Category: Professional Notes

Snyder Performs at Classical Revolution

Assistant Professor of Music Mark Snyder performed his original composition Qwee for processed harp, accordion and video at the Classical Revolution’s Night of the Living Composer at Balliceaux in Richmond, Va., on May 15. Accompanying him was UMW alum harpist Becky Brown ’15, who performed her original composition, Hold Still, a multimedia self-portrait for pencil, copper, Arduino on paper, poetry and video in Max.Classical Revolution is a Richmond-based collective of passionate musicians […]

Lee Presents at International Conference

Janie Lee, Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, presented the paper titled “Ideologies of Korean Competence and Gendered Citizenship in South Korean Television” at the 9th International Gender and Language Association Conference, which was held in the City University of Hong Kong on May 19-21.

Schiffrin and Students Present Studies at Psychology Convention

Holly Schiffrin, UMW associate professor of psychology, and a group of students presented research at the Association for Psychological Science Convention in Chicago.Schiffrin and students Kathryn Tsagronis, Rebecca Cain, Analuisa Martinez and Rebekah Selbrede presented “Can the way we think lead to more success? The role of positive and negative monitoring on cognitive task performance.”Schiffrin […]

Farnsworth Presents Research Paper on Virginia Politics

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a research paper titled “Reporting from Richmond: How Two Newspapers Covered the 2013 Virginia Governor’s Race.” The paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Virginia Association of Communication Arts and Sciences in Fairfax, Va.