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...Bergmann knows how to get her creative juices flowing—she literally wrote the book on inspiration, Connecting to Creativity: Ten Keys to Unlocking Your Creative Potential. The book emerged out of a collaboration with a fellow professor, Liz Colton, during her stint at Shenandoah University...
Keegan also studies Stonewall Jackson's brilliant use of local knowledge to lead the Union armies a frustrated chase up and down the Shenandoah Valley in 1862. There are chapters on the British disaster on Crete in 1941 ("Foreknowledge No Help"), on the Americans' immense triumph at Midway a year later (a world-historical victory that owed as much to luck, Keegan ingeniously argues, as to intelligence) and the struggle of British intelligence to locate and destroy Hitler's U-boat offensive against England...
...controversy surfaced this spring at James Madison University in Virginia's historic Shenandoah Valley when a state legislator became outraged that the school's health center was dispensing an emergency contraceptive known as the morning-after pill. Virginia state delegate Robert Marshall learned that the publicly funded university had prescribed the pill more than 2,000 times since 1995. The pill, which acts by delaying ovulation, preventing fertilization or inhibiting implantation, is in Marshall's view a form of abortion, and he sent a chiding letter to J.M.U. president Linwood Rose and the board of visitors, as the school...
Bergmann has also served as faculty chair of dance at California State University, Long Beach and Shenandoah University in Virginia. She is a Fulbright scholar and has received three choreographic fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts...