Jeff McClurken, associate professor of history, presented his paper “Teaching with Social Media” during the Digital Humanities workshop at the 126th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago.
He also ran a pre-conference workshop, “So, You Want to Teach a Digital History Class?” at the AHA.
Gary Richards, assistant professor of English, is featured in three videos on the Biography Channel’s website, focused on Truman Capote, William Faulkner and Harper Lee.
In addition, his essay “Everybody’s Graphic Protest Novel: Stuck Rubber Baby and the Anxieties of Racial Difference” is included in the recently published Comics and the U.S. South (2012).
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is featured in the Thursday, Jan. 5 issue of The Washington Times. In the article, “McDonnell Nets Record Haul for GOP Governors,” Farnsworth discusses the rivalry between Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.
On Friday, Jan. 6, Farnsworth appeared on CTV News to discuss the Republican candidates’ preparations for the New Hampshire primary.
Claudia Emerson, Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry, is featured in the January issue of Northern Virginia Magazine.
The issue is available on newsstands now; the article will be available online at the end of January.
Dr. Julius Esunge, assistant professor of mathematics, recently organized a session at the national Joint Mathematics Meetings held in Boston, Mass., in January. His session, titled “Stochastic Analysis in Honor of Professor Hui-Hsiung Kuo” ran for two concurrent days and brought in about 20 speakers from around the world.
Dr. Debra Hydorn, professor of mathematics, delivered a presentation titled Fostering Artistic
Explorations with Geometer’s Sketchpad in a session on Arts and Mathematics at the conference. In addition, Dr. Hydorn had a piece of art selected for display at the Joint Meetings. A video about the art exhibit was made to showcase the event.
Dr. Jangwoon “Leo” Lee, assistant professor of mathematics, delivered the presentation Galerkin Finite Element Approximations of an Optimal Control Problem for Elliptic PDEs with Random Input Data, in a session on Numerical Analysis at the conference. Dr. Lee also served as a judge for the national undergraduate student poster competition at the same meeting.
In addition, five majors in the Department of Mathematics presented results of their research projects at the meeting.
Ryan Vaughn, mentored by Dr. Randall Helmstutler, along with Katie Dillinger and Rebecca Pressor mentored by Dr. Leo Lee presented posters that detail their work as part of the national undergraduate student poster competition.
Additionally, Catherine O’Doherty and Marianne Dubinsky, mentored by Dr. Julius Esunge, delivered presentations on their research. Each of the projects extends work initiated as part of the Jepson Summer Science Institute from summer 2011.
