Science meets art in “See the Heat,” a new exhibition co-curated by University of Richmond senior Sarah Kwon, a biology major, and professor Eugene Maurakis, who teaches in the biology department and School of Professional & Continuing Studies.

University of Richmond associate professor of rhetoric and communication Tim Barney has received the Ecroyd Teaching Excellence Award from the Eastern Communication Association.

The University of Richmond expects to award more than 1,100 degrees during commencement weekend May 10-12.

Three University of Richmond juniors have received Goldwater scholarships, the preeminent undergraduate award in science and math.

The University of Richmond has been selected as one of an inaugural cohort of First Forward institutions by the Center for First-generation Student Success, an initiative of NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education), and the Suder Foundation.

Three University of Richmond students have been awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship grants.

Mimi Hanaoka, University of Richmond associate professor of religious studies in Islam, has been awarded a Mednick Fellowship by the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges for her book project, Views of the Asian Other: Educational Reform and Models of Modernity for Japan and Muslim Reformers. 

On the heels of Earth Day, the university welcomes its second herd of goats to campus to clear away unwanted vegetation Tuesday, April 23.

University of Richmond professor of mathematics Della Dumbaugh has received the John M. Smith Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching from the Mathematical Association of America’s Maryland, D.C., Virginia section.

Two University of Richmond professors, in collaboration with UR’s Digital Scholarship Lab, are developing a tool that will trace every international grant given by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations during the Cold War.