On Oct. 11-18, Nabil Al-Tikriti, associate professor of Middle Eastern history, served as an election monitor for the Montenegro parliamentary elections. Joining eight other Americans in the U.S. delegation, Al-Tikriti worked as an OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) STO (Short Term Observer) in several rural villages and a provincial capital in the […]
Antonio Barrenechea, Associate Professor of English, has published America Unbound: Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies (University of New Mexico Press). The book is a study of how big novels from the Americas imagine and interrelate New World histories from the pre-Columbian era to the present. America Unbound calls for new hemispheric American Studies equipped with the international scope of Comparative Literature.
On Oct. 8, 2016, Patricia Orozco, lecturer in Modern Languages and Literatures, delivered a 45-minute workshop titled “From Zero to Novice High and Beyond” at the FLAVA Conference: Globally Mine! in Williamsburg, Virginia. This conference, celebrated every year, brings together high school and university instructors to share their knowledge and expertise in teaching and learning […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a lecture titled “The Presidential Candidates, the Mass Media and the Angry Voters of 2017” at the Wells Fargo Forum in Falmouth, Virginia.
Janusz Konieczny, professor of mathematics, gave a talk, A new definition of conjugacy for semigroups, in the Special Session on Recent Trends in Semigroup Theory at the meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, Oct. 8-9, 2016.
