Catalog Confidential
Every semester, Richmond’s course catalog achieves a breadth that would be enviable for an institution twice our size.
Take an insider’s look at some intriguing courses in the School of Arts & Sciences.
Faculty & Staff Research Symposium
Friday, September 22, 2023 | Boatwright Memorial Library
The new Faculty & Staff Research Symposium brings together colleagues from multiple disciplines, programs, and all five schools to present on 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.
Sign up to present by Monday, June 19, 2023.
A&S Award Winners
Each April, the School of Arts & Sciences awards the David C. Evans Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship and the Creative Arts at the A&S Honors Convocation. During Convocation, department honor societies, winners of the A&S Student Symposium paper and art competitions, and the outstanding faculty mentor are also recognized.
Examining mental health, medicine, and the history of childhood
In this episode of Spider Talks, President Kevin F. Hallock talks with Manuella Meyer, associate professor of history, who specializes in the social and political history of medicine and mental illness in Latin America.
Hallock and Meyer, who is also an associate dean in the School of Arts & Sciences, discuss her research, her latest book project, and campus culture. Read more.
UR’s home for the humanities becomes a space for interactive experiences. Read more.
A&S Feature Stories
Guided by their faculty mentors, undergraduate researchers push boundaries and share their discoveries with the world through academic journals.
Sophomore Chloe Goode is first UR student to receive the award.
A&S Faculty in the News
Chemistry professor Kristine Nolin authored this article, which first published in The Conversation in June 2022.
Psychology professor Janelle Peifer, a clinical psychologist, is quoted.
English professor Elisabeth Gruner, who researches and teaches children’s and young adult literature, is featured as an expert voter.
Health studies professor Kathryn H. Jacobsen, an epidemiologist, is quoted.
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
Dan Chen, assistant professor of political science, received a 2023 Spring Centennial Center Research Grant from the American Political Science Association.
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Jennifer Bowie, associate professor of political science, received the 2023 School of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Mentor Award.
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Jeff Simpson, director of NMR and computational support, and Michael Leopold, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, and a team of undergraduates published a paper in ACS Applied Nano Materials on using functionalized gold nanoparticles to detect the neonicotinoid pesticides believed to be harming bee populations.
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Timothy Barney, associate professor of rhetoric and communications studies, was a featured presenter at Mapping Armageddon 1945-2045, sponsored by the UK-based Living Maps Network, which gathers researchers, community activists, artists, and others around the idea of mapping for social change, public engagement, and critical debate.
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Justin Wigard, post-doc research associate in rhetoric and communciations studies, published a review of Stephen Graham Jones' Don’t Fear the Reaper for Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Ravynn Stringfield, visiting assistant professor of media studies, published "A Duet with History: Lizzo and James Madison’s Crystal Flute" on Nursing Clio.
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Ravynn Stringfield, visiting assistant professor of media studies, was featured on BBC 4 Radio as a guest on a segment about princesses, specifically discussing about the dynamics of Afrofuturism and princesses in Black Panther.
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Michael Leopold, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, along with collaborator Jeff Simpson, director of NMR and computational support, and a team of undergraduates published a paper in ACS Applied Nano Materials on using functionalized gold nanoparticles to detect the neonicotinoid pesticides believed to be harming bee populations.
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