Getting Women Elected is Just the First Step (Gender Watch 2018)
What a difference a year makes.
https://www.genderwatch2018.org/getting-women-elected-just-first-step/
Miriam Liss Featured on Bravotv.com
For a Happy Life, Love Your Spouse More Than Your Kids, Says One Marriage Counselor (Bravo.com)
Miriam Liss, a psychologist at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia, wrote a study published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies on “intensive parenting” and found that “women who believed that parenting should be child-centered had reduced life satisfaction
http://www.bravotv.com/personal-space/love-your-spouse-more-than-your-kids
Stephen Farnsworth Featured on CTV News
Stephen Farnsworth was recently featured on CTV News, where he shared his thoughts about questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Donald Trump.
You can check out Farnsworth’s interview here:
Richardson’s Weekly Column Published in FLS
Thinking beyond the initial outcome (The Free Lance-Star)
I may not have many abilities in life, but one I do have is thinking about what happens after a decision is made and implemented.
Poska Wins Research Grants For Book Project
Professor of History Allyson M. Poska has been awarded three research grants for her new book project Contested Equality: Smallpox Vaccination in the Spanish Empire (1803-1810).
The grants include: a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society and a Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship. Poska was also named an inaugural recipient of Project Development Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. She will be conducting research in Spain and Mexico during her upcoming sabbatical.
Nabil Al-Tikriti Lectures at Virginia Tech – SPIA
On 19 April, Associate Professor of History Nabil Al-Tikriti spoke at Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), in Alexandria, VA. The topic presented was the global humanitarian system and its impact in the Middle East and other zones of crisis. Attendees included both Virginia Tech SPIA graduate students and undergraduate students associated with both Prof. Ariel Ahram‘s class on Global Security (GIA 5514), and the Washington Semester program.
Prof. Al-Tikriti has worked since 1988 in field development and humanitarian relief programs for Africare, Plan International, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders in over a dozen countries in Africa and the Middle East. He also served on the MSF / Doctors Without Borders USA Board of Directors in 2011-17, and as Vice President in 2016-17.
Rafferty Publishes Latest Essay in Presidential Series
Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English, had his essay on Chester A. Arthur, “Smear Campaign (#21),” to appear last week in the new issue of storySouth. This is the latest in his series of essays devoted to the U.S. presidency and the men who have held that office.
Robert Rycroft Featured in FLS
UMW professor wins Independent Publisher Book Award (The Free Lance-Star)
UMW Economics Professor Robert S. Rycroft recently won a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award for “The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty.”
Steve Greenlaw Featured in Inside Higher Ed
Online Students Don’t Have to Work Solo (Inside Higher Ed)
Steve Greenlaw, a professor of economics at the University of Mary Washington, likes to avoid grouping freshmen together because he wants new students to benefit from the wisdom of their older peers.
David Rettinger Quoted in The Washington Post
Student’s death leads to investigation of possible cheating at George Mason (The Washington Post)
“It is very typical, at least in the lore, for social organizations to maintain these test banks,” said David Rettinger, president of the International Center for Academic Integrity and associate professor of psychological science at the University of Mary Washington. “Obviously it’s against the rules and undermines the learning that faculty hope will occur.”