Feature Stories

Students Mentored at a Conference for Women in Cybersecurity

From April 2nd to April 5th, the University of Richmond (UR) sent two students and one staff member to attend the 2025 Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) conference in Dallas, TX. WiCyS is an international professional organization with the mission to recruit, retain and advance women in cybersecurity to build a robust cybersecurity workforce.

IT Governance Discusses AI for UR

2024 saw the introduction of support for artificial intelligence (AI) at the University of Richmond, with the publication of usage guidelines for students, faculty, and staff on a new GenAI website and a pilot program for faculty and student use of different AI systems via SpiderAI . A tool for anyone at the University who communicates, MessageAI, was also released (note that you must be on the campus network or VPN to access).

Nora Buell in front of a Jepson Hall window looking out onto Stern Plaza

Expanding digital health solutions for children

Senior receives full scholarship to study applied digital health at the University of Oxford as a Jepson Scholar.

Learning Management System RFP

It was the summer of 1999. While much of the world was worrying about a potential Y2K Armageddon, a few members of Information Services had set up a server with an application they wanted to test with a few faculty.