Category: Professional Notes

Michelle Crow-Dolby, education and communications manager at Gari Melchers Home & Studio, is now serving on the Fredericksburg Public Relations Society board of directors.

Janusz Konieczny, professor of mathematics, co-authored a research article, The largest subsemilattices of the endomorphism monoid of an independence algebra, published in the journal Linear Algebra and Its Applications.

Lynne Richardson, dean of the College of Business, is publishing a a regular column in the Free Lance-Star. She writes about various aspects of finance and economics. Check out the latest column: Dale Carnegie’s message is timeless.

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, has been in considerable demand as a political analyst during the first week of the federal corruption trial of former Governor Bob McDonnell. His commentary has appeared in recent days in the New York Times, in Bloomberg News, […]

On July 25, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti presented a paper entitled “John Elphinstone and the Battle of Çeşme” to the Second International Congress of Maritime Studies, which took place on July 23-25 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Congress, which featured international scholars presenting some 115 papers primarily relevant to Russian […]

James Monroe Museum Director Scott Harris and Curator Jarod Kearney are the authors of “Articles of the Best Kind:” James Monroe Furnishes the Rebuilt White House, in the current issue of White House History, the journal of the White House Historical Association. Featuring illustrations of artifacts in the museum’s collection that were used in the […]

Doug Gately, senior lecturer in music, recently performed with the National Symphony Orchestra featuring vocalists Matthew Morrison and Tony Award winning Laura Benanti.  Morrison performs on Broadway and is the star of the hit television show, Glee. The NSO concert, conducted by Steven Reineke, was held at Wolf Trap.

Please welcome Scott Jones, Campus Director of the UMW Dahlgren Campus Center for Education and Research. Scott joined the university’s staff last week after a highly successful 30-year career in the defense industry, 28 of which were with BAE Systems’ Dahlgren site. Most recently, he managed a major program for the Naval Surface Warfare Center […]

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.

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. Murphy, along with Associate Professor of Psychology Chris Westbury at the University of Alberta, published “Expanding the scope of selective exposure: An objective […]