March 21, 2026

EagleEye

A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff

Garcia Publishes in Computational Economics

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Christopher Garcia, assistant professor in the College of Business, recently had his article “Winner Determination Algorithms for Combinatorial Auctions with Sub-cardinality Constraints” accepted for publication in Computational Economics. The paper will be published in December but is already available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10614-015-9496-5

Phillips to Present at International Conference

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Nichole Phillips, assistant professor in the College of Business, recently had her co-authored conference paper Estimating the Likelihood of Strategy Implementation Failure: An Exploration of Middle Managers’ Markers accepted for presentation and inclusion in the program of the Eastern Academy of Management International’s Managing in a Global Economy XVI Conference taking place in Lima, Peru from June 21-25, 2015.

Goehring in Egypt

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Jim Goehring, professor of Classics, Philosophy and Religion, delivered a paper on “The Pachomian Federation and Lower Egypt: The Ties That Bind” at the Saint Mina Monastery Symposium held Feb. 8-12 in Mariut, Egypt. Sponsored by the St. Mark Foundation for Coptic History, the symposium offered Goehring the chance to meet and speak with his holiness Pope Tawadros II, spiritual head of the Coptic Church.

McMillan Featured in Tennessee Tech Exhibition

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"Elevate" Ceramic Sculpture by Jon McMillan

“Elevate”
Ceramic Sculpture by Jon McMillan

Assistant Professor of Ceramics Jon McMillan is currently showing 15 ceramic sculptures in a solo exhibition at Tennessee Tech University’s Joan Derryberry Gallery.  The show features work from McMillan’s Bioforms series, and will run from now until March 6.  McMillan will also travel to the gallery in early March to give a visiting artist lecture on his work.

For more information:

Joan Derryberry Gallery- https://www.tntech.edu/centerstage/jdag

For more images of the artwork:

jonmcmillan.com

Keith Receives Information Quality Degree

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Shelley Keith, director of Digital Communications, recently received a master in science in information quality from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology. She completed a capstone project on the holistic study of file systems and associated operational inefficiencies in a decentralized government organization, titled “File System Management and Information Quality at the Department of Arkansas Heritage.”