School of Arts & Sciences 2022-23 Dean’s Report
A&S Commencement Reception
SATURDAY, MAY 11 , 3-5 P.M.
Alice Haynes Room, Tyler Haynes Commons
Come mingle with A&S faculty and staff and enjoy refreshments with your classmates and their families.
Going Boldly: Purposeful Engagement, Critical Thinking, & Success in College
School of Arts & Sciences Associate Dean Kelling Donald, professor of chemistry, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in the Natural Sciences, is the author of How to Solve A Problem: Insights for Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Success in College. Donald offers a few simple steps that can lower barriers to college success in this opinion piece in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.
A&S Student Symposium Poster & Program Cover Artwork
Each year, the A&S Student Symposium program booklet and event poster feature artwork curated from that year’s research presentations.
A&S Award Winners
Each April, the School of Arts & Sciences awards the David C. Evans Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship and Artistic & Creative Works at the A&S Honors Convocation. During the A&S Honors Convocation, department honor societies, winners of the A&S Student Symposium paper and art competitions, and the outstanding faculty mentor are also recognized.
2024 Recipients
DAVID C. EVANS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP
Robert Bentley and Vicky Osenga
DAVID C. EVANS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC & CREATIVE WORK
Eva Steinitz
A&S STUDENT SYMPOSIUM AWARDS
Paper Competition
Emma Miller
Art Competition
Alex Broening
Outstanding Mentor
Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history
A&S OUTSTANDING SENIOR AWARD
Lesley Boadu and Kathleen Firment
Faculty Expertise
Do you envision college as a place where your professor’s office hours are spent in deep conversation about topics beyond this week’s assignment? Where you can work side-by-side with a faculty member on cutting-edge research that is published in a professional journal?
In A&S, our faculty are experts on the cutting edge of their fields. While they could work in some of the top research institutions in the world, our faculty chose Richmond because they believe in educating tomorrow's leaders and are passionate about mentoring and sharing their knowledge with students.
A&S Faculty Highlights
Jeremy Drummond, associate professor of art, presented his film “Dark Holler” as part of the exhibition What Does the Land Know?
View BioJillean McCommons, assistant professor of history and Africana studies, was awarded the 2024-2025 Wilma Dykeman "Faces of Appalachia" Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Appalachian Studies Association to support her book manuscript on Black Appalachian activism in the 1960s and 1970s.
View BioEric S. Yellin, associate professor of history, published, "Bringing the Constituents Back In: The Politics of Social Security in the 1950s," in the Journal of Policy History.
View BioDavid Lefkowitz, professor of philosophy and PPEL, published "Political Feasibility and a Global Climate Treaty" in Ethics, Policy and Environment.
View BioDavid Lefkowitz, professor of philosophy and PPEL, published "State Consent and the Legitimacy of International Law" in Consenting to International Law.
View BioTimothy Barney, professor of rhetoric and communication studies, published “’The Angel of Sarbandan’: Ford Foundation Philanthropy, Transnational Development Rhetoric, and the Scalar Geopolitics of 1950s Iran” in Rhetoric & Public Affairs.
View BioTimothy Barney, professor of rhetoric and communication studies, published the chapter “The Post-Cold War American Presidency and the Rhetorical Invention of Václav Havel” in Beyond the Cold War: Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe.
View BioDella Dumbaugh, professor of mathematics, was appointed Robert Edwin Gaines Chair in Mathematics.
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