The Cahiers de la Méditerranée, the peer-reviewed journal of the Université de Nice, recently published “Italy, British resolve and the 1935-36 Italo-Ethiopian War” by Jason W. Davidson, associate professor of Political Science and International Affairs.
Communication Journal Honors UMW Political Science Professor
Chad Murphy, assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Mary Washington, was recently announced as the recipient of article of the year for 2014 by Communication Methods and Measures journal.
Chad Murphy (second from left), assistant professor of Political Science, was announced as the recipient of article of the year for 2014 by Communication Methods and Measures journal.
Murphy, along with Associate Professor of Psychology Chris Westbury at the University of Alberta, published “Expanding the scope of selective exposure: An objective approach to measurement of media ideology” in August 2013.
“The paper does an excellent job describing the methodological limitations of current approaches to selective exposure (i.e., blunt coding, assumption of neutrality, artificial unidimensionality),” said members of the committee who selected the winners. “Further, the cognitive psychology focus on word co-occurrence is interesting and innovative to selective exposure research.”
The winning paper was selected in a two-step process. Editors of the Communication Methods and Measures journal narrowed down the list of articles before members of an executive board serving on a special committee identified the winners.
Murphy and Westbury will be awarded during an annual conference in Montreal, Canada.
Richardson Addresses Southern Business Administration Association
Lynne Richardson, dean of the College of Business, gave a plenary address at the Southern Business Administration Association summer meeting on July 14 in Clearwater, Florida. Her invited talk was “Checking our Own Development with Lessons from the Aspiring Deans Seminar.”
Hydorn to Serve as Leadership Mentor
Debra Hydorn, Professor of Mathematics, was selected to serve as a leadership mentor at the AAC&U/Project Kaleidoscope Summer Leadership Institute. As a mentor she will help participating science faculty develop their leadership plans for projects aimed at transforming undergraduate STEM education. The institute will take place at Pendle Hill, a conference center near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 18-23. To learn more about this and other institutes offered by AAC&U see http://www.aacu.org/summerinstitutes/index.cfm.
Heritage Newsletter Receives Awards
Donna Harter Raab, executive director of advancement campaign initiatives, received a first place award from the Virginia Press Women Association for writing and editing the Heritage Newsletter. State first place winners were automatically entered in the national contest, and she has received a second place award from the National Federation of Press Women. National awards will be presented in September at the organization’s conference in South Carolina.
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Gupta Presents on BRICS and Global Economic Governance
Surupa Gupta, associate professor of Political Science and International Affairs, presented on “BRICS and Global Economic Governance” at the Observer Research Foundation, a premier think tank in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. She provided the opening remarks and Amb. H.H.S Viswanathan, Distinguished Fellow, ORF, was the discussant. Vivan Sharan of ORF’s Global Governance Initiative moderated the discussion.
Brewer Stars in Capital Fringe Festival Play
Cate Brewer, lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Dance, is spending her summer starring in Isis and Vesco Investigate the Curious Death of Dr. Freud. The play begins this month, with the first showing on Saturday, July 12 at The Redrum in Washington, D.C. For more information, check out the DC Metro Theater Arts blog.
Smith Publishes Preservation Education Paper
Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation Andréa Livi Smith’s article “Development of a Preservation Planning Board Game” was published in Preservation Education: Sharing Best Practices and Finding Common Ground edited by Barry L. Stiefel and Jeremy C. Wells (University Press of New England).
Al-Tikriti Chairs Social Media Panel, Re-Elected to MSF USA Board
Nabil Al-Tikriti at MSF USA General Assembly in NYC
During the May 30-31, 2014 MSF/Doctors Without Borders USA annual General Assembly, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti successfully ran for re-election to the MSF USA board of directors. Each term runs for three years, and is completely voluntary. First elected in 2011, with his re-election Al-Tikriti hopes to continue serving on the MSF USA board through 2014. Elected board members traditionally spring from returned field volunteers, a qualification which Al-Tikriti gained in Somalia (1993), Iran (1996), Albania (1999), Turkey (1999), Jordan/Iraq (2002-2003), and Turkey/Syria (2013).
In his capacity as a board member, on May 30 Al-Tikriti co-organized (with Jason Cone, MSF USA Director of Communications), moderated, and led discussion for a plenary session entitled “Use of Social Media in Crisis Situations” during the 2014 MSF USA General Assembly in Brooklyn. During this session, participants set out to describe various experiences in the field regarding the use of social media.
Session panelists included: Wendy Harman (Director of Information Management and Situational Awareness, American Red Cross), Patrick Meier (Director of Social Innovation at QCRI), Chris Houston (Member, MSF Canada Board of Directors), and Jason Cone (Director of Communications, MSF USA).
The session description was as follows: “MSF’s relationship with social media is no longer a matter of choice, if indeed it ever was. Social media is the communications reality in which MSF must learn to operate. What new challenges does this pose, and what are the opportunities to be found therein? What have been our experiences with social media in recent years, and what lessons might we learn from them? What are we doing in order both to leverage social media in furtherance of our own ends, and to prepare ourselves for instances when pressure is exerted on MSF via social media?”
Aminrazavi Presents at International Conference
Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of Philosophy and Religion and Co-Director of the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies, presented a paper entitled “The Pearls and Perils of Teaching the Prophetic Message Virtually” at the International Conference on Islamic E-Learning.
Sponsored jointly by The Islamic College of London and Middlesex University, the conference was held in London on May 27 and 28.