Webmaster Curtiss Grymala and Director of Digital Communications Shelley Keith participated in an all-night “hackathon” for charity while at HighEdWeb 2013, Oct. 6 to 9, in Buffalo, N.Y. The event, in support of Ride for Roswell, had 75 participants at its peak. Information architects, content strategists, visual designers, programmers, theme developers, and WordPress experts gathered […]
Jennifer Polack-Wahl, professor of computer science, and Karen Anewalt, professor of computer science, attended The Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, Eastern Region conference Nov. 1 and 2 and swept the conference awards with best faculty research paper won by Anewalt and best faculty research poster won by Polack-Wahl.Anewalt’s paper was titled “Connecting Academic and Professional […]
Andréa Livi Smith presented at three national/international conferences in October. Smith participated in the Domain of One’s Own session at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference in Raleigh, N.C. Smith presented a paper on the urban renewal on the Eastern edge of Paris at the Association for Preservation Technology International’s annual conference, titled “Preserving the […]
Roberta Gentry, Assistant Professor of Special Education in the College of Education, recently received a grant from the Virginia Department of Education. Grant funds will be used for tuition reimbursement for special education teachers enrolled in a licensure or degree program at UMW and currently working on a provisional license in regions 3 and 4 […]
Dr. Mindy Erchull and Dr. Miriam Liss have published a paper in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, now available through early online publication, entitled: Feminists who flaunt it: Exploring the enjoyment of sexualization among young feminist women.They found that, among self-identified feminist women, enjoying sexualization was related to a mix of traditional and feminist beliefs. Feminists […]
