The major declaration process at the University of Richmond offers personal freedom and flexibility for students, but it is also designed to keep students on track for their academic careers, university Registrar Susan Breeden said. One opportunity that the university allows to students is to double and even triple major.
The first series of meetings by the university's Classroom Master Plan, committee to develop and improve 160 teaching spaces on campus, will take place Thursday, Feb.
The Office of International Education staff received 312 applications for more than 75 study abroad programs for the fall 2013 semester. About twice as many students study abroad in the fall semester as in the spring, said Michele Cox, study abroad director. This year's application numbers are near the average from the past three years, with Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Australia being the destinations that received the most applications.
Chris Wolfe uses his GoPro Hero camera to produce short, action-packed videos that capture the fast-moving daily lives of him and his friends. Wolfe, a junior at University of Richmond, purchased his camera immediately after beach week in 2011.
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Junior Austin Helm enrolled in Richmond College in 2010, despite a void the university administration could not fill: the rush of competitive amateur wrestling. After three years of stoking interest, recruiting members and filing for reinstatement of the university's wrestling club, Helm will fill that void this fall, when he steps onto the mat to wrestle for the Spiders. "I had wrestled throughout high school and knew coming in, there was no opportunity to wrestle here," Helm said, "so I wanted to make something happen.
The flu virus is not as prevalent on the Richmond campus as in the rest of the country, said Sarah Fisher, nurse supervisor at the Student Health Center. This year's respiratory influenza virus had been "very manageable." There have been about 10-12 positive flu tests on campus this year, Fisher said. But that does not mean that those have been the only cases of the flu.
UR Downtown, home to several of the University of Richmond's community-based learning programs and the Richmond on Broad cafe, has received a new sign, and staff will be initiating additional programming thanks to an $825,000 endowment from Rob Blandford and his wife, Nancy Everett. Amy Howard, director of the university's Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, said this endowment would enhance and deepen the community connections that had been created through UR Downtown programs such as Voluntary Income Tax Assistance (VITA), which offered free tax-preparation services for low-income Richmond residents. "All the great programs and opportunities UR Downtown has to offer will be made more visible by the new, beautiful sign on the building, which really marks our presence in the downtown area," Howard said. This new sign pays homage to the sign that hung on the building, located at 626 E.
University of Richmond students and students from eight to ten other Va. schools who have received the Virginia Tuition Assistance Grant (VTAG), had the opportunity to meet Va.
Approximately 140 University of Richmond sophomores were given the opportunity to network and learn about business from professionals in their prospective fields by attending Q-Camp on Jan.
The staff at Boatwright Memorial Library has updated the computer system used for interlibrary loans. Library patrons can now view their past loan requests, said Travis Smith, the interlibrary loan supervisor.
Drug/Narcotics Violation Jan. 24, 1:34 a.m. Two Richmond College students were referred to the dean and one RC student was arrested for a drug violation in the Modlin Center. Jan.
After the recent school shootings in Conn., the security of students, faculty and staff has become a priority for local governments and educational institutions.
Richmond students and staff are alerted by phone calls, emails or sirens whenever emergency information or safety measures need to be spread on campus, but these same alerts have not been offered to parents and community members. As of last month, though, campus emergency alerts became available to everyone through Twitter, said Brittany Schaal, director of emergency management. All people have to do -- even those without Twitter -- is send a message to 40404 that says, "Follow @URAlert," to receive campus emergency alerts from the @URAlert Twitter page via text message, Schaal said. After Schaal and Doug West, assistant vice president of telecom, multimedia support and user services, tested this "Fast Follow" system in mid-December, university officials sent letters to local residents to inform them of their ability to register for this program for free, apart from potential data rates, Schaal said. The university's other emergency alert platforms were connected to university e-mail and BannerWeb, which made them exclusive to students and staff, Schaal said.
The city of Richmond is known for its Civil War history as the capital of the Confederacy, but three buildings on the University of Richmond campus have been added to the Virginia Landmarks Register for historical importance. North Court, Ryland Hall and Cannon Memorial Chapel reflect significant aspects of the private university's history, according to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Andrew McBride, associate vice president for facilities, worked closely with the Department of Historic Resources on acquiring landmark registration for these three buildings in the Commonwealth, he said.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) a three-year, $750,000 grant to develop a digital atlas of American history. The DSL, which opened in 2007, is a digital humanities center that works to digitize historical research, thereby making it more accessible to historians, students and the public, said Robert Nelson, director of the DSL. Since then, the members of this small organization have tackled a series of historical projects.
The two professors co-teaching the university seminar "Leadership in Journalism" are excited about leading an interdisciplinary course, fulfilling The Richmond Promise, they said. Journalism professor Tom Mullen and leadership professor Tom Shields started working a year ago on the university seminar they are teaching this semester, Shields said. The university seminars are new for the university, and were started by the Provost's Office to push cross-school collaboration, Shields said.
Members of University of Richmond's Omicron Phi chapter of the national service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega attended the 42nd Biennial National Convention in Anaheim, Calif., Dec.
Camp Kesem held "Kesemania," its annual week of fundraising and awareness efforts, this week, with the goal of increasing the number of campers attending the 2013 program, said Samantha Meeker, Camp Kesem co-chairwoman. Camp Kesem, which means "magic" in Hebrew, is a national organization that holds an annual camp for children ages 6-16 whose parents have or have had cancer.
Schedule changes are not unusual to the sorority recruitment process at the University of Richmond, but this year's schedule was met with mixed responses from potential new sorority members and current members. Recruitment has started on Sunday in past years, so that change was not that drastic, said senior Elle Wilkinson, recruitment chairwoman for Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
