Gail Stevens is retiring after more than ten years of service to UMW. A farewell celebration will be held in her honor Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 3:00-4:30 at Student Services Foyer, Lee Hall. During her career, Gail also served Virginia by working at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia Department of Health. As an Administrative Assistant, Gail facilitates student withdrawals, cancellations, leave of absences and graduation applications.
Mindy Erchull and Miriam Liss
Mindy J. Erchull, assistant professor of psychology, received the 2010 Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award at the American Psychological Association (APA) convention in San Diego, Calif., in August. The award, sponsored by the Society for the Psychology of Women, recognizes a young faculty member who employs innovative methods to address issues of diversity in teaching the psychology of women. Read the news release at http://www.umw.edu/news/?a=1929. At the APA meeting, Erchull copresented the poster “Whose Orgasm Is It Anyway? Faux Orgasms and Women’s Sexual Subjectivity.” In addition, Erchull and Miriam Liss, associate professor of psychology, presented the poster “Empowerment through Sexualization? The Enjoyment of Sexualization Scale in Feminists” at the meeting.
Mindy Erchull
Miriam Liss
Liss and Erchull, with a former student, presented the poster “Young Adults’ Ideal and Actual Expectations for Self and Partner Life Trajectories” at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston in May. Also, Liss and Erchull, with three former students, had two papers published in Psychology of Women Quarterly: “Men Want Equality, but Women Don’t Expect It: Young Adults’ Expectations for Participation in Household and Childcare Chores” and “Well…She Wants It More: Perceptions of Social Norms about Desire for Marriage and Children and Anticipated Chore Participation.”
Yuan-Jen Chiang
Yuan-Jen Chiang, professor of mathematics, had a joint research article “Transversal Biwave Maps” published in Achievium Mathematicium. She also presented the paper “Some Properties of Biwave Maps” at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad, India in August.
Scott Powers
Scott M. Powers, associate professor of French, has published his essay “Writing Against Theodicy: Reflections on the Co-existence of God and Evil in Baudelaire’s Poetry and Critical Essays” in the Fall-Winter 2010-2011 edition of Nineteenth-Century French Studies.
Esther Lee Yook
Esther Lee Yook, Speaking Center and Korea Program director recently had two publications:
“The Effect of Communication Centers on College Student Retention” accepted for publication in Journal of College Student Retention.
“A Connotative Semiological Analysis: An Analysis of Koreans’ Use of the of the Acronym “IMF” as Myth,” ETC: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 67.4, 2010
Michelle Crow-Dolby receives UVA certification
Michelle Crow-Dolby, education coordinator at Gari Melchers Home and Studio, was awarded a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from the University of Virginia
Janet Cropp
Janet Cropp, assistant dean of advising services, was awarded a certificate from the Advising Business Majors Commission of NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) for successful completion of the Professional Development Recognition Program. She received the certificate at the annual NACADA conference held in Orlando, Fla., in October.
UMW Staff Present at MABUG Conference
Two UMW staff members presented sessions at the Mid-Atlantic Banner Users Group (MABUG) conference at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and a third staff member facilitated a session at the meeting, which was held in October in Wilmington, N.C.
Jane Cariker, director of advancement IT services, presented the session “Loading Parent Records from Student Information into Advancement.” Cariker discussed the process that creates parent records in Banner and outlined the benefits it has provided in establishing both immediate and personal communication with new UMW parents.
Edward Gray, systems integration specialist, presented the session “Automating Account Propagation in a Microsoft Environment.” Gray shared UMW’s experiences and insights in leveraging Banner data with Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007.
Linda Thornton, associate director of business systems analysis, facilitated the “Birds of a Feather” session on Virginia’s eVA Vendor Data Standards and the impact on Virginia Banner universities.
Other UMW attendees included Rita Dunston, registrar; Ben Kjar, associate director of enterprise applications services; Linda Lovin, applications developer; and John Symonds, applications database administrator.
UMW hosted the 2008 conference of MABUG, which is an association of colleges and universities in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Chris Kilmartin
Chris Kilmartin, professor of psychology, was named a divisional Researcher of the Year at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association (APA) held recently in San Diego, Calif. The award was given by the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity, Division 51. This honor recognizes outstanding published research concerning males and masculinity. Read the news release.
Kilmartin had a commentary published in The Free Lance-Star in November. The piece was titled “Acquaintance Rape: The Common Story and the Real Story.”
Steve Watkins
“The Ledger” newspaper in Lakeland, Fla., is asking children to finish a Thanksgiving short story written by Professor Steve Watkins (http://www.theledger.com/article/20101116/NEWS/11165019/1326?p=1&tc=pg). The newspaper will publish the top three entries from children in grades 2-8. Professor Watkins, the award-winning author of “Down Sand Mountain,” grew up in the Brewster and Fort Meade areas of Florida. His next young adult book, “What Comes After,” is due out soon.