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On Tuesday, January 29th, Tim Owens and Jim Groom, in the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies, were invited to speak about Domain of One’s Own at Emory University’s inaugural “Symposium on Digital Publication, Undergraduate Research, and Writing.” The presentation covered the current pilot of UMW’s Domain of One’s Own while sharing the remarkable faculty development initiative happening around the pilot as well as the full blown implementation of this project come Fall 2013 wherein UMW gives all of its incoming freshman sponsored access to their own domain and web hosting.

Psychology faculty members and students have two papers accepted for publication in the Journal of Child and Family Studies.

“Development and Validation of a Quantitative Measure of Intensive Parenting Attitudes” is co-authored by Miriam Liss, associate professor of psychology, Holly Schiffrin, associate professor of psychology, Virginia Mackintosh, assistant professor of psychology, Haley Miles-McLean, a current UMW student and Mindy Erchull, associate professor of psychology.

“Insight into the Parenthood Paradox: Mental Health Outcomes of Intensive Mothering” is co-authored by Schiffrin, Liss and Kathryn Rizzo, a 2012 UMW graduate.

Virginia Mackintosh, assistant professor of psychology, discusses her extensive work with incarcerated single mothers and their children during an interview on the “With Good Reason” public radio program. The interview originally aired in April 2011 on public radio stations across Virginia.

Her interview will be re-aired during the week of November 26 and is available online at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2011/11/behind-bars-2/.