Each spring, the Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies and the Speech Center come together to host The Laureate, an awards ceremony that recognizes the University’s best orators, debaters and communication studies students. Speech consultants are also honored.

A University tradition of public debate from the 1960s and 70s has been revived for the third year in a row with support from the Speech Center and the School of Arts & Sciences.

UR cheerleader Laura Dilibero ('09) wraps up project on gender norms in media.

Each spring, the Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies and the Speech Center come together to host The Laureate, an awards ceremony that recognizes the University's best orators, debaters and communication studies students.

Before heading off to Indonesia as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Jessica Lowman, '07, took some time to reflect on the Fulbright application process.

Each spring, the Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies and the Speech Center come together to host The Laureate, an awards ceremony that recognizes the University's best orators, debaters and communication studies students.

Two Speech Center consultants decided to bring back Forum on the Forum - a public debate tradition that was popular at Richmond in the 1960s and 70s.

Chris Manieri, ‘10, spent his summer conducting research with chemistry professor Jonathan Dattlebaum, culminating in a presentation at the 2008 Science Symposium in September and a talk on the research at an HHMI Research Introduction seminar in October.

In his four years at Richmond, Bryan Der, ’08, spent every summer on campus conducting research and formed close ties with his chemistry professor and mentor, Jon Dattelbaum. Now, he is working toward his Ph.D. in biochemistry.

“I think the atmosphere at Richmond is pretty unique,” said Kristine Nolin, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the University of Richmond’s newest organic chemist.