Kanchan Deosthali, Assistant Professor in the College of Business, conducted a team-building session for the Stafford County Public Schools on Friday, Feb. 19. This team-building session for school educators focused on communicating effectively and building trust within and across teams. The session also focused on enhancing interpersonal skills of team members and the importance of knowledge sharing in today’s organizations.
Simpson Presents Findings at 2016 BSATSMC
Associate Director of Student Health Heidi Simpson, RN, MSN, FNP-C and Doctor of Nursing Candidate at Old Dominion University, presented the findings of her study: Concussion Attitudes, Knowledge, Recognition and Self-Reporting Behavior in University Club Sport Athletes at the 2016 Big Sky Athletic Training and Sports Medicine conference held Jan. 31, 2016 through Feb. 4, 2016. The BSATSMC is an annual conference providing up-to-date sports medicine information to more than 350 health care professionals from across the country. Simpson presented her original research during a one-day concussion focus session. The findings that were presented focused on the data she collected during the fall 2015 semester from the UMW club sport community.
Pineda Places Poems, Essay
Jon Pineda, Assistant Professor of English, has recently had his poem “Rapidan Bestiary” accepted for publication by Gray’s Sporting Journal. Other new fly-fishing poems–“Rappahannock Bestiary” and “Smallmouth Bestiary”–will appear in the forthcoming issue of storySouth.
His creative nonfiction essay “Circumference” recently appeared in the literary magazine Qu and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses).
Finally, his poem “The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South,” featured on Poetry Foundation’s website at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/249334), has been selected by Minnesota State University, Mankato to be part of MSU’s 2016 National Poetry Month Video Project.
Denhere Publishes Two Articles
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Melody Denhere published two articles recently. The article titled Robust Principal Component Functional Logistic Regression was published in Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2013.861628). This article was co-authored with Nedret Billor. The second article co-authored with Huybrechts Bindele, Rank Estimation for the Functional Linear Model, has been published in the Journal of Applied Statistics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2015.1125863 ).
Crawley Appears on Town Talk Radio Program
UMW’s Bill Crawley, Director of Great Lives and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, appeared on News Talk 1230 radio on Feb. 15 to discuss UMW’s Great Lives series as part of the Town Talk program.
http://www.newstalk1230.net/episode/town-talk-feb-15/
Reynolds Publishes Article in NELTA ELT Forum
Patricia Reynolds of the College of Education has had an article published in the February 2016 NELTA ELT Forum, an official publication of Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association (NELTA), which works for the professional development of English teachers and teacher educators.
Snyder Performs at SEAMUS National Conference, Appointed to Board
Assistant Professor of Music Mark Snyder’s Facets of Love was presented at the 2016 Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference on Feb. 11 at Georgia Southern University. Accompanying him were UMW alums harpist Becky Brown ’15 and soprano Paige Naylor ’14.
Dr. Snyder was also appointed to the SEAMUS board as the new Conference Recruitment Coordinator. He will identify locations of future conferences and act as a liaison between the board and potential conference hosts as they develop their proposals. SEAMUS President Scott Miller said he selected Dr. Snyder for the position based on his many years of experience successfully hosting national conferences, his strong network of professional connections with so many SEAMUS members, and especially his enthusiastic attitude towards the organization and discipline as a whole. “I am certain that Mark is going to be tremendously successful at this position,” said Miller.
Two of Snyder’s students also had performances this year. Becky Brown’s Hold Still, a multimedia self-portrait for pencil, copper and Arduino on paper and video in Max/MSP/Jitter and original poetry from the composer was featured on the opening concert:
Stephen Hennessey’s Sorrow’s Weep Not, an abstract song: a sentimental statement for severe want of words for processed guitar & oboe featuring Staff Advisory Council President and Music Department Office Manager Michael Morley on Oboe and the composer on guitar:
Kraus Joins Ukrainian Musicians for Memorial Benefit Concert at Ukrainian Embassy
Adjunct Instructor of Piano Andrew Kraus joins Gerdan members Solomia Gorokhivska, violin, and Andrei Pidkivkha, flute, for a “Heavenly Hundred” concert to benefit United Help Ukraine.
- When: Feb. 19, 2016, from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
(Concert from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) - Where: Embassy of Ukraine, 3350 M St. NW, Washington, DC 20007 – View Map
- Tickets available at http://heavenlyhundred2016.eventbrite.com
The program features music of a variety of types: “classical music” jazz, and Ukrainian folk and popular music including Miroslov Skoryk’s classic Melodie.
As written on the United Help Ukraine website, “This year marks the second anniversary of the mass shootings on Maidan during the Revolution of Dignity, Ukraine’s fight for freedom. The Embassy of Ukraine in the USA, Gerdan and United Help Ukraine invite you to a charity concert to commemorate the Heavenly Hundred who gave their lives for free Ukraine. Please come and support Ukraine. Silent auctions and a reception to follow.
Fallon Presents Findings at Afroasiatic Conference
Associate Professor of Linguistics Paul D. Fallon presented the paper “Are the Agaw languages Cushitic?: A lexical analysis” to the 44th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL), held at the University of Texas, Austin on Feb. 13-14, 2016. His findings investigated the lexical innovations of the Cushitic language family, a linguistic group of East Africa ranging from Egypt to Tanzania.
Majid Article Accepted for Publication
An article by Kashef Majid titled “Drawing negative inferences from a positive country-of-origin image — Consumers’ use of COI and price levels to assess counterfeit drugs” has been accepted for publication by the International Marketing Review. Majid is an assistant professor of marketing in the College of Business.