September 5, 2024
University of Richmond Journalism Professor Wins Edward R. Murrow Award for NPR Podcast “White Lies”
Journalism professor Andrew Grace has been awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Podcast.
2024 A&S Commencement Reception Photos Now Available!
School of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Annual Report
2023-24 Now Available!
Going Boldly: Purposeful Engagement, Critical Thinking, & Success in College
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.
2024-20245 Tucker Boatwright Festival of Literature & the Arts
The Nature of Representation
The Nature of Representation asks how our understandings of “nature” have been shaped by representational practices in both the aesthetic and political senses, exploring how the current climate catastrophe is inextricable from colonialism and anthropocentric worldviews. The festival features contemporary writers, artists, and thinkers who don’t take for granted that language is merely human, that there are other “natural” languages, and that attuning to those other languages allows us to tell stories that disrupt the violence of Man.
Timothy Morton, "The War Against the Holy Spirit of Life: Some Countermeasures."
September 12, 4:30 p.m. | Humanities Commons
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Professor of English at Rice University. Both an acclaimed specialist in British Romantic poetics and a leading figure in the philosophical movement called speculative realism or object-oriented ontology, Morton’s many books include The Ecological Thought, Hyperobjects, Realist Magic, and Becoming Ecological, and their work has involved collaboration with figures far outside of academia, including Björk. Their most recent book is Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology.
Hosted by the Department of English.
Faculty & Staff Research Symposium
Friday, September 27, 2024 | Boatwright Memorial Library
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.
Meet the 2024-25 Beckman Scholars
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.
Humanities Center
2024-2025: How (And Why) Do We Represent Nature?
This question invites us to consider “representation” in both its political and aesthetic meaning. “Nature” is represented in paintings, poems, scripture, music, dancing, novels, laws, regulations, equations, activisms, advertising campaigns. This question asks how environments — and often their relations to human concerns — are represented across media, geographic and cultural contexts, and different historical moments.
A&S Feature Stories
September 4, 2024
Grant News
University of Richmond Receives More Than $700K NEH Grant to Launch Center for Liberal Arts and AI
CLAAI will bring together researchers, students, and educators from 15 colleges across the Associated Colleges of the South to explore pressing social, cultural, and legal questions and dimensions of artificial intelligence.
September 3, 2024
UNIVERSITY NEWS
Princeton Review names UR No. 1 for Student Support, No. 2 for Most Beautiful Campus, and No. 3 for Best Run and Best Food
Richmond also received high rankings for Best Career Services, Classroom Experience, Most Accessible Professors, Best College Dorms, and Happiest Students, among others.
September 3, 2024
University of Richmond Professor Sandy Williams IV Named Joan Mitchell Fellow for Work in Sculpture
Art professor Sandy Williams IV has been named a 2024 Joan Mitchell Fellow
A&S Faculty in the News
August 31, 2024
Research News
Appreciating subtle changes as autumn approaches in Lancaster County
Research by biology professor Peter Smallwood is featured.
August 29, 2024
Lincoln’s Melting Head and Artist Sandy Williams IV
Art professor Sandy Williams IV is featured.
August 26, 2024
The Attack of the Zombie Crabs
Geography, environment, & sustainability professor Todd Lookingbill is interviewed about his research on the ecological value of battlefields.
August 21, 2024
‘Bennifer’ is officially done. Again. Is it ridiculous to care?
Psychology professor Janelle Peifer, an expert on the psychology of parasocial relationships, is quoted.
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
Quintero-Carmona Named
Omar Quintero-Carmona has been selected as a 2024 Fellow of The American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB).
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Wares Published
Joanna Wares, associate professor of mathematics, published “Assessing the Role of Patient Generation Techniques in Virtual Clinical Trial Outcomes” in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.
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Baughan Presented
Elizabeth Baughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology, presented "Repurposed furniture-top markers at African American cemeteries in Richmond, Virginia" at the Association for Gravestone Studies annual conference.
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Vázquez Published
Karina Vázquez, teaching faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published the chapter "Un corpus que deviene músculo y nervio: Eva Perón en la voz de las escritoras entre 1960 y 1990." in Historia Feminista de la Literatura Argentina.
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Feldman Presented
Sharon Feldman, William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages and professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, presented Cecil B. DeMille’s film Maria Rosa (1916), at a centenary cinema in Ribes de Freser, Catalonia, as part of the centenary commemoration of the death of Àngel Guimerà, Catalonia's most celebrated playwright. The Catalan newspaper El 9 Nou reported on the event and interviewed Feldman “La pel·lícula ‘Maria Rosa’ de Guimerà, a Ribes.”
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Méndez Published
Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published the chapter "Decolonial Antiracist Feminist Digital Activism: Naming Carolina Maria de Jesus and Marielle Franco on X (formerly Twitter)" in the book Black Lives Matter in Latin America: Continuities in Racism, Cross-National Resistance and Mobilization in the Americas.
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Grayson & UR Alumni Published
Kristine Grayson, associate professor of biology, and UR alumni Petra Hafker, '21, published "Geographic variation in larval cold tolerance and exposure across the invasion front of a widely established forest insect" in the journal Insect Science.
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Méndez Published
Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published the chapter "Materialismos feministas e arquivos: à procura da experiência sensorial em Clarice Lispector" ["Feminist Materialisms and Arquives: In Search of the Sensorial Experience in Clarice Lispector"] in the book Mulheres escritoras: arquivos literários e feminismos na América Latina.
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