Several students in Professor Stephen Farnsworth’s political science classes and UMW honors students participated in the C-SPAN college classroom program and met with recent UMW political science graduates during a day-long program in Washington, D.C., on March 31. The C-SPAN program, which included a conversation about presidents and the mass media with UMW students and those at other universities, is scheduled to air on CSPAN3 at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 4.

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a talk on his new co-authored book, “The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government,” at the 20th Annual Virginia Festival of the Book at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The Virginia Festival of the Book is the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ annual, five-day celebration of books, authors and reading.