Civil rights activist and award-winning journalist Roger Wilkins will give a public lecture at the University of Mary Washington on Thursday, Nov. 18, as a James Farmer visiting lecturer. The talk will be held in George Washington Hall, Dodd Auditorium, at 7 p.m., and will be followed by a question and answer session as well as a reception.

The University of Mary Washington Galleries will hold the exhibition "Computer Pictures: The Contemporary Language of Digital Media" from Friday, October 29 to Friday, December 3 at the Ridderhof Martin and duPont galleries. The seven exhibiting artists are from Rhode Island, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Rosemary Huff Arneson has been selected as the librarian for the University of Mary Washington. Arneson, who will begin work at UMW in January, will administer all aspects of library operations, including the university archives. She succeeds University Librarian Emeritus LeRoy S. Strohl III, who retired in May after 25 years at Mary Washington.

University of Mary Washington student Jonathan Williams of Stuarts Draft, Va., was awarded second place for his scientific research at the Second Annual Undergraduate Research Competition at Florida State University in October. He was among 12 students chosen from a national pool of applicants for the selective event, sponsored by FSU’s chemistry and biochemistry department.

Thanks to an industrious University of Mary Washington senior, geography students at the university have a new tool to study stream behavior.

University of Mary Washington students enrolled in a philanthropy class are seeking applicants for $10,000 in grant money to be awarded to local nonprofit organizations.

Boating with commercial watermen on rivers along Virginia’s Eastern Shore doesn’t sound like a typical three-credit class.

But for junior Will Bennett, who spent his summer on the College of William and Mary campus researching crabbing regulations, the internship not only provided academic credit, it gave him valuable insight into a potential future career.

Award-winning author Jon Pineda will give a public reading at the University of Mary Washington on Thursday, October 14 as a guest poet of the Thursday Poems Series. The 5 p.m. session will be held in Combs Hall, Room 139 and will be followed by a book signing. The event is free and open to the public.

The University of Mary Washington has taken a noteworthy step toward making the university sustainable by adding new energy-efficient washing machines to all residence halls, including Eagle Landing, in a move expected to save more than one million gallons of water annually.

A University of Mary Washington political science student has won a prominent, national essay competition, bringing to eight the number of times since 1995 that UMW undergraduates have claimed the top award in the political science honor society Pi Sigma Alpha’s annual contest.