This award annually recognizes up to six recipients who present their research during a symposium at the Spring American Chemical Society national meeting. Awardees also receive a stipend and a one-year mentorship program that pairs them with an industry employee.
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Research by behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert is featured.
Neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert authored this piece, published in collaboration with The Conversation.
Runyen-Janecky and her students will study a bacterium in tsetse flies that may inform treatment for fatal illness in Africa.
Johnson is one of nine faculty across the country to receive this competitive award, which includes a $75,000 research grant.
Political science professor Dan Chen, an expert on celebrity culture and politics in China, is quoted.
Geography and environment professor Stephanie Spera is interviewed on this radio program, which aired throughout New England.
Research by education and leadership studies professor Tom Shields, an expert on segregation, housing, and K-12 education, is featured.
Research by education and leadership studies professor Tom Shields is featured.
Research on fall foliage from geography and environment professor Stephanie Spera is highlighted.
Stephanie Spera, a geography, environment, and sustainability professor, is quoted related to her research on climate change and fall leaves.
Research from the Richmond Law School is highlighted.
Research by law professor Jessica Erickson is featured.
Research by geography, environment and sustainability professor Stephanie Spera is highlighted.
History professor Michelle Kahn, an expert on 20th century Germany, is interviewed.
UR is featured as a recipient of a significant NEH grant to create a new humanities-led research center on AI.
UR is featured as a recipient of a significant NEH grant to create a new humanities-led research center on AI.
UR is featured as a recipient of a significant NEH grant to create a new humanities-led research center on AI.
CLAAI will bring together researchers, students, and educators from 15 colleges across the Associated Colleges of the South to explore pressing social, cultural, and legal questions and dimensions of artificial intelligence.
A new book by leadership studies professors Thad Williamson and Julian Hayter and associate provost Amy Howard is highlighted.
Research by biology professor Peter Smallwood is featured.
UR is featured as a recipient of a significant NEH grant to create a new humanities-led research center on AI.
UR is featured as a recipient of a significant NEH grant to create a new humanities-led research center on AI.
Chemistry professor Wade Downey is featured.
Research from UR’s Mapping Inequality project is featured.
This grant-support project focuses on silicon and has applications in the fields of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and herbicides.
Research by behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert is featured.
Todd Lookingbill, professor of geography, the environment, and biology, is quoted.
Research co-authored by geography and environmental sciences faculty Todd Lookingbill, Jeremy Hoffman, and Beth Zizzamia is featured.
Research co-authored by geography and environmental sciences faculty Todd Lookingbill, Jeremy Hoffman, and Beth Zizzamia is featured.
Robert Bentley, a recent graduate, is featured as a recipient of the Humboldt Chancellor Fellowship.
Grant news from accounting professor Ashley Austin is highlighted in this industry newsletter. The news was also shared on the blog Going Concern.
Research from finance professors Tom Arnold and Joseph Farizo is highlighted in this German investment magazine.
Biology professor Carrie Wu is featured.
Law professor Marissa Jackson Sow is featured.
Law professor Marissa Jackson Sow is featured.
University of Richmond students Marcos Hendler and Aine MacDermott have each been awarded a prestigious Beckman Foundation Scholarship to support faculty-mentored student research in the sciences.
Quintero-Carmona will work closely with the team that manages education and engagement.
Economics professor Mishita Mehra co-authored this piece.
Senior Evelyn Ramirez will graduate from the University of Richmond in May and is entering an organic chemistry Ph.D. program at Emory University starting this summer.
Sophie Goldberg, Jamie Kaplan, and Holly Wemple have received Goldwater scholarships, one of the most sought-after and prestigious undergraduate awards in science and math.
Computer science professor Patrick Martin has received grant support for an upcoming performance highlighting his robotics research.
Research by law professor Jessica M. Erickson is highlighted.
Research by management professor Patricio Duran is featured in this Chilean business newspaper.
Research by history professor Sydney Watts, an expert on Lenten practices and beliefs, is highlighted.
Research by Peter Smallwood, biology professor, and Todd Lookingbill, biology and geography professor, is highlighted.
Research by law professor Jessica Erikson is highlighted.
Law professor Andy Spalding, an expert on corruption in megasports, is interviewed in this article that was syndicated internationally in over 100 outlets.
Liberal arts professor Erik Nielson, coauthor of Rap on Trial, is interviewed on this podcast.
Research from law professor Kevin Woodson’s book The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace is highlighted.
Research from law professor Kevin Woodson’s book The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace is highlighted.
Senior Cameron Peterson taps into his creativity and his leadership studies and music majors to design a video game.
Research by liberal arts professor Erik Nielson is featured.
Research from law professor Kevin Woodson’s book, The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace, is featured.
Research by liberal arts professor Erik Nielson is featured.
Research by leadership studies professor Jess Flanigan is highlighted.
Law professor Kevin Woodson is interviewed related to his new book The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace. This episode of the “Think” podcast first aired in Dallas and was shared on NPR stations around the country.
Law professor Kevin Woodson is interviewed.
Liberal arts professor Erik Nielson, an expert on the use of rap lyrics in court, is quoted in this article, which appeared in more than 200 additional publications.
This piece highlights an excerpt from law professor Kevin Woodson’s book, The Black Ceiling.
Research by geography professor Stephanie Spera is highlighted.
Yucong Jiang, an assistant professor of computer science, has received support for her research on AI-assisted music analysis.
Chemistry professor Carol Parish, a co-leader on this grant project, is quoted.
The three-year grant will purchase a high-performance computer cluster and provide the opportunity for undergraduate-focused research.
Geography professor Stephanie Spera, a climate scientist, is quoted.
This article, which first appeared in The Conversation, highlights research by liberal arts professor Erik Nielson.
Mathematics professor Bill Ross has received a $30,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to host the annual Virginia Operator Theory and Complex Analysis Meeting at the University of Richmond this fall.
Geography professor Stephanie Spera, a climate scientist, is quoted about her latest research.
Data science and statistics professor Lilla Orr has received funding from the National Institutes of Health for a project focusing on the well-being of immigrant families.
Political Science professor Dan Chen’s research examines the degree to which standup comedy moves beyond entertainment to influence public opinion about key social and political issues among Chinese audiences.
Music professor Andy McGraw received a Fulbright Teaching Grant to help explore Javanese music.