A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Tyler Frankel and his students were featured in an article by the Fredericksburg Free Press titled “UMW team tests the waters — literally — with weekly coliform monitoring along Rappahannock.” The piece describes how UMW students collect river water to measure dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH and salinity. The […]
Director of First Year Admission Sarah Lindberg and Dean of Admission and Associate Vice President Melissa Yakabouski appeared on News Talk 1230 WFVA’s Town Talk this month to discuss how summer offers a valuable opportunity for students to get ahead in the college search process.Lindberg and Yakabouski said high school sophomores, juniors and seniors can […]
Professor of Mathematics Janusz Konieczny has co-authored a research article, “The Inverse Monoid of Partial Inner Automorphisms of a Semigroup,” published in the Journal of Algebra, one of the world’s leading mathematics journals for research in algebra.Over the course of his career, Konieczny has published 58 research articles in 31 mathematics journals, totaling more than […]
Professor of Political Science Rosalyn Cooperman, who is also chair of the Department of Political Science & International Affairs, was quoted in a column by the Fredericksburg Free Press. In the piece, titled “Thank you to the professor who has been taking my calls for almost 30 years,” Cooperman shed light on Professor of Political Science […]
Men’s Basketball Head Coach Marcus Kahn was featured in an article titled “Marcus Kahn credits his six-year stay at Cabrini for capturing a national championship,” by City of Basketball Love, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused around the coverage of high school and college basketball in and around Philadelphia. The piece describes how about an hour […]
Professor Emeritus of Political Science Stephen Farnsworth was featured by the Fredericksburg Free Press in a column titled, “Thank you to the professor who has been taking my calls for almost 30 years.”Columnist Jonathan Hunley begins the article by writing, “No more faculty meetings, and no more papers to grade. But we’ll still get to […]
Associate Professor of German Marcel Rotter, Professor of French Brooke Di Lauro, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Keith Mellinger got together to talk with NewsTalk 1230 WFVA’s Town Talk. The trio previewed “World on a Plate: A Journey Through Global Cuisines,” a free five-week virtual course hosted by UMW beginning the […]
Professor of Middle East History Nabil Al-Tikriti presented a paper last month entitled “The John Elphinstone Papers and the 1770 Battle of Çeşme” to the 7th International Conference of the Mediterranean Maritime History Network, in Zadar, Croatia. This conference hosted approximately 30 papers covering topics as wide-ranging as 19th century smuggling, maritime conflict, archival documents […]
Associate Professor of Management Alexandra Dunn and Center for Teaching Director and Associate Professor of Education Victoria Russell will serve as presenters for a Virginia Talent + Opportunity Partnership (VTOP) Virtual Lunch & Learn on June 10.Their session, “From Syllabus to Skillset: Connecting Coursework to Career Readiness Across Disciplines,” will explore strategies for helping students […]
Professor of Mathematics Janusz Konieczny co-authored a 78-page research article, Conjugacy in Abstract Semigroups, Transformation and Diagram Monoids, and Conjugacy Growth, published in the Journal of Algebra.The journal’s website states: “The Journal of Algebra is a leading international journal and publishes papers that demonstrate high quality research results in algebra and related computational aspects. Only the very best and most […]