March 25, 2026

EagleEye

A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff

Singh and Al-Tikriti Participate in Middle East Studies Association Conference

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On Oct. 10 to 13, Professors Ranjit Singh, political science and international affairs, and Nabil Al-Tikriti, history and American studies, attended the 2013 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Conference in New Orleans, LA. The conference is the primary professional event for Middle East Studies in North America. On Oct. 11, Nabil Al-Tikriti chaired a panel entitled “Empire and Belonging: Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey,” which brought together four scholars offering papers concerning intellectual luminaries in the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. On Oct. 12, Ranjit Singh’s presentation on the “Teacher’s Dilemma” presented by new media  was part of the “Media, Media Literacy, and Teaching Middle East Studies” panel sponsored by MESA’s Committee for Undergraduate Middle East Studies (CUMES).

Meadows Presents at STEM Conference

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College of Education Professor George Meadows was an invited presenter at the STEM: Science with the Future in Mind Conference, held at the Virginia Military Institute Oct. 8 and 9.  The target audience for the 2013 conference was high school teachers and students. Teachers were able to explore current scientific research as well as the pedagogy of science. High school students were given the opportunity to build relationships with mentors involved in STEM. Meadows presented workshops featuring the work being done in the College of Education’s LearnerSpace, including demonstrations of 3-D printing, microcontrollers, and alternative input devices such as the Makey Makey and the LEAP Motion Controller.

Chiang Publishes Book in Series

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“Developments of Harmonic Maps, Wave Maps and Yang-Mills Fields into Biharmonic Maps, Biwave Maps and Bi-Yang-Mills Fields”  by Yuan-Jen Chiang, professor of mathematics, was published by Birhauser, Springer, Basel, in the series of “Frontiers in Mathematics” in Europe.

She presented “Developments of Harmonic Maps into Biharmonic Maps” at the second Pacific Rim Mathematical Association Congress, which occurs every four years, in Shanghai, China. She also presented “Harmonic and Biharmonic Maps between Riemannian Manifolds” at a Colloquium of Mathematics Department, National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei.

 

Cooperman Blogs for USAPP

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Rosalyn Cooperman, Associate Professor of Political Science, wrote an invited post for the London School of Economics USA Politics & Policy blog on divisions among congressional Republicans and the government shutdown. Cooperman states that most House Republicans have no electoral incentive to compromise with congressional Democrats. Those Republicans who do represent swing districts with large populations of federal workers and retirees.

UMW Survey Receives Extensive Coverage

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A survey of Virginia voters designed by Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, has received extensive media attention, including reports in:

The Washington Post , Politico , Daily Kos , Real Clear Politics  , WRC-TV, Washington , WTOP , WAMU , The Richmond-Times Dispatch , The Daily Press of Hampton Roads and The Free Lance-Star.