Category: Professional Notes

Lynne Richardson’s latest column, Social Media and Emails, recently appeared in The Free Lance-Star.“Far too often,” she writes, “it seems we hear stories where people ultimately lose their jobs because of information they put in emails or some form of social media.”Read more here:http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-social-media-and-emails/article_879d6e10-0def-50ab-861a-5d8ed172be88.html?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=Fredericksburg%20Business%20InsiderActive%20Subscribers&utm_campaign=Fredericksburg%20Business%20Insider

The Office of University Relations’ Assistant Director of Design Services Maria Schultz and Assistant Director of Media and Public Relations Lisa Chinn Marvashti presented at the College Communicators Association’s annual conference in Richmond on Friday, Feb. 2. Their presentation – Take Stock … and Ditch It, How to Achieve Authenticity in Campus Photos – covered […]

Associate Professor Steven E. Harris (HISA) recently co-edited with Daria Bocharnikova (University of Leuven / Center for the Fine Arts BOZAR) a special issue of the Journal of Urban History, volume 44, no. 1 (2018).The special issue, “Second World Urbanity: New Histories of the Socialist City,” features five research articles by scholars who participated in […]

Curry Roberts, president of the Fredericksburg Regional Alliance at the University of Mary Washington, has been elected chairman of the board of directors for Southern States Cooperative, one of the nation’s largest farmer-owned co-ops.You can read more about it here:http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/business_insider/curry-roberts-elected-chairman-of-southern-states-cooperative/article_823c7567-b962-500f-b3ec-3c7be63650f3.html 

Daniel Dervin, professor emeritus of English, recently published his latest book, “The Digital Child,” an examination of childhood development in an advancing technological era.Dervin’s book illustrates his concern of how contemporary childhood has moved away from the focus of inwardness, a psychological concept for the awareness of one’s self as resulting from the world, and […]