Category: Professional Notes

Bylenok’s ‘With Good Reason’ Episode Rebroadcast Starting on March 27

Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing Laura Bylenok will be featured in a rebroadcast of With Good Reason on public radio stations across the country.  An award-winning poet who stitches together her love of science with her passion for the written word, Bylenok read from her recent collection on WGR’s Poetry That Heals last spring. […]

Richardson Column in The Free Lance-Star

College of Business Dean Lynne Richardson’s weekly column in The Free Lance-Star discusses the importance of body language. Read NONVERBAL SIGNALS SPEAK VOLUMES.  Did you know research shows that your body language, or nonverbal messaging, speaks louder to people than the words you say? Some believe 55 percent of communication is nonverbal. Within that remaining 45 […]

Farnsworth Comments in the Regional and National News

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, has been quoted in several regional and national news stories:Grading the region’s coronavirus response: Hogan 1st, Northam last, and Bowser in the middle (The Washington Post)National Media Discover Gov. Hogan: ’The Republican Who Gets It’ (Maryland Matters)Viewpoints with […]

Stommel Comments on Grading During Coronavirus

Jesse Stommel, senior lecturer of Digital Studies, commented on an EdSurge.com article, “To Grade or Not to Grade? During Coronavirus, That is the Question.”Crises tend to insert new words into our lexicon. For educators in the era of coronavirus, one such term is “continuity.” It’s become both a strategy and a rallying cry as classrooms […]