Category: Professional Notes

Kolar Discusses the Pandemic’s Impact on Personality

Professor of Psychological Science David Kolar weighed in on an article in The Alpena News in Michigan how the pandemic and isolation can impact personality.David Kolar, a psychology professor at the University of Mary Washington, said personalities remain relatively consistent throughout our lifetime.“While personality certainly can change with age, we tend to keep our rank […]

Richardson Column in The Free Lance-Star

College of Business Dean Lynne Richardson’s latest column in The Free Lance-Star is entitled, “Aids to ensure better productivity.”I WEAR hearing aids. Most people are surprised to learn this. They are not only surprised I wear them—and have for more than 15 years—but that I share that I wear them. Evidently, I’m supposed to be […]

McClurken Comments on J&J Vaccine Pause on WJLA

UMW Chief of Staff and Professor of History and American Studies Jeff McClurken, one of the University’s COVID co-coordinators, was interviewed on WJLA ABC-7 news about how the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine pause will impact efforts to get college students vaccinated before they return home for the summer.“One of the things J&J offered as […]

Richards Presents at Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival

Gary Richards, Professor of English, recently led the Books and Beignets discussion of Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, held virtually March 24-28, 2021. The discussion marked the seventieth anniversary of The Rose Tattoo‘s Broadway opening as well as Richards’s fifteenth year of leading this annual event.

McAllister Publishes Article, Book Review

Marie McAllister, Professor of English, recently published “Rhetoric, the Pox, and the Grand Tour,” which appeared as the lead article in the April 2021 issue of Eighteenth-Century Life.McAllister also recently published a review of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, by Noelle Gallagher, in Journal of the History of Sexuality.