Graphic novelist and playwright Lynda Barry will deliver the keynote address during the annual Joan Oates Institute for Partners in the Arts on June 23, 8:45 a.m. in the Robins School of Business, Queally Hall, Ukrop Auditorium. Her presentation is open to the general public. Tickets are $15 and can be reserved online.

University of Richmond welcomes students during the last week of July.

The University of Richmond’s alumni magazine received one of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s national gold awards in the category of College and University General Interest Magazines as part of its 2015 Circle of Excellence Awards.

Richard Coughlan, senior associate dean for the Robins School of Business, will serve as both president-elect and vice president of programs for the Richmond chapter of Association for Corporate Growth®.

The American Association of Law Library Hall of Fame will award the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, its highest honor, to Tim Coggins, associate dean for Library and Information Services at Richmond School of Law.

Valaria P. Vendrzyk, associate professor of accounting in the Robins School of Business, has been named the next editor of Issues in Accounting Education, one of three of the American Accounting Association’s organization-wide academic journals.

The University of Richmond Alumni Association board has elected officers and nine board members for renewed or new terms, effective July 1.

Partners in the Arts (PIA), a program of the University of Richmond School of Professional & Continuing Studies, has awarded a PIA Engaging Creative Thinkers Award to Richmond's Binford Middle School that will support teacher training in arts integration in the coming year.

Six distinguished University of Richmond alumni were recognized for their outstanding achievements and contributions in their respective field of business, service to the community or service to their alma mater on May 30 during Reunion Weekend.

Jamelle Wilson, who has served Hanover County Public Schools for more than two decades, has been named dean of University of Richmond’s School of Professional and Continuing Studies, effective Aug. 1.