Category: Professional Notes

Mindy Erchull, associate professor of psychology, was one of 40 faculty members who attended the Institute for Academic Feminist Psychologists in San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 26 and 27.

The Institute was sponsored by the Society for the Psychology of Women, Division 35 of the American Psychological Association.

While attending the Institute, she presented a poster entitled “Own and Others’ Desire for Marriage and Children: A Comparison of Feminist and Non-Feminist Women.” Miriam Liss, associate professor of psychology, and Lauren Hartwell ’11 served as co-authors of the poster.

Eric Gable, professor of anthropology, will present a lecture at Bucknell University on Wednesday, March 21 as part of the university’s spring lecture series, “Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: An American Origin Story, Interdisciplinarily Considered.”

Gable’s lecture, “What Heritage Does and Does Not Do to Identity: The Case of Hemings and Jefferson,” will use material from his fieldwork in Indonesia, West Africa and Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson.

Former UMW men’s soccer coach Roy Gordon is among the inductees in the 2012 class in the Virginia-D.C. Soccer Hall of Fame. Gordon, along with four others, will be inducted at ceremonies on Friday, Feb. 3.

An eight-time Capital Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, Gordon was selected as National Soccer Coaches Association of America Regional Coach of the Year five times, and as Virginia State College Division Coach of the Year on four occasions. He was named the CAC’s Co-Coach of the Year in 2009.

Gordon retired at the end of the spring 2011 semester after 34 years at Mary Washington.

Deena Applebury, senior lecturer in the athletics department and coach of the women’s basketball team, is profiled on NCAA.com. The article, posted on Monday, Jan. 30, explores Applebury’s coaching philosophy in light of the team’s distinction as one of the best in the nation.

Assistant Professor of English Colin Rafferty’s creative nonfiction piece “Digging In” is featured in the Winter 2012 edition of The Baltimore Review.