WASHINGTON -- The suspect who police say triggered a lockdown at the University of Richmond has confessed to entering Boatwright Memorial Library disguised as a sheriff's officer, according to a search warrant affidavit. Police say that when the suspect, 19-year-old Seth A.
The University of Richmond hosts a candlelight ceremony for parents and graduates the night before graduation at Westhampton Lake, where men and women line opposite sides of the shores, listen to speakers, musical performances and watches fireworks ? one of the final times the classes will be together. Contact staff photographer Dan Petty at dan.petty@richmond.edu
PENNINGTON, N.J. -- University of Richmond officials say a suspect has been arrested in connection with a lockdown that left the school closed for four hours Tuesday. The suspect, 19-year-old Seth Adam Newman of the 1700 block of Chadwick Drive in Henrico County, was allegedly seen carrying a handgun Tuesday in Boatwright Memorial Library. University of Richmond Chief of Police Bob Dillard said through university spokeswoman Linda Evans that police had recovered a pellet gun on campus they "are certain" Newman was carrying Tuesday.
Police from Richmond, Henrico County and the university surround Boatwright Memorial Library May 6 after employees reported seeing a gunman disguised as a sheriff's officer.
University of Richmond undergraduate students will pay a 5 percent increase for tuition, room and board for the 2008-09 school year. According to Herb Peterson, the university's Vice President for Business and Finance, tuition will increase 3.3 percent to $38,350 and room and board will go up 13.9 percent to $7,200.
The Westhampton College Government Association gathered for its last meeting of the year yesterday to discuss final student events, the induction of new cabinet members and lingering student concerns in the Tyler Haynes Commons. Carter Quinley, a class of 2011 senator, proposed that the Real World, a student-alumni life experience program, should be changed from a two-day event to a one-day event in subsequent years.
Junior Miles Johnson wasn't even in the country when he heard that he had won the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for his chemistry research on the carbon bonds involved in pharmaceuticals. "When I got the e-mail, I thought, 'Oh wow!
Richmond College senators passed their budget and $126,986 in allocations for campus organizations on Wednesday night during the last Richmond College Student Government Association meeting of the year in the Whitehurst Living Room. Representatives from each of the 60 campus organizations are required to present their organization's financial request to the Student Organization Budget Allocation Committee every year.
The number of students choosing to major in philosophy has risen dramatically over the past few years, according to the New York Times, but the trend has had only a small effect on numbers at the University of Richmond. There are consistently at least 10 philosophy majors, but the department has been doing better, said Geoffrey Goddu, an associate professor of philosophy.
Richmond College senior Matt Luchansky and 2007 graduate Katie Weber received highly competitive graduate research fellowships that will fund research at any institution for up to three years. The fellowship from the National Science Foundation will provide Luchansky and Weber with up to $121,500 for a researchfocused Master's or Ph.D.
It was 1974 when David Burhans became the university's first chaplain, charged by then-President E.
If you asked sophomore Luke Filipos about his average day at work last summer and this coming summer, his response would not make any reference to sitting in an office from 9 a.m.
President Edward L. Ayers reflected on the University of Richmond's past and introduced the five principles of his strategic plan in his inaugural address on Friday. To a crowd of alumni, students, parents, staff and faculty, representatives of colleges, universities, seminaries, learned societies and professional organizations, Ayers said "history holds the seeds of what we can be." Ayers retold the history of Richmond and Westhampton colleges and the University of Richmond, emphasizing the importance he feels the university's history has.
Scarlett O'Hara, Winslow Homer and Jude Law all made an appearance at the inaugural symposium held in the Robins Center arena last Thursday. President Edward Ayers, Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust and University of Virginia Lincoln Scholar Gary W.
The university faculty is considering whether to develop a race and ethnicities major to increase the University of Richmond's commitment to diversity. That's according to religion professor Jane Geaney, who spoke at this week's Westhampton College Government Association Senate meeting. "We have to increase our commitment to diversity and it has to go beyond just words," Geaney said.
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The 32 stones that lie in a semicircle in front of Burruss Hall were not here last April 16, the morning of the worst school shooting in U.S.
Students and faculty gathered on Wednesday in the Cannon Memorial Chapel to mark one year since the death of 33 people at Virginia Tech with words of reflection from President Edward Ayers, Acting Chaplain Kate O'Dwyer-Randall and Matthew White of the Office of the Chaplaincy. O'Dwyer-Randall opened the service by thanking the people there for attending, and asking them to think about the events of the past year.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that federal and state regulators must act quickly to implement the reforms necessary to rescue the sinking U.S.
Juana Wu left a hole in the Richmond community when she died three weeks ago. Wu was a counselor at Counseling and Psychological Services as a practicum student under Elizabeth Stott while studying doctorate-track counseling and psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
