Category: Professional Notes

Mark Snyder, assistant professor of music, performed his composition “Copenhagen” for processed tuba, electronics and video at the 2012 Society for Electro-Acoustic Musicians in the United States national conference. The conference was held at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin on Feb. 10.

The conference featured 115 music, video, paper and installation submissions. More about the conference can be found here: http://blogs.lawrence.edu/seamus2012/schedule

Three students from the music department, Becky Brown, Paige Naylor and John White), traveled with Snyder to attend the conference.

Stephen J. Farnsworth, professor of political science and international affairs and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a lecture entitled, “Journalism and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in Washington to leading reporters and editors from the Middle East and North Africa as part of the U.S. State Department’s Institute for International Education Visitor Leadership Program.

On Wednesday, Feb. 15, Farnsworth was a featured guest on NewsChannel 8’s program, “Capital Insider.” In the interview, he discusses the presidential election cycle.

Charles J. Shields,  associate director of the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series, has an article appearing in the March/April issue of Writer’s Digest magazine. The article, “Research like a Pro,” is a step-by-step guide to finding and organizing information for a fiction or nonfiction writing project.

On Tuesday, Feb. 21, Shields will speak to the President’s Community Advisory Committee about the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series. The committee serves as a resource to the University of Mary Washington President and administration on issues relative to the university and the minority community.  The committee is comprised of a diverse group of minority citizens of the greater Fredericksburg region, including professionals in the fields of higher education, secondary education and administration, the ministry, business, real estate, government and law.

On Saturday, March 31, Shields will appear at the Maine Festival of the Book with Chip Bishop, author of “The Lion and the Journalist,” about the friendship Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop. The author is Bishop’s great-grandnephew. The topic of the panel is ” The Quick and Dead: Writing about Someone You Knew or Admired.”

Holly Schiffrin, associate professor of psychology, will present the talk “Positive Psychology:  The Science  Behind Being Happier” at the Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group CME Conference on Saturday, Feb. 25.

Bruce O’Brien, professor of history, will discuss the effort to translate and digitize 150 early English law codes, including the Magna Carta, during an interview on the “With Good Reason” public radio program beginning Saturday, Feb. 11.

The interview can be heard on Feb. 11 at 4:30 p.m. on WCVE 88.9 FM and on Sunday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. and Monday, Feb. 13 at 12:30 a.m. on WAMU 88.5 FM. The segment, “The Magna Carta Online,”is online at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2012/02/the-magna-carta-online/.

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