The University of Mary Washington Small Business Development Center, in partnership with Rappahannock Community College, hosted the Hewlett Packard Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs (HP LIFE) Demonstration June 21.
HP LIFE focuses on business needs at various stages of growth, and with varying degrees of technology experience. The UMW-SBDC will introduce several classes in the HP LIFE curriculum in the next few months. For the latest information, please visit the SBDC website.
The next issue of the EagleEye newsletter will go out on Thursday, July 5, not Thursday, June 28.
We welcome submissions that highlight upcoming events, faculty and staff achievements, notable student and faculty projects and campus announcements of general interest. With more than 800 visitors to the website each week, EagleEye is the perfect place to promote information among the campus community. To submit information, follow the directions at http://umweagleeye.wpengine.com/contribute/ or contact Brynn Boyer or Marty Morrison in the Office of News and Public Information.
The university is looking forward to welcoming 347 of our new students and their families to campus for “FLIGHT SCHOOL” on Friday, June 22. The planning committee has been working hard to create a program that is both informative and fun for our incoming freshmen and transfer students. While we expect most of the guests to park in the Parking Deck, we are aware that parking may be difficult across campus. Please plan accordingly.
We will be hosting a meet and greet with families on the Lee Hall Terrace from 10:30-11:30 a.m. that day. All campus staff is welcome to join us and partake of the refreshments. Please remember to wear your UMW nametag!
UPDATE:
Due to extreme registration numbers, heat and possible thunderstorms the Administrators Meet & Greet has been moved to the Anderson Center Lobby from the same 10:30 to 11:30 time. We have a FRED bus, golf carts and even a van to transport people from main campus (Lee Hall Loop) to the Anderson Center on a continuous loop.
You can find more information about “Flight School” at www.umw.edu/flightschool. The schedule of events can be reached via the link on that page. If you have any questions, please email Chris Porter at cjporter@umw.edu.
Thank you for all you do every day to make UMW a place where great minds get to work!
Sincerely,
The UMW “Flight School” Planning Committee
From the Office of Human Resources. If further assistance is needed, please contact Denise M. Holmes, Benefits Administrator dholme2@umw.edu
Special Enrollment for Medical Flexible Reimbursement Accounts ends on Friday, June 22.
As stated below, you may now contribute up to $5,000 to the Medical Flexible Reimbursement Account (MRA) for the plan year of July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. To enroll, increase or decrease your MRA contribution, please complete the special enrollment form and forward the form Office Of Human Resources on or before close of business Friday, June 22, 2012. EmployeeDirect will not be available for this special enrollment.
If you take no action your 2012-2013 MRA will remain as you elected during our annual open enrollment.
Virginia’s Executive Mansion in Richmond has a new addition – an almost 200-year-old painting on loan from the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library. A portrait of James Monroe will reside in the State Dining Room of the Executive Mansion for two years to commemorate the bicentennial of the building’s construction in 2013. On Thursday, June 21, Gov. Bob McDonnell and First Lady Maureen McDonnell will formally unveil the Rembrandt Peale portrait in a private reception.
Members of the James Monroe Museum staff, including Director Scott Harris and Curator Jarod Kearney, were on-hand to help install the portrait in February.
“The process of transporting and installing the painting was carried out flawlessly by personnel from our art handlers, Ely, Inc., and staff at the Executive Mansion,” Harris said. “Peale’s portrait of Monroe is at a near life-size scale, and with its frame is quite heavy. Once it was in place, First Lady Maureen McDonnell texted the Governor, who was at the State Capitol, telling him ‘James is here!’”
The portrait, painted by Rembrandt Peale from 1817 to 1825, is thought to be based on an earlier bust-length portrait of Monroe painted by Peale from life. The James Monroe Museum has housed the portrait since 1985.
“What makes exhibiting James Monroe’s portrait in the Virginia Executive Mansion so special is that, while he signed the legislation to build the home during his last term as governor, he never got to live in it,” Harris said. “It is therefore fitting that he has returned to take up residence in the house he helped build during its bicentennial commemoration.”
