Chris Foss, professor of English, presented a paper entitled “Engaging Eastern Enjoyment(s): Poetic Renderings of Hindu Festivals in Ghosh and Naidu” at the annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association on Sunday, March 17. This year’s conference, hosted by the University of Virginia, was held in Charlottesville.
Rettinger & Searcy Publish Research
David Rettinger
Doug Searcy
Executive Director of the Center for Honor, Leadership, and Service and Associate Professor of Psychology David Rettinger and Vice President for Student Affairs Doug Searcy’s article “Student-led honor codes as a method for reducing university cheating” appears in volume 12 of the journal Economic and Environmental Studies. The article provides support for student-led honor systems through a case study of UMW.
Surupa Gupta Presents Co-Authored Paper in South Africa
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Surupa Gupta presented a co-authored paper “India’s National Security Strategy as a BRICS Country” at a conference on the foreign policies of BRICS countries on Wednesday, March 13. The conference was organized by the Royal Danish Defense College and ACCORD, a South African NGO in Durban, South Africa.
Nina Mikhalvesky Discusses Women in STEM
Nina Mikhalevsky, professor of philosophy, gave a presentation on the “Current Status of Women in STEM” at the Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) in Quantico on Thursday, March 14. The presentation was part of the Women’s History Month program “Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.”
Cassandra Good Presents at Conference
Cassandra Good, assistant editor of the Papers of James Monroe, presented “Friends in Power: Early American First Ladies’ Friendships with Men” at the “Double Lives of the First Ladies”conference at Texas State University-San Marcos on Friday, March 1.
Doug Sanford Presents Conference Paper
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.