University of Richmond will host the 29th annual International Film Series beginning Sept. 8, offering eight free on-campus screenings to the university and local Richmond community through Nov. 19.

The University of Richmond is celebrating its commitment to advancing dialogue on topics crucial to the nation and global society with the 2017-18 Sharp Viewpoint Speaker Series. President Ronald A. Crutcher will engage prominent thought leaders in unique and different perspectives on the issues of our time.

For the third time in the past decade, more than 10,000 applicants applied for 800 spaces in the University of Richmond’s Class of 2021. 

University of Richmond biology professor Rafael de Sá has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship for amphibian biodiversity research in Colombia.

Kristine Grayson, assistant professor of biology, will serve as the lead investigator for a collaborative project researching the impact of climate change on the gypsy moth invasion.

The University of Richmond has selected Collegiate Sports Associates to serve as its consultant in the upcoming search for an athletic director.

University of Richmond rhetoric and communication studies professor Nicole Maurantonio has been awarded a year-long fellowship from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for her book project, “Changing Hearts and Minds: Memory, Race and the Confederacy in 21st Century Richmond.” 

The University of Richmond is ranked as the #1 Best-Run College and named as one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review.

Two University of Richmond chemistry professors, Michael Norris and Carol Parish, have been awarded undergraduate research grants from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund.

University of Richmond musicology professor Jessie Fillerup has been awarded a fellowship from the University of Aarhus in Denmark for her research into the use of music in 19th-century European and North American theatrical magic shows.