The University of Richmond's Recreation and Wellness department is revising the wellness graduation requirement after students said they wanted more realistic and interactive courses. The past month has been dedicated to collecting student input.
A cluster of six pristine blue lakes tucked into the mountains of Afghanistan's remote center has tentatively become the war-torn country's first national park, thanks largely to the work of Peter Smallwood, a University of Richmond biology professor. Three decades of fighting had stalled previous efforts to protect the area from resource decimation.
University of Richmond sophomore Keaton Cristobal and a friend launched a nationwide, free textbook exchange Web site for college students last Wednesday. The Web site, StudentsBulletin.com, resembles Craigslist.org in that it also provides a forum for exchanging appliances, electronics, furniture and housing.
When University of Richmond students found out that Mary Middleton's contract had not been renewed for the 2009-10 academic year, they wrote e-mails to the school administration and started a Facebook group, urging the school to keep her.
Percy Bysshe Shelley once declared "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." With April being National Poetry Month Dr. Tricia Stohr-Hunt, a University of Richmond professor of education and children's literature expert, celebrates the beauty of poetry and its authors through her online blog The Miss Rumphius Effect.
Google, which owns YouTube, signed a contract with a few media companies last Thursday to feature TV shows and movies on the Web site, according to an article in The New York Times.
Vandalism April 13, 11:15 a.m. The glass panes of two dryer doors were smashed in the laundry room of Marsh Hall.
The Collegian received first place for best overall college newspaper Web site from the Society of News Design, and Richmond College named one of the site's key architects the member of the class of 2009 who made the greatest contribution to his class. Dan Petty, the former online editor of The Collegian, won the "Most Significant Contributor Award" for the senior class on April 20 at the Richmond College Senior Dinner.
The University of Richmond's mock trial team established itself as a national power in the courtroom at the National Championship Tournament (formerly called the Gold Flight National) this weekend in Des Moines, Iowa, finishing eighth in its division. This year's finish marks the highest finish ever for the team, which just completed its most successful season to date, said captain Katy Groover, an attorney on the team.
Four students and one professor at the University of Richmond have been awarded Fulbright grants to teach abroad in the countries of Spain, Indonesia, Taiwan and Sierra Leone next year. The four accepted students are: Kyle Bell for Spain, Aaron Daugherty for Indonesia, and John Calhoun and Jill Eisenberg for Taiwan.
The University of Richmond has launched a new online system that allows students to check electrical energy use-even per person -in the residence halls.
When Sarah Woodis unpacked her belongings in her room in North Court in January, images of the hills of Galway came to mind, she said. Woodis, like many University of Richmond junior-year students who study abroad, did not expect her return to campus to be difficult.
When Chris Konschak attended the University of Richmond in 1983, school policy allowed him to keep a keg in his room.
The Sudanese ambassador failed to make an appearance at the University of Richmond Wednesday because of a last-minute cancellation.
Hoongle.org, the search engine started by three University of Richmond students who sought to end world hunger, was shut down by its creators on Friday. Google found that the popular social justice endeavor violated the terms of its advertising policy, said David Whitehead, one of the founders of Hoongle. According to Google, the fact that Hoongle generates a donation of a product constitutes an incentive for people to use the search engine, said Whitehead.
The University of Richmond women's tennis team parlayed a No. 1 seed into an Atlantic 10 Championship Sunday, dethroning reigning conference champion Temple University 4-0 and ensuring the team a spot in the NCAA Championships next month. The Spiders won their sixth A - 10 Championship behind strong play from the entire team.
A musical piece co-commissioned and premiered by the Modlin Center for the Arts last year has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in music. Steve Reich, a world-class musician and composer, was awarded the prize in music for his piece entitled "Double Sextet," which premiered in Camp Concert Hall on March 26, 2008.
In the second annual UR Business Pitch Competition, the Sniff-Stick, presented by senior Dan Brunt and Christopher Genualdi, won first place and the $2,000 prize. Brunt and Genualdi pitched the Sniff-Stick, a "breath mint for your nose," to a panel of five judges from outside the school. "This is the first time we've pitched the idea to potential investors," Genualdi said.
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will deliver the commencement address to University of Richmond students in the schools of Arts & Sciences, Business and Leadership Studies on May 10 in the Robins Center. Officials in the university's communications department confirmed the commencement speakers ahead of the official announcement at 5 p.m. Kaine was elected to the governorship in 2005 and taught legal ethics for six years at Richmond.
Vandalism April 4, 2:01 p.m. A wall on the third floor of Gray Court was smashed, creating a hole measured at 4-feet tall by 2-feet wide and containing a beer bottle.
