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.
A&S in the News
American Studies professor Laura Browder has been named a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, which is located in Scandinavia.
Liberal arts professor Erik Nielson, an expert on the use of rap lyrics in court, is quoted.
Erik Nielson was featured as an expert in this article.
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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
Jack Singal, associate professor of physics, published “The X-Ray Luminosity Function Evolution of Quasars and the Correlation between the X-Ray and Ultraviolet Luminosities" in the Astrophysical Journal.
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Jerry Gilfoyle, the Robert Edward and Lana Frazer Loving Chair of Physics, published "Electron-Beam Energy Reconstruction for Neutrino Oscillation Measurements," in Nature.
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Rania Kassab Sweis, associate professor of anthropology, recent book Paradoxes of Care Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt has been reviewed in the May/June 2022 issue of Foreign Affairs.
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Kristine Grayson, associate professor of biology, along with colleagues Angie Hilliker, associate professor of biology, and Joanna Wares, associate professor of mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics, published the article, "R Markdown as a Dynamic Interface for Teaching: Modules from Math and Biology Classrooms," in Mathematical Biosciences.
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Angie Hilliker, associate professor of biology, along with colleagues Kristine Grayson, associate professor of biology, and Joanna Wares, associate professor of mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics, published the article, "R Markdown as a Dynamic Interface for Teaching: Modules from Math and Biology Classrooms," in Mathematical Biosciences.
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Joanna Wares, associate professor of mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics, along with colleagues Kristine Grayson, associate professor of biology, and Angie Hilliker, associate professor of biology, published the article, "R Markdown as a Dynamic Interface for Teaching: Modules from Math and Biology Classrooms," in Mathematical Biosciences.
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Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, professor of French and film studies, has been awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture for her contributions in the artistic and literary field. Learn more.
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Linda Hobgood, director of the Speech Center and rhetoric and communications studies faculty member, was a recent panelist for a program entitled, “Pat Nixon: Unheralded First Lady,” sponsored by the First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE).
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