Gregory J.W. Urwin, professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts, was the keynote speaker on Nov. 9 at the Revolutionary War Cavalry Conference sponsored by the South Carolina Historical Society, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution magazine, Wofford College, and Cowpens National Battlefield.  Urwin presented “‘There Is No Carrying on the War without Them’:  The Continental Light Dragoons, 1776-83.”  At the conclusion of Urwin’s address, Charles B. Baxley, the editor and publisher of Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, presented him with an award for ‘Lifetime Achievement in Military History,’ citing “his decades of research, authorship, numerous books and publication, and for raising the bar of and about our vast U.S. military history.”

Enrique Hernandez, the Abraham Roth Professor and chair of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences was a visiting professor in the Dominican Republic. He gave two lectures to a combined meeting of Dominican Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and District III of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic held Nov. 8–11.