Ahaber2 News. Dr. Larus indicated the U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan as part of her Asia tour does not constitute a change in […]

Williams Inducted into United Way Heritage Circle

Executive Director of Human Resources Beth Williams was among past board members whose terms ended in 2020, 2021 and 2022 to be inducted recently into the Rappahannock United Way (RUW) Heritage Circle.  The RUW Heritage Circle is an exclusive group of past RUW board of director volunteers who have committed time, talents and treasure over […]

Bales Joins Panel at Mississippi Book Festival

Reference and Humanities Librarian Emeritus Jack Bales joined a panel discussion at the Mississippi Book Festival. The appearance drew on Bales’ acclaim as a literary scholar of late author Willie Morris. The appearance was mentioned in an article titled “Remembering Morris, Hannah and other friends at the Mississippi Book Festival”, which ran in The Daily […]

Rotter Joins National Shared Governance Meeting

Associate Professor of German Marcel Rotter, who serves as parliamentarian of UMW’s University Faculty Council, joined 21 other governance leaders in Houston to discuss national shared governance issues at the meeting of the National Council of Faculty Senates.Rotter joined leaders from the Faculty Senates of Ferris State University, Illinois State University, Nicholls State University, Northwestern State […]