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(11/04/14 8:06pm)
Perry Maddox, a University of Richmond alumnus, is the chief operating officer of Restless Development, an organization that is teaching and empowering young Sierra Leoneans about how to most safely manage the outbreak of Ebola in their country.
(10/01/14 6:58pm)
This past summer, I volunteered to drive a group of middle-schoolers to a trampoline gym on a church-sponsored outing. Before departing with five seventh-grade girls and one eighth-grade boy, I recalled my own prepubescent crew of comrades. I remembered our incessant shenanigans and relentless jockeying for female attention, and began to question my original motivation to volunteer.
(02/13/14 9:43pm)
Richmond Athletics, UR Common Ground, Recreation and Wellness, the Office of the Chaplaincy and the Division of Student Development came together this past weekend to host Campus Pride and put on the first Campus Pride Sports Summit, a two-day event for University of Richmond students, administration and faculty, focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered student-athletes.
(09/12/13 4:35am)
Navigating the University of Richmond's 99-year-old, hill-ridden campus can be difficult, tiring and complicated. One would think that going from class to class in a wheelchair could be even more difficult, but Cole Sydnor, a freshman who is in a wheelchair full-time, said "You wouldn't be able to keep up with me." Sydnor has a motorized wheelchair and he said that he could travel from Lakeview Hall to Gottwald Center for the Sciences, where he has three classes, in just four minutes.
(12/02/12 11:01pm)
With the end of classes and final exams looming, everyone dreams of winter break. While most students are looking forward to sleeping in and catching up on TV shows missed throughout the semester, winter break also provides an opportunity to think and plan for the next step: jobs, internships, graduate school. Here are some tips for getting ahead and making the most of this winter break!
(10/24/12 4:50am)
A group of students used fall break as an opportunity to break out of the campus bubble and engage with the city of Richmond through a university-sponsored program focused on the environment, arts and community.
(08/30/12 2:13am)
After almost two years of preparation, the former Career Development Center will implement a new service plan this semester as the Office of Alumni and Career Services with increased assistance for students, alumni and employers.
(08/25/11 5:11am)
The lazy days of summer are gone and it's time to put your pens and keyboards to work. With the start of the new school year comes a new opportunity for self-improvement. Maybe you'll go to the gym more frequently or make better grades. Whatever you decide to focus on this semester, make career planning a priority as well. It's never too early to start.
(04/08/11 1:35pm)
More than 230 people attended the biennial Associated Colleges of the South Women's and Gender Studies conference at the University of Richmond last weekend and more than 40 colleges and universities were represented.
(02/17/11 5:49am)
The Office of Alumni and Career Services, formerly known as the Career Development Center and the Office of Alumni Relations, is currently working on a strategic plan to further enhance its services for students and alumni with support from President Edward Ayers, said Joe Testani, associate director of the Office of Alumni and Career Services.
(01/25/11 4:33pm)
The job market is off to a positive start for the class of 2011, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers' job outlook. Employers responding to the NACE job outlook 2011 fall preview reported plans to hire about 14 percent more new bachelor's graduates from the class of 2011 than they did from the class of 2010.
(11/18/10 5:56am)
Senior Katie Der predicted since she was a freshman that she would leave her hometown of Chester, Va., after graduation and relocate to New York City - until recently, she said.
(11/18/10 5:52am)
Students looking for summer internships or abroad experiences might be able to get the best of both.
(11/18/10 2:47am)
One child dies every six seconds from a hunger-related cause. One $10.50 meal in the Heilman Dining Center could feed 252 starving children in poor, tribal Orissa, India.
(11/11/10 4:58am)
Thanksgiving is almost upon us and with that, so is the pressure to perform. Not in the sense of when Aunt Carol, who likes to hit the sauce a little hard on holidays (and I'm not talking gravy), asks you to play the piano even though you only took lessons for a year when you were 10, but rather the other tradition that comes along with the territory of Thanksgiving: the act of giving thanks.
(09/05/10 11:48pm)
The University of Richmond's Career Development Center received a bronze ranking from Out for Work, an organization that works with college career centers to improve the quality of support for LGBTQ students transitioning from school to the workplace.
(02/18/10 5:00am)
Vice President for Student Development Steve Bisese has been a college administrator for years, and he currently focuses on making University of Richmond students happy inside and outside of the classroom.
(02/10/10 11:00pm)
It's that time of year. During the next few months University of Richmond students will be tweaking their resumes, polishing interview skills and trying to increase their understanding of current events in and out of the global marketplace. Thousands of college students apply for jobs; only handfuls receive offers. In a world where every potential quality of an applicant counts, differentiation from the masses becomes essential. How can you make yourself different?
(11/19/09 4:00am)
The members of the Richmond College Government Association approved the contents of a letter -- intended for the General Education Revision Committee -- which expresses serious concerns about the University of Richmond's curriculum revision proposal in its current form.
(11/12/09 4:30am)
Many Richmond children don't have access to the books that could offer them a bedtime tale, classroom read-aloud or companion for their blanket fort.