Don’t miss out on the Weinstein Learning Centers open tutoring hours! Come join us in Gotty on Sunday for a study sesh and pizza 🍕📖
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The Science Belonging Committee (SBC) is committed to creating purposeful programs that provide science students with safe spaces to express themselves and the tools they need to thrive in college and beyond. The team is composed of faculty, staff, and student ambassadors, where the latter role provides students with the chance to play an active role in the planning and execution of events. We host a diverse range of programs designed to address the varied needs of our community. From listening sessions and research fairs to science-themed field game days, career workshops, and dessert socials, we aim to foster lasting connections and a sense of belonging within the sciences at UR.
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Campus Partners
The Science Belonging Committee is comprised of faculty and staff from all departments in the Gottwald Center for the Sciences.
Event collaborators include Career Services and the Student Center for Equity and Inclusion (SCEI). Contact us if you would like to work together! Learn about the events we host.
Student Ambassadors
Belonging Committee Student Ambassadors (left to right) Ritika Relwani, ’26 double majoring in biology and health studies, and Mollie Fenn, ’26, biology major.
Faculty & Staff
Signature Events
Bingo Night
Gottwald Games
Ice Cream Social
Pride Month Celebration
Career Skills Workshops
Black History Trivia Night
Gottwald Scavenger Hunt
Spooktacular Science Research Fair
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Hi everyone! Come by the atrium today at 4:30 to participate in our Scavenger Hunt through Gottwald 😊 We will have prizes for our best scavengers! 👏👏
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Come join us on March 18th for A Slice of Science 🕷️Open to all science students 🥼🔬See you there!!
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Thinking about science careers in industry? Join us for a Q&A with someone who’s been there! Monday at 4:30 in Gotty auditorium-refreshments will be served!
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New time-now starting at 5:00 PM! Join us Thursday for trivia, food, and prizes to celebrate Black History Month!
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This week! Help us celebrate Black History Month with a trivia night in Gottwald on Thursday. We'll have food and prizes!
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Feature Stories
UR Now: RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Professors recognized as fellows
Meet the faculty honored for stellar contributions within their fields and in the classroom.
Two University of Richmond Students Receive Projects for Peace Grants for Work in Armenia and Taiwan
Anush Margaryan and Jeff (Ping Yen) Tsai have received Projects for Peace grants.
Child's play a focus of medical internships
Two Science Leadership Scholars learned the benefit of child’s play during their summer internships at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
University of Richmond Biology Professor Omar Quintero-Carmona Named 2024 American Society for Cell Biology Fellow
Quintero-Carmona is one of 17 scientists to be selected as a fellow this year, an honor bestowed upon ASCB members by their peers. He is one of a few fellows from a primarily undergraduate institution.
Faculty Accomplishments
Erickson and post-bacc publish on field work
Priscilla Erickson, assistant professor of biology, along with Weston Gray, post baccalaureate research assistant, published “Field Sampling of Zaprionus indianus in the Eastern United States in 2023-2024” in microPublication Biology.
Erickson, post-baccs, and students publish on invasive species evolution
Priscilla Erickson, assistant professor of biology, along with Weston Gray and Logan M Rakes, post baccalaureate research assistants, and students Christine Cole, ’24, Ansleigh Gunter, ’24, Guanting He, ’26, Samantha Morgan, ’23, Camille R Walsh-Antzak, ’24, and Jillian A Yates, ’24, published “Rapid Wing Size Evolution in African Fig Flies (Zaprionus Indianus) Following Temperate Colonization” in Evolution.
Erickson and students publish on population genomics
Priscilla Erickson, assistant professor of biology, along with Alexandra Stellwagen, ’26, and Ansleigh Gunter, ’24 published “Limited population structure but signals of recent selection in introduced African Fig Fly (Zaprionus indianus) in North America” in G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics.
Carpenter-Swanson and students publish on antiseizure effects in zebrafish
Colleen Carpenter-Swanson, assistant professor of Biology, along with students, Audrey Breckenridge, '25, Sanskriti Basnyat, '26, and Eva Fitch, '25, published “Validating the antiseizure effects of vitexin and related flavone glycosides in zebrafish” in Frontiers in Pharmacology.
