Luka Klimaviciute, a University of Richmond senior majoring in international studies, has been awarded a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant, which will benefit refugees in her home country of Lithuania.
The University of Richmond was highlighted as an institution that has significantly expanded access to low-income students in a report by the U.S. Department of Education released March 24.
Charles Sydnor will give a lecture at the University of Richmond titled “A Witness Against Evil: The Historian as Witness in Nazi War Crimes Tribunals,” on March 28, 5 p.m. in Richmond School of Law’s Moot Court Room.
The University of Richmond’s School of Arts and Sciences will host its 31st annual Student Symposium, April 15 from 1-6 p.m. in the Modlin Center for the Arts and Gottwald Center for the Sciences. This event is free and open to the public.
The University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business will host Lenore Vassil, vice president of Technology Services at WeWork, as its Executive Speaker Series guest March 29 at 6 p.m. The program will be held in the Robins School, Queally Hall, Ukrop Auditorium.
The University of Richmond will host “Women Leaders Around the World and the Paradoxical Rhetorics of Women's Belonging” March 30 from 4:30-6 p.m. in the Carole Weinstein International Center Commons.
Patrice Rankine, who has served as dean for the Arts and Humanities at Hope College in Holland, Mich., will become dean of the University of Richmond’s School of Arts and Sciences on June 1.
University of Richmond’s Emergency Medical Services (UREMS) received the EMS Organization of the Year award at the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation conference in Philadelphia.
Arachnophobia may be a common fear, but the University of Richmond Spiders are not afraid. In fact, UR is celebrating spiders all day on March 14, which is national “Save a Spider Day.”