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Professor of Psychology Miriam Liss is among 13 Virginia college educators to receive a 2015 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV).<\/p>

The awards are the commonwealth’s highest honor for faculty at Virginia’s public and private colleges and universities, recognizing superior accomplishments in teaching, research, and public service.<\/p>

Liss, a clinical psychologist, has conducted research on parenting, division of labor, and work-family balance.<\/p>

Liss and Associate Professor of Psychology Holly H. Schiffrin are the authors of Balancing the Big Stuff: Finding Happiness in Work, Family and Life<\/em>. Liss also has published articles about autism and developmental disorders, sensory processing sensitivity, self-injurious behaviors, feminist identity, and body image.<\/p>

She regularly presents at national conferences and has been interviewed by The<\/em> Washington Post<\/em>, MSNBC.com, and LiveScience.com.<\/p>

Since SCHEV’s first awards in 1987, more than 300 Virginia faculty members have received this high honor. Professor of History and American Studies Jeffrey McClurken ’94<\/strong> was a 2014 recipient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Emerson died Dec. 4.<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"attachment_1688\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Claudia_prize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1688\" class=\"wp-image-1688 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Claudia_prize-e1572447087720.jpg\" alt=\"Claudia Emerson, 2006, just after she learned she would receive the Pulitzer Prize.\" width=\"610\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Claudia_prize-e1572447087720.jpg 610w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Claudia_prize-e1572447087720-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Claudia_prize-e1572447087720-465x329.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claudia Emerson, 2006, just after she learned she would receive the Pulitzer Prize.<\/p><\/div><p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Claudia Emerson, who passed away last week at the far-too-young age of 57, plied that most demanding and (to those who measure greatness by royalty statements) most unrewarding of writing professions. She was a poet – a great one.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Of all the forms of creative writing, poetry is the hardest and seems to draw the smallest audience. It is, and was to Ms. Emerson, a labor of love. Through her labors, she rewarded her readers with some of the finest poetry this country has produced in recent years. Among other praise, she won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2006, while teaching at the University of Mary Washington, for her collection <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Late Wife<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">. She was the state’s poet laureate from 2008–2010. She made her university and her city proud.<\/span><\/p><p>She left UMW after 15 years to take a position at Virginia Commonwealth University last year [2013], moving with her husband, Kent Ippolito, to Richmond. After she left Fredericksburg, though, she kept in touch with her former students, even while she spent much of the fall semester battling the cancer that eventually claimed her life.<\/p><p>Her boundless curiosity no doubt helped fire her genius. When she won a Guggenheim Fellowship, she took a sabbatical to study catacombs in Italy. While at UMW, she would sometimes look through the biology department’s catalog of birds, searching for the wings of inspiration.<\/p><p>She did not shy away from employing and exposing painful parts of her own life in her poetic quest. The collection that won the Pulitzer drew heavily on the breakup of her first marriage and the kindling of her relationship with the man with whom she would spend the rest of her life.<\/p><p>Fredericksburg played a role in her work. She and her second husband could be seen often walking alongside the Rappahannock Canal. 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class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marguerite Bennett ’10 writes comic books and sometimes puts herself in her character’s helmet.<\/p><\/div><p> <\/p><p><strong>Marguerite Bennett ’10<\/strong> was trembling so violently she had to stop her car and collect herself.<\/p><p>Celebrated comic book writer Scott Snyder, Bennett’s mentor and one of her professors in the Sarah Lawrence College graduate writing program, had pulled her aside after class and casually asked if she might like to help him with his upcoming project, the 2013 <em>Batman Annual #2<\/em>.<\/p><p>For Bennett, a longtime Batman fan and comics consumer, this was the graphic novelist’s equivalent of Yankees star Derek Jeter asking her to help him with his swing. Or Warren Buffett offhandedly suggesting she help him with some financial advice.<\/p><p>She was still wearing what she called her “crazy person smile” when she got behind the wheel of her white Hyundai that frigid January evening to drive to her Yonkers apartment. She hadn’t even managed to get off campus when she stopped the car to process the moment.<\/p><p>“I started shaking. I had to pull off the road and try to keep from crying, and I had to thank God for the gift of my life,” Bennett recalled.<\/p><p>She didn’t tell anyone about the gig for weeks. “It was so big. Saying it out loud was going to make it real. And then I had to be good enough,” the 27-year-old said. “The gun had gone off, and I had a certain amount of time to reach the finish line.”<\/p><p>Finish she did, becoming one of only a handful of female writers to do a Batman book. Since then, she’s penned a slew of titles for such comic book heavyweights as DC, Marvel, BOOM\/Archaia, and IDW, including issues of <em>Batgirl; Batman: Joker’s Daughter; Superman: Lois Lane; Talon; Earth 2<\/em>; and <em>Angela: Asgard’s Assassin.<\/em><\/p><p>Bennett is the primary writer for <em>Sleepy Hollow<\/em>, a four-issue miniseries based on the popular Fox TV show. She is the co-writer of <em>Butterfly<\/em>, a four-issue spy thriller, and <em>Earth 2: World’s End, <\/em>an explosive series set in an apocalyptic alternate universe.<\/p><hr><p><\/p><div id=\"attachment_1666\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Marguerite2-ThorsHammer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1666\" class=\"wp-image-1666 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Marguerite2-ThorsHammer-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Marguerite2-ThorsHammer-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Marguerite2-ThorsHammer-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Marguerite2-ThorsHammer-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Marguerite2-ThorsHammer-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Marguerite2-ThorsHammer-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Marguerite2-ThorsHammer-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Marguerite2-ThorsHammer-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/Marguerite2-ThorsHammer.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bennett promoting Marvel’s “Angela: Asgard’s Assassin.” [Photo by Judy Stephens, courtesy of Marvel Entertainment]<\/p><\/div><p>Marguerite Bennett’s penchant for storytelling emerged early. Her father, John Bennett, said that as a toddler, his daughter would clamber onto a chair at the family’s Richmond, Virginia, home and weave complex narratives with a handful of dog figurines collected during family trips to Standard Drug.<\/p><p>“She would sit at the kitchen table and do the dialogue – they would talk to each other for hours, I have no idea about what,” said her father, a retired vice president at Virginia Commonwealth University. “She would just entertain herself.”<\/p><p>A few years later, Bennett would pass the time in after-school care watching <em>Batman: The Animated Series<\/em> on TV. The comic book hero was new to her, and at first the youngster thought that the Dark Knight was a villain who, as a sort of penance for his crimes, vanquished evildoers more wicked than himself. Soon enough she realized Batman was one of the good guys, but the character’s dark, flawed nature sparked in her a passion for villains that still rages.<\/p><p>“Their actions are true to their own beliefs as opposed to serving an ideology,” Bennett explained. “They’re human stories, not moral stories.”<\/p><p>Bennett devoured secondhand comic books from friends and wrote and illustrated her own stories on books her father crafted with staples and computer paper. In fifth grade, she attended a summer symposium at the University of Virginia, John Bennett said, and after that she dedicated herself to a writing career.<\/p><p>Her diary entries and fan fiction from that period extol the virtues of the X-Men. “Oh, did I just want to hang out with Wolverine and be his little sister,” she said.<\/p><blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">“Oh, did I just want to hang out with Wolverine and be his little sister. ”<br>\n— Bennett on her grade-school love of the X-Men<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><hr><p>Bennett applied to the University of Mary Washington because she wanted a liberal arts school that boasted a strong writing program, and she wanted to be close enough to Richmond that she could regularly visit her family, including mom Barbara Ulschmid, brother Corey Bennett, her father, and her stepmother, Joan Putney.<\/p><p>“UMW was ideal for that,” she said. “It was a small, quiet place where I could figure things out.”<\/p><p>Many of the concepts she employs in her writing came directly from UMW <a href=\"http:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/elc\/faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English professors<\/a>, she said. Gary Richards taught her the importance of story structure and careful research. Eric Lorentzen’s Victorian literature classes helped her hone her understanding of crime and punishment and “world building.” And Colin Rafferty’s creative writing classes gave her a willingness to experiment with “weird creativity.”<\/p><p>Her teachers remember her fondly but stop short of taking any credit for her success.<\/p><p>“She was pretty amazing straight out of the gate,” Rafferty said. “I remember the first time I read her work, thinking, ‘Wow. There’s something here.’ Her voice, imagery, and narrative were at a level that was beyond introductory.”<\/p><p>After graduating with a degree in English, Bennett spent 18 months working for a Fredericksburg-based Web company, rising early and staying up late to craft a young adult novel she described as “<em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em> meets Dante’s <em>Inferno<\/em>.” The work became the basis for her portfolio, which earned her a coveted spot in Sarah Lawrence College’s graduate writing program.<\/p><p>She figured she’d pursue a career as a genre fiction author, writing young adult books, historical fiction, or horror novels. But a semester in Scott Snyder’s graphic novel writing class reawakened her love of comics. She brought her professor “a bloody folklore revenge saga” she’d been playing with in her free time; Snyder encouraged her to stick with it. About a year later, the writing talent behind DC’s <em>Batman<\/em> and <em>Swamp Thing <\/em>comics sought her help with the oversized issue <em>Batman Annual #2<\/em>.<\/p><p>The first person she told was her father.<\/p><p>“It was sort of validation of everything she’d worked for,” John Bennett said, noting that his daughter’s gift was almost secondary to her work ethic. “Talent really isn’t enough. It’s raw. It’s worth something, but it’s not worth what it would be if it were nurtured, honed, and stretched. She’s worked very hard at this. She’s very seriously honed her ability to write.”<\/p><p>And that’s not just a father’s opinion. UMW associate professor Eric Lorentzen said that even as an undergraduate, Bennett applied the timeless themes of class struggle, gender relationships, and empire building from 19th-century texts to present-day life.<\/p><p>“Her work ethic was tremendous. She was so enthusiastic and into stuff – the way English majors are,” Lorentzen said. “When you’re fired up and passionate about something, you’re in good shape.”<\/p><blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">“I always want three things. I want it to be aesthetically beautiful. I want it to be brutal.<br>\nAnd I want it to be creative. ”<br>\n— Marguerite Bennett<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><hr><p>By all accounts, Snyder was pleased with their collaboration, telling fans in a tweet just before the issue was published how proud he was of Bennett for “penning a badass Batman annual for you all.” The issue even featured a new villain of Bennett’s creation, the Anchoress, the asylum’s original tenant who’s got a bone to pick with Batman for turning her therapeutic sanctuary into a repository for Gotham’s habitual offenders.<\/p><p>That issue hit stands in summer 2013, and Bennett has had steady work since. Unlike the solitary experience of novel writing, working on comic books is a group effort that incorporates artists, colorists, and letterers.<\/p><p>“You’re not just a novelist alone at your desk with a glass of whiskey and your pain,” Bennett said. “You’re part of this wonderful, weird, rambunctious group of people who will be lifelong friends; it’s an enormous team. It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a village to produce a comic.”<\/p><p>Bennett likes to know which artist she’s paired with before starting a project, so she can sync her writing style with the illustrator’s approach. For each issue, she spends about two weeks working on the script and about five weeks working with the team. She does most of her work at a computer but sketches some projects longhand so she can see how the story tracks visually. Pacing is key, she said, noting that you can’t just divide up the story in equal parts. You’ve got to hook the reader immediately, provide a solid story arc, and tie up the adventure while heightening the stakes for the next issue – all in 20 to 22 pages.<\/p><p>“There can be nothing superfluous,” Bennett said.<\/p><p>Comic books have been popular in the U.S. since the 1930s, and some of the most beloved characters have been around just as long, building a loyal, vocal following. Bennett said she owes it to readers to honor their favorite characters’ histories while inventing creative ways to tell their stories. She’s got a strict no-tropes policy, steering clear of seductress villains or male heroes spurred into vengeful action by the death of a beloved female.<\/p><p>The pressure of not letting fans down combined with her desire to push the narrative envelope is powerful fuel. “I always want three things,” she said. “I want it to be aesthetically beautiful. I want it to be brutal. 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He had it as an enlisted Marine fighting in Vietnam.<\/p><p>And he had it as he earned a degree in sociology from Mary Washington at a time when men on campus were few, and African- American men still fewer.<\/p><p>Today, Arline is 66, retired from a long career in law enforcement. He’s on the school board in his New Jersey town and is an active volunteer in his community.<\/p><p>He and wife Mamie have two grown sons – one a Navy veteran, the other a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security – and six grandchildren.<\/p><p>But there’s something else Arline feels compelled to do.<\/p><p>In December, he completed requirements for a master’s degree in divinity. His goal is an urban ministry to help African-American youths navigate a society they, and Arline, see as set against them.<\/p><p>“Young people in urban areas are faced with such horrendous obstacles,” Arline said, citing statistics about disproportionate school expulsion and incarceration rates for people of color.<\/p><p>“They see what’s happening. There’s no hope in them, and the system made it that way.”<\/p><p>Maybe he can’t fix the system. But Arline can help with the hope.<\/p><p><strong>Surviving Battles<\/strong><\/p><p>A guy Arline knew had joined the Marines, and when he came home in uniform he looked sharp. He talked about how tough and disciplined a Marine had to be, and Arline was hooked.<\/p><p>A week after he graduated from high school in Waterbury, Connecticut, Arline was in boot camp at Parris Island. That fall he married Mamie, his girlfriend since sophomore year. And in January 1968 he landed in Da Nang, Vietnam.<\/p><div id=\"attachment_1656\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_vietnam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1656\" class=\"wp-image-1656 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_vietnam-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_vietnam-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_vietnam-690x547.jpg 690w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_vietnam-465x369.jpg 465w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_vietnam.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Arline serving as a Marine in Vietnam.<\/p><\/div><p>The Tet Offensive began within days, and the Third Marine Division, Third Tank Battalion was in the thick of it. The battles melded together, but somehow Arline made it through 13 months and 28 combat operations unhurt.<\/p><p>He ended his Marine service at Quantico and got a job as a Fredericksburg police officer, becoming just the second African- American policeman in the city. By 1974, he’d used the GI Bill to earn two associate degrees at Germanna Community College.<\/p><p>But he wanted a four-year degree, and in 1975 he transferred to Mary Washington as a junior.<\/p><p>The college had admitted its first black student only 13 years earlier and had accepted men just since 1970. But Arline felt welcome, and he found faculty mentors in William B. Crawley Jr., now professor emeritus of history, and L. Clyde Carter, a professor emeritus of sociology who died in 1990. “The professors were just gold. They really worked with me,” Arline remembered.<\/p><p>Despite family and work commitments, Arline participated in campus life as a member of the student Afro-American Association, recalled <strong>Sallie Washington Braxton ’77<\/strong>, now an associate dean in the College of Business.<\/p><p>“He always had his priorities in order, and he juggled so many things so well,” Braxton said. “You never saw him harried about anything.”<\/p><p>And when association members would get angry about injustice, she said, Arline would say something funny to break the tension.<\/p><p>His college friends might not have known it, but Arline had already faced plenty of injustice, right in Fredericksburg.<\/p><div id=\"attachment_1653\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_graduation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1653\" class=\"wp-image-1653 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_graduation-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_graduation-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_graduation-690x698.jpg 690w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_graduation-465x470.jpg 465w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_graduation-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_graduation-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_graduation-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_graduation-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_graduation.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arline strides along Mary Washington’s Campus Drive on graduation day in 1977.<\/p><\/div><p>When his family moved to the city in 1971, they couldn’t rent in a white neighborhood. As a police officer, Arline once responded to a report of a fight at an all-white social club only to be stopped at the door while white officers handled the call.<\/p><p>And when Arline went to get his shoes shined at a barbershop his fellow officers frequented, the African-American attendant whispered, “I’m sorry. I’m not allowed to shine colored people’s shoes.”<\/p><p>Arline called on his Marine stoicism to persevere.<\/p><p>“I had learned how to survive in Vietnam,” he said. “I had been fighting for freedom and democracy for someone I did not know, and I wouldn’t let anything here deter me.”<\/p><p><strong>A 33-Year Career<\/strong><\/p><p>By the spring of college graduation, Arline was working as a deputy with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office, and he got assigned to a case involving theft from mailboxes.<\/p><p>The U.S. Postal Inspection Service sent a representative to Stafford, and the inspector urged Arline to apply with the federal law enforcement agency. From 1978 until his retirement in 2004, Arline worked with the service in Atlanta, New York, and throughout New England.<\/p><div id=\"attachment_1652\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_1970sHedShot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1652\" class=\"wp-image-1652 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_1970sHedShot-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_1970sHedShot-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_1970sHedShot-690x970.jpg 690w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_1970sHedShot-465x654.jpg 465w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/arline_1970sHedShot.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the early 1970s, Arline was a law enforcement officer in Fredericksburg and Stafford County, Virginia.<\/p><\/div><p>Even after his 33-year law enforcement career ended, Arline kept working. He substitute taught for a few years, then got elected to the Franklin Township School Board, a position he still holds.<\/p><p>He got certified as a suicide prevention specialist with the Cop2Cop program, providing support and grief counseling to fellow law enforcement officers. He was president of a chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE). And he helped lead a chapter of Parents of Murdered Children.<\/p><p>In 2004 Richard and Mamie took in two teenage grandsons while their dad was deployed. That’s how Arline, a person of faith but not a devoted churchgoer, got involved in teaching Sunday school.<\/p><p>When one of the church elders asked him to become a deacon, “I looked at that person like they had three heads on their body,” Arline said. But he did it.<\/p><p>And as his church involvement strengthened, he heard a call from God.<\/p><div id=\"attachment_1668\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/R.Arline_HeadShot-Minister.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1668\" class=\"wp-image-1668 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/R.Arline_HeadShot-Minister-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/R.Arline_HeadShot-Minister-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/R.Arline_HeadShot-Minister-690x863.jpg 690w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/R.Arline_HeadShot-Minister-465x582.jpg 465w, https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2015\/files\/2019\/10\/R.Arline_HeadShot-Minister.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Today, Arline is a police chaplain and counselor.<\/p><\/div><p>At seminary, Arline concentrated his studies in pastoral counseling. And he recently agreed to become chaplain of the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey. He’ll minister not only to officers but to people in the community, especially young men.<\/p><p>It’s a group he already connects with through NOBLE, the law enforcement organization, as he presents a program called “The Law and You,” teaching teenagers how to act in encounters with police, how not to get arrested, and how to stay alive.<\/p><p>“It is regrettable that this type of education is required in 2015,” Arline said. But the recent police shooting death of Michael Brown in Missouri and death during an arrest of New York resident Eric Garner have made the program more relevant than ever.<\/p><p>Cases like Brown’s and Garner’s, he said, are just the latest examples of societal hostility that saps hope from young people.<\/p><p>In Arline’s youth, good people found a way to save him from despair. He knows he can save others.<\/p><p>“We’re really in a crisis right now, and that’s where I want to go,” he said. “I’m going back into the battlefield.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope has been a powerful influence in the life of Richard Arline ’77.He had it as young teen in the early 1960s, when his mother let him leave their North Carolina home for high school in the Northeast. 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He will teach and do research at the University of Buea in Cameroon beginning in spring 2016.<\/p><p>An expert in stochastic analysis, Esunge blends math and statistics to assess and solve problems. As part of his Fulbright grant, Esunge will return to his undergraduate alma mater to teach probability and actuarial mathematics and lead a graduate seminar in stochastic analysis. He also will construct and compare predictive models for health care costs.<\/p><p>Esunge joined the UMW faculty in 2009. He received a master’s degree from Lehigh University and master’s and doctoral degrees from Louisiana State University.<\/p><p>“The opportunity to return to the University of Buea and actively mentor a new generation of students is priceless,” Esunge said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julius Esunge, assistant professor of mathematics, recently received a Fulbright grant. 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