A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Suzanne G. Houff, College of Education department of curriculum and cnstruction professor and chair, recently authored Managing the Classroom Environment: Meeting the Needs of the Student. Published by Rowman & Littlefield Education, the book offers educators practical strategies for managing the classroom. Using William Glasser’s ideas as a foundation, the text covers the five basic […]
College of Education Professor George Meadows was an invited presenter at the STEM: Science with the Future in Mind Conference, held at the Virginia Military Institute Oct. 8 and 9. The target audience for the 2013 conference was high school teachers and students. Teachers were able to explore current scientific research as well as the […]
Dre Anthes, Director of Graduate Admissions, was a guest speaker at Virginia Union University on Wednesday, Oct. 9. She presented information on graduate school to two different groups of students, including VUU’s Sydney Lewis School of Business.
Assistant Professor of Music Mark Snyder performed with students Becky Brown and Paige Naylor at the Second Annual Under 40 Music Marathon, an event dedicated to raising breast cancer awareness in men and women under the age of 40.From Sept. 27-29, Hard Rock Cafe – Washington, D.C., City of Hope, and Pink Jams! partnered for […]
UMW’s Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative was one of five featured live video-streamed sessions at the referred 2013 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) conference in Raleigh, N.C. on Oct. 3, 2013.Our panel session, ‘What is the role of ‘Digital Scholarship’ in Higher Education, Faculty Development and the Scholarship of […]
“Developments of Harmonic Maps, Wave Maps and Yang-Mills Fields into Biharmonic Maps, Biwave Maps and Bi-Yang-Mills Fields” by Yuan-Jen Chiang, professor of mathematics, was published by Birhauser, Springer, Basel, in the series of “Frontiers in Mathematics” in Europe.She presented “Developments of Harmonic Maps into Biharmonic Maps” at the second Pacific Rim Mathematical Association Congress, which occurs […]
Janusz Konieczny, professor of mathematics, gave an invited talk, “The Commuting Graph of the Symmetric Inverse Semigroup,” at the Analysis, Logic and Physics Seminar at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Rosalyn Cooperman, Associate Professor of Political Science, wrote an invited post for the London School of Economics USA Politics & Policy blog on divisions among congressional Republicans and the government shutdown. Cooperman states that most House Republicans have no electoral incentive to compromise with congressional Democrats. Those Republicans who do represent swing districts with large […]
A survey of Virginia voters designed by Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, has received extensive media attention, including reports in:The Washington Post , Politico , Daily Kos , Real Clear Politics , WRC-TV, Washington , WTOP , WAMU , The Richmond-Times Dispatch , […]
On Oct. 1, Jim Groom delivered the keynote address “ds106: This Course Could be Your Life” as part of the inaugural Academic Technology Innovation Symposium at the University of North Florida. The presentation frames how all too often technology becomes a tool fetish or a solution to a problem,yet neither of these approaches is particularly meaningful […]
