President Troy Paino and Acting Provost Nina Mikhalevsky are very pleased to announce the appointment of Kimberly C. Young as Executive Director of Continuing and Professional Studies at the University of Mary Washington. In this position, she will be responsible for expanding the University’s credit and non-credit programs for adults, including new certificate and other professional development […]
Dean Cedric Rucker has been chosen as the recipient of the NASPA Region III Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award. This award, given by a national student affairs professional organization, “honors a senior student affairs professional or faculty member who has demonstrated a deep commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion throughout their administrative or academic tenure.”In […]
Eric Lorentzen, Associate Professor of English, gave the talk “Interdisciplinary British Literature in the University Classroom: Teaching the Unbearable Humanities as Part of a Critical STEAM Pedagogy” at the annual Virginia Humanities Conference at Shenandoah University. Dr. Lorentzen’s paper argued for the efficacy and exigency of approaching the study of literature at the university level […]
Sushma Subramanian, assistant professor of journalism in the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication, was interviewed on New Hampshire Public Radio recently about an article (“Worse Than Tuskegee”) she wrote for Slate magazine, published in February. The article was about American researchers who infected Guatemalans with syphylis and gonorrhea 70 years ago and left without […]
Elizabeth Johnson-Young, Assistant Professor of Communication, presented research at this year’s Southern States Communication Association conference in Greenville, South Carolina. The paper, presented in the Communication Theory division, presented the results of a theoretical model to predict intentions to breastfeed. Combining the theory of planned behavior and uses and gratifications theory, the research provides a […]
