Category: Professional Notes

Brian Baker, Executive Director for Entrepreneurship at the University of Mary Washington presented at the International Economic Development Council Annual Conference in Houston, Texas on October 1.  His topic covered approaches for business assistance employed at the UMW Office of Entrepreneurship.  Following the presentation, Baker led a discussion titled “Empowering Entrepreneurs.”  The group discussion enabled colleagues in economic development to explore best practices on approaches to encouraging innovation, small company incubation, support services for business owners, and financing.

The UMW Office of Entrepreneurship is a division of the Center for Economic Development and hosts the UMW Small Business Development Center, the EagleWorks Accelerator and Innovation Program, the Engagement Council, and the Virginia Business Incubation Association.

A segment featuring Rosalyn Cooperman, associate professor of political science, will appear on WUSA-9 during tonight’s 11 p.m. broadcast. In the interview, Cooperman discusses the importance of Prince William County to the presidential election, as well as the impact of women voters.

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, took a group of political science students to Washington, D.C., on Monday, Oct. 22. During the trip, the students met with recent UMW graduates about making the transition from college to work and met with Brian Lamb and Steve Scully of C-SPAN.

The students were able to ask questions about the debates and the election from a variety of panelists live on C-SPAN on Monday afternoon. Farnsworth provided commentary and analysis, along with professors from other universities.

Professor of Philosophy and Religion Mehdi  Aminrazavi’s  work has recently been published in The Great Umar Khayyam: A Global Reception of the Rubaiyat edited by A. A. Seyed-Gohrab.

The book includes Aminrazavi’s chapter, “ Reading the Rubaiyyat as Resistance Literature.”

Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics Keith Mellinger recently had his article “The de Bruijn–Erdős theorem for hypergraphs” published in the journal Designs, Codes and Cryptography.  The article was co-authored with mathematicians from the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of California in San Diego, and Tel Aviv University, Israel.