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Editor’s note: The article has been updated to more accurately reflect the comment made by Hilary Appleton.
Sunday nights at senior Callie Cinque’s apartment are reserved for baking bread and brewing tea for guests to drink.
If your only experience with animals on campus is the geese in the lake or the squirrels in the trees, then “you are missing 90% of what is cool.”
After placing comfortable cushions on the ground for her patient to lie on, Martha Wright closes her eyes. She begins forming symbols with her hands and takes a few deep breaths to prepare to receive energy from above for her reiki practice.
Mindfulness and performance expert George Mumford spent two days at the University of Richmond this week, leading faculty members, coaches and student-athletes in mindfulness education sessions, said Sandra Joireman, associate provost for faculty.
The first thing Javier Rogers did when he was released from the Richmond city jail in October 2019 was get a coffee from Starbucks. Then he went home.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Five students from the University of Richmond took part in the University Innovation Fellows program run through Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design in the fall semester.
Among the hustle and bustle of construction consuming Sarah Brunet Hall, a cozy corner of the building remains a source of consistency for students at the University of Richmond. This is the Center for Awareness, Response and Education, an office dedicated to preventing violence on campus, educating students and faculty about prevention methods and cultivating a culture of safety for everyone at UR.
When senior Ayele d’Almeida had a class project earlier this semester, she didn’t write an essay or make a presentation to complete the assignment. Instead, she and two teammates went to Goodwill, bought pillows, blankets and other living room essentials and set the items up in the University Forum.
Savannah Del Cid really wants a job that does not exist ... yet.
In the late summer of 1973, Edward Ayers sat nervously waiting for the chairman of the American studies graduate program at Yale University. Ayers, then 20, had been sure he didn’t belong there. He had shown up unannounced with nothing but a sense that he wanted to be like Tom Wolfe or Richard Marius, and that Yale was apparently the place to be. He looked as though he had spent the past three months living in a car, which he had. He was working for a traveling carnival. His job was to load passengers onto the double Ferris wheel for 12 hours a day. He hadn’t had a haircut in months. A group of Yale boys in blazers told him he looked like Huckleberry Finn. He thought he looked like Neil Young.
The holiday season is for spending quality time with loved ones, reflecting on all that you’re thankful for and, typically, eating the best meals you’ll have all year. So, what’s on the menu for students who remain on campus over Thanksgiving or winter break?
Researchers at the University of Richmond carefully placed two brown rats, Mario and Luigi, into tiny makeshift cars -- known as rat-operated vehicles, or ROVs -- fashioned out of clear plastic food containers, aluminum and copper wires. The team’s goal was to challenge the rats to operate the cars, which would move when the rat gripped a copper bar with its paws and stop when the rat released its grip. A sugary cereal prize awaited, contingent on their success.
Charlotte Boye-Christensen is a professionally trained dancer and contemporary choreographer who creates interdisciplinary, site-specific pieces. She has traveled the world showcasing her pieces for her company, NOW-ID, where she is the artistic director.
“The scariest thing about them is that they weren’t monsters. They were just people.”
A collaborative arts course is being taught for the first time this spring to commemorate the University of Richmond’s institutional history. The class is part of a series of new courses being offered that is connected to the goals of the Making Excellence Inclusive report.
Like any other University of Richmond student in desperate need of a caffeine fix, senior Hannah Campbell waited at the register in 8:15 at Boatwright, ready to order her usual black coffee.
I’m just doing my best to break down the nonsense, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins told his audience Friday night in Camp Concert Hall of the Modlin Center for the Arts.
Senior Dan Kunath grew up around stock-car racing. Back in his hometown in Raleigh, North Carolina, locals would build their own stock cars and race them on small quarter-mile tracks. Being able to go to an actual NASCAR race with professional stock cars was a treat, Kunath said.