The University of Richmond was ranked #61 out of 1,000 colleges across the nation in The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings.

University of Richmond’s Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts, presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance, offers performances, lectures, artist residencies and master classes that encourage visitors to examine the ways in which the personal and the political are intertwined. 

The Princeton Review has recognized the University of Richmond’s sustainability efforts in its 2017 “Guide to 375 Green Colleges.”

University of Richmond English professor Laura Browder has been awarded a grant to serve as a Fulbright Specialist in South Africa. She will partner with students, faculty and staff at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg to curate an art exhibition focusing on inequality, which is scheduled to open in summer 2018. 

The University of Richmond is hosting a multi-media C-SPAN bus open to the public on Sept. 27 from 1 to 3 p.m. The "50 Capitals Tour” engages students and community members through interactive demonstrations of C-SPAN's multi-platform public service resources.

Jacquelyn Pearlmutter, who graduated from the University of Richmond in May, has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant.

University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies announces speakers for the annual Marshall Center Lecture Series. The series hosts discussions of leadership and politics from diverse intellectual perspectives.

University of Richmond’s WILL* program is partnering with Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies to host a series of speakers on a wide range of topics.

The University of Richmond will welcome Krista Tippett for the 31st annual Weinstein-Rosenthal Forum.

The University of Richmond Police Department was awarded a grant for a drug collection unit as part of CVS Health’s Medication Disposal for Safer Communities Program.