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Speaker says drilling in Russian Arctic is solution for energy crisis
By admin | October 15, 2008By Kate Foss Collegian Reporter Yury P.
By Kate Foss Collegian Reporter Yury P.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin drew a crowd of 25,000 people on Monday at the Richmond International Racetrack, where she attacked Sen.
Former President Bill Clinton spoke at Virginia Commonwealth University Sunday night.
By Emma Anderson Collegian Reporter A 2007 community engagement report shows the University of Richmond had a $450 million annual economic impact on the Greater Richmond economy, contributed over 100,000 hours of community service a year and was one of the top 25 private employers in the Greater Richmond area. Yet, the university is looking for ways to make an even greater impact. John McCulla, director of community relations, compiled the report and said the university was on an upward trend for community engagement.
Finance students involved with the Student Managed Investment Fund, called SMIF or Spider Fund, are working to adjust investment strategies with $300,000 of the university's endowment. As the Dow Jones industrial average dropped on Wednesday to 9258.10, down 189.01 from the previous day's close, fourteen of the university's top finance students who comprise the Spider Fund are putting their education to use by working to ensure the school's money will survive a volatile stock market and uncertain economy. This portion of the school's estimated $1.6 billion endowment has been in the hands of Spider Fund members for 10 years.
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Illness/Liquor Law Violation Oct. 3, 9:21 p.m. A Westhampton College student was taken from the Intermural Fields to St.
By Elizabeth Hyman Collegian Reporter If you stopped by the Pier on Tuesday night and watched "A Beautiful Mind," you were helping, if only indirectly, to raise the awareness about mental health disorders. This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, a national event that is being brought to the University of Richmond for the first time by student-run organization Active Minds.
In one of the labs in Gottwald Science Center lies a bacterium that kills nearly a million people every year. Taking on that bacterium is Prof.
By Paige Zorniger Collegian Rerporter This week's RCSGA meeting convened with guest speaker Elyse Kenealy explaining an important program offered by an organization called "Camp Kesem." The children who attend the camp have parents who currently suffer or have suffered from cancer. The program is offered to the families free of charge, and Kenealy is hoping to get financial support from RCSGA to help send at least one student from the university to a learning seminar in California that will train to work at the camp. In terms of Homecoming, senate members announced that all the decorations for Homecoming week had been ordered, including banners to hang in the Tyler Haynes Commons as well as prizes that will be given out during the week.
By Mary Morgan Collegian Reporter This week's Westhampton College Government Association meeting featured Provost Steve Allred, Chief academic officer at the university, who discussed his work on the Strategic Plan.
By Michael Gaynor Collegian Reporter The National Endowment for the Humanities has just awarded Andrew Torget, director of the university's Digital Scholarship Lab, a $19,942 grant for research and an academic conference on data visualization in the humanities. The one-year-old Digital Scholarship Lab uses data visualization to find new perspectives on massive quantities of information that would otherwise be impossible to untangle.
Hello, everyone. I'm Dan Petty, the online editor of The Collegian. I'll be live-blogging alongside Collegian news assistant Stephanie Rice.
By Jenn Hoffman Collegian Reporter Kids rode ponies, parents met political candidates and families mingled over boxed barbeque at the fourth annual Republican Round-Up at Innsbrook Pavilion in Glen Allen, Va., on Sept.
The University of Richmond's tornado warning siren malfunctioned Monday, prompting a campus-wide e-mail and phone alert. The tornado warning system is tested on the first Monday of every month at 1:25 p.m.
By Zachary Stewart, Megan Stephenson and Kimberly Leonard Collegian Reporters University of Richmond student reactions from the 2008 vice presidential debate held at Washington University in St.
Larceny Sept. 20, 9 a.m. A blue 21-speed Raleigh mountain bike valued at $200 was stolen from the 2000 block of the University Forest Apartments.
By Taylor Engelson Collegian Reporter Writing doesn't become easier or less nerve-wracking said Peter Carey, a two-time Booker Prize winner who came to Richmond yesterday as part of the 2008-09 Writer Series. "You live with uncertainty and doubt, and you should," he said.
Students are suffering the consequences of a weekend of drinking that ended in five students being rushed to St.
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