News releases.
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.