Feature Stories

How much food can you buy for about $4 per day? Some students are finding out and getting a crash course in empathy in the process.

Her business education became real when she was able to apply it to social change in the Dominican Republic and back home, here in Richmond.

Students in Jessica Flanigan's Critical Thinking classes are focusing on why we give and how to decide who benefits. 

Davis Projects for Peace winner Jhewel Fernandez, ’14, uses grant to revamp self-identity and community-building program in small-town Brazil.

Since its founding in 1993, the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute has brought together diverse individuals from a variety of backgrounds and political ideologies.  Its goal?  People working together for the common good, to strengthen and enhance the quality of government at all levels in Virginia.  The Sorensen Institute’s flagship program is the Political Leaders Program (PLP), and the PLP has become a traditional first step for future political leaders in Virginia.  This year, among the attorneys, CEOs, and business people in the PLP, are Eric Postow (L ’16) and Samantha Sedivy (L ’16), the only two students in the program.

Meg Eastman, ’01, brings together history and art working for the Virginia Historical Society.

Fourteen University of Richmond students, with support from faculty and community members, are leading an effort that will ultimately result in a block-long mural of the James River on Cary Street.

Andrew McGowan’s, L’16 journey to Richmond Law has been both adventurous and circuitous, to say the least — starting college at 16, graduating with a double major, earning a graduate assistantship, starting a Ph.D. program, and now law school, which has also taken him abroad.

Hira Siddiqui, '16, shares her experience studying abroad at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.