Category: Professional Notes

Marshall Presents Paper and Publishes Research Article

Andrew Marshall, assistant professor of Computer Science, presented a paper, “Unification and Matching in Hierarchical Combinations of Syntactic Theories,” at the 10th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems on Sept. 20 – 24. The paper will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, volume 9322. Andrew also recently co-authored a […]

Nabil Al-Tikriti Facilitates Debates on International Humanitarian Law, Forced Migration

During this past summer, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti carried out many activities while continuing to actively serve as a member of the Board of Directors of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders USA.For five weeks in May and June, Al-Tikriti served as a cultural facilitator/mediator on MSF’s “Bourbon Argos” ship […]

Scanlon Presents on Women Modernist Poets

Mara Scanlon, professor of English, presented a paper entitled “Charlotte Mew, H.D., and the Magdalen: ‘what she did everyone knows’” at the H.D. and Feminist Poetics Conference in Bethlehem, PA, H.D.’s birthplace.The paper examined the Magdalen figures in two poems, not only analyzing the representations of their sexual bodies and the visions they enable for […]

Dolby Receives Ornithology Award

Andrew Dolby, professor of biological sciences, was awarded the 2015 Eike Award for outstanding service to the Virginia Society of Ornithology (VSO).Dolby became active with the VSO soon after arriving at Mary Washington. He served on the VSO’s Board of Directors from 2005 to 2008. Dolby then served as vice president from 2009 to 2011, […]

Crawford, Davies and Griffith Publish Ecological Model in International Journal

Stephen Davies, associate professor of computer science, Alan Griffith, professor of biological science and Michael Crawford from the class of 2014, published their  modeling research article, titled “Predicting metapopulation responses of a tidal wetland annual to environmental stochasticity and water dispersal through an individual-based model.”The article currently appears in the journal “Ecological Modelling” online and will appear […]