June 30, 2026
A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
UMW Head Athletic Trainer Ian Rogol was awarded the 2016 Athletic Trainer Service Award by the National Athletic Trainers Association. This prestigious award recognizes Ian for his many contributions to the profession and the Association. It also recognizes his long record of service at the state and national level. Well done, Ian, and congratulations!
Ken Tyler
by Erika Spivey
Christopher Garcia, assistant professor in the College of Business, recently had his article “Resource-Constrained Scheduling With Hard Due Windows and Rejection Penalties” accepted for publication in Engineering Optimization. The paper is already online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0305215X.2015.1120298.
by Erika Spivey
Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English, has published Hallow This Ground, a collection of essays on monuments and memorials released in Indiana University Press’ Break Away Books series. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807735
by Erika Spivey
Eric Bonds discusses his research on arctic climate change and American think tanks with The Source.
by Erika Spivey
Gary Richards, Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, has had his essay “Tennessee Williams and the Burden of Southern Sexuality Studies” published in The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016): 310-326. The collection, edited by Fred Hobson and Barbara Ladd, is a “survey of contemporary Southern literary and cultural criticism, and the most comprehensive collection to appear in a generation.”
by Erika Spivey
On January 21, Juliette Landphair, Vice President for Student Affairs, led a discussion session alongside colleagues in Academic Affairs from Elon University, Wake Forest University, and Kalamazoo College at the American Association of Colleges & Universities on the topic of “Intersectionality in Action: Inclusive Excellence on Campus.” Landphair presented applied research about the profound impact of civic engagement on college student identity development.
by Erika Spivey
Laurie B. Abeel, associate professor in the College of Education, presented It’s Time to De-Standardize! Developing Critical and Creative Thinking, at the National Association for Gifted Children conference in Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 12-15. As a result of her presentation, she was asked to keynote the Kansas Gifted, Talented, and Creative conference in October 2016.
by Erika Spivey
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a lecture titled “The 2016 Presidential Election, the Mass Media and the Twilight of the Obama Presidency,” in Washington, DC., as part of the Norwegian Washington Seminar. The lecture included findings from Dr. Farnsworth’s sole-authored book, “Spinner in Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves.”
by Erika Spivey
Eric Bonds discusses his research on arctic climate change and American think tanks with The Source.
by Erika Spivey
Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English, has published a pair of book reviews–one of Valeria Luiselli’s Sidewalks and one of Heather Slomski’s The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons–in the latest issue of Pleiades Book Review.