Category: What’s New @ UMW

On Wednesday, July 25, Jepson Hall was home to more than 20 posters and presentations on topics ranging from acid mine drainage to zebrafish as part of the 2012 Summer Science Symposium. UMW’s Summer Science Institute, a 10-week undergraduate research program, started in 1999.

At the symposium’s awards ceremony, Yoshi Takeda won first place for his oral presentation “Turtles in the Fredericksburg Canal: Identifying and Estimating Populations Sizes,” under the direction of Professor Werner Wieland. Robert Higgins won second place for his oral presentation “Pegylation of Guanyl Pyrazole to Provide a Guanidinylation Reagent,” under the

direction of Professor Janet Asper.

In the poster category, Robert Clark won first place for his project “Spatial and Isotopic Analysis of Soil Erosion and Sediment Fluxes in Three Rappahannock River Tributaries, Stafford County, Virginia,” under the direction of Professor Ben Kisila. Sarah Marzec won second place in the poster category for her project “Phylogenetic Classification of Nematodes,” under the direction of Professor Theresa Grana.

The symposium program lists abstracts of all 22 presentations and posters.

Gari Melchers Home and Studio is hosting a fall trip to Newport, R.I., from Friday, October 5 through Monday, October 8.  The trip includes visits to several famous Newport mansions with accommodations at the harborside Marriott.  UMW faculty and staff receive museum members’ special price.  Newport in the Fall2

July 2012 Updates and Announcements

• Parking Management News
  • Welcome Will!
  • New Parking Management Team
  • Lot Closures
• Purchasing News
  • SPCC Credit Back-up
  • eVA changes
  • New Exclusive Beverage Campus Contract
  • On-site Campus Work Requires Certificate of Insurance
• EagleOne Downtime

Welcome Will!

UMW welcomes the newest member of our Parking Management family, Will Barnett.  Will joins the Parking team as a Community Service Officer, focusing on safe access to campus and parking enforcement.  We wish him well in his new role at UMW.

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The New Parking Management Team

The Parking Management office has filled positions that were previously vacant which will allow the University to maintain consistent enforcement of parking regulations throughout the year.  If any UMW employee is uncertain as to the rules and where they are allowed to park, please visit the parking management website or contact Robin.

Robin Jones 540-654-1129 or visit the website at: http://adminfinance.umw.edu/parking/

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Lot Closures

Several parking lots will be closed over the next few weeks due to lot paving and repair.

UMW Apartments-  week of Aug. 3

Russell and Marshall lots-  Aug 8 – 15

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SPCC REMINDER! …

Credits to SPCC transactions must also include supporting documentation within the cardholder file.

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SPCC NEWS

Beat the Sweep…SPCC Cardholders and Reviewers are now receiving a monthly “Beat the Sweep” email from Melissa Myers, UMW SPCC Program Administrator.  The message advises cardholders and reviewers to code and sign-off of all transactions in advance of the 22^nd of each month in order to comply with program timelines.

Important things to remember:

–        If you will be out of the office and unable to meet the monthly sign-off deadline, notify the Purchasing Office in advance of your departure.

–        Cardholders must code transactions timely; transactions will route to reviewers only after they are coded and signed-off by cardholder.   Reviewers will not see transactions that are unsigned by cardholders.

If you have any questions, please contact the SPCC Program Administrator, Melissa Myers: mmyers@umw.edu or call x1057.

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eVA CHANGES

The recent upgrade to the eVA system will mask the TIN# on orders formats, whether they are printed, faxed or emailed.  The eVA changes may cause some UMW employees to experience issues with change orders.  If a problem occurs, please contact a member of the Purchasing office for assistance.

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CONTRACT NEWS

Recently Awarded:

• Exclusive Beverage – Pepsi

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ON-SITE CAMPUS WORK – CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE

Any on-site campus service work by a vendor requires that UMW obtain a certificate of insurance.  Please contact a member of the Purchasing Office for assistance.

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EAGLEONE DOWNTIME

EagleOne card purchase locations will experience several days of downtime in early August due to system upgrades.

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Please contact Business Services for information and assistance at x1576.

Erma A. Baker   CPPO, VCO

Assistant Vice President for Business Services and CPO

University of Mary Washington

1301 College Avenue

Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401

ebaker@umw.edu

540-654-2043

Thanks to the dedication and loyalty of Mary Washington alumni, parents, friends, businesses, faculty, and staff, the University of Mary Washington reports a record-breaking $9.4 million total for gifts received and pledges made during the 2012 fiscal year.

The generous gifts from 7,787 UMW donors provided support for the Fund for Mary Washington, new and enhanced scholarships, and additional programs within the three colleges, athletics, and UMW’s cultural organizations and museums. In addition to gifts, the University received more than $4 million in new estate plan commitments from 18 Heritage Society members and $1.3 million in multi-year pledges.

Overall, the 2012 fiscal year was an exciting period of discovery as many alumni and friends renewed their connections with the University and now are making plans for additional ways to offer their support to UMW students and programs.

This message is from the Division of University Advancement and University Relations

A group of University of Mary Washington students camped out in a Madrid library, scrolling through decades-old microfilm to learn more about Spanish women’s social and civic activities during the early 20th-century.

“We got a better sense of the breadth and depth of what charity meant at that time,” said Betsy Lewis, professor of Modern Foreign Languages, who led the nine-day trip to Spain this summer.

Sophomores Sarah Abbott, Madeline Albrittain, Katie Lebling and Lara Pugh, read and cataloged women’s publications from the period of Spain’s civil war through the early Franco dictatorship. The magazines, a window into trends and culture of the time, are not digitized or readily available outside of Spain, making the journey from UMW a necessary one.

The trip was the capstone of the research team’s semester-long project, “Women and Charity in Spain,” one of 15 undergraduate research projects for spring 2012 and one of dozens of projects to receive an undergraduate research grant for the spring or summer.

Part of a larger project on the evolution of women’s charity from the late 18th- through the early 20th-centuries, this year’s research team examined several Spanish women’s magazines published by the Sección Femenina de la Falange, the fascist women’s organization supported by dictator Francisco Franco.  The group from Mary Washington explored how women’s civic activity and charitable work through the Sección Femenina was presented in the weekly and bi-monthly magazines, which also included  features typical of women’s publications such as fashion, home decorating, recipes, love advice, child-rearing tips and crossword puzzles.   Placing the work of the conservative Sección Femenina in the context of women’s civic work and social action, searching for the points of contact and divergence with their more progressive predecessors sets this research apart from other current work, Lewis said.

In the semester prior to the trip to Madrid, Lewis and the students did preliminary research, worked on data collection techniques and explored background reading on the time period.

“This was an amazing experience for me because it gave me so much experience with Spanish and gave me time to work one-on-one with a professor,” said Albrittain, a Spanish major.

This is the second year Lewis has taken a group of students to Spain as a part of her larger research project, though each trip has taken a different focus.

During this year’s trip, the students spent four to five hours each morning at the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the National Library of Spain, poring over documents, then used the afternoon to visit museums, exhibits and historic sites.

“The students had all these opportunities, mostly unplanned, to see history still alive,” Lewis said, noting an exhibit on women’s history that the students stumbled upon during the trip.

For Lebling, the semester of research and the trip to Spain provided a new perspective on her academic work.

“It was a great experience to be able to take all my knowledge I have been learning in Spanish classes and be able to apply it in real life,” she said.

Because of UMW’s undergraduate research grant, the students were able to take the trip without cost as a factor, Lebling explained.

“The whole experience has made me feel I definitely belong at Mary Washington,” she said.

Lewis and the four students will continue the project this fall to expand their work with the information and data they collected over the summer.

“The most rewarding thing is being able to include students in my research,” Lewis said. “I can cover a lot more ground in a short period of time with their help.”