A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Each month, a UMW Athletics Faculty Liaison will be featured in the Ultimate Subaru Spotlight. The faculty liaison program partners a UMW faculty member with every UMW intercollegiate athletic team to strengthen support networks and increase resources for student-athlete success. Ultimate Subaru is committed to the growth and education of UMW Eagles, their hometown team […]
Michelle Crow-Dolby, Gari Melchers Home & Studio’s Education and Communications Manager, has been appointed to the City of Fredericksburg’s Clean and Green Commission.
Rita Dunston, university registrar, and Kevin Caffrey, senior associate registrar, have been selected to present at the 102nd Annual Meeting of AACRAO (American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers) in Phoenix, AZ March 20-23, 2016. Their presentation, “Social? We Can be Social!”, focuses on how your office can successfully utilize social media in order […]
Professor of English Chris Foss just has published an article entitled “Individual Redemption through Universal Design; or, How IEP Meetings Have Infused My Pedagogy with an Ethic of Care(taking)” in the latest number of Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. Pedagogy is published by Duke University Press and describes itself as […]
Cassandra Good, associate editor of the Papers of James Monroe, was interviewed for CSPAN’s American History TV. She spoke about James Monroe’s life and foreign policy. The interview originally aired on September 6 and is available online at http://www.c-span.org/video/?326815-7/discussion-james-monroe-foreign-policy.
Elizabeth Larus, professor of political science and international affairs presented a paper, “US Rebalance to Asia and China-US Relations,” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco in early September. Dr. Larus, a Taiwan Fellow, was the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office […]
Scott Harris, director of the James Monroe Museum, was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG). You can find more information at http://aamg-us.org/wp/aamg-appoints-three-new-board-members/.
The University of Mary Washington was represented by Department of Music faculty, students and alumni at the 2015 Root Signals Electronic Music Festival at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville Florida. Root Signals is sponsored by the Division of Music at Jacksonville University, and the Department of Music at Georgia Southern University and featured guest percussionist Tony Steve for the […]
Rachel Graefe-Anderson and John Marsh, both assistant professors in the College of Business, have published the article “Cashing-In: Understanding Post-Acquisition CEO Stock Option Exercise” in the journal Management Decision.
UMW Executive Director of Economic Development Brian Baker conducted strategic planning with Board Members of the Virginia Business Incubation Association. Baker is a practitioner of the actionable balanced scorecard approach to strategic planning. The session was hosted at the Waynesboro Office of Economic Development. The Virginia Business Incubation Association is an education and networking association for […]
