A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Suzanne Huffman, digital resources librarian, and Katherine Perdue, assistant systems librarian, presented at the recent Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) in Roanoke. Their session, The Interactive Experience: Exploring Technologies for Creating Touchscreen Exhibits, focused on their experiences in creating and managing interactive exhibits, describing useful tools, open-source products, implementation strategies and assessment techniques. Carolyn Parsons, […]
Cassandra Good, associate editor of the Papers of James Monroe, presented a paper at the Society for United States Intellectual History in Washington D.C. on Oct. 17. The paper was titled “Making the Historical Personal: The Founding Fathers, Gender, and the Cultural Turn.”
Rosalyn Cooperman, associate professor of political science, wrote an analysis of the Oct. 13 Democratic presidential nominees’ debate for the U.S. News and World Report’s Debate Club. Professor Cooperman’s piece may be accessed here:http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/who-won-the-first-democratic-debate
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently moderated a debate for the 36th District of the Senate of Virginia. Del. Scott Surovell (D) and Dumfries Mayor Jerry Foreman (R) are competing in the district, which includes portions of Stafford, Prince William and Fairfax counties. The incumbent […]
Gary Richards, associate professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication, was featured in a story about Juliette Wells, a professor and expert on Jane Austen, coming to UMW on Tuesday, Oct. 20. The story can be accessed here.
John P. Broome, assistant professor and program director of preK-12, middle and secondary education in the College of Education, is a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Montessori Research, housed at the University of Kansas.The journal is the official research publication of the American Montessori Society (AMS).“The American Montessori Society (AMS) is the […]
Yuan-Jen Chiang, professor of mathematics, had a research article “Exponentially Harmonic Maps and Their Properties” published in Mathematische Nachrichten by Wiley-VCH in Europe.She presented “Some Properties of f-biharmonic Maps” at the 2015 International Congress on Mathematical Physics in Santiago, Chile. She also presented “Transversally f-biharmonic Maps between Foliated Riemannian Manifolds” at the Lehigh University Geometry and Topology Conference.
Professor of English Chris Foss recently accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool University Press/Project MUSE). The journal is one of the two most important venues for scholarly work in the interdisciplinary field of disability studies (together with Disability Studies Quarterly), and it is the key […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently published an article entitled, “Virginia Voters and Decentralized Governmental Power: Federal Frustration and State Satisfaction?” The article appeared in the current issue of the Virginia Social Science Journal, a refereed scholarly journal.
Elizabeth Larus, professor of political science and international affairs, delivered comments on the key drivers of Taiwan’s 2016 elections to U.S. Department of State foreign service officers and government analysts at the Summer Working Group “2016 and Beyond: Impact of Taiwan’s Presidential and Legislative Elections on Taiwan, Cross-Strait Relations, and US-Taiwan Relations,” in McLean, Va. […]
