Cassandra Good, associate editor of the Papers of James Monroe, has received an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship at the Virginia Historical Society. She will spend two weeks there conducting research for her book project on George Washington’s family and their political role in the 19th century.
Chiang Publishes Research Article in CCM
Yuan-Jen Chiang, Professor of Mathematics, has published a research article titled “Exponentially Harmonic Maps, Exponential Stress Energy and Stability” in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics by World Scientific Publisher.
Farnsworth’s Book Chapter Published
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is co-author of a book chapter, “News Coverage of U.S. Presidential Campaigns: Reporting on Primaries and General Elections, 1988-2012,” published in The Praeger Handbook of Political Campaigning in the United States (William Benoit, ed.).
Farnsworth Discusses Primaries on CTV News
Political analyst Stephen Farnsworth joins CTV News Channel to weigh in on just how crucial the recent primaries are, and what they mean for presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
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Snyder Performs at SCI Regional Conference
Assistant Professor of Music Mark Snyder, performed his piece Qwee for processed soprano, harp, accordion and video at the 2016 Society of Composer Incorporated Region III Conference at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, on Feb. 26. Accompanying him were UMW alums harpist Becky Brown ’15 and soprano Paige Naylor ’14.
Dr. Snyder’s former students also presented their works at the same conference. 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 concert 4:
along with Stephen Hennessey’s Ausgang, a sentimental work structured around the development of a simple melody through episodic processing featuring the composer on guitar.
In addition to performing at SCI, Mark gave a master class on his music at the University of Louisville and performed his solo show at Dreamland on Feb. 24.
Performances of his solo show were also held at Eyedrum in Atlanta Feb. 29, at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA March 1, and the show at Zeitgeist Gallery was the Nashville Scene’s Critics pick for Feb. 28.
Hirshberg Presents Proposal at Japanese Garden Association Conference
Dan Hirshberg, assistant professor in the Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, recently presented UMW’s Zen garden proposal to the Biennial Meeting of the North American Japanese Garden Association, held at the Morikami Gardens in Delray, Fla. His invited paper explored Zen gardens as loci of wellness on college campuses, while highlighting UMW initiatives in Contemplative Studies, Asian Studies, and multiculturalism.
Farnsworth published by “The Fix” blog, Washington Post
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is co-author of an opinion column, “Late Night Tells Three Times as Many Jokes about 2016 Republicans as Democrats,” published by “The Fix” blog of the Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/08/late-night-tells-3-times-as-many-jokes-about-2016-republicans-as-democrats/
Erchull Presents at Annual Meeting of Association for Women in Psychology
Mindy Erchull recently presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Women in Psychology held in Pittsburgh, Pa. She presented a paper titled The thin ideal: A “wrong prescription” not an inspiration based on a book chapter in the recently published book, The wrong prescription for women: How medicine and media create a ‘need’ for treatments, drugs, and surgery. She also presented a poster titled Self-sexualization: From other-evaluation to self-evaluation with Leanna Papp (’14) and Celeste Kelly (’15).
Chris Garcia Publishes Chapter
Chris Garcia, assistant professor in the College of Business, co-authored a chapter with Ghaith Rabadi titled “Approximation Algorithms for Spatial Scheduling” in Rabadi, G. (ed) Heuristics, Meta-heuristics and Approximate Methods in Planning and Scheduling, Vol. 236 of the series International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, Springer Science + Business, New York. (The chapter is available online: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-26024-2_1)
Preston and Harris Featured in Monroe-Related Media
Daniel Preston, editor of the Papers of James Monroe, and Scott Harris, director of the James Monroe Museum, are featured in a new documentary film titled Monroe Hill. The movie traces the evolution of Monroe’s Albemarle County farm that is today the University of Virginia, and the events that shaped the destiny of the fifth president of the United States. Monroe Hill premiered at the Virginia Film Festival in November. It will be shown at the Richmond International Film Festival on March 6, and at UMW’s Hurley Convergence Center on March 7 at 7 p.m. (popcorn provided).
Preston and Harris
Preston and Harris also discussed Monroe recently as part of a Washington Post presidential podcast series: https://soundcloud.com/washington-post/james-monroe-the-forrest-gump.