Associate Professor of Chemistry Leanna Giancarlo will discuss stereotypical portrayals of scientists during an interview on the “With Good Reason” public radio program beginning Saturday, July 23. The interview can be heard on July 23 at 4:30 p.m. on WCVE 88.9 FM and on Monday, July 25 at 12:30 a.m. on WAMU 88.5 FM. The segment, “Selling the Silver Bullet,” is expected to be available online at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2011/07/selling-the-silver-bullet.
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Debra Hydorn, professor of mathematics, is  one of 25 faculty members in the nation selected to attend the Inquiry-Based Statistics Education Workshop at Wesleyan University in July. The workshop is hosted by the Quantitative Analysis Center at Wesleyan, which provides support for quantitative analysis across the curriculum as well as quantitative teaching and research activities.  Attendance at the workshop is funded by a National Science Foundation grant.

Charles Sharpless, Associate Professor of Chemistry, will present the results of his Jepson Fellowship research in a talk titled “Organic Matter Photochemistry: Singlet Oxygen Precursor Lifetimes” at the 2011 Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, August 14-19.  The Goldschmidt Conference is the annual joint conference of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry.

Charles Sharpless, Associate Professor of Chemistry, will present the results of his Jepson Fellowship research in a talk titled “Organic Matter Photochemistry: Singlet Oxygen Precursor Lifetimes” at the 2011 Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, August 14-19.  The Goldschmidt Conference is the annual joint conference of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry.

Jeffrey McClurken, associate professor and chair of history and American studies, will lead a reading and discussion series “Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War”  at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library headquarters on five Thursday evenings from November 2011 through April 2012.

The series is  funded through a highly competitive grant given to the library from the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Read more.

Deborah O’Dell, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, was awarded $3000 from the Mary Louise Andrews Award for Cancer Research to support her project on “Gene Expression in  Mammary Gland Epithelial Cells in Response to Bisphenol A.”

Deborah O’Dell, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, was awarded $3000 from the Mary Louise Andrews Award for Cancer Research to support her project on “Gene Expression in  Mammary Gland Epithelial Cells in Response to Bisphenol A.”

Former Salisbury University All-American Lindsey Elliott has been named UMW’s new head field hockey coach.  She replaces Dana Hall, who after 22 years of coaching field hockey and women’s lacrosse will remain as head lacrosse coach. Read the news release.

Former Salisbury University All-American Lindsey Elliott has been named UMW’s new head field hockey coach.  She replaces Dana Hall, who after 22 years of coaching field hockey and women’s lacrosse will remain as head lacrosse coach. Read the news release.

The artwork of Professor Emeritus Steve Griffin will be on display at JarrettThor Fine Arts in Colonial Beach, beginning Friday.  Read the article in The Free Lance-Star.