The Cahiers de la Méditerranée, the peer-reviewed journal of the Université de Nice, recently published “Italy, British resolve and the 1935-36 Italo-Ethiopian War” by Jason W. Davidson, associate professor of Political Science and International Affairs.
Communication Journal Honors UMW Political Science Professor
Chad Murphy, assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Mary Washington, was recently announced as the recipient of article of the year for 2014 by Communication Methods and Measures journal.
Chad Murphy (second from left), assistant professor of Political Science, was announced as the recipient of article of the year for 2014 by Communication Methods and Measures journal.
Murphy, along with Associate Professor of Psychology Chris Westbury at the University of Alberta, published “Expanding the scope of selective exposure: An objective approach to measurement of media ideology” in August 2013.
“The paper does an excellent job describing the methodological limitations of current approaches to selective exposure (i.e., blunt coding, assumption of neutrality, artificial unidimensionality),” said members of the committee who selected the winners. “Further, the cognitive psychology focus on word co-occurrence is interesting and innovative to selective exposure research.”
The winning paper was selected in a two-step process. Editors of the Communication Methods and Measures journal narrowed down the list of articles before members of an executive board serving on a special committee identified the winners.
Murphy and Westbury will be awarded during an annual conference in Montreal, Canada.
Richardson Addresses Southern Business Administration Association
Lynne Richardson, dean of the College of Business, gave a plenary address at the Southern Business Administration Association summer meeting on July 14 in Clearwater, Florida. Her invited talk was “Checking our Own Development with Lessons from the Aspiring Deans Seminar.”
Warner Dodges Question about How Much He’ll Campaign with Obama (Richmond Times Dispatch; Daily Progress.Com)
County Fare: Clark Art The Same Only Better (Berkshire Eagle.Com)
Hydorn to Serve as Leadership Mentor
Debra Hydorn, Professor of Mathematics, was selected to serve as a leadership mentor at the AAC&U/Project Kaleidoscope Summer Leadership Institute. As a mentor she will help participating science faculty develop their leadership plans for projects aimed at transforming undergraduate STEM education. The institute will take place at Pendle Hill, a conference center near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 18-23. To learn more about this and other institutes offered by AAC&U see http://www.aacu.org/summerinstitutes/index.cfm.
UMW Professor Monitors Elections in Hot Spots (The Free Lance-Star)
Sarvis In For Virginia Senate Race, Complicating Gillespie’s Hopes (WAMU)
Separation Anxiety (The Health Journals.Com) (Anand Rao)
Gupta Presents on BRICS and Global Economic Governance
Surupa Gupta, associate professor of Political Science and International Affairs, presented on “BRICS and Global Economic Governance” at the Observer Research Foundation, a premier think tank in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. She provided the opening remarks and Amb. H.H.S Viswanathan, Distinguished Fellow, ORF, was the discussant. Vivan Sharan of ORF’s Global Governance Initiative moderated the discussion.