On Nov. 7, Nabil Al-Tikriti presented a paper entitled “The 1502-1504 Correspondence Between Şehzade Korkud and the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem” to the Mediterranean in History Workshop, which took place on Nov. 7-8 in Venice, Italy. The workshop, which brought together some 24 experts in early modern Mediterranean maritime history, primarily from Italy […]
Dr. Roberta Gentry, Assistant Professor in the department of Foundations, Leadership and Special Populations in the College of Education, presented on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2013 at the Council for Exceptional Children Division on Career Development and Transition conference in Williamsburg, Va. The two-hour workshop, Demystifying Transition Assessment, is based on a book by the same […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, gave a lecture entitled “International News and U.S. Foreign Policy,” at the U.S. State Department’s Institute for International Education Visitor Leadership Program for North Africa and the Middle East. The Washington, D.C., talk was based on Farnsworth’s new […]
Chris Garcia, assistant professor in the College of Business, attended the Complex Adaptive Systems 2013 conference in Baltimore, Md. and presented a paper titled “Demystifying MapReduce” in the Analytics and Big Data track. The paper will be published in the journal Procedia Computer Science.
Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, gave a talk entitled “Teaching Dickens and Cultural Studies in the 21st Century” at Converse College on Nov. 15, as part of a conference on scholarship, pedagogy, and the intersections of popular culture.
