Media Releases

The University of Richmond has received a $75,000 grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund to further improve energy conversation efforts.

The University of Richmond Downtown, will open a new exhibition titled “PROTEST! A Richmond History” as part of RVA First Fridays on April 6 at 5 p.m.

A team of assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA®) will arrive April 2 to examine all aspects of the University of Richmond Police Department’s policies and procedures, management, operations and support services.

Each spring, students in the University of Richmond’s Sophomore Scholars in Residence program present their research and group projects to the community.

Richard J. Evans, widely considered one of the world's greatest living historians of modern Germany, is giving two upcoming lectures at the University of Richmond.

University of Richmond students will welcome 30 to 40 Tucker High School students who speak or are learning Spanish to campus next week for a Spanish-guided tour of the “Personal is Political” museum exhibition with art from the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center.

University of Richmond professor Douglas Winiarski, who teaches in the Department of Religious Studies and the American Studies program, has won a 2018 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy for his book, “Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England.”

University of Richmond will host celebrated author Mohsin Hamid for its annual Writers Series March 28. Hamid will offer readings from his novels, which touch on issues of globalism.

The University of Richmond is announcing the speakers for 2018 commencement ceremonies.