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.
The new 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.
If you are interested in presenting work, please submit the 2024 interest form by Friday, June 21, 11:59 p.m.
A&S students Marcos Hendler, of Rye, New York, and Aine MacDermott, of Lexington, Virginia, have each been awarded a prestigious Beckman Foundation Scholarship to support faculty-mentored student research in the sciences.
Beckman Scholars are selected among undergraduate biology and chemistry students based on commitment to research, strong academics, and potential to become scientific leaders. UR has had 26 Beckman Scholars since 2006.
Hendler, a chemistry major, is studying computational chemistry focused on molecules related to anticancer, which has implications in possible treatments. Hendler’s faculty mentor is chemistry professor Carol Parish. MacDermott, a biochemistry & molecular biology major, is researching ancient DNA under the mentorship of biology professor Melinda Yang. MacDermott is focused on the evolution of the alcohol metabolism gene ADH1B in present-day and ancient East Asian humans.
Each year, the A&S Student Symposium program booklet and event poster feature artwork curated from that year’s research presentations.
This grant-support project focuses on silicon and has applications in the fields of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and herbicides.
Faculty, student discover rare convent art and other gems on research trip to Mexico City.
Rhetoric and communications professor Tim Barney is quoted in this piece, which was also published on Yahoo! News.
Sharon Feldman, chair in modern foreign languages, associate dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, and an expert on Catalan theatre and performance, is interviewed in this Catalan newspaper.
Research by behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert is featured.
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.
Tanja Softić, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Art and Art History, exhibited in the print installation "When We Meet Again, You Will Not Know Me" in the exhibition Edge Effect at the Wurks Gallery as part of the 2024 Southern Graphics Council International Annual Conference.
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Catherine Finegan-Dollak, assistant professor of computer science, along with Arryn Robbins, assistant professor of psychology, and UR student Anatolii Evdokimov, '25, published “WEyeDS: A desktop webcam dataset for gaze estimation” in the proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA 2024).
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Arryn Robbins, assistant professor of psychology, along with Catherine Finegan-Dollak, assistant professor of computer science, and UR student Anatolii Evdokimov, ‘25, published “WEyeDS: A desktop webcam dataset for gaze estimation” in the proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA 2024).
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Karina Vázquez, teaching faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, was selected as the 2024 Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Arts and Humanities Faculty Mentor Awardee. Learn more.
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Karina Vázquez, teaching faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, presented at "Muestra de manuscritos y conversatorio, Aurora Venturini: modos de leer, pensar, escribir." The event was hosted by Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Jeffrey Simpson, teaching faculty of chemistry, along with undergraduate researchers Jamie Kaplan, ‘26, and Mackey Sherard, ‘24, and collaborators including Michael Leopold, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, published "Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles and Halogen Bonding Interactions Involving Fentanyl and Fentanyl Derivatives” in Nanomaterials.
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Michael Leopold, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, along with undergraduate researchers Jamie Kaplan, ‘26, and Mackey Sherard, ‘24, and collaborators including Jeffrey Simpson, teaching faculty of chemistry, published "Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles and Halogen Bonding Interactions Involving Fentanyl and Fentanyl Derivatives” in Nanomaterials.
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David Lefkowitz, professor of philosophy and PPEL, published "A New Philosophy for International Legal Skepticism?" in International Theory.
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