A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Fall Bulb Planting Workshop
Sunday, September 19, 2 p.m.
Building and Grounds Preservation Supervisor Beate Jensen will show how to use bulbs in formal gardens and for naturalizing.
Sponsored by Roxbury Farm and Garden
Free and open to the public; reservations not required.
Andrew Dolby
The offices of UMWF have a new address. They are located at:
University of Mary Washington Foundation
Executive Offices at Eagle Village
1125 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 200
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
All full-time teaching and administrative faculty can have portrait photos taken on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept 21-22 in GW Hall.
The Office of News and Public Information has arranged for a professional photographer to be at UMW on Sept. 21 and 22 to take head-and-shoulders photos of full-time teaching and administrative faculty members for use in University publications, websites and the news media, and for faculty use.
All new faculty members and any faculty with no professional photo on file are encouraged to sit for a photo. Also, faculty members wishing to update current photos are welcome to make an appointment. View current photos on the Meet the Faculty website at www.umw.edu/faculty. There is no cost to staff for this service.
The photo sessions are scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 21 and Wednesday, Sept. 22 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Foyer.
The photography should take five to 10 minutes. This is the only occasion when the photographer, Joe Parker, is scheduled to be at UMW during the 2010-11 academic year.
Please email two or three preferred times to Christie Pugh at cpugh@umw.edu or call 654-1055 at your earliest convenience to schedule an appointment.
Holly Schiffrin is reminding everyone conducting research with human subjects that you are required to submit an application for approval by the UMW Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to the start of data collection. In general, federal guidelines define research as “a systematic investigation…designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge.” Therefore, all research that will be published, presented at a conference (e.g., Research and Creativity Day), or archived in a library (e.g., senior honor’s theses and EDCI 590) needs to be reviewed. Additional information to determine what needs to be reviewed, the application forms, and a description of the submission process can be found on the IRB web site: http://www.umw.edu/irb/default.php. If you have questions about the application process, please contact the reviewer assigned to your academic department. The list can be found at: http://www.umw.edu/irb/instructions_forms/board_reviewers.php.
Faculty, staff, and students who wish to submit research for review by the UMW IRB must complete the online training program available at www.citiprogram.org. You will need to register for the course and select University of Mary Washington as the institution. Once you have completed the training, you should retain a copy of the training completion certificate for your records. You will need to submit this certificate as proof of training with each IRB proposal you submit. If you have any questions about the training program please contact Amy O’Reilly in the Provost’s Office.
Holly Schiffrin
Chair, UMW IRB
Gari Melchers Home and Studio is prominently featured on page 42 in the Sept/Oct issue of AAA World magazine in “Side Trip,” an article about Fredericksburg.
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs008/1102287104151/archive/1103629601261.html
UMW welcomes Dr. Tevya Zukor, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). Dr. Zukor most recently served at the Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center at Virginia Tech. He earned his B.S. in psychology from James Madison University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. of philosophy in clinical psychology from George Mason University. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and a certified group psychotherapist. His office is located on the first floor of Lee Hall, 654-1035.
Political Science major Nick Jacobs won the 2010 Pi Sigma Alpha essay competition. His paper, “Professional Reputation: Why the First Year of the Presidency is Overstated,” received first place honors in the “Best Undergraduate Class Paper Category.”
Nick’s paper was the 8th from UMW to be recognized in the Pi Sigma Alpha national essay competition, while no other school has been honored more than twice. Congratulations to Nick for his well-deserved honor.
UMW Galleries will launch the 2010-2011 season with two new shows that open on Friday, September 3 and run through Friday, October 8. On Thursday, Sept. 2, don’t miss the joint opening reception that will take place in both galleries from 5 t
o 7 p.m.
“Study for a Perfect Day” will take place in the duPont Gallery. Working with local businesses and thrift stores to secure recycled materials, Carole Garmon has created a body of work that speaks to notions of artifice and artifact. Using the landscape as her backdrop, her “vistas” address the art historical through references to the sublime aesthetic; the political with a nod to manifest destiny; and contemporary western culture through a DIY approach to her building methods.
Carole Garmon, professor of art, holds an MFA (1996) and a BFA (1993) in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has taught at UMW since 1998 and is a recipient of UMW’s Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award. Garmon’s research acknowledgements include the accessioning of select images and research materials on Rembrandt into the Rijks Museum Library in Amsterdam, Holland and participating in a BBC 2 documentary on Rembrandt’s painting, The Night Watch. The segment is part of the larger series, The Private Life of the Masterpiece. She was one of two Americans chosen to participate in the international exhibition, Inspired By Rembrandt, commemorating Rembrandt’s 400th birthday. In addition to numerous private collections, her work has been exhibited at the Main Art Gallery and 1708 Gallery in Richmond, the WPA/Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C., the Arlington Arts Center, as well as Lima, Peru and Berlin, Germany.
“REPEAT: Exploring Pattern and Texture” will take place in the Ridderhof Martin Gallery. It will feature the work of seven artists from Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia. Come see how these artists explore pattern and texture using a broad range of techniques and a variety of media, including drawing, painting, printmaking, textiles, and mixed media.
Admission to the University of Mary Washington Galleries is free. The UMW Galleries is located on the University of Mary Washington campus at 1301 College Avenue and is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 to 4 pm and Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4 pm.
For directions and more information, call (540) 654-1013 or visit the gallery website at www.galleries.umw.edu.