Each Tuesday during the summer, the New Spider Orientation team hosts a webinar for our new Spiders to learn about Richmond, academic offerings, and campus life.
The associate deans in the School of Arts & Sciences presented majors and minors across the school’s 38 departments and interdisciplinary programs, undergraduate research and internship opportunities, and alumni success stories.
The Faculty & Staff Research Symposium brings together colleagues from multiple disciplines, programs, and all five schools to present their research, work, and creative projects. All faculty and staff are invited to present their current work as part of interdisciplinary panels, roundtables, short-format sessions, or poster presentations.
When not promoting Workday software systems to universities, 2003 Richmond graduate Evan Baum donates his time and resources to higher education.
UR is partnering with local environmental justice nonprofit Southside ReLeaf on a community-led study of flooding on the Southside of Richmond.
Health studies professor Kathryn Jacobsen, a global health epidemiologist, is quoted.
Sociology professor Matthew Oware is quoted.
Political science professor Jennifer Pribble is featured.
Geography, environment, and sustainability professor Stephanie Spera is quoted.
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.
Over the next three years, Stephanie Spera, associate professor of geography, environment, and sustainability, Hemali Oza, assistant professor of health studies, and Todd Lookingbill, professor of geography, environment, and sustainability and biology, will work closely with the local environmental justice nonprofit Southside ReLeaf on a community-led study of flooding on the Southside of Richmond with the support of a grant from the Jeffress Trust.
Christopher Shugrue, assistant professor of chemistry, received a summer research grant from Organic Syntheses for the project "Development of Oxidative-Ring Openings of Benzoxazoles for the Construction of Amido-Substituted Quinone Derivatives." Grants are awarded to faculty at principally undergraduate institutions who work with a student in their department.
David Brandenberger, professor of history and global studies, was appointed Samuel Chiles Mitchell-Jacob Billikopf Professor of History and Global Studies.
Laura Knouse, professor of psychology, was appointed MacEldin Trawick Professor in Psychology.
