A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
University of Mary Washington President Richard V. Hurley received the Prince B. Woodard Leadership Award at the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Gala, Friday, Jan. 30. The annual award is given to an individual who has provided a lifetime of service to the Fredericksburg region. “Since assuming UMW’s presidency in 2010, he has overseen […]
Melody Denhere, assistant professor of mathematics, presented her work “Rank Estimation for the Functional Linear Model” in a session on Probability and Statistics at the Joint Mathematics Meetings which were held in San Antonio, Texas from Jan. 10 – 13. This work was a collaboration with Huybrechts Bindele from the University of South Alabama.Earlier, Denhere […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a lecture at Carter Hall in Boyce, Virginia, entitled, “The Ever-changing State of Virginia Politics,” as part of the Virginia Candidate Training Program. The nonpartisan program, sponsored by the Sorensen Institute of the University of Virginia, […]
The Turkish History Foundation [TTK: Türk Tarih Kurumu], recently published the conference proceedings from the “International Piri Reis and Turkish Maritime History Symposium” [“Uluslararası Piri Reis ve Türk Denizcilik Tarihi Sempozyumu”], which Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti participated in at Istanbul in September, 2013. The title of this peer-reviewed volume is Findings in […]
AAC&UAt the 100th Annual Conference of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Jeffrey McClurken, Professor of History and American Studies and Special Assistant to the Provost for Teaching, Technology, and Innovation, co-presented as part of a panel entitled, Century America: A Multi-Campus Digital History Collaboration. McClurken presented with Leah Tams ‘14, Professor Ellen Pearson […]
Steven E. Harris, associate professor of history, published his essay, “Soviet Mass Housing and the Communist Way of Life,” in the volume Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present, eds., Choi Chatterjee, David L. Ransel, Mary Cavender, and Karen Petrone (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015). This edited collection of peer reviewed essays is published in […]
Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of Philosophy and Religion, recently co-edited From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century, the fifth volume of An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia.The fifth and final volume of An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia deals with some seven centuries of Islamic thought stretching from the era following the Mongol invasion […]
Steve Klein, adjunct instructor of English, Linguistics and Communication, will be presenting a paper, “Hugh S. Fullerton, the Black Sox Scandal, and the Ethical Impulse in Sports Writing,” at the annual NINE Spring Training Baseball Conference in Tempe, Arizona, on March 13.He also had a book review published in the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) December newsletter of […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a U.S. Department of State program lecture entitled, “U.S. Journalism, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Development,” in Washington, DC., for visiting Palestinian professors. The lecture was part of the Institute for International Education’s International Visitor Leadership […]
David Ambuel, professor of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, recently published Turtles All the Way Down: On Plato’s Theaetetus, a Translation and Commentary. Academia Verlag published the book in January, 2015.
