Category: Professional Notes

Serving on an international panel of jurors for the Society of American Mosaic Artists, UMW professor of art history Jean Ann Dabb selected works on display at the Mosaic Arts International exhibit in Austin, Tex. Mosaic art, one of the world’s oldest art forms, is experiencing a global revitalization. “This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to highlight outstanding examples of contemporary mosaic art from around the world in one venue, to allow viewers to experience the exciting new ways that artists are taking this art form to another level,” said Shug Jones, president of the SAMA Board of Trustees. “These artists, building on traditional and ancient art, are using both traditional and non-traditional materials to really push the art to a degree unseen in recent history.”

Former secretary to two Mary Washington presidents, Anne Avery Moyse, passed away February 13. Her obituary is at:  http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/022011/02152011/607212

Join the UMW Bookstore team as they send their best wishes with Lucy Snyder in her retirement after 24 years of servicee in the UMW commmunity. Stop in the store between 2 pm and 4 pm on Thursday, February 24 to visit and say farewell!

The Division of Information Technologies is pleased to announce the hiring of Raymond Usler as Director of IT Security and ISO.  As Information Security Officer, Ray will administer UMW’s information security program.  He is responsible for planning and directing efforts to safeguard the university’s data from unauthorized access, modification, or dissemination to ensure its confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Ray comes to UMW from Macomb Community College in Michigan where he served as Manager of Information System Security.  He holds a BS in Business Administration from Central Michigan University, and CISSP and CISM certifications, and is a member of several information security associations.

Ray joined UMW on February 10.  He reports directly to the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO and works in Tyler House on the Fredericksburg Campus.

These College of Arts and Sciences faculty members submitted Faculty Development Grant proposals in November, and following review by the Committee on Faculty Development and Grants, the CAS Dean made these awards for the 2011-12 fiscal year:

• Jason Davidson, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, ” ‘We Gotta Get out of this Place’: US. Allies’ Decisions to Withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan.”
• Mindy Erchull, Department of Psychology, “Objectification, Sexualization, and Sexual Agency.”
• Jacqueline Gallagher, Department of Geography, Textbook on Field Methods in Mobile GIS and GPS.
• Debra Hydorn, Department of Mathematics, “Correcting for Error in GPS Postion to Improve the Linear Association Between Satellite and Field-Collected Measurements of Elevation.”
• Rosemary Jesionowski, Department of Art and Art History, “Proof of Experience.”
• Janusz Konieczny, Department of Mathematics, “Conjugacy in Semigroups.”
• Ben LaBreche, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, “Samson Agonistes and the Critique of Liberalism.”
• Elizabeth Lewis, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, “Women and Charity in Spain, 1786-1939.”
• Leslie Martin, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, “Making Sense of Need: Organizational Constructions of Homelessness and Solutions.”
• Maya Mathur, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, ” ‘Big Fish and Little Fish’: Comic Economics on the Jacobean Stage.”
• Keith Mellinger, Department of Mathematics, “Cap partitions of affine spaces.”
• Laura Mentore, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, “The Social Significance of Competitive ‘birdsport’ among Guyanese Men.”
• Marjorie Och, Department of Art and Art History, “Community and Friendship in the Letters and Portraits of Vittoria Colonna.”
• Jennifer Polack-Wahl, Department of Computer Science, “iPod for Education: Teaching Resource for the Future.”
• Sheshalatha Reddy, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, “Two Chapters on Indian-English Periodical Literature.”
• Debra Steckler, Department of Psychology, “An Investigation of the Foundation of Arnett’s New Life Stage: Emerging Adulthood.”
• Abbie Tomba, Department of Biological Sciences, “Identification of Larval stages of trematodes (Family Opecoelidae) parasitizing freshwater snails (Family Pleuroceridae).”