Duckweed the cause of lake's green appearance, floating lights intended to keep geese away
(10/23/18 2:36pm)
A floating green substance called duckweed has recently given Westhampton Lake a vibrant, green appearance.
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A floating green substance called duckweed has recently given Westhampton Lake a vibrant, green appearance.
In a single day, Americans across the nation waste around 150,000 tons of food. Per person, that’s a pound of food a day. Per year, that equates to 60 million tons or $160 billion worth of food thrown away.
University of Richmond announced a new partnership with solar energy company sPower, the largest private owner of solar assets in the United States in August.
The setting: political geography class. The assignment: discuss the literature of Ta-Nehisi Coates in groups, responding to questions such as “What would you ask the author?” The issue: a white female classmate, clearly curious on some more nuanced aspects of Coates' life as a black man, stutters, stammers and ultimately silences herself as she tries to qualify her statements in the name of not sounding racist or privileged.
In an effort to make the University of Richmond campus more inclusive, students are in the process of creating two new organizations that will provide more opportunities for diverse perspectives to come together.
Police arrested a University of Richmond student Wednesday night for involuntary manslaughter following a car accident that resulted in one death, said Robert Cerullo, the Powhatan Deputy Commonwealth’s attorney.
Editor's note: This article was corrected to say Maggie Latimer's major of geography instead of environmental studies.
The 2018 RecycleMania logo. Photo courtesy of the RecycleMania page on UR's Office of Sustainability website
The University of Richmond will compete in three categories of a recycling competition this spring in order to improve sustainability efforts.
John P. Hardt spent 18 years in a job he loved, but when the opportunity to be the athletic director at the University of Richmond arose, he couldn't say no.
His Excellency Lars Gert Lose, Danish Ambassador to the United States, visited the University of Richmond on Wednesday to give a public talk as part of International Education Week.
On Wednesday, Nov. 15, a University of Richmond alumnus will participate in the Steward School’s Bryan Innovation Lab Visiting Innovator Program.
Universities around the world are taking steps to curb harmful greenhouse gas emissions. The University of Richmond ought to follow suit if it hopes to maintain our moral integrity as an academic institution during the climate crisis.
The sustainability department launched its first Rethink Waste event Saturday at the Richmond-Albany football game with cross-department help from athletics, facilities and student volunteers.
Courtesy of Rethink Waste via UR's sustainability webpage.
Courtesy of UR's sustainability website.
Laughlin Ashe has been on the second floor of Boatwright Memorial Library all night.
Two recent University of Richmond graduates are on a mission to revolutionize the way society donates to charities by challenging the common perception of spare change as useless.
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