University of Richmond School of Arts & Sciences

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Looking forward to celebrating A&S students at A&S Honors Convocation and A&S Student Symposium on Friday, April 19.
* Convocation: 11:30 a.m.
* Symposium: 12:30-5:30 p.m.
* Reception: 5:30-7 p.m.
* “Everybody” performance: 7 p.m.

Wow! What an incredible display of generosity and support the School of Arts & Sciences received on Giving Day!

Our preliminary results show gifts to A&S topping $63,000 from 411 donors!

Thank you for your commitment to A&S students!

We’re in the final countdown, but it's not too late to score a match! A Trustee is staying up late tonight to match gifts made between 9 p.m. and midnight, up to a total of $5,000!

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Multiply Your Impact! Gifts to the A&S Dean's Impact Fund will be matched up to $10,000!

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Gifts to the Psychology Department will be matched up to $3,000!

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The Department of Psychology immerses students in intellectually exciting experiences of discovery, analysis, and interpretation of human behavior. Your support provides invaluable resources so that our students can engage in hands-on learning experiences that pique their interests and inspire a lifelong sense of intellectual curiosity about human behavior in the world at large.

If 25 donors give to the University of Richmond Department of Political Science, $2,500 will be unlocked for the department!

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Your support provides invaluable resources so that our students can engage in internships, community-based learning, and mentored research that inspire a lifelong commitment to democratic citizenship and leadership in their communities and chosen professions.

Giving Day has officially started! The School of Arts & Sciences is a vibrant intellectual community where faculty and students work together to ask profound and evocative questions, tackle complex problems, create breathtaking works of art, and engage deeply with their communities.

Philanthropic gifts support our world-class undergraduate teaching, high-impact learning experiences, and undergraduate research opportunities.

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Jack Singal, associate professor of physics, along with Richard Bradley, a senior scientist and senior research engineer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), received $589,939 in multi-year research funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The research project will result in a new map focused on the sky brightness in radio waves. The map will be the first large-scale measurement of the actual absolute brightness level of diffuse radio emission in more than 40 years, rather than a comparison of brightness in different regions of the sky as has been typical.

University of Richmond Astrophysicist Jack Singal Awarded Nearly 600K NSF Grant for Groundbreaking Radio Sky Astronomy Project National Science Foundation funding will support research that will result in a new map focused on the sky brightness in radio waves.

Music professor Andy McGraw has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Grant to explore the intersection of music, culture, and technology in Indonesia.

Through his Fulbright support, McGraw will teach two courses at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta — one focused on analyzing music recordings using digital techniques and another on analyzing local Indonesian music scenes using digital humanities tools. These courses draw upon previous research trips to Indonesia during which he recorded traditional music performances using a custom recording system.

Music Professor Awarded Fulbright Teaching Grant to Explore Intersection of Music, Culture, and Technology in Indonesia Andy McGraw is an ethnomusicologist with expertise in Southeast Asian traditional and experimental music, intercultural performance, and rhythm analysis.

Can't wait to celebrate our A&S graduates this weekend! https://as.richmond.edu/events/commencement-reception.html

In honor of World Book Day and inspired by Sant Jordi Day in Catalonia, Associate Dean Sharon Feldman conceived of the School of Arts & Sciences Book & Roses reception. On Friday, A&S faculty and staff gathered to honor 54 faculty authors who published a book in the past few years. UR students, Kavon Thompson and Juan Mendez , both seniors, provided music, and gave us a preview of the album they are dropping called “A Broken Compass.” Find them at Mnli (Might Not Lose Interest) on all platforms.

is officially here! When you donate to the School of Arts & Sciences you support our world-class undergraduate teaching, high impact learning experiences, and undergraduate research opportunities.

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Rosanne Cash recently spent three days on campus as an artist in residence. Cash participated in discussions and workshops with composition and creative writing classes, a Q&A around the relationship between creative expression and women’s leadership development with School of Arts & Sciences Dean Jenny Cavenaugh, and a performance at the Modlin Center for the Arts.

‘Thick skin, open heart’ Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash spoke with a Modlin Center audience about her approach to leadership in the arts, ahead of a campus performance.

Introducing Richmond's newest . The Beckman Foundation provides funding for undergraduate student research in chemistry, biochemistry, and the biological and medical sciences.

Two UR Students Awarded Competitive Beckman Scholarships to Further Faculty-Mentored Research on Fighting Diseases University of Richmond sophomores Abigail Ali and Auden Wilson have each been awarded a prestigious Beckman Foundation Scholarship.

Proud of our Fulbright students and scholars in the School of Arts & Sciences!

University of Richmond Named Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. Students and Scholars The University of Richmond is included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most Fulbright U.S. Students and Scholars for 2022–23.

Congratulations to A&S student, Elspeth Collard, a senior majoring in interdisciplinary studies with a focus on environmental health, for receiving the prestigious Luce Scholars fellowship through the The Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion. Collard is one of 18 students nationwide to receive this award.

University of Richmond Student Researcher and Environmental Health Advocate Selected for Competitive Luce Scholar Program Elspeth Collard, a University of Richmond senior from Alexandria, Virginia, has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious Luce Scholars Program. This nationally competitive fellowship is awarded annually to 18 graduating seniors and young alumni nationwide. Collard is UR’s second Luce Schola...

Stephanie Spera, University of Richmond Dept of Geography, Environment & Sustainability professor, has been awarded a NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant for research in Brazil’s Cerrado Frontier.

The Land Cover/Land Use Change grant supports a joint research project in collaboration with the University of Vermont. Spera, an expert on climate change and land use, will coordinate the satellite-based mapping of agricultural land-use in this area and will assist in analyzing the data to better understand the ecological and socioeconomic impacts of land-cover changes.

University of Richmond Geography Professor Stephanie Spera Awarded NASA Grant For Research in Brazil’s Cerrado Frontier Stephanie Spera, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Richmond, has received grant support from NASA for research focusing on the Cerrado frontier, a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil. 

Meet Sophie McClellan, A&S and major. As a Joel and Lila Harnett Summer Research Fellow with University of Richmond Museums she curated a exhibition on view through July 7.

Jepson School of Leadership Studies University of Richmond Career Services Modlin Center for the Arts

Life at the museum A Spider senior curated portraits for an exhibition at the Modlin Center for the Arts as part of a summer fellowship.

A great example of student-led, faculty-mentored research happening at .

claimed two top-five spots for international education in the latest “Open Doors Report” by the Institute of International Education (IIE). Richmond ranked #5 overall and #2 for short-term study abroad programs, and received high marks as a destination for international students. ❤️💙

University of Richmond Ranked as a Leading School for International Education; Earns High Marks for Study Abroad Claiming two top five spots, the University of Richmond was ranked high among baccalaureate colleges for international students and the number of students studying abroad, according to the latest “Open Doors Report” by the Institute of International Education.

Rania Kassab Sweis, anthropology professor, received the 2022 Book Prize from the Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies - AMECYS for her book "Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt."

University of Richmond Anthropology Professor Receives National Award for Book on Global Humanitarian Aid Rania Kassab Sweis, University of Richmond associate professor of anthropology, was awarded the 2022 Book Prize from the Association for Middle East Childhood and Youth Studies for her book, Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt.

Happy to see our A&S spiders back on campus!

Listen to Journalism Professor Shahan M***i's interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

After the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in Paris, journalist Shahan M***i came across another story of the Prophet Muhammad's image leading to violence, this time in Washington, D.C.
Listen: Revisiting A Forgotten U.S. Hostage Crisis https://n.pr/3Ipbz0K

Great insight on the importance of rest from psychology professor Janelle Peifer. Plus 3 simple steps to make restorative rest a form of healing.

The Freedom to Rest | Janelle Peifer | TEDxYouth@RVA Why are we—as individuals and as a society—so bad at slowing down to rest? Psychologist Janelle Peifer shares ways to find relief from the pressures of every...

Check out the 20th Anniversary Issue of "Digital America," an arts journal in the University of Richmond Dept. of Art and Art History.

www.digitalamerica.org

The New York Times recently reviewed journalism professor Shahan M***i’s new book, “American Caliph,” which recounts two days in 1977 when an armed Muslim group held dozens of people hostage in Washington, D.C.

“M***i’s ticktock of the siege, the book’s climactic centerpiece, is a tour de force,” writes Jonathan Mahler.

http://ow.ly/hawa50M3pHg