Category: Professional Notes

Johnson-Young Publishes Essay in Health Communication

Elizabeth Johnson-Young, Assistant Professor of Communication, recently had her essay published online in the journal Health Communication.Predicting Intentions to Breastfeed for Three Months, Six Months, and One Year Using the Theory of Planned Behavior and Body Satisfaction will also appear in the print version in the next edition of the journal.You can read it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/icCiTHb9tKmyJy6b4JT3/full.

Emile Lester Co-Authors Op-ed; Report Featured in Statesman.com

Emile Lester, a political science professor, co-authored an op-ed in Texas newspaper The Caller Times.“The ongoing textbook wars have embarrassed Texas for years,” the authors write in Take Politics Out of Texas Classrooms. Read more:http://www.caller.com/story/opinion/2018/02/23/take-politics-out-texas-classrooms/368171002/A report Lester co-authored was also featured in Statesman.com called Ideology Tops Facts in Texas History Curriculum.“The quibble over working here […]

Richardson’s Weekly Column Featured in FLS

Lynne Richardson’s weekly column appeared in The Free Lance-Star. Called It’s Not About You, she writes:“In case anyone reading this has forgotten, it’s not about you! Organizations, formed by people with a variety of personalities, skills, experiences, and credentials, exist to fulfill the organization’s objectives, whatever they might be.” Read more:http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-it-s-not-about-you/article_049ef8c2-fc7a-5709-81c6-167ea063ea83.html

Al-Tikriti Joins Fulbright Liaison Scholar Workshop

On 16 February, Professor Nabil Al-Tikriti attended a Fulbright Scholar Liaison (FSL) workshop at the Institute for International Education (IIE) in Washington, DC. In the course of this workshop, IIE informed and prompted guest FSL attendees from throughout the nation on various Fulbright programs, and related initiatives to internationalize campuses.Issues addressed in the course of this workshop included the […]

Colin Rafferty featured on Capital Public Radio

Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English, was recently featured in a segment called Presidential Prose that aired on Capital Public Radio, KXJZ-FM, in Sacramento, California.Rafferty read a biography of every single president—and then wrote his own essays in response to their lives. You can listen to the radio segment here: https://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=6670&DateTime=2%2F19%2F2018+9%3A19%3A59+AM&Term=University+of+Mary+Washington&PlayClip=TRUE