Rachael Dawne’s has been using her blog to educate people on an issue she is passionate about. Aging & Advocacy is a site where Rachel discusses the many issues facing the older population such as abuse of the elderly in senior homes, alzheimer’s disease and dementia, and over use of antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes. [...]
There has been an explosion of blogging over at Professor Mara Scanlon’s class on Women and Modernism, nicknamed The Womb (Women of Modernism Blog). The class has been tackling texts from various female authors during the era of modernism. From Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons there is a dirth of musings, [...]
This spring semester Professor Kelli Slunt is teaching a Freshman Seminar on Food Chemistry. The class explores a wide array of questions from organic foods to edible packaging and even discussing the feared High Fructose Cornsyrup questions, the class seems to cover just about every food chemistry question. In addition, the stream of content is [...]
Professor Jackie Gallagher’s Natural Hazards course got some real time experience with the hazardous conditions we’ve all been living through for the last four or five days here in Fredericskburg. Check out the recent posts about the snow damage on campus as well as how the latest storms have forced the Geography’s faculty to abandon [...]
Professor Nina Mikhalevsky has raced out of the starting gate this semester with blogging guns a-blazing. She linked to a video titled Muto by a group of Argentinian graffiti artists as the kick-off to her Banned and Dangerous Art Freshman Seminar, and it is nothing less than amazing. It is part of a larger question [...]
