Nuestra América | Our America
2022-2023 Tucker Boatwright Festival of Literature & the Arts
Jay Lynn Gomez: Domestic Scenes Reconsidered
January 23 – April 21 | Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
A&S Next
January 27-28, 2023
A&S Next aims to give you the tools to understand your personal strengths and how you can translate your Richmond education into a career that you love. You’ll meet alums with unexpected and interesting career paths and you’ll gain hands-on experience exploring and solving real-world problems alongside alums and faculty who work to solve these problems in their own careers every day.
Humanities @ UR
Ecological Enchantments & the Question of Action
Friday, February 10, 5 p.m. | International Center Commons
Jane Bennett is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature and the Department of Political Science. She is currently working on notions of a creative cosmos, in ancient Roman and Daoist philosophies.
Psychology Professor Gives TEDxYouth@RVA Talk
Why are we — as individuals and as a society — so bad at slowing down to rest? Psychologist Janelle Peifer, assistant professor of psychology, shares ways to find relief from the pressures of everyday life and today’s hustle culture. In this talk, Peifer offers three simple steps to make restorative rest a form of healing.
Digital America 20th Anniversary Issue
Welcome to the 20th anniversary issue of Digital America. Digital America is both a class and an arts journal in the Department Art and Art History. For each semester for the past ten years, students have come together to curate, edit, and publish compelling and innovative works of art in the digital space.
UR’s home for the humanities becomes a space for interactive experiences. Read more.
A&S Feature Stories
Senior looks to the past to imagine a better, more inclusive future
Spiders are working to teach and learn from young scholars, making a difference in their community.
Marcus Weinstein is awarded the Paragon Medal, the University of Richmond’s highest honor.
A&S Faculty in the News
Annie Evans, director of education and outreach for New American History, is interviewed.
Political science professor Dana El Kurd authored this piece.
Kelly Lambert, professor of behavioral neuroscience, is interviewed.
Events
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
Michelle Kahn, assistant professor of history, was awarded the American Historical Association's 2022 Chester Penn Higby Prize for the best article published in the Journal of Modern History in the preceding two years. Read more.
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Kelly Lambert, professor of behavioral neuroscience, along with eight undergraduate student co-authors published the manuscript "Disrupted Development from Head to Tail: Pervasive Effects of Postnatal Restricted Resources on Neurobiological, Behavioral, and Morphometric Outcomes" in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
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Kelly Lambert, professor of behavioral neuroscience, along with four undergraduate student co-authors published the manuscript "The Emotional Impact of Disrupted Environmental Contexts: Enrichment Loss and Coping Profiles Influence Stress Response Recovery in Long-Evans Rats" in Journal of Neuroendocrinology.
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Kelly Lambert, professor of behavioral neuroscience, along with five undergraduate student co-authors published the manuscript "Divergent Neural and Endocrine Responses in Wild-Caught and Laboratory-Bred Rattus norvegicus" in Behavioural Brain Research.
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Matthew Lowder, assistant professor of psychology, along with three undergraduate student co-authors, published the article "Effects of Syntactic Structure on the Processing of Lexical Repetition During Sentence Reading" in Memory & Cognition.
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Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias, assistant professor of physics, and a former student co-author published "Refractory Metals and Oxides for High-Temperature Structural Color Filters" in Applied Materials & Interfaces.
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William Ross, professor of mathematics and Roger Francis and Mary Saunders Richardson Chair in Mathematics, published the book Operator Theory by Example with Oxford University Press.
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Shahan Mufti, associate professor of journalism, was interviewed by the New York Times about his book American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C.
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