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In Print
Faithlink: Connecting Faith and Life, a resource of the United Methodist Church, interviewed
Terry Lindvall
on religious satire. He celebrated 35 years as the Library Acquisition Choice Magazine's Reviewer in Film with reviews of Dru Jeffries' "Comic Book Film Styles," Tracey Mollet's "Cartoons in Hard Times," J. Telotte's "Animating the Science Fiction Imagination," and Kristen Anderson "Wagner's Comic Venus
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Alain Gabon published two articles in French and English in the "Middle East Eye" on European Islamic intellectual leader Tariq Ramadan's affair in France.
Ben Haller
presented his paper entitled "Classical Counterfactuals: George Sandys's 1632 Metamorphoses Commentary and 'Good Newes from Virginia,'" based upon a chapter drafted during his summer 2017 faculty development grant, at the 2018 annual meeting of the Southwestern/American Popular Culture Association, where he serves as area chair for the Classical Representations in Popular Culture Area.
Dan Margolies
published a review of "Steven E. Nash, Reconstructions Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains." (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016) in The American Historical Review, 123:1 (1 February 2018), 233234.
Presentations and Panels
Kathy Merlock Jackson
chaired and participated in a panel discussion titled "Publish and Prosper!" on February 24 at the Far West PCA/ACA Conference in Las Vegas.
Dan Margolies
presented "Gran Plaza México, USA: The Sonic Textures of Transnational Migration at Mexican Rodeos in the Southeastern United States" at the Migration: Movement(s) Around the Globe Symposium at the Center for Global Engagement at Columbus State University, Columbus, GA.
Sara Sewell
presented a paper at a conference hosted by the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England: Echoes of Revolution,1848, 1918: Revolution, Nationalism, and Socialism. The paper was entitled "Forging a Revolutionary Identity through Ritual: Communist May Days during the Early Weimar Republic."
Denise Wilkinson
presented "Social Cohesion and Success: The Benefits of Integrating Icebreakers through the Semester" at a session at the National Association for Developmental Educators conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
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March 2018
Mort Gamble
is marking 10 years as a columnist for "The White Tops," the national bimonthly magazine of the Circus Fans Association of America (CFA). Topics include circus industry trends, circus history, and reviews of circus and CFA member activities.
Eric Mazur
has published an entry on "Film & Religion in America" in the
online Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion.
Kathy Merlock Jackson
published an article titled "The Trajectory of a Comic Celebrity's Career: Robin Williams Does Television" in the Popular Culture Review, vol. 20, number #1, Spring 2018.
Doug Kennedy
and Jill Sturts co-authored a chapter in the third edition of "Introduction to Recreation and Leisure." The chapter is titled "History of Recreation."
Kathy Stolley
authored entries on Alan Chadwick, John Leal, John Snow, the Public Health Service, and Schistosomiasis for "Environmental Health in the 21st Century: From Air Pollution to Zoonotic Diseases."
Benjamin Dobrin
presented a paper titled "Organizational Motivation for Police Agencies to have V
olunteer Police Units" at the Academy of Criminal Justices Sciences annual conference in New Orleans.
Kathy Stolley, Robin Takacs, Rebecca Hooker, and
Denise Wilkinson
collaborated on a poster titled "Storytelling Through the Four Cs in the Classroom: Strategies for Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity across the Curriculum" presented at the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy held at Virginia Tech.
Michelle Vachris
gave a presentation "Jane Austen, Adam Smith, and the American Virtues of Prudence, Benevolence, and Justice" as part of a weekend institute for 20 high school teachers on Consequential Ideas and American History. The institute was hosted by the Center for Reflective Citizenship (CRC) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
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Clay Drees
has been chosen from among over 200 professors nation-wide to teach a course on Tudor England as part of a six-week summer 2019 institute at Harlaxton College in Lincolnshire, England. VWU students will be encouraged to accompany Drees to Harlaxton as part of VWU's Study Away Program.
Ben Haller
was accepted with funding as a seminar participant in the CIC-CHS 2018 ~ Ancient Greece in the Modern College Classroom Seminar, "Traveling with Pausanias through Greece," led by Gregory Nagy (Harvard University) and Kenneth Morrell (Rhodes College), which will focus on a selection of readings from Pausanias and other relevant authors while visiting sites in Greece.
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Leslie Caughell's
article "The characteristics of news stories that help attack misinformation" was recognized as one of 2017's ten most read articles on fact-checking by the Poynter Institute.
Leslie Caughell
was quoted as a source in the Richmond Times Dispatch article "Field operations director for Nick Freitas' Senate campaign called women b*tches on Facebook."
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Community Engagement
explained financial planning for college students and enlightened students about the financial circumstances of the working poor. Seventy-five students were engaged in 1400 + hours of service-learning involving the homeless during Winter Session. In addition to direct service hours, students learned about moving through homelessness in Hampton Roads in a Winter Session course with Professors Collins, Stolley, and Takacs.
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Technology Corner
Creating e-Portfolios with Portfolium
This past fall the University purchased a cloud-based ePortfolio system for student and faculty use at VWU. This platform allows students to develop an electronic portfolio while at VWU that the student can also retain as an alumnus for as long as they care to keep the site current. The student can upload additional artifacts at their discretion to connect their academic, co-curricular and work experience as they formulate a digital identity. Faculty can also have a Portfolium site for their own professional use as well as for tracking and evaluating student assignments. Blackboard and Portfolium are fully integrated to allow faculty to create a Portfolium-based assignment that students will upload through Blackboard. Faculty can then log into their Blackboard account and grade their e-portfolio assignments. In addition, Portfolium will allow the institution to track these assessments for internal use in grading student work or as evidence for accreditation purposes.
If you would like to see what can be done with Portfolium, log into their website and watch the video at
https://portfolium.com/.
If faculty would like some help getting started, they should contact Robin Takacs via phone 757-455-2112 or email
rtakacs@vwu.edu
, attend an INTEL sponsored workshop, or make an appointment to come to the INTEL Center for training on this useful product.
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