Come mingle with A&S faculty and staff and enjoy refreshments with your classmates and their families.
Each year, the A&S Student Symposium program booklet and event poster feature artwork curated from that year’s research presentations.
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.
Robert Bentley and Vicky Osenga
Eva Steinitz
Paper Competition
Emma Miller
Art Competition
Alex Broening
Outstanding Mentor
Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history
Lesley Boadu and Kathleen Firment
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University of Richmond students Marcos Hendler and Aine MacDermott have each been awarded a prestigious Beckman Foundation Scholarship to support faculty-mentored student research in the sciences.
Students meet with alums to discuss art careers, then select a 19th century Japanese print for the campus museums.
Historian and president emeritus Ed Ayers is quoted.
Anthropology professor Miguel Díaz-Barriga is highlighted as a 2023 Fellow.
Behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert is quoted in this Swedish magazine.
Research by psychology professor Kelly Lambert is highlighted.
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.
Della Dumbaugh, professor of mathematics, was appointed Robert Edwin Gaines Chair in Mathematics.
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Timothy 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.
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Timothy 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.
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Melinda Yang, assistant professor of biology, and Kylie Korsnack, assistant director teaching & scholarship hub, published "Pairing a bioinformatics-focused course-based undergraduate research experience with specifications grading in an introductory biology classroom" in Biology Methods and Protocols.
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Christopher Shugrue, assistant professor of chemistry, along with undergraduate students, Elizabeth Taggart, ‘23, Evan Wolff, ‘24, Pamira Yanar, ‘24, and John Blobe, ’24, published "Development of an oxazole-based cleavable linker for peptides" in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry.
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Stephen Ferguson, visiting assistant professor of biology, published "What happens when the lights are left on? Transcriptomic and phenotypic habituation to light pollution" in iScience.
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Ernest McGowen, associate professor of political science, was awarded the Distinguished Educator Award at the 5th annual Black Excellence Gala hosted by the University of Richmond Student Center for Equity and Inclusion.
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Courtney Blondino, assistant professor of health studies, published "The use and potential impact of digital health tools at the community level: results from a multi-country survey of community health workers" in BMC Public Health.
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