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.
Jeremy Drummond, associate professor of art, presented his work “Dark Holler” as part of the exhibition What Does the Land Know?
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Jillean 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.
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Eric 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.
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David Lefkowitz, professor of philosophy and PPEL, published "Political Feasibility and a Global Climate Treaty" in Ethics, Policy and Environment.
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David Lefkowitz, professor of philosophy and PPEL, published "State Consent and the Legitimacy of International Law" in Consenting to International Law.
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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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