Gari Melchers Home and Studio Garden Manager Jody Wilken is the recipient of the Southern Garden History Society Young Professional Grant and will be attending the annual meeting at Mount Vernon. The event spans 3 days and is from April 22-24. All her expenses including hotel and meals will be covered by a very generous […]
Yuan-Jen Chiang, Professor of Mathematics, had a research article “Exponentially Harmonic Maps Carrying Potential” published in Boletin de la Sociedad Matematica Mexicana by Springer.
Krystyn Moon, Professor of History and American Studies, recently co-authored two articles on central Cuba. “La Picadora: A Case Study in Cuban Agroecotourism,” which appeared last summer in the International Journal of Cuban Studies, looks at the impact of sustainable farming and tourism on a rural community that historically had not seen foreign visitors. “Food Access, Identity, and […]
Eric G. Lorentzen, Professor of English, published a review of Adam Grener’s new book, Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, in the latest volume of the Victorians Institute Journal (48). Grener’s novelists (Austen, Scott, Dickens, Trollope, Hardy) were committed to a mode of fiction that primarily foregrounded chance and coincidence to “represent a historical and contingent […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently commented on the following news stories:Virginia Senate Approves Bill that Would Make Masks Optional in Schools (WSET; ABC 7 News; WJLA)Judge temporarily halts Youngkin order making masks optional in Va. schools after lawsuit from school boards (The […]
