“Draw Back the Curtain,” a feature-length documentary produced and released by Jewish Family Services and University of Richmond Hillel, is a contender for the “Best Feature Film” award at the upcoming Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival. It will be screened Aug. 8 at 4:30 p.m. at Brown University, McCormick Family Theater.

University of Richmond has been selected as one of this year’s “Great Colleges to Work For” by The Chronicle of Higher Education. This is the first time Richmond has received the honor.

Cindy Bukach, associate professor of psychology at the University of Richmond, has received a $600,000 grant to further her research on human cognition.

University of Richmond assistant professor of biology Angie Hilliker has been awarded a $100,000 one-year grant from the Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust.

The University of Richmond has announced the appointment of Lázaro Lima as the university’s next associate provost for faculty.

University of Richmond Heilman Dining Center chefs Andrew Kerscher, Earl Lee and Rachel Snyder earned a silver medal in the group challenge at the Tastes of the World Chef Culinary Competition held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The University of Richmond’s Math Science Investigators program encourages middle and high school students from Richmond City Public Schools to discover new methods of engaging with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines.

Three recent University of Richmond graduates received prestigious and competitive Fulbright Awards for 2015-16.

Dane Michael Harrison, a December 2014 graduate of University of Richmond, has received a Fulbright research grant for a journalism project focusing on music education in Slovenia.

University of Richmond announced today that it will join the team of major partners of Richmond 2015, the organizer of the UCI Road World Championships, a nine-day cycling event to be held in Richmond this September.