Category: Professional Notes

COB Spring Break Trip to India

Smita Jain Oxford, senior lecturer for the College of Business, led a group of students on a spring break trip to India as part of her business communication course.“Our overarching goal was to study how five target companies employed business communication strategies in their particular industries and for their specific audiences. Of course, that is […]

Farnsworth Presents at Virginia Festival of the Book

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a talk on his new co-authored book, “The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government,” at the 20th Annual Virginia Festival of the Book at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The Virginia Festival of […]

Cropp to Participate in NACADA Conference

Janet Cropp, assistant dean of advising services, will serve as a proposal reader for the National Academic Advising Association’s (NACADA) 38th annual conference to be held in Minneapolis, Minn. in October 2014. Cropp will read proposals for the following two groups:  The Advising Adult Learners Commission and the Advising Business Majors Commission. 

Aminrazavi Presents Paper at Symposium in Germany

Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion presented a paper entitled “Mysticism in Islamic Philosophical Tradition: Hindrance to Rationalism or Perfection of Reason” at the  Symposium on the Middle Ages (Mystik im Mittelalter Gegensatz oder Vollendung der Vernunft?)  at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany. Feb. 26, 2014.

College of Education Professor Named to International Advisory Board

Dr. Patricia Reynolds has been named to the International Advisory Board for EDULEARN14. It is designed to discuss the latest developments in the field of teaching and  learning methodologies, educational projects and innovations and new technologies applied to education and research. The EDULEARN14  Advisory Board has been created as a consultant body with the specific […]