The University of Richmond's Speech Center invited students from Church Hill Academy to campus to tell their stories. "I will not let my anger define me," Briana Cary said in her speech.
Lee Carleton, assistant director of the Writing Center and faculty adviser for the Earth Lodge program, is leaving the University of Richmond at the end of this semester, and several students have expressed their frustration with the university's decision to eliminate his position. Carleton has been working as the assistant director of the Writing Center since 2003.
The club may not be able to handle Flo Rida, but Richmond will find out next month whether the Robins Center can. The concert, which was jointly sponsored by the Campus Activities Board and Camp Kesem, has been in the planning stages for a few months, but was only recently confirmed.
The Virginia General Assembly adjourned its annual legislative session after passing revisions to its $78 billion two-year budget. Last year, legislators adopted a budget that slashed more than $4 billion from every area of government, but this year, with news that tax revenues were better than expected, they were able to reverse some previously adopted cuts. The House and Senate clashed in the session's last days on how to spend the unexpected money. The budget, which passed on Sunday night, included the first spending increases in education and health care since the economic downturn began.
University of Richmond students studying abroad are not given any guarantees about their class credits if a natural disaster or political conflict forces them out or causes them to want to leave. Although the university does not have an exchange program in Egypt, students in the past have gone to the American University in Cairo.
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Hit and Run Feb. 24, 12:05 p.m. The front bumper on a Westhampton College student's Mitsubishi Montero was damaged in W-lot.
Many University of Richmond students eagerly anticipate an exotic, beach spring break vacation. Or perhaps many are traveling down to New Orleans for the creme de la creme of college spring breaks: Mardi Gras. But one group of Richmond students will forgo many stereotypical college spring breaks for one of service.
University of Richmond alumni and Fulbright scholarship recipients Becky Stewart, '10, and Nathan Bullock, '10, have spent the last year adapting to life in Asia. Stewart, who is using her Fulbright grant to teach English to grade-school students, is living with a host family in South Korea. Bullock is neither living in a home-stay nor teaching English, but is living and doing research in the heart of Singapore. Fulbright grants, which are funded by the U.S.
Slam poet and activist Andrea Gibson performed at the University of Richmond's Carole Weinstein International Center Sunday, Feb.
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Two University of Richmond chemistry professors have received more than $200,000 in grant money to fund their research projects this year. Chemistry professor Kristine Nolin received $10,000 from the Thomas F.
Graduating international students hoping to work in the United States have 90 days after graduation to land jobs before their visas fall out of status. But with the option of extending their visas, this does not mean they have to go home, and it does not mean deportation. Krittika Onsanit, director of international studies at the University of Richmond, said there were 243 international students currently enrolled at Richmond, 36 of whom were graduating in May. A good portion of the graduating international students will be attending American graduate schools, Onsanit said, and weren't dealing with the urgency of having to find jobs. As long as a foreign student remains enrolled in school, he or she lives under the standards of a student visa, which won't expire until that person is finished with his or her education. Roux Dionissieva, a senior from Bulgaria, is hoping to find a marketing and advertising job near Richmond. Although Dionissieva knows returning to Bulgaria is a possibility if she does not find work, she said she was not that worried because she could apply for an OPT (Optional Practical Training). An OPT is an online form for international students wanting to extend their visas for another year. In the unfortunate circumstance that an international student does not find a job three months after graduation, he or she can apply for an OPT instead of returning home. "I definitely won't be deported, that sounds too serious," Dionissieva said.
The media coverage of recent events in Cairo was unprecedented in the history of world revolutions, said Sheila Carapico, political science professor at the University of Richmond who is currently on sabbatical in Cairo. Carapico published an article in Foreign Policy magazine about her "ring-side seat" to the massive protests against the former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak starting in January. "Never before have foreign television crews perched on balconies of high-rise buildings overlooking the center of the action given the world continuous real-time panoptic on images of such momentous upheaval," she wrote. Teaching at the American University in Cairo, Carapico has lost most of her American students that were studying abroad, she said, because they were forced to evacuate the country by their home university during the protests. Carapico had seen some American news coverage on the growing tensions in Egypt when she was home in January, but her first big news of the revolution came from Facebook, she said. Circulating through Facebook was a video of a mother whose son had been beaten so badly in a police station that he was killed, she said. The four-minute video showed the woman pleading in Arabic for people to protest on Jan.
Theft Feb. 14, 3:54 p.m. A university staff member's IBM ThinkPad, valued at $1,200, was stolen from Gottwald Center for the Sciences. Feb.
"Faces of Communism," a student-filmed documentary featuring first-person accounts of Bulgarians' memories of communism, will be shown at 4 p.m.
F.W. de Klerk, former President of South Africa, spoke at 7 p.m. Tuesday in a sold out Jepson Alumni Center. His speech, "The Challenge of the Century: Leading Change and Diverse Societies," discussed the important lessons of negotiation, management of change and leadership that led to the peaceful end of apartheid, according to the Jepson website. De Klerk currently leads The Global Leadership Foundation, an organization that is "near and dear to his heart," said Theo C.
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It is that time of year again when seniors are putting last-minute touches on their plans for life after graduation. "I applied to eight schools all across the country," said Bryn Allen, who is going to the Medical University of South Carolina's College of Dental Medicine for the next four years.
The Office of Alumni and Career Services, formerly known as the Career Development Center and the Office of Alumni Relations, is currently working on a strategic plan to further enhance its services for students and alumni with support from President Edward Ayers, said Joe Testani, associate director of the Office of Alumni and Career Services. The Career Development Center and the Office of Alumni Relations merged into the Office of Alumni and Career Services last July.
