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Seven professors presented with Distinguished Educator Awards

By Mara Lugo | September 20, 2012

Seven faculty members received the Distinguished Educator Award on Aug. 22 at Colloquy, an annual celebratory event during which faculty and staff gather to mark the official beginning of the academic year, said Steve Allred, provost and vice president for academic affairs. The professors who received the awards were Bertram Ashe, English and American studies; Henry Chambers Jr., law; Dean Croushore, economics; Jennifer Erkulwater, political science, Lidia Radi, Italian and French, Patricia Strait, human resource management and Thad Williamson, leadership studies. After President Ayers delivered an address, Allred presented the awards to each recipient, along with a few comments that had been prepared by a faculty selection committee, Allred said. Each year, the committee members are responsible for choosing recipients to be honored at the succeeding year's ceremony.

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At Richmond NASCAR, students tailgate but rarely stay for the race

By Nabila Khouri | September 18, 2012

Despite the severe thunderstorms last Saturday that delayed the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race, Richmond students continued the annual tradition of tailgating at the Richmond International Raceway. Although it is unknown as to how long this tradition has been a part of the campus culture, every year students of all years gather in the fields surrounding the racetrack to enjoy the excitement of the crowd and the warm September weather.

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Olympic fencing team members host Richmond clinic

By Katie Branca | September 17, 2012

Four members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic fencing team were at the University of Richmond Saturday to teach a three-weapon clinic for avid fencers. The clinic was hosted by Salle Green, a fencing club in Glen Allen, Va., owned by University of Richmond alumnus Walter Green. Two-time Olympian Tim Morehouse, 34, of N.Y., said reaching out to young fencers had been a priority for him and his teammates. "Following the Olympic Games, we wanted to spread as much knowledge as we could," Morehouse said.

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Exchange students adjusting to American social life

By David Weissman | September 13, 2012

Samuel Ryder celebrated his 21st birthday on Tuesday by legally drinking alcohol in the United States for the first time -- a tradition many American college students take part in. Ryder, an exchange student at the University of Richmond, was used to drinking alcohol legally for the past three years in Australia, where the legal drinking age is 18, as in most other countries around the world.

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Richmond accounting professor appointed academic fellow in D.C.

By Lauren Shute | September 13, 2012

For only the second time in 27 years, accounting professor Marshall Geiger did not prepare for the coming school year at University of Richmond. Geiger will not be teaching at Richmond this year, but instead will work for the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Office of the Chief Accountant in Washington, D.C.

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RC Freshman featured in commercial during Olympics

By Erin Moyer | September 6, 2012

As freshman Tim Gruber opened his acceptance letter to the University of Richmond in December, he never imagined that he would share that moment with the nation during the London Olympics. The video of Gruber, 18, tearing open the letter, leaping in the air and screaming "boo-yah" first appeared on YouTube after his father, Chris Gruber, who served as the director of admissions at Richmond from 1985 to 2005, secretly recorded his celebration, he said. "It was my college counselor's idea to put it on YouTube," Gruber said.

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Jermaine Massenburg: Three decades and counting

By Amanda Minnitte | September 6, 2012

For almost 31 years, longer than any undergraduate student has been alive, Jermaine Massenburg has been cleaning and maintaining the campus buildings. Massenburg has lived in Richmond her entire life and has been caring for the buildings on campus since 1981.

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$290,000 research grant leads to close connections

By Rebecca Wilson | August 30, 2012

Research creates both a challenging intellectual environment and a social community for students who are a part of Carol Parish's molecular research team. Parish, a Richmond chemistry professor, recently received a three-year, $290,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for molecular research.

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Chemistry professor John Gupton recieves NIH grant for cancer research

By Taylor Cloonan | August 30, 2012

John Gupton, Ph.D., University of Richmond chemistry professor has been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to continue his cancer-related research. The three-year, $348,572 grant from the National Cancer Institute will go toward his chemistry project "The Synthesis and Bioassay of Novel Pyrroles." "We try to do three things: find new chemical reactions to make molecules, we try to understand how these reactions work, and finally apply these reactions to what we think may be biologically interesting molecules," Gupton said of his work as a synthetic organic chemist. As a part of this process, Gupton and several colleagues have discovered a class of compounds that are potent anti-tumor agents.

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The Tanning Bed Phenomenon: Richmond edition

By Jenna Robinson | April 19, 2012

It's not uncommon to hear women say "I look so pale" with the same self-deprecation as the common "I look so fat," junior Savannah Gillespie said. Gillespie said most of her friends viewed tan as good and pale as bad. "My whole life, all of my friends have tanned, and I understand it; I really do," she said.

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Bio professor to travel to Nepal after winning award

By Maria Rajtik | April 18, 2012

Amy Treonis, an associate professor at the University of Richmond, will be spending five months teaching and researching in Nepal after winning a Fulbright Scholar award. Treonis, who has taught at Richmond since fall 2005 and received tenure last year, will teach at a university in Katmandu while also researching the disparities between conventional agricultural soil and soil that Non-governmental Organizations and the Nepalese government have helped to improve. "I've been here for 20 years; we've never had anybody in the biology department get a Fulbright as far as I can remember," said Gary Radice, the chairman of the biology department. It is customary for a professor to take a sabbatical in the second year following their tenure decision, but the Fulbright allows Treonis to take off the entire year to focus on teaching and research, Radice said. After receiving her tenure, Treonis said, "Being one of those people who can't sit still for a minute, I'm like 'OK, that's done.

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Day in the Life of a Richmond ROTC member

By Casey Glick | April 18, 2012

Most weekday mornings around 8:30, hundreds of University of Richmond students grumble and groan as they wake up and prepare for their morning classes. By this time, junior Jordan Furtado will have already woken up, gotten dressed and driven to campus for a 6 a.m.

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Seniors exhibit four years of art

By Casey Glick | April 17, 2012

After years of classes and outside work and a year-long senior thesis class, three University of Richmond senior studio art majors will display their work as part of the senior thesis exhibition. The artwork of the three seniors, Elizabeth Ygartua, Kellie Morgan and Jon Henry, will be displayed at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, located in the Modlin Center for the Arts from April 13 to May 3. More of their work will be displayed concurrently at the Wilton Companies Gallery at the University of Richmond Downtown, according to a university press release. Much of the work was produced during the two senior thesis classes, which consisted of a fall class of seven students, followed by the option to apply for entry into the exhibition class for the spring, Henry said. Morgan said the class, which was taught by a different professor each semester, had been a transformational experience for her and that she had appreciated having two perspectives help her find her voice in her work. Erling Sjovold, an associate professor of art, taught the class in the fall and said he had wanted to get students started over the summer in order to get them early feedback. "The art can be experimental or research-based," he said.

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