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(02/09/12 6:13am)
Some students at the University of Richmond are spending their spring break doing service work, discussing and learning about a social issue and bonding with their peers during an alternative spring break trip.
(02/02/12 6:06am)
On the ninth floor of 503 Main St. in Richmond, behind door 901, is the small suite of Commonwealth Partnerships, a business started by University of Richmond alumni Andrew Ryan '06, Mike Gray '06 and Mark Hickman '07. Eight hundred eighty five miles away, Blair Brandt '10 sits in The Next Step Realty suite in Palm Beach, Fla., a quarter of a mile from the water, palm leaves shading his office window.
(01/26/12 6:10am)
Two weeks into his final semester at Richmond, Geoff Weathersby has already raised more than $6,000 toward a memorial scholarship fund for his father, Terry Weathersby, using only social media. Weathersby's father lost a five-year battle with head-and-neck cancer in October 2011; his family decided that in lieu of flowers, they wanted people to donate to a fund.
(01/19/12 4:07am)
Sweet Frog premium frozen yogurt shop will have more than 100 locations by this summer after opening in the Downtown Short Pump Town Center just two and a half years ago, said Adam Silverman, regional manager of corporate Sweet Frog locations in the Richmond area.
(11/17/11 6:18am)
Vessela Stefanova first touched American soil eight years ago. Since then, she has learned English, pursued higher education, and touched the lives of those who have gotten to know her.
(11/10/11 6:20am)
Two University of Richmond students, Simrun Bal and Andrew Lyell, were awarded U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarships and participated in abroad programs last summer.
(11/03/11 5:11am)
Dzzt. Dzzzt. Dzzzzt. The tip of the needle pokes 300 to 2,000 strokes per second. Droplets of blood come out. Ink goes in.
(10/27/11 6:11am)
InLight Richmond, a light-based art show, took place in historic Tredegar on Fri., Oct. 21. The exhibition spanned from Dominion Resources to the American Civil War Center. This site was especially significant because it marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
(10/20/11 6:47am)
Just about a 45-minute ride from campus, between the James and Chickahominy rivers, are several plantations that once were home to many notable Virginians, such as Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Harrison and Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler.
(10/06/11 4:24am)
Something magical was brewing in the heart of downtown Richmond on Tuesday. The musical "Wicked" has returned to the Landmark Theater and crews were on site unpacking and assembling the set for its first show last night.
(09/29/11 4:31am)
The lights went dark, the crowd quieted and the theme song from "Mission Impossible" started playing as a tall figure came down the aisle, flashlight in hand at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' Leslie Creek Theater.
(09/22/11 6:37am)
Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a nonprofit program that trains service dogs, has made University of Richmond one of its training sites.
(09/14/11 2:25pm)
At the dawn of freshman orientation week, a resident in Marsh Hall was watching football with his roommate. "Every time a good play happened, we heard a bunch of people cheering," Michael Marino said. The two wondered if their hallmates were watching the same game, so they wandered down the hallway to a lounge that had been converted into a quad.
(09/08/11 7:29am)
When he learned to ice skate on Westhampton Lake as a child, Harold Wainwright Jr. said he had never dreamed he would become a father-figure to 170 Richmond College students every year.
(09/01/11 8:03am)
Hot, sticky weather did not keep University of Richmond students inside Friday night when White Panda came to campus.
(08/25/11 5:47am)
Turn up your speakers to blare Mute Math's "Typical" and you'll get anything but that.
(04/21/11 6:01am)
There was something missing when Heide Trepanier was studying biology as an undergraduate. She later found her niche in the abstract world of art.
(04/14/11 5:31am)
Keith Boykin doesn't play it safe. One might even question if he knows how. After graduating from Harvard Law School, alongside President Barack Obama, Boykin decided against practicing law like many of his fellow classmates. Instead, Boykin pursued his passion for politics and joined the Clinton/Gore campaign in Little Rock, Ark.
(04/07/11 5:54am)
George Saunders was born in Amarillo, Texas, in 1958 and was raised in Chicago. He originally thought he would join a rock band after high school, but two teachers influenced him to attend college. He graduated from Colorado School of Mines, a mineral engineering college, with a degree in Geophysical Engineering in 1981. He worked his first job in Sumatra, Indonesia as a field geophysicist and began writing stories during this time. He returned to the United States after two years, and held various jobs in Los Angeles, including slaughterhouse laborer, roofer, convenience store clerk and bar-band guitarist. He moved back to Texas, and was soon accepted into Syracuse University's Creative Writing Program. He met his wife, Paula, at Syracuse. Three weeks after he met her, he proposed, and they married in May 1987. In 1997, he accepted a teaching position in the Syracuse University creative writing program. He has been teaching there ever since, along with writing several works, including "The Braindead Megaphone," "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline," "In Persuasion Nation," and "The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip."
(03/31/11 5:05am)
Student needs are important to the new chief of police.