Nina Mikhalevsky, professor of philosophy, gave a presentation on the “Current Status of Women in STEM” at the Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) in Quantico on Thursday, March 14. The presentation was part of the Women’s History Month program “Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.”
Cassandra Good, assistant editor of the Papers of James Monroe, presented “Friends in Power: Early American First Ladies’ Friendships with Men” at the “Double Lives of the First Ladies”conference at Texas State University-San Marcos on Friday, March 1.
Douglas Sanford, professor of historic preservation, presented a paper entitled “Archaeological Collections Management at a Small Academic Institution” at the 2013 Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference in Virginia Beach, Va. Sanford’s paper formed part of the special session that he organized and chaired, “Archaeological Collections: Management, Research, and Philosophical Issues” that addressed the professional methods and ethical legacies of such collections from the viewpoints of archaeologists who work in academic, government, and house museum realms. Both the paper and the session derived from an individual studies and group research-based class on archaeological collections management offered by Sanford in the fall 2012 semester. Sanford also served as a judge for the conference’s undergraduate student paper competition.
Larry Lehman, professor of mathematics, published the article “Suborder Polynomials Modulo Primes” in the February 2013 issue of JP Journal of Algebra, Number Theory and Applications. This article relates patterns in recursively defined sequences to the roots over finite fields of a certain class of polynomials.
Jim Groom delivered the keynote presentation titled “A Domain of One’s Own: A Novel Approach to Open” at the Association of Collegiate Computing Services of Virginia conference. This presentation contextualized the history of innovative work in UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies since 2004 to frame the current Domain of One’s Own pilot that will provide a domain and web hosting account to all Freshman and Transfer students come Fall 2013.
