A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
The 5th Annual VelocityDC Dance Festival will take place on October 10-12, 2013 at Sydney Harman Hall in Washington, D.C. The festival includes performances on the main stage in Sydney Harman Hall, the RAMP series featuring artists in the downstairs studio in the theater and a Site Specific performance pre-show at the Portrait Gallery and […]
April Greenan, Assistant Professor of Music, delivered the John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture in Medicine & Society at the University of Virginia School of Medicine on September 25, 2013. The lecture was entitled, “Music as Medicine: How 21st-Century Physicians Can Apply Music to Comprehensive Patient Care.”
It’s the shot discussed—and disputed—around the world: Babe Ruth’s home run during the third game of the 1932 Chicago Cubs – New York Yankees World Series. Did the Yankees’ Babe Ruth really (and perhaps arrogantly?) point to the outfield before he slammed a ball into the center-field bleachers at Chicago’s Wrigley Field? Opinions have usually […]
Antonio Barrenechea, Associate Professor of English, recently presented “All-American Literature” within an experimental “Ideas of the Decade” panel at ACL(x)/E(x)amine, a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association. Hosted by Penn State University, the conference ran September 27-28, 2013.
Sally Scott, director of disability resources at the University of Mary Washington and a member of the Association on Higher Education and Disability participated in the Forty Years of Learning Under Section 504 celebration on Thursday, September 26 at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. Highlights included U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan […]
Surupa Gupta, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, presented her co-authored paper on India’s foreign policy at a seminar on “Foreign Policies of BRICS Countries” organized by the Royal Danish Defense College on September 9 2013, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Rosalyn Cooperman, Associate Professor of Political Science, presented a paper, “The Elephant in the Room: Conservative Women’s Groups and Republican Women Candidates in U.S. Congressional Elections, 2008 – 2012,” at the 2013 European Consortium for Political Research General Conference in Bordeaux, France.
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, delivered a lecture entitled, “The State of American Politics: Obama Faces Syria, the Federal Budget and Congress,” at The Norwegian Washington Seminar in Washington, D.C., on September 23.In addition, Farnsworth was interviewed by a number of news outlets […]
Brian Baker, UMW executive director for economic development, was a guest on Senator Mark Warner’s Small Business Panel which was hosted at Marstel-Day on September 4. He was joined by Natailia Olson-Urtecho, Mid-Atlantic SBA administrator, and Amy LaMarca, director for business development at Affinity Fidelis. The panel discussed new initiatives in federal contracting and updates […]
Jason Sellers, assistant professor of history and American studies, presented a paper, “‘Wee drink one water’: Rivers and intercultural relations in the eighteenth-century Mid-Atlantic,” at the American Society for Ethnohistory’s annual meetings in New Orleans. The paper was part of a panel addressing waterways as borders in native North America.
