Category: Professional Notes

Laura Wilson Research on Unacknowledged Rape Cited in Journalist’s Resource, The Crime Report

Why many sexual assault survivors may not come forward for years (Journalist’s Resource)Laura C. Wilson, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Mary Washington, led this review of 28 academic studies to estimate how often women who’ve been sexually assaulted do not label their experience as rape.https://journalistsresource.org/home/sexual-assault-report-why-researchSurvivors of Sexual Assault Still Don’t Report […]

Hirshberg Publishes Article, Presents at International Conference

Dan Hirshberg, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Director of the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies, published an article titled “Maintaining the Path to Nirvana” in the peer-reviewed Journal of the North American Japanese Garden Association. The manual but meditative labor of garden maintenance has been a daily practice in Japanese Buddhist monasteries for a […]

Stephen Farnsworth Publishes Column in Washington Post

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently published a column in The Washington Post called “Ralph Northam’s excellent timing.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ralph-northams-excellent-timing/2018/10/05/0459d64c-c33b-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html?utm_term=.312474f21d0e

Chiang Publishes Article and Presents at ICM

Yuan-Jen Chiang, Professor of Mathematics, had a research article “Equivariant Biharmonic Maps between Manifolds with Metrics of Signature” published in the Journal of Geometry.She presented “Exponentially Harmonic Maps between Finsler Manifolds” at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 in Rio, de Janeino, Brazil. She also delivered “Harmonic and Biharmonic Maps” at a Colloquium of School of […]

Srivastava Recalls Fulbright Specialist Assignment

Mukesh Srivastava, professor of management information systems and director of the Center for Business Research, writes about his experience as a Fulbright Specialist in Mauritius.My mission in undertaking the Fulbright Specialist assignment in Mauritius as an expert attached to the University of Mauritius was to establish Intellectual Property Rights Policy framework at the University. I […]