A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Reference and Humanities Librarian Jack Bales has written an article debunking the Chicago Cubs’ famous Billy Goat Curse for ChicagoSide, an online sports magazine. The so-called curse dates to 1945, when a Chicago tavern owner was asked to remove his pet goat from the Cubs’ Wrigley Field during the fourth game of the World Series. […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, delivered a lecture entitled “Virginia’s Candidate Selection Process: Examining Recent Primaries and Conventions” to the roughly 800 high school students attending the American Legion Boys’ State of Virginia at Radford University on June 17.
Dr. Roberta Gentry, Assistant Professor of Education, presented Electronic Mentoring: What is it? at the 25th annual National Institute on the Assessment of Adult Learning in Atlantic City, N.J. The theme of this year’s conference was Looking Back. Moving Forward.
On June 3-4, Nabil Al-Tikriti offered a presentation entitled “Some Longer Term Effects of the 2003 Anglo-American Invasion on Iraqi Society” to the conference entitled Iraq – 10 Years On: Conflicts, Migrations, Futures in Cairo, Egypt. This conference brought together experts from the fields of Iraqi studies and forced migration to examine some of the […]
Over the course of two weeks, Jim Groom was invited to give presentations about the innovative work the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies has been doing recently. On May 16th, Jim Groom delivered a talk titled “Syndication-Oriented Architecture: a Solution to Problem of Coherence” for Campus Technology’s Virtual Leadership Summit. You can read more […]
Over the last month, Jeff McClurken, Chair of History & American Studies, has run digital history workshops at three institutions. In early May he worked with Duke’s Cathy Davidson to run a workshop at Davidson College to help faculty there develop a “Digital Studies Program.” In late May, he ran a multi-day workshop on “Developing […]
Dr. Mindy Erchull recently presented a paper, Fathers Attitudes About and Role in Educating Their Children About Menstruation, with her collaborator Kate Richmond from Muhlenberg College at the biennial meeting of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research in New York, NY.
Debra Schleef published ““Jumping Ship or Merely Crossing the Aisle? An Analysis of the Circulation of Elite Lawyers,” in Sociology of Work: Networks, Employment, and Inequality, edited by Steve McDonald for JAI Press.
Suzanne Sumner, professor of mathematics, Mary Beth Mathews, associate professor of religion, Kathryn Loesser-Casey, professor of biology, and Debra Hydorn, professor of mathematics, gave presentations at the 2013 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching. The theme of this year’s conference was “Evidence Based Teaching and Learning.” Professors Sumner and Mathews gave a poster presentation […]
James F. Gaines, Professor of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, has completed a translation of 19th century French writer Alphonse Daudet’s story, “The Lighthouse on Bloody Shoals,” in the spring issue of the online journal The Arts and Entertainment Magazine/Eerie Digest. It is the second of Daudet’s Tales From My Mill that he has worked with […]
