Robert Rycroft, professor of economics, will speak at “The Changing Face of Philanthropy” workshop on Thursday, Jan. 24. The workshop, presented by the Cultural Alliance of Greater Hampton Roads, will explore new fundraising techniques and strategies as well as ways to engage the newest generation of philanthropists. The workshop will take place at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts in Virginia Beach from 10 a.m. to noon and at the Downing Gross Cultural Arts Center in Newport News from 3 to 5 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.culturalli.org/changefacephil.html.
UMW Writing Center Receives Awards
Gwendolyn Hale
Gwendolyn Hale, Writing Center Director and Writing Program Director, and junior Ethan Bottone received the Southeastern Writing Center Association’s Christine Cozzens Research Grant and Initiative Award. They received the award for their project “Virginia is for Writers,” which is designed to begin multiple high school-university writing center collaborations throughout the state. Bottone is a geography and biology double major and a peer tutor at the Writing Center at the Fredericksburg campus.
Jennifer Henderson, a 1994 UMW alumna and a professional tutor in the Writing Center at the Stafford campus, is the recipient of the 2013 SWCA Professional Tutor Award.
Mark Snyder’s Harvey featured on RTQE
Assistant Professor of Music Mark Snyder’s multimedia work Harvey was featured on RTQE, (Remember those Quiet Evenings), a Sunday evening program of electronic, experimental, classical, and improvised conduct for survivors or the 20th century hosted by Gregory Taylor which has aired since 1986 on Sunday evenings on WORT-FM in Madison, Wisconsin.
Patricia Reynolds to Present Research
Patricia Reynolds
Patricia E. Reynolds, assistant professor in the College of Education, and Caroline Noxon, a 2012 M.Ed. graduate, will present at the Virginia ESL Supervisors Conference on Saturday, Feb. 2 in Richmond.
The presentation, “‘You Can’t Talk To Me Like That’: Origins and Attitudes of Elementary Classroom Teachers about Bilingual Code Switching,” is based on Noxon’s research for her master’s thesis.
Reynolds has been invited to present her doctoral research, “Learning the Ropes: Children Crossing Cultures,” at the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language meeting in Liverpool, U.K. in April 2013.
William Crawley Appears on WFVA Talk Show, 1/20
William Crawley
William B. Crawley, Jr., professor of history emeritus and director of the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series, will appear on WFVA’s talk show “Community Link” on Sunday, Jan. 20. The interview will air at 8 a.m. on 1230 AM or online at http://www.wfvaradio.com/Community-Link/11021682.
In the interview, Crawley discusses the upcoming season of the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series and explains how the series has evolved over its 10-year history.
Stephen Farnsworth Co-Authors Book Chapter
Stephen Farnsworth
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is co-author of a book chapter, “Mass Media and Policymaking,” published in the Routledge Handbook of Public Policy. The chapter grew out of a research project that originated during Farnsworth’s time as a Canada-US Fulbright Scholar at McGill University in Montreal.
Mehdi Aminrazavi Publishes Chapter Article
Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion has published the following chapter article :
Mehdi Aminrazavi, “Nasir-i Khusraw’s Poetics of the Moral Journey and the Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals,” in Pearls of Persia: The Philosophical Poetry of Nasir-i Khusraw, Ed. by Alice C. Hunsberger. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2012. pp.91-102.
Esther Yook Publishes Article
Esther Lee Yook, director of the Speaking Center, published an article, “The Effect of Communication Centers on College Student Retention: An Argument,” in the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, Vol 14, No 3 (2012).
Robert McConnell Publishes Textbook
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science and Geology Robert L. McConnell’s textbook “Environmental Issues–Looking Towards a Sustainable Future, 4th edition,” was published in December 2012. The textbook, published by Pearson, is co-authored with Daniel Abel at Coastal Carolina University.
Mathematics Faculty and Student Present in San Diego
Suzanne Sumner
At the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, Calif., in January, two faculty members and a student from UMW presented their work. Suzanne Sumner, professor of mathematics, delivered the talk “Intensive Experiences for Undergraduate Mathematics” in a session on Communicating Mathematics sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America.
Debra Hydorn
Debra Hydorn, professor of mathematics, spoke in a session devoted to Innovative Ideas for Courses in the First Two Years. Her talk was titled “Exploratory Projects in an Introduction to Discrete Mathematics Course.” Hydorn gave a second talk titled “Using R for Data Analysis Assignments in an Introductory Statistics Course” in a session devoted to Modern Ideas in Introductory Statistics Courses. In addition, she was honored to have a piece of geometric artwork accepted through a juried process to the Mathematical Art Exhibition.
Finally, UMW senior Ryan Vaughn presented a poster at the National Undergraduate Student poster competition. Ryan’s poster, titled “Embeddings of Complete Bipartite Graphs in Finite Projective Planes” won one of the Outstanding Poster Awards.