Applicants to the University of Richmond are on the rise. The number of applications for admission to the university have increased 73 percent since 2006 and 9 percent since last year. This year, more than 9,400 students applied to the university.
A team of three political science majors won $1,600 for designing a House of Delegates map that placed first in the 2011 Virginia College and University Redistricting Competition. Political science professor Daniel Palazzolo served as faculty adviser and sponsor for the winning team that included Caleb Routhier, Karin Eastby and Andrew Slater. On April 4, Routhier spoke in front of the Privileges and Elections Committee at the Virginia General Assembly where the map was ultimately rejected. "They already had the map they liked and had put 200 hours into, and it had tighter population variance and they refused it on those grounds," Routhier said.
The University of Richmond Board of Trustees will vote Thursday, April 21 on whether the university will adopt gender identity and gender expression into its non-discrimination policy.
Philip's Continental Lounge, better known as Phil's among Richmond students, will be forced to relocate when its lease expires on June 30, 2011.
Physics professor Dr. Jerry Gilfoyle discussed the importance of being educated about nuclear weapons and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty to a group of students and faculty in his lecture on Wednesday. Approximately 25 students and faculty members came to hear Gilfoyle's lecture, "Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: The Science of Nuclear Non-Proliferation." Gilfoyle explained the significance of the nuclear bomb and why college students and citizens of the United States should be concerned with this issue. Gilfoyle said his interest in nuclear weapons had gone back a long time, and he had spent 2001 working with the federal government in Washington, D.C. There, Gilfoyle did an assessment of the test-ban treaty and submitted it to President Bill Clinton.
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School of Continuing Studies graduate Mary Ramsey Evans and her husband, Chuck, look forward to April every year when the School of Continuing Studies Golf Tournament rolls around. The SCS Alumni Association puts on the tournament to raise funds for its scholarships so that SCS students are able to receive quality educations. "We wanted people who could not afford an SCS education to be able to," said Lin Koch, president of the SCS Alumni Association.
Vandalism April 9, 3:32 p.m. An RC student damaged the tail light of a Hyundai off campus.
University of Richmond assistant professor of psychology David Landy received a $1.12 million U.S.
Senior journalism majors Kristy Burkhardt, Liz McAvoy and Julia Pepe, under the direction of journalism professor Robert Hodierne, are developing an hour-long documentary film featuring Marine Sgt.
Senior citizens put on their best dancing shoes for Alpha Phi Omega's 18th-annual prom, themed "Great Gatsby," on April 6 in the Alice Haynes Room. Senior Ashley Fortner, who was the committee chairwoman of the event, said that the fraternity had expected between 40 and 50 senior citizens to attend.
Students, community members, faculty and staff tried out a distracted-driving simulator in the Forum yesterday as part of an effort to raise awareness about the dangers of texting while driving and drunk driving. The Office of Student Activities and the University of Richmond Police Department sponsored the Stop-Loss simulation, run by UNITE International, a company from Grand Rapids, Mich. In the past, police have run exercises with a golf cart and cones simulating the drunk driving experience, said Sgt.
Senior Crystal Thornhill gave a speech full of positive advice for the soon-to-graduate class of 2011 Tuesday morning at the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Convocation. Thornhill first reflected on her past four years to the audience. She talked about rough times, such as when she battled depression her first year, and also about her most memorable experience here at the University of Richmond with the Virginia Action Alliance for sexual assault and domestic violence. Thornhill's time volunteering for the VAA organization has given her much to reflect on in her own life.
The University of Richmond Police Department made its first arrest at 9 a.m. Tuesday for UR Busted, the university's annual fundraiser for the Virginia Special Olympics. Richmond faculty, staff and students were arrested on charges ranging from being a New York Jets fan to being recklessly pleasant.
On Tuesday, Richmond fans gathered together once more to honor the Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond men's basketball teams and their successes in the NCAA Tournament. Mayor Dwight C.
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. The conference, "Emancipation Knowledge: Women's and Gender Studies Now," was centered on the work of its keynote speaker, Patricia Hill Collins, author of Black Feminist Thought. According to the website, the conference focused on the following questions: * How do women's and gender studies programs offer emancipatory ways of education? * How do women's and gender studies classrooms bridge theory and practice? * How do women's and gender studies programs teach and develop activists for the 21st century? * How do feminist and queer theories potentially challenge other curriculum? * What possibilities and pitfalls do new feminist media offer? "Patricia Hill Collins can engage with anyone," said Richmond senior Kosh Kempter, president of Richmond's Women in Living and Learning program, who sat with Collins at the opening dinner.
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If web traffic is an accurate measure of the nation's interest in the University of Richmond, making it to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament is the most interesting thing Richmond has done in years. On March 19, the day the Spiders defeated Morehead State University to advance to the Sweet 16, 12,400 people from outside Richmond's network visited Richmond's website, according to Phillip Gravely, Richmond's web strategies director.
A number of Richmond students participated and cheered at Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10-kilometer race presented by MARTIN's last Saturday morning. Sports Backers organized the race, which is now the fourth largest race in the nation, according to Running USA. Jackie Holt, public relations and communications assistant for Sports Backers, said that there had been 41,314 registrants in the race and 1,900 in the Kids Run. "With the excitement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams being in the Final Four, Sports Backers encouraged all participants to wear black and gold in support of the Rams," Holt said.
University of Richmond graduate Keith Donohue spread his philanthropic project to the city of Richmond on March 25 at the William Byrd Community House. It was fulfilling to accomplish hands-on work for a day, even if he did not get to interact with the children, said Donohue, the creator of Positive Present, a non-profit organization promoting positive affirmation.
