Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently received the 2016 Distinguished Communicator Award from the Virginia Association of Communication Arts and Sciences. The annual award honors outstanding efforts by scholars to bring public policy conversations before the general public.

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a lecture titled, “How Virginia Politics is Changing — and How It is Not,” at the Virginia Professional Communicators Annual Meeting in Winchester, Va. The talk included findings from the center’s recent survey of Virginia public opinion.