Lynne Richard’s weekly column, “Make hiring committees work for your company,” recently appeared in The Free Lance-Star.

“Say it’s time to hire a new senior-level manager in your organization,” she writes.

Read the whole column here:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-make-hiring-committees-work-for-your-company/article_8c57ca92-7cba-551e-a174-6b9e09ebf3e6.html

 

UMW political science professor Stephen Farnsworth, was recently featured in the Boston Globe, msn.com and Bustle.com talking about Donald Trump’s tweets.

In the Boston Globe and msn.com:

“If the political conversation is about Donald Trump’s typos, that plays into the narrative that the coastal elites don’t understand ordinary Americans who make typos,” said Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. Farnsworth recently wrote a book on how presidents connect to supporters.

From Bustle.com:

Does Trump Tweet Himself? White House Aides Reportedly Include Grammatical Errors On Purpose

As Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia, told the Boston Globe, “If the political conversation is about Donald Trump’s typos, that plays into the narrative that the coastal elites don’t understand ordinary Americans who make typos.”

Lee Skallerup Bessette was recently quoted in a story in The Chronicle of Higher Education called “What a Controversy Over an App Tells Us About How Students Learn Now.”

Read the story at:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-a-Controversy-Over-an-App/243420

Surupa Gupta recently weighed in on a story in Slate.com called “Walmart Enters India’s Crowded E-Commerce Market.”

“I think Walmart is making a long-term bet, because the e-commerce sector in India is not very big compared to Chinese or American e-commerce,” said Surupa Gupta, a professor at the University of Mary Washington who studies international political economy. She noted that growth is going to depend on the wider availability of smartphones and internet, better online payment systems, more trust in online retailers, and the effectiveness of the tax reform that was passed in the country last year.

“The projection for huge growth in e-commerce by 2026 is based on this notion that all these developments collectively will lead to that big payoff,” she said. “There are a lot of moving parts that have to fall in place for this to be realized.”

Read more at: https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/walmart-buys-flipkart-to-take-on-amazon-in-india.html

David Rettinger, associate professor of psychology at the University of Mary Washington and president of the International Center for Academic Integrity, was recently quoted in a story called “Learning Tool or Cheating Aid?” in Inside Higher Ed.

Read the story here:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/05/14/professors-warned-about-popular-learning-tool-used-students-cheat

Lynne Richardson’s weekly column recently appeared in The Free Lance-Star.

“Twenty-something years ago I remember hearing an aphorism along the lines of: ‘The higher you go up in an organization, the lonelier you get.’ While I thought then that I knew what that phrase meant, now that I’m living it, I truly understand,” Richardson writes in a piece called Keeper of Confidences.

You can find the column here:  http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-keeper-of-confidences/article_66dc1741-1166-58aa-b137-7d46407c91b9.html

Michael Spencer, an associate professor in the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Mary Washington, along with students in his computer application class, have created virtual tours at museums in Fredericksburg.

The projects include the attic in the Mary Washington House; the tunnels below Caroline Street; and a virtual exhibit for the James Monroe Museum.

The work was recently featured in a story in The Free Lance-Star, which you can read here.

Crashing the boys’ club: Women candidates find winning elections is only half the battle (Yahoo.com)

“The attention has been on the record numbers who are running and to the message being sent by those sheer numbers,” says Rosalyn Cooperman, associate professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. “But what kind of change this brings depends not only on who runs and who wins, but how they navigate the rigid political institutions” they are being elected to.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/crashing-boys-club-women-candidates-find-winning-elections-half-battle-090016738.html