The Institute of International Education (IIE) annually conducts scholarship competitions for U.S. graduate students wishing to pursue study, research or professional training abroad under the Fulbright-Hays Program sponsored by the United States Department of State and for other awards offered by foreign governments, universities and private donors. To assist in the selection of candidates, the Institute convenes a National Screening Committee comprised of area specialists and authorities in various fields to review applications and nominate candidates to the award sponsors. Dr. Patricia Reynolds, Assistant Professor in the College of Education, has been selected to work this year on the National Screening Committee for English Language Teaching Assistants for Western Europe.
Barrenechea Co-Edits Journal Issue, Presents at Conference
Over the summer, Antonio Barrenechea, Associate Professor of English, co-edited and co-wrote the introduction for “Hemispheric Indigenous Studies, ” a special issue of Comparative American Studies: An International Journal. In August, he attended the Sixth World Congress of the International American Studies Association (IASA) in Szczecin, Poland, where he presented “Thomas Pynchon’s Poetics of Atrocity: Making Words Matter in Gravity’s Rainbow.” At that conference, he was also elected to a two-year term as a member of the Executive Council of the IASA.
Rafferty Publishes Creative Essay on McKinley Assassination
Colin Rafferty, Assistant Professor of English, recently published the essay “Assassin’s Bullet (#25)” in the latest issue of Shadowbox Magazine: http://www.shadowboxmagazine.org/issue7/Bottle12.swf.
UMW Philosophy Chair Vasey Wins Service Award (The Free Lance-Star)
Consider This: Syria, Military Sexual Assault, Paying College Athletes (america.aljazeera.com)
Stephen Farnsworth Publishes New Book
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is coauthor of new book, “The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government,” published this month by Rowman & Littlefield, a scholarly publisher in the social sciences.
From the publisher: “This book provides an expansive international examination of news coverage of US political communication, and the roles the US government and the Presidency play in an increasingly communicative and interconnected political world. This comprehensive yet concise text includes analyses of not just the Presidency, but US foreign policy and contemporary political media itself. The realities of an ever-changing political landscape are magnified nowhere more greatly than in the realm of foreign policy, and the stakes surrounding the need for quality communication skills are no higher than at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue because – when the voices of the US government speak – the world is listening.”
More information: http://stephenfarnsworth.net/books/
Governor McDonnell Lawyers Meet with Prosecutors (WJLA)
Terry McAuliffe Poised to Let Virginia Democratic Party Sling Mud for Him (The Washington Times)
Leo Lee Presents at US-Korea Conference
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Jangwoon “Leo” Lee, recently presented “Domain Decomposition Methods for Solving Stochastic PDEs” at the annual US-Korea Conference (UKC 2013) in New Jersey. In addition to attending many research talks at the conference, Dr. Lee chaired an applied mathematics session.