Jamelle S. Wilson, Dean of the School of Professional & Continuing Studies at the University of Richmond has been elected to serve as the vice president of Virginia's Board of Education.

The Fiske Guide to Colleges, a leading college guidebook, has selected the University of Richmond for its 2021 edition.

University of Richmond Associate Professor of Political Science Jennifer Bowie has received the Law and Courts Teaching and Mentorship Award from the American Political Science Association, the Law & Courts section.

Rising senior Olivia Diaz, a journalism and global studies double major from Fairfield, Connecticut, has been awarded a 2020 Reporting Fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. She is the first Pulitzer Reporting Fellow in University of Richmond’s history.

Eight University of Richmond students have been offered Gilman scholarships to support their study abroad experiences in 2021.

North Court, one of the oldest buildings on University of Richmond’s campus, has received the 2020 Historical Renovation Award from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Virginia Chapter.

Four University of Richmond faculty, the most in UR’s history, have received Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust grants to support their research in chemical, medical, or other scientific fields.

The University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business and the Virginia Council of CEOs’ quarterly CEO Economic Outlook Survey finds that expectations over the next six months for sales, capital spending, and employment all improved compared with expectations at the end of May.

When biology professor Shannon Jones realized the global pandemic would prevent her from bringing students to campus this summer for University of Richmond’s signature URISE program experience, she figured out a way to send science to them.

Accounting professor Ashley Austin has received a grant from the Center for Audit Quality for her research project on detecting fraud during the audit process.