Professor and Chair of Economics Robert Rycroft attended the Philanthropy Educators Symposium on Wednesday, June 19. The symposium was sponsored by the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Doris Buffett’s Learning by Giving Foundation, and Giving 2.0 and was held at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the campus of Stanford University.The symposium brought […]
The National Association of College Auxiliary Services-East (NACAS-East) elected Erma Baker as president during the 2013 Annual Conference held recently in Gettysburg, Pa. Baker is assistant vice president for business services and chief procurement officer at UMW.The National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS), headquartered in Charlottesville, Va., is the largest auxiliary services support organization […]
The University of Mary Washington today announced that Brian Baker has been named executive director of the Center for Economic Development. Baker has spent the last decade as an administrator at UMW, most recently as executive director for entrepreneurship. In his role as executive director, Baker will oversee the UMW Small Business Development Center, the […]
Cassandra Good, assistant editor of the Papers of James Monroe, presented a paper titled “Making Friends, Making Gender: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Atlantic World” at the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture annual conference in Baltimore, Md., on June 15.
Reference and Humanities Librarian Jack Bales has written an article debunking the Chicago Cubs’ famous Billy Goat Curse for ChicagoSide, an online sports magazine. The so-called curse dates to 1945, when a Chicago tavern owner was asked to remove his pet goat from the Cubs’ Wrigley Field during the fourth game of the World Series. […]
