The University of Richmond is celebrating its commitment to advancing dialogue on topics crucial to the nation and global society with the 2017-18 Sharp Viewpoint Speaker Series. President Ronald A. Crutcher will engage prominent thought leaders in unique and different perspectives on the issues of our time.
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For the third time in the past decade, more than 10,000 applicants applied for 800 spaces in the University of Richmond’s Class of 2021.
University of Richmond rhetoric and communication studies professor Nicole Maurantonio has been awarded a year-long fellowship from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for her book project, “Changing Hearts and Minds: Memory, Race and the Confederacy in 21st Century Richmond.”
University of Richmond musicology professor Jessie Fillerup has been awarded a fellowship from the University of Aarhus in Denmark for her research into the use of music in 19th-century European and North American theatrical magic shows.
The second quarter 2017 CEO Economic Outlook survey by the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business and the Virginia Council of CEOs (VACEOs) finds that the level of optimism among central Virginia CEOs remains near the highest levels seen in the survey’s seven-year history.