Brian Baker, Executive Director for Economic Development, was elected to the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors for a three-year term that began on January 1, 2016. He has been an active member at the Chamber since 2002. During that time he has served roles on the Strategic Planning Committee, facilitated Board strategic planning, Finance Committee, the strategic visioning committee, the small business planning committee, the Leadership Fredericksburg Advisory Board, Mentor Cabinet Chair, and served as a Leadership Fredericksburg mentor since 2008 . In 2011 he was recognized as an honorary fellow of Leadership Fredericksburg.
Barrenechea Presents at Modern Language Association Conference
Antonio Barrenechea, associate professor of English, presented “America Unbound” at the 2016 Modern Language Association conference in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 7-10. The paper was part of the roundtable discussion “Igniting Hemispheric Scholarship in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.”
Poska Publishes New Book
Allyson Poska, professor of history and program chair of Women’s and Gender Studies, has published a new book, Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire (University of New Mexico Press, 2016). A preview of the book can be found here.
Dasgupta Publishes Essay in South Asian Review
Shumona Dasgupta, assistant professor of English, has had her article “Partitions of Memory: Trauma and Narrative in Jyotirmoyee Devi’s The River Churning” published in South Asian Review 36.3 (Dec. 2015): 51-65. A description of the essay can be accessed here.
Rao Publishes Piece in Communication Center Journal
P. Anand Rao, associate professor of communication and director of Speaking Intensive Program, recently co-authored with three colleagues at different institutions the piece “Strategies for Assessment in Communication Centers: Perspectives from Across the Field,” which was published in the new Communication Center Journal: http://commcenters.org/content/05-journal/communication-center-journal-vol-1.pdf
Housley Presents Workshop at Conference
Helen Housley, Associate Professor of Theatre, presented a workshop, “Feeling Shakespeare’s Buzz: Tonal NRG and the Shakespearean Actor,” at the annual Lessac Training and Research Institute’s Conference in Denver, Colo., Jan. 5-7, 2016.
Gray Heads National Association Interest Group
Edward Gray, Systems Integration and Support Specialist in UMW’s IT Support Services, has assumed the lead post in the Higher Education Community of Interest for the IT Service Management Forum’s USA Chapter. He served one year as Assistant Manager. Now, he takes over the role of Community Manager.
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Farnsworth Speaks on Virginia Politics
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently was part of the Virginia Business Panel in Richmond, where he spoke about the results of the 2015 legislative elections and the key issues in the upcoming 2016 legislative session.
Lee Publishes Research Article in KSIAM
Associate Professor of Mathematics Leo Lee saw the recent publication of his paper “The h x p Finite Element Method for Optimal Control Problems Constrained by Stochastic Elliptic PDEs” in the Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Dr. Lee presented a talk on the results of this article at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle in January.
Bonds Publishes Article on Planning for a Changing Arctic
Assistant Professor of Sociology Eric Bonds recently published an article in the journal Environmental Sociology, which is based on his analysis of think tank and national security strategy documents for transformations in the Arctic region linked with global warming. The article, titled “Losing the Arctic: The Corporate Community, the National Security State, and Climate Change,” can be found here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23251042.2015.1131600