Colson Whitehead was born in 1969 and grew up in Manhattan. He attended Harvard College, then spent two years working as a pop culture critic for the Village Voice.
Vandalism Nov. 17, 2 p.m. A wooden storage bench that holds table umbrellas on the patio of Boatwright Memorial Library was damaged.
Last week, a tragedy occurred in the Caribbean. The devastating earthquake that hit the island of Haiti has killed hundreds of thousands, and the death toll is increasing each day.
Incoming Gov. Robert F. McDonnell addressed a packed congregation of Virginians on Saturday at his inauguration, haling the crowd to take responsibility for the future of their state. "Working together ? Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike ? Virginia will continue to blaze the trail of opportunity and prosperity," McDonnell said. Virginia residents arrived at the Virginia Capitol in Richmond from around the state to see their new governor officially enter office. Carolyn Lantz of Mechanicsville said of the new governor, "I'm excited about him and I will pray for him." McDonnell's inaugural speech recalled outgoing Gov.
The University of Richmond celebrated Martin Luther King Day Jan. 18 with a processional from the Jepson Quad to a service in Cannon Memorial Chapel which featured keynote speaker Oliver W.
The Solidarity Action for Haiti Committee will sponsor an Open Mic Session for students, staff and faculty who have family and friends in Haiti or close ties to the country. The Open Mic will take place in the Alice Haynes Room from 11 a.m.
Students who enroll in classes within the new film studies major now have access to more than 300 screenplays donated to the University of Richmond. The new major, which starts next fall, will be composed of nine courses offered in a variety of departments, including English, modern literature and cultures and maybe business, said Paul Porterfield, the head of the Media Resource Center and adjunct instructor of film studies. The founder and head of the Virginia Screenwriters Forum, Helene Wagner, approached the school after the Virginia Screenwriters Forum's librarian, Bill Sydnor, stepped down. "He had a room with boxes and boxes of scripts and it seemed natural to suggest them to U of R," Wagner said in a phone interview. The university gladly received the donation, which came free of charge. "We would have had to spend thousands and thousands of dollars at a time when it's really tight at the university to even begin to put together a collection like this," Special Collections Librarian Jim Gwin said. "Not many college campuses have that kind of resource available," Abigail Cheever, an associate professor of English, said.
President Edward Ayers denied that he was a candidate for the president of the University of Virginia, which is expected to name its new president this afternoon, according to university officials. Ayers, whose name had surfaced as a possible successor to Virginia President John T.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is studying the issue of gender in college admission and will gather testimony and data from the University of Richmond and 18 other mid-Atlantic colleges and universities. All of the schools were chosen by the commission based on their proximity to Washington, D.C., according to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. But Richmond was also put on the list because of reports that asserted the university was intentionally admitting a disproportionately high number of male applicants, including a U.S.
Eight days after former head football coach Mike London took the same position at the University of Virginia, University of Richmond wide receiver Kevin Grayson announced London's replacement. That's because Richmond athletic director Jim Miller decided Grayson would be the right person to introduce new head football coach Latrell Scott, who served as the wide receivers coach for the Spiders during Grayson's first two seasons. "On behalf of the football team, we are really excited about this selection," Grayson said. Scott, a 34-year-old Richmond native who most recently coached the wide receivers at the University of Virginia and the University of Tennessee, has been named the 34th head coach in program history. "This is a very exciting day for me and my family," Scott said.
The University of Richmond athletic department has chosen its new head football coach and will announce the decision at 4 p.m.
Adnan Hajizada's father is uncertain but hopeful that his son will be released from prison after an appeal is heard in the Baku court of appeals on Dec.
The Sociology 306 class orchestrated the University of Richmond's first flash mob late last night at the Heilman Dining Center. The purpose of the flash mob ? a group who assembles suddenly in a public place to perform an action ? was to encourage inclusivity on campus.
University of Richmond football coach Mike London accepted the head coaching job at the University of Virginia today, ending his two-year run with the Spiders. Virginia held a press conference at 1 p.m.
Nine men became the inaugural members of the first historically black fraternity on the campus of the University of Richmond Friday night, during a ceremony at the University Forum. Wilshire Bethel, Michael Coleman, Dwayne Foster, Raymond Fraser, Reginald Gooden, Rashad Lowery, Charles Mike III, Jeremiah Morse and Ra-Twoine Fields marched in-step to the Forum singing cadence and wearing black and gold masks.
The University of Richmond's department of religion presented James Turner Johnson, a professor from Rutgers University, to lead a discussion titled "Realism, Idealism, and Just War: Thing about the Use of Force in American Debate." Johnson, a professor of religion and associate of the graduate program in political science at Rutgers, argued against realists' either-or dichotomy that separates realism and idealism as polar opposites. Johnson attributed the birth of political realism to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and political scientist Hans Morgenthau, who flourished from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Abdul Sheikh arrived in the United States at 16, alone and afraid on an early morning in December 2000. It was a time of many firsts: His first flight on an airplane and the first time he saw snow on the ground, which he mistook for salt.
Barbara B. Wallace, an adjunct professor of Italian in the department of modern literatures and cultures who learned to speak the language during her late 30s, died on Sunday after a bout with cancer. Lorenza Marcin, director of the Italian language program, worked with Wallace from 2001-2009 and described her as a perfect counterpart.
The University of Richmond football team earned the fourth seed in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision playoffs and will face Elon University during the first round at 1 p.m.
The new on-campus stadium will require three changes next year to maximize parking during home football games: moving student cars, limiting campus events and using the intramural fields for overflow parking. Students who park in X-lot ? the lot by the Robins Center ? must move their cars to the varsity football practice field, near River Road, for the entire weekends of home games, said John McCulla, director of community relations. No events may occur in the Robins Center on game days.
