Janet Cropp, assistant dean of advising services for the College of Business, is serving as a proposal reader for the Annual Conference for the Adult Learners Commission of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) to be held in Nashville, Tenn., in October 2012.
She attended the semi-annual meeting of the Association of Virginia Individualized Studies Administrators (AVISA) at the University of Virginia on Friday, March 9.
Cassandra Good, assistant editor for the Papers of James Monroe, wrote an article that appears in the April 2012 issue of the international journal Gender & History. The article, “Friendly Relations: Situating Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic, 1780–1830,” features research from her doctoral dissertation in history.
Mark Snyder, assistant professor of music, will have his composition Messy for processed clarinet, electronics & video performed by Andrea Cheeseman on Saturday, March 31 at Christopher Newport University for the Society of Composers, (SCI) Region III Conference .
More information can be found here.
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Five UMW students, led by Associate Professor of Economics Shawn Humphrey, attended the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) meeting in Washington, D.C. The fifth annual meeting was held at George Washington University from Friday, March 30 through Sunday, April 1.
Students Sarah Alvarez, Ashley Cameron, Nicole Cochran, Santiago Sueiro and Daniel Tees were among 1,000 students from around the world at the meeting. The weekend includes working sessions, skills sessions and a large-scale service project. Humphrey is one of 30 commitment mentors at the meeting.
For more information about CGIU, visit http://www.cgiu.org/default.asp.
UMW was well represented at the Association of Collegiate Computing Services of Virginia Conference held in Charlottesville, March 14-16.
DTLT’s Lisa Ames, LMS Admin, gave a presentation on UMW’s adoption of a new learning management system titled “Designing from a Blank Canvas” while Tim Owens, ITS, partnered with Andy Rush, New Media Specialist, to lead a session called “Ad-free Streaming with the Change in Your Pocket.”
Webmasters Cathy Derecki and Curtiss Grymala led a birds-of-the-feather discussion on Web Redesign and Edward Gray, Systems Integration and Support Specialist, gave a presentation titled “Making a World of Difference: Inventory, Licensing and Software Management.”
