Two accomplished novelists and short story writers will speak at the University of Richmond in the 2014-15 Writers Series, Oct. 22 and Nov. 11, 7 p.m., in Weinstein Hall, Brown-Alley Room.
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The University of Richmond campus community should expect delays and use extra caution along College Road Sept. 22-Oct. 4 as crews replace the guardrails on the bridge near the entrance to parking lots 23a (Robins Center South Entrance) and 23d (Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness and Pitt Baseball Field). This work will require alternating lanes of traffic and a temporary traffic signal.
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The 10th Annual African Film Weekend will be held Oct. 3-4 at the University of Richmond, Robins School of Business in the Ukrop Auditorium.
Tonya Mallory, co-founder, president and CEO of Health Diagnostic Laboratory, will participate in a C-Suite Conversation Sept. 24, 8 a.m., at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business.
University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University are squaring off in a social media challenge to determine who can generate the most online support for emergency preparedness efforts.
University of Richmond students are taking part in a unique learning experience called The Parking Lot Project. Through the department of art and art history class, 30 students will transform a UR parking lot into a yearlong, collaborative artwork.
The commanding general who opened and operated Guantánamo Bay after Sept. 11 and a Buddhist scholar who is the first American to be ordained a Tibetan monk by the Dalai Lama are among the speakers for the 2014-15 Jepson Leadership Forum lecture series at University of Richmond.
Jerry Clemmer, director of Residential Dining Services for the University of Richmond, has received the 2014 College Auxiliary Foodservice Excellence Award from the National Association of College and Auxiliary Services (NACAS).
“Draw Back the Curtain,” a feature length documentary film, is the culmination of three years of student driven research and interviewing of immigrants and resettlement volunteers. The larger project, which includes a digital archive and multiple museum exhibitions, has tallied more than 8,000 volunteer hours and generous funding from the Richmond Jewish Foundation and the local community.