Category: Professional Notes

Richardson’s Weekly Column Published in FLS

Thinking beyond the initial outcome (The Free Lance-Star)I may not have many abilities in life, but one I do have is thinking about what happens after a decision is made and implemented.http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-thinking-beyond-the-initial-outcome/article_2355bfe4-02db-580b-b4b7-29279eb99219.html?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=Fredericksburg%20Business%20InsiderActive%20Subscribers&utm_campaign=Fredericksburg%20Business%20Insider 

Poska Wins Research Grants For Book Project

Professor of History Allyson M. Poska has been awarded three research grants for her new book project Contested Equality: Smallpox Vaccination in the Spanish Empire (1803-1810).The grants include: a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society and a Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship. Poska was also […]

Nabil Al-Tikriti Lectures at Virginia Tech – SPIA

On 19 April, Associate Professor of History Nabil Al-Tikriti spoke at Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), in Alexandria, VA.  The topic presented was the global humanitarian system and its impact in the Middle East and other zones of crisis.  Attendees included both Virginia Tech SPIA graduate students and undergraduate students associated […]

Robert Rycroft Featured in FLS

UMW professor wins Independent Publisher Book Award (The Free Lance-Star)UMW Economics Professor Robert S. Rycroft recently won a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award for “The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty.”http://www.fredericksburg.com/entertainment/umw-professor-wins-independent-publisher-book-award/article_aeb2c42b-0551-57d5-b2ef-669168d8c35b.html