UR awarded large grant to support belonging and inclusivity in STEM
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded the University of Richmond a $625,000 grant that will go toward a six-year program to improve student inclusion in STEM on campus.
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded the University of Richmond a $625,000 grant that will go toward a six-year program to improve student inclusion in STEM on campus.
Senior Donte Thompson had never presented his research outside of the classroom — or been to Puerto Rico — until he went to this year’s Southeastern Regional American Chemical Society’s conference in San Juan.
Biology faculty will table their research opportunities to discuss with potential research assistants at the “Boo!-ology” research fair in the atrium of the Gottwald Center for the Sciences at 4 p.m. on Oct. 23.
Several modifications to the Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, including changes in student and faculty stipends, the application process and summer housing, will take effect in 2022.
The Arts and Sciences Academic Council voted on Dec. 1 in support of the creation of an Africana studies program at the University of Richmond. The Africana studies program proposal will now be considered and voted on by all voting arts and sciences faculty, said Timothy Barney, rhetoric and communications department chair and member of the council.
University of Richmond political science professor Jennifer Bowie engages students inside and outside of the classroom with court simulations, discussion-based classes and trips to the Supreme Court. Her teaching style won Bowie the Law and Courts Teaching and Mentorship Award from the American Political Science Association in July, a national award that recognizes innovative teaching in the subject matter of law and courts and is presented annually, according to the Law and Courts website.
A data science and statistics concentration will be available to computer science and mathematics majors who are interested in learning more about the field of data science and its applications in the world starting this fall.
A chemistry professor at the University of Richmond spearheaded a donation of more than 7,000 pairs of latex gloves, also known as person protective equipment (PPE), to healthcare workers struggling to keep up with the growing demands placed on Virginia hospitals because of COVID-19.
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On Sept. 14, the Richmond community lost someone many described as a pillar of the university to an aggressive brain tumor.
When students in the political science department returned to class on Aug. 22, they were greeted by a menagerie of new and familiar faces. But there were some very important faces they didn’t see. In an unusual occurrence, six of the department’s 21 faculty members are on leave.
After an extensive application process, the dean search committee selected Patrice Rankine as the University’s next dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, effective June 1. Rankine, the current dean of arts and humanities at Hope College and a scholar in classical languages, will replace Dean Kathleen Skerrett.
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On Friday, April 17, the School of Arts & Sciences hosted the annual Student Symposium, offering students of various disciplines the opportunity to share the results of their research projects.
Michael C. Leopold, a University of Richmond chemistry professor, has been awarded a three-year grant by the National Science Foundation to continue his research for using nanomaterials to create sensors that are able to detect different targets, like uric and lactic acid, in the bloodstream.
A University of Richmond student has become the first person to find hair-like projections that sensor movement in some of SpongeBob’s relatives. The sponge in question is the Cliona varians, “a saltwater sponge that grows mostly in the tropics, such as the Florida Keys and the Caribbean,” said sophomore Cassandra Ceballos, who is head of the investigation.
The annual School of Arts & Sciences Student Symposium will be held from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. April 11 in the Modlin Center for the Arts, where there will be oral presentations, poster sessions, performances and art exhibits of students' research from across the disciplines. The entire University of Richmond community is invited to see the students' presentations.
Outside the office of Amy Treonis in the Gottwald Science Center, lettuce, broccoli, onions and other seedlings are preparing for their ultimate transfer to outdoor soil. They will soon grow in shared agricultural plots to benefit lower-income communities in southside Richmond.
University of Richmond has a stronger undergraduate research program than many other colleges and universities who are also on U.S. News and World Report's top 30 list, said Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.
It only took about five minutes to crack 70 percent of University of Richmond students' passwords in a test last year, which did not associate the passwords with students' NetIDs, security administrator Anthony Head said.