April 29, 2026

EagleEye

A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff

UMW Concert to Air on Classics Radio This Weekend

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Kevin Bartram

Kevin Bartram

The UMW Concert Band Winter Concert, directed by Kevin Bartram, will be featured on “Performance Central Virginia” on Friday, March 15 at 9 a.m., Saturday, March 16 at noon and 6p.m. and Sunday, March 17 at noon on Classics Radio 89.5 FM and at www.ClassicsRadio.org. The concert was held at UMW on Friday, Feb. 22 and included Vincent Persichetti’s “Pageant,” Clifton Williams’ “Caccia and Chorale” and David Holsinger’s “Abram’s Pursuit.” The program also included Goldmans’ “Chimes of Liberty March,” “Flights of Passage” and “March of the Irish Dragoons.”

Janet Cropp Serves as Proposal Reader

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Cropp, Janet07Janet Cropp, assistant dean of advising services in the College of Business, is serving as a proposal reader for the Advising Adult Learners Commission of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Annual Conference to be held in October 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Mark Scharf’s Play Opens 3/18

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ScharfMarkMark Scharf’s play “Keeping Faith” opens at the Laurel Mill Playhouse in Laurel, Md., on March 18. The show runs through March 24 with 8 p.m. performances on Fridays and Saturdays. Sunday matinees will be at 2 p.m. on March 17 and 24. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $12 for students 18 and under, active duty military and seniors. To make reservations, call 301-617-9906 and press 2, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com/301-452-2557.

Scharf is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Theatre & Dance.

John Broome to Address 2013 International Montessori Congress

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John BroomeJohn P. Broome, assistant professor and director of undergraduate secondary education and preK-12 education in the department of curriculum & instruction at the College of Education, has been invited to present his work on adolescent civic engagement in the Montessori secondary learning environment at the 2013 International Montessori Congress in Portland, Oregon in August 2013.

The presentation entitled, “Comparing U.S. and Montessori Adolescent Civic Engagement Opportunities” provides insights into how social and experiential-learning in the alternative environment can be used to inform civic engagement practices in U.S. public schools.

The International Montessori Congress was created in 1929 by Dr. Maria Montessori to raise the awareness and understanding of Montessori education. Since 1929, there have been 25 congress meetings around the world,  approximately every four years. It has been almost 40 years since the United States has hosted the international event. The congress is hosted by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI).

Srivastava and Martinette Present at International Conference

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Mukesh Srivastava

Mukesh Srivastava

Mukesh Srivastava, associate professor of management information systems in the College of Business organized the fourth annual International Conference of the Association of Global Management Studies held March 4 and 5 at the University of California at Berkeley.

Louis Martinette, associate professor of leadership, presented “Perceived Customer Value: A Research Agenda Toward a Uniform Measure” with his co-authors Alice Obenchain-Leeson and Mukesh Srivastava.

Srivastava presented two additional papers on “Profiling Sustainability Curriculum in AACSB Schools” and “The Perception of Quality for Users of E-Learning Environments: Development of a Multidimensional Measure,” which is a co-authored paper with professors Daniel Tomiuk and Josefina Segarra  from the University of Quebec.

This years’ keynote speaker, Richard Lyons, Bank of America Dean and Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley spoke on “Creating Innovative Leadership at the conference.

Lou Martinette

Lou Martinette

Of the 73 papers submitted, 23 papers were accepted for presentations representing nine countries – Australia, China, Canada, Germany, India, Korea, Taiwan, U.K. and the U.S.  All papers presented at the conference were published in the 2013 (4th) International Conference Proceedings of the AGMS.

The Association of Global Management Studies promotes research and advances the knowledge of global management educators, researchers and practitioners. Founded in 2009 by Srivastava, it publishes two journals, the “International Journal of Global Management Studies” and the “International Journal of Global Management Studies Professional.”

For more information about the conference and the Association of Global Management Studies, visit http://www.association-gms.org.

Eric Bonds Publishes Article

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Eric Bonds

Eric Bonds

Eric Bonds recently published an article in the Journal of World-Systems Research, entitled “Hegemony and Humanitarian Norms: The U.S. Legitimation of Toxic Violence.”  While conventional wisdom has it that the U.S. has not used chemical weapons since the distant past of World War One, the article argues that our nation’s actual history is much more complicated.  The article is based on an examination of the U.S. use of herbicides and incapacitating gases in violent conflicts, especially during the Vietnam War.  The article further identifies several legitimating strategies officials are likely to employ whenever military policy seems to violate international normative expectations.

Dave Toth and Collaborator Win Award

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daveDave Toth, assistant professor of computer science, and his collaborator, Dr. Jimmy Franco, an assistant professor of chemistry at Merrimack College, were one of two winners of the 2012 Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences (UCES) Award.  The winners were selected from a set of finalists for the award who were invited to present their work in Boston on February 27th at the 2013 SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering.

The web site of the Krell Institute, which administers the award, states that “the UCES Award program was created to promote and enhance undergraduate education in computational engineering and science (CES). The program encourages development of innovative educational resources and programs, recognizes the achievements of CES undergraduate educators, and serves to disseminate educational material and ideas to the broad scientific and engineering undergraduate community. Awarded annually, UCES is funded by the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship program administered by the Krell Institute.

The purpose of the UCES Award program is to recognize undergraduate faculty who have recently developed courses, programs, and/or curricular material. Such contributions need not be broad in scope, but should be innovative and transferable to other institutions or programs.”

Toth & Franco created a week-long lab activity that teaches students how to perform virtual screening with a supercomputer to identify potential drugs.  They published their work in the Journal of Computational Science Education.  The materials for the activity, including a 27 page full-color lab manual and other materials people would need to use the lab in their own courses are available online.

Mark Snyder’s Compositions Performed Across the Country

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MS_Rice_DryerMark Snyder, Assistant Professor of Music, had his multimedia work, Butterfly for processed clarinet, electronics and video performed at Appalachian State University on February 19th by clarinetist Andrea Cheeseman. The recital featured electroacoustic compositions that incorporate recorded sound and images.

Dr. Andrea Cheeseman is Associate Professor of Clarinet at Appalachian State University. An active and engaging performer, she has received invitations to perform at colleges and universities throughout the country as a soloist and chamber musician. She has performed for diverse festivals such as College Music Society Annual Meetings, the Montana/Idaho Clarinet Festival, the Michigan Contemporary Clarinet Festival and the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium. She has been a regular performer at the Delta State University Electroacoustic Juke Joint Festival, and in the summer of 2003, Dr. Cheeseman was named first runner-up in the Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition.

Snyder also had his multimedia work, Alluvium for processed accordion, electronics and video performed at Montana State University on February 24th by accordionist Whitney Salo. It was programmed as part of the Sunday Night Multimedia Series, Beneath the Surface – A Concert of Sonic and Multimedia Art.