Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, was a special guest on the Vietnam News talk show “World 360 Degrees” on January 23, 2021. Professor Larus explained that addressing the novel coronavirus would be President Joe Biden’s top domestic priority. She also commented on U.S.-Vietnam relations, analyzing U.S. charges against Vietnam for […]
Associate Professor of European and Modern Russian History Steven E. Harris penned an editorial on Communist dictator Joseph Stalin and and Soviet aircraft engineer Andrei Tupolev in advance of his Great Lives lecture on Thursday Jan. 28, at 7:30 pm on Zoom, as part of UMW’s “Great Lives” series. It can be accessed at umw.edu/greatlives. […]
Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti penned an editorial on Ottoman Empire Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent in advance of his Great Lives lecture on Tuesday Jan. 26, at 7:30 pm on Zoom, as part of UMW’s “Great Lives” series. It can be accessed at umw.edu/greatlives. IN 2011, Turkish television launched a new series, entitled […]
College of Business Dean Lynne Richardson’s column in The Free Lance-Star is entitled, “WHY IS THE ANSWER ALWAYS NO?”YOU APPROACH a colleague with a request to do something in a new way. Your colleague responds immediately: “No. That’s not possible.” Of course, it may not be possible, but perhaps it is, and your colleague just […]
From 11 December 2020 to 16 January 2021, Middle East History Professor Nabil Al-Tikriti served as a Long Term Observer (LTO) for the Organization of Security & Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.In the course of this five week deployment, Prof. Al-Tikriti interviewed local leaders of all five recognized Kazakh parties; met with civil […]
