Professor Shukri B. Abed, associate professor of Arabic, will present the lecture “Middle East Report: Analysis of Current Events” at the University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, at 12:15 p.m. March 24. The location is the Room 150, SIE Center, 2201 South Gaylord Street, Denver, CO 80208. Dr. Abed holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, and a B.A from Tel Aviv University.
Courtney Clayton, assistant professor in the College of Education’s Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, has written a chapter in the book entitled “Teacher Preparation for Bilingual Student Populations”. “This volume focuses on understanding the structural, substantive, and contextual elements of preparation programs, and provides transformative guidelines for creating Educar signature programs. Designed to improve the practice of teacher preparation by promoting dialogic conversations and applications of praxis in the preparation of bilingual/ESL teacher candidates, it emphasizes that exemplary teacher preparation requires transformative teacher educators.”
Clayton, C. & Brisk, M.E. (2011). It’s my responsibility! Teacher of bilingual learners in an English-immersion context. In B. Bustos Flores, R. Hernandez Sheets & E. Riojas Clark (Eds.). Teacher preparation for bilingual student populations: Educar para transformar. (pp. 182-187). New York, NY: Routledge.
Jess Rigelhaupt, assistant professor of history and American studies, and four UMW students served on a panel on “Oral History and Documenting James Farmer’s Legacy at the University of Mary Washington” at the 2010 meeting of the Oral History Association. Christiane Lauer ’11, Sadie Smith ’11, Justin Mattos ’10 and MacKenzie Murphy ’10, with Rigelhaupt, presented papers based on interviews the students conducted in Rigelhaupt’s course “Oral History and James Farmer,” which was taught in fall 2009. The interviews are available at farmeroralhistory.umwblogs.org, a website that documents Farmer’s contributions to UMW and was built as part of the course. Lauer’s and Smith’s participation in the Oral History Association annual meeting was supported by an undergraduate research grant from the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office.
Robert E. Liebau, associate director of campus recreation, gave the presentation “To the Core—Embracing Personal Leadership Values” to the student session of the annual Virginia Athletic Trainers’ Association meeting in Richmond in January. Ian Rogol, UMW head athletic trainer, said Liebau’s talk was “extremely well received. Bob’s interaction with these students was amazing and all were extremely challenged to think about a topic many athletic training programs do not cover.”
“The Diary of Anne Frank” is opening Friday at the Fauquier Community Theatre. It is produced by Laurie Abeel, associate professor in the College of Education, and directed by Sarah LaFantasie, who studied theatre at UMW. Opening January 14, it runs three weekends: Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. The last show is Sunday, January 30. Tickets are $13 for students and seniors, and $15 for adults, and can be purchased online at www.fctstage.org. Fauquier Community Theatre is located in the Vint Hill area at 4225 Aiken Drive, Warrenton.
Laurie and Sarah would love to see UMW colleagues at the show.
