Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Emile Lester’s column “Textbooks proposed for Texas schools open can of worms,” was recently published in “The Dallas Morning News.”In addition, he co-authored “Texas textbooks set to mislead our students in American history, government” that was recently published on “WacoTrib.com” and “Education a casualty of Texas textbook […]
April Greenan, Assistant Professor of Music, recently lectured on music and medicine in the University of Virginia School of Nursing. She reported on controlled studies of the application of music in combating certain cancers, dyslexia, and Alzheimer’s Disease and identified specific musical properties that the studies indicate are effective in treatment and that produce statistically […]
Professors Nabil Al-Tikriti, Ranjit Singh, Jason Davidson and Eric Bonds held a panel discussion on Nov. 11 entitled “OUR NEWEST WAR: UNDERSTANDING U.S. MILITARY POLICY IN IRAQ AND SYRIA.” The panel participants provided an overview of this policy that, since September, has included bombing missions and missile strikes in both countries to “degrade and defeat” […]
A research project on the 2014 U.S. Senate election in Virginia co-authored by Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of UMW’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, Stephen Hanna, professor of geography and Benjamin Hermerding, an Alvey Scholar at UMW and a research associate at the center, was featured in the Washington Post […]
Scott Harris, director of the James Monroe Museum, was interviewed by Dan Manley, host of “Mornings on Main,” a show on WMST Radio in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Harris discussed the James Monroe Museum, the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg and bluegrass music.
