Sally Scott, director of disability resources, presented the workshop “College Students with Disabilities: A Partnership for Promoting Inclusive College Classrooms” at the 19th International Conference on Learning. The annual conference was held in August at the Institute of Education, University of London in London, England.
Cate Brewer, visiting assistant professor of Theatre and Dance, directed a piece from Four Riffs for a Sailor by Monica Raymond with The Guillotine Theatre Company (formerly Georgetown Theatre), for The Kennedy Center’s 11th annual Page-to-Stage Festival this weekend. Four Riffs for a Sailor examines the roles of several female characters woven throughout Homer’s Odyssey.
Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence David J. Long’s composition Homage to Normandy was performed on August 22, 2012 by the Prekmurska godba Bakovci in Slovenia.
Homage to Normandy is a tribute to all the soldiers who lost their lives during the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. The first movement, ‘Elegy: For All of the Fallen,’ is a beautifully powerful chorale that builds to a glorious climax before calming again. The second movement, ‘In Resolution: Toward the Final Victory,’ captures the brute force of the battle and drives all the way to the end in this fitting homage.
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Rosalyn Cooperman, associate professor of political science, has been named a 2012 recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Jack L. Walker Outstanding Article Award. The award honors a paper published within the last two years that contributes to the discipline’s understanding of political organizations and parties.
Cooperman co-wrote “Activists and Conflict Extension in American Party Politics,” originally published in the American Political Science Review in 2010, with Geoffrey Layman of the University of Notre Dame, Thomas Carsey of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, John Green of the University of Akron and Richard Herrera of Arizona State University.
The article examines the recent growth of party polarization in American politics. Specifically, it identifies party activists as a main source of polarization between the Democratic and Republican parties as party activists with extreme views on a variety of issue dimensions encourage candidates to take non-centrist positions.
The political organizations and parties section of APSA has recognized outstanding articles through the Jack L. Walker Award since 1989. The American Political Science Association, founded in 1903, is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 15,000 members across the world.
Melanie Szulczewski, assistant professor of environmental science, presented “Examination of the Diverse Environmental Impacts of Long-Term Acid Mine Drainage on a Virginia Stream Ecosystem” in the environmental chemistry division at the 244th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. The national meeting was held in Philadelphia, Penn., August 19 to 23.
