Douglas Sanford, professor of historic preservation, presented a paper entitled “Archaeological Collections Management at a Small Academic Institution” at the 2013 Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference in Virginia Beach, Va. Sanford’s paper formed part of the special session that he organized and chaired, “Archaeological Collections: Management, Research, and Philosophical Issues” that addressed the professional methods and ethical legacies of such collections from the viewpoints of archaeologists who work in academic, government, and house museum realms. Both the paper and the session derived from an individual studies and group research-based class on archaeological collections management offered by Sanford in the fall 2012 semester. Sanford also served as a judge for the conference’s undergraduate student paper competition.
Larry Lehman Publishes Research
Larry Lehman, professor of mathematics, published the article “Suborder Polynomials Modulo Primes” in the February 2013 issue of JP Journal of Algebra, Number Theory and Applications. This article relates patterns in recursively defined sequences to the roots over finite fields of a certain class of polynomials.
Jim Groom Keynotes Regional Technology Conference
Jim Groom delivered the keynote presentation titled “A Domain of One’s Own: A Novel Approach to Open” at the Association of Collegiate Computing Services of Virginia conference. This presentation contextualized the history of innovative work in UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies since 2004 to frame the current Domain of One’s Own pilot that will provide a domain and web hosting account to all Freshman and Transfer students come Fall 2013.
Melissa Myers Represents UMW on SPCC Panel
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, Melissa Myers, UMW’s SPCC Program Administrator, represented the University of Mary Washington on a discussion panel entitled ‘Optimizing Your Card Utilization’ at the Bank of America (BOA) Card Summit held in Richmond, VA. Melissa was the only higher education representative on the panel, which had members from the Department of Accounts (DOA) and eVA.
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Paul Fallon Presents on Historical Linguistics of the Horn of Africa
On March 10, Associate Professor of Linguistics Paul D. Fallon presented a paper at the joint conference of the 2013 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. He also presented at the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at Georgetown University in Washington, DC from March 7-10, 2013 that was attended by scholars from around the U.S. and from over 25 countries. His paper, “Coronal Ejectives and EthioSemitic Borrowing in Proto-Agaw,” argued that the Central Cushitic (or Agaw) languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea originally had ejectives (a type of consonant with glottal constriction) and are not simply the result of borrowing from neighboring EthioSemitic languages such as Ge‘ez, Tigré, Tigrinya, and Amharic.
Michael Spencer’s Class Featured on C-SPAN 3
Michael Spencer
A lecture from Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation Michael Spencer’s American Building class will air this weekend on C-SPAN 3. The lecture and class session, focused on Spencer’s work at the Mary Washington House, will air on Saturday, March 16 at 8 p.m. and midnight and on Sunday, March 17 at 1 p.m. A crew from C-SPAN filmed the class session at UMW in January.
UMW Faculty & Alumni Contribute to Rycroft’s Book
Robert Rycroft
Professor and Chair of Economics Robert Rycroft’s book, The Economics of Inequality, Poverty and Discrimination in the 21st Century, has been published.
The interdisciplinary book consists of 32 chapters in two volumes. Four chapters are written by UMW faculty members, including Rycroft, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Kristin Marsh, Associate Professor of Economics Shawn Humphrey and Associate Dean for Operations and Outreach in the College of Business Kimberly Kinsley. UMW alumni Christine Exley ’09 and Matthew Parrett ’98 also wrote chapters.
Kayler, Meadows & Owens Present Research
Tim Owens holds a product of a 3D printer in UMW’s Makerspace.
Director of the Center of Teaching Excellence and Innovation Mary Kayler, Instructional Technology Specialist in the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies Tim Owens and Professor in the College of Education George Meadows will present their research study “Inspiring Maker Culture through Collaboration, Persistence, and Failure” at the peer-reviewed Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) on Thursday, March 28 in New Orleans. The study examines the first freshmen seminar in UMW’s ThinkLab. The paper will be housed in EdITLib, the Digital Library for Education and Information Technology designed to facilitate learning, discovery and innovation by connecting scholarly research on Educational Technology/E-Learning with learning opportunities.
Stephen Farnsworth Lectures on Journalism & Foreign Policy
Stephen Farnsworth
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a lecture entitled “Journalism and U.S. Foreign Policy” in Washington, D.C., as part of the U.S. State Department’s Institute for International Education Visitor Leadership Program for North Africa and the Middle East.
In addition, Farnsworth has been interviewed recently by several news outlets for stories relating to the Virginia legislative session, including the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner and WAMU-FM, Washington’s national public radio station.
Srivastava and Martinette’s Article Accepted in JOTMI
Lou Martinette
Mukesh Srivastava
Associate Professors in the College of Business Mukesh Srivastava and Louis Martinette’s article “Building a Sustainable Competitive Advantage” has been accepted in the Journal of Technology Management and Innovation, Volume 8 Issue 2. Srivastava and Martinette co-authored the article with Andy Franklin.
The paper analyzes cross-industrial best practices and future trends in the context of the contemporary resource based competitive advantage model of the firm. It identifies key managerial levers, tools and systems that can be used to build and sustain a Hi-Technology company’s core competences in order to facilitate a more innovative, collaborative 21st century corporate culture. A qualitative and quantitative assessment is made of how a firm’s leadership, human capital management, organizational culture, design and systems can all collectively merge to create a more dynamic and responsive organization which is far more adept at building unique resources and capabilities, which can then be leveraged to create new market opportunities with high competitive entry barriers.