Deena Applebury, senior lecturer in the athletics department and coach of the women’s basketball team, is profiled on NCAA.com. The article, posted on Monday, Jan. 30, explores Applebury’s coaching philosophy in light of the team’s distinction as one of the best in the nation.
Colin Rafferty Featured in The Baltimore Review
Assistant Professor of English Colin Rafferty’s creative nonfiction piece “Digging In” is featured in the Winter 2012 edition of The Baltimore Review.
UMW Athletic Director Edward Hegmann Announces Retirement
University of Mary Washington Athletic Director Dr. Edward Hegmann has announced that he will retire at the end of the school year, his 36th as an administrator at the Fredericksburg university. During his tenure, Hegmann built UMW Athletics into one of the nation’s top Division III programs and leaves a lasting impression as one of the most influential people in the 100 year-plus history of the school.
“Ed Hegmann has left an indelible mark on this university,” said UMW President Richard V. Hurley. “He will be sorely missed but remembered for his contributions to the success of our athletic program for years to come.”
“Mary Washington Athletics staff members and student athletes have given me 36 years of thrilling memories that will bring a smile to my face and warmth to my heart forever,” said Hegmann.
A Pittsburgh, Penn., native, Hegmann earned his undergraduate degree from Bucknell University, his master’s degree from Springfield College and his doctorate from Temple University. Since 1976, he has overseen the expansion of the program at UMW from six sports to 23, acted as a major catalyst in the development of the facilities at UMW and watched 22 of the school’s 23 programs advance to national championship competition.
Hegmann also directed the women’s tennis team for 23 years and led the Eagles to three national championships, including the AIAW national title in 1982 and NCAA Division III titles in 1988 and 1991. He gained eight Capital Athletic Conference Coach of the Year awards and captured nine straight CAC championships after the league was formed in 1990 through his retirement as coach in 1999. He was named the NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year in 1988 and again in 1999.
A master of planning facilities, in addition to the Battleground Athletic Complex, the UMW outdoor facilities where five national championships have been held, Hegmann was instrumental in the planning for the UMW Indoor Tennis Center, built in 2005. In addition to the school’s top-notch 12-court lighted outdoor facility, the six-court indoor complex has allowed UMW to host both men’s tennis and women’s tennis national championships in the past six years.
Hegmann also oversaw the construction of the state-of-the-art William M. Anderson Center, a basketball/volleyball arena that seats nearly 2,000 fans and will allow UMW to host NCAA competition at the highest levels in those sports.
A national search will be conducted by the school to hire a new athletic director.
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News release prepared by: Clint Often
Mark Scharf Appears in Baltimore Theatre Production
Mark Scharf, adjunct instructor of theatre and dance, is appearing in Fells Point Corner Theatre’s production of The Ice Man Cometh. In the Eugene O’Neill play, Scharf plays the role of Larry Slade. The production opened on Friday, January 13 in Baltimore, Md., and runs through Sunday, February 12. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit http://www.fpct.org/.
Scharf is a semi-finalist for the 2012 Eugene O’Neill National Theater Conference.
Charles J. Shields to be Featured on Public Radio Program
Charles J. Shields
Charles J. Shields, associate director of the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series, will explore how Kurt Vonnegut’s experience as a World War II prisoner of war influenced his later writing during an interview on the With Good Reason public radio program beginning Saturday, January 28.
The interview can be heard on January 28 at 4:30 p.m. on WCVE 88.9 FM and on Sunday, January 29 at 7 p.m. and Monday, January 30 at 12:30 a.m. on WAMU 88.5 FM. The segment, “From Combat to College,” is expected to be online beginning the week of the show at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2012/01/from-combat-to-college/.
The full news release is available at http://www.umw.edu/news/2012/01/23/umw-great-lives-associate-director-to-discuss-kurt-vonnegut-on-public-radio-program/.
In addition to his interview on With Good Reason, Shields will appear on C-SPAN2‘s BookTV to discuss Kurt Vonnegut as well as the Great Lives lecture series. The segment is expected to air Saturday, January 28 at 10 a.m. and Sunday, January 29 at 3 a.m. and 11:15 p.m.
On Thursday, February 2, Shields will appear on WABC-AM‘s “John Batchelor” show at 9 a.m.
A feature article about Shields’ And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut and the subject of his biography appeared in the January/February issue of Humanities, the magazine of the National Endowment of the Humanities, written by David Kippen, former director of the literature program for the National Endowment of the Arts.
Rosalyn Cooperman Offers Opinion on D.C. Radio Program
Rosalyn Cooperman, associate professor of political science, was a featured guest on Voice of Russia Radio on January 24. In the panel discussion, Cooperman discusses her impressions of President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address.
The full interview is available at http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/26/64656496.html.
Biology Professors Publish Article
Michael Killian
Michael Killian, senior instructor in biological sciences, and Jay McGhee, former visiting assistant professor in biological sciences at UMW, had their paper “A Habitat Model for the Detection of Two-lined Salamanders at C. F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area, Fauquier and Culpeper Counties, Virginia, ” published in the peer-reviewed journal Virginia Journal of Science.
This work was made possible through a grant by the University of Mary Washington and involved the participation of the following URES students at UMW: Carly Byers, Sarah Almahdali, Jennifer Clary, Hillary Adams and Ramsey Hanna.
Mark Snyder Performed as Guest Artist
Mark Snyder, assistant professor of music, was a guest artist at Louisburg College in Louisburg, N.C., on Monday, January 23 and at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday, January 24. He performed his multimedia compositions as well as discussed his music with composition students.
Helen Housley Presents Workshop at Lessac Conference
Helen Housley, associate professor of theater, presented a workshop, “Exploring Shakespeare’s Consonants: An Experiential Journey,” at the 7th Annual Conference of the Lessac Institute, University of Memphis, January 5-7, 2012. The workshop explored the practical application of Housley’s research focused on Shakespeare’s deliberate placement of consonants in his words/lines, thereby providing his actors with subliminal instruction in how to ‘speak the speech’ in terms of pacing, characterization, and behavioral interpretation. Housley’s hypothesis suggests that contemporary actors may use this same technique in their own Shakespearean character development.
Michael McCarthy Will Appear in The Southern Review
Michael McCarthy, a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication, has had four poems accepted for publication by The Southern Review, the literary journal edited at Louisiana State University. The prestigious journal, founded in 1935, is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. McCarthy’s poems, dealing with trees, alienation and the poet William Blake, are to appear in the Fall issue.