Eight members of the Department of Mathematics presented at the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta in January. The JMM is the largest mathematics conference in the country, with registrations this year exceeding 6,000 participants. Highlights of the meeting include: Randall Helmstutler, chair and associate professor, presented the talk “Generalized dihedral groups in non-commutative cryptographic […]
Edward Gray, systems integration and support specialist in UMW’s IT Support Services, has a busy semester ahead. He will be presenting on three different topics at three different conferences through May.Gray will be presenting “A Walk Through ‘The Phoenix Project’” at the annual ACCS VA conference in March 2017, to be held in Portsmouth, VA. […]
Antonio Barrenechea, Associate Professor of English, recently gave a lecture on “Mondo Dracula: Celluloid Vampires from Tod Browning to Mario Bava” at L’Università di Torino in Turin, Italy.
Jeff McClurken is being featured in an encore interview on With Good Reason from Jan. 7 through Jan. 13. The interview, called “Gone With the Wind, The Patriot, Born on the Fourth of July,” discusses what viewers can learn about history through how popular historical films are produced, even when the films themselves are often historically inaccurate. http://withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/cant-look-have-to-look/
Stephen J. Farnsworth, University of Mary Washington professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, has received the prestigious 2017 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award by the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV).For more information, visit http://www.umw.edu/news/2017/01/04/umw-professor-receives-outstanding-faculty-award-2/
