Mukesh Srivastava, associate professor of accounting and management information systems, presented a blind reviewed co-authored paper on “Co-creation in Vendor-Customer Matrix Organizations: A Boundary Theory Approach” at the sixth Asian Business Research Conference held in Bangkok, Thailand from April 8 through 10. He won Best Paper Award at the international conference. He also was awarded a fellowship by the World Academy of Social Science on Tuesday, April 10.
Laurie Abeel, associate professor in graduate education, passed her Black Belt test in Tae Kwan Do on Saturday, April 28 at the Karate Sports Academy in Warrenton. She started as a white belt in April 2004 and three knee surgeries (with one more at the end of May) and eight years later has finally earned her black belt!
Members of UMW’s Center for Economic Development recently completed certifications and attended a conference.
Susan Ball, Early Venture Specialist for the UMW Small Business Development Center, completed the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Certification. Ball also attended a Social Media Marketing conference here in Fredericksburg, Va.
Brian Baker, Executive Director for Entrepreneurship and Business Development, completed two International Economic Development Council (I.E.D.C.) certification courses: Economic Development Credit Analysis and Real Estate Development and Reuse.
Kevin Bartram, director of the UMW Philharmonic, wrote an op-ed in a recent edition of The Free Lance-Star about the state of the arts in the Fredericksburg area. Bartram is chairman of the Fredericksburg Arts Commission.
The Potomac Theatre Company in Potomac, Md. 
will present adjunct instructor Mark Scharf’s plays “Get Stuffed, Replay,” and “Grey Hair and Zits” during its one-act festival, “Wit, Wisdom, Wickedness & Wonderment,” from June 15 to 24.
His play “Hired Gun,” which is semi-finalist for the 2012 Eugene O’Neill National Theater Conference, will be produced in July by the Theatrical Mining Company in Baltimore, Md. His play “Replay” will also appear at the Spotlighter’s Theatre in Baltimore in August as part of an evening of one-act plays entitled “The Things We Do.”
“Replay” is now available from Heurer Publishing. Scharf was recently named “Playwright-in-Residence” by the Twin Beach Players, who have commissioned Scharf to write a stage adaptation of “Frankenstein” to be produced in October 2012 for Halloween.
Previously, the Oberon Theatre Ensemble presented a staged reading of Scharf’s play “The Whispers of Saints” on March 25 at The Lambs Club in New York City.
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