Three of the four University of Richmond a cappella groups will compete at the A Cappella Sing-Off in Busch Garden's Christmas Town on Dec.
Mining the Dispatch, a computer analysis program launched two years ago in the Boatwright Library Digital Scholarship Lab by Robert K.
Employees of the University of Richmond Emergency Medical Service purchased an SUV to help respond to on-campus calls more efficiently. "The new, quick-response vehicle will allow us to improve patient care and will put us on the same level as other similar collegiate EMS organizations around the country," said campus police officer Beth Simonds. Before the purchase of the SUV in October, UREMS first responders had two methods of transportation: They could either respond to calls on foot or drive their personal vehicles to the scene, while still abiding by all of the Virginia state traffic laws, Simonds said. Because the vehicle is still being outfitted by Richmond Ambulance Authority, UREMS is currently still responding by the two traditional methods, Simonds said. But, the new SUV is expected to be in service at the beginning of the spring semester, Simonds said. The primary function of the vehicle will be as a BLS (basic life support) non-transport vehicle. It will bring the UREMS first responders from wherever they are on campus to the location of the emergency in a timely fashion, but without the capability of transporting a patient to the hospital, said Richard Jamesley, the president of UREMS operations. "One way the vehicle will improve campus safety is it will allow UREMS to carry more advanced equipment that normally cannot be carried in a standard First Responder bag," said Matt Palmisano, the vice president of UREMS operations.
Nancy Bagranoff, dean of the University of Richmond Robins School of Business, has been elected to the board of directors for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is currently the only educator to hold this position, she said. "Accounting education is important, and they [board members] recognize that they want someone with that background on the board," Bagranoff said. Darrell Walden, chairman of the university's accounting department, said Bagranoff was one of two academics to have served on the AICPA's board.
When the University of Richmond basketball program plays in the Governor's Hoop Holiday Classic on Dec.
The number of students transported from campus to the hospital for alcohol-related illness this semester is already more than double the total from the fall of 2011. Before Thanksgiving break, 43 students had been transported to hospitals for alcohol-related illness, Richmond Dean Joseph Boehman said.
When religion professor Frank Eakin was cleaning his mother's house after her death, he opened a drawer and stumbled upon a note from former Richmond professor and colleague, Philip Hart, he said. The note was sent unbeknownst to Eakin to his parents during his undergraduate career, and described the pleasure Hart had felt getting to know him, Eakin said.
During the holidays, it is important for people to be with their families and not have to worry about where they will live, senior Greg Lauritano said. Lauritano hopes inLieu Giving will help make that a reality for victims of Hurricane Sandy, he said. inLieu is a crowd-funding site where people ask for donations, rather than gifts, for their birthdays, weddings, graduations or holidays.
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Broadcast journalist and founding member of National Public Radio Susan Stamberg spoke about the importance of a liberal arts education and her career as a cultural correspondent on Tuesday afternoon in the Jepson Alumni Center. "When done really well, a broadcast interview gives 34 million listeners the illusion that they are eavesdropping," Stamberg said to a large audience that nearly filled the Robins Pavilion. Stamberg became one of the first hosts of the NPR show All Things Considered, and has been inducted to both the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and the National Radio Hall of Fame. After over 20,000 interviews, Stamberg said that her favorite interview was with author and literary journalist Joan Didion in 1977.
Biology professor Carrie Wu has worked with her students to advance her research on a dangerous invasive species, Phragmites australis, which has influenced the Virginia Department of Recreation and Conservation's procedures. Their work is also in the process of being published and will be featured in a National Public Radio program. "I guess the main reason that we should be studying them is for the ecological impact they have," said freshman Amanda Moore, a biology major and psychology minor.
The annual Stepping 101 competition, which pits the five Panhellenic sororities at Richmond against one another in step dance battle, will be held in the Alice Haynes Room at 7:30 p.m.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy's destruction of the New Jersey coastline, junior Matt Palmisano did not get much sleep, he said. "My mind and my heart were back home," Palmisano said.
The Student Alliance for Sexual Diversity at the University of Richmond has developed a t-shirt and video campaign to cultivate a more inviting on-campus environment, in which LGBTQ members can feel more included, said Lydia Wang, co-president of the organization. The campaign has been dubbed "Striving to be an Ally," which are the same words printed across 300 navy blue T-shirts SASD ordered, Wang said.
University of Richmond graduates' loans are part of the growing rate of student loans across the United States that now total more than $1 trillion. Two-thirds of college seniors who graduated in 2011 accumulated an average debt of $26,600, according to the Project on Student Debt website. Forty-three percent of the students who graduated from Richmond in May 2012 had an average debt of $21,065, said Cindy Deffenbaugh, the director of financial aid at Richmond. IS RICHMOND STUDENT DEBT WORTH IT? Like any university or college across the country, it is possible to graduate from Richmond without any debt through the use of scholarships, grants and financial aid, but because of Richmond's high tuition, there are still students who leave with large sums of debt, said Jerry Stevens, a professor of finance at Richmond. One graduate from the class of 2012 was given grant money each semester that partially covered tuition.
How do people understand big numbers that are hard to conceptualize? In David Landy's psychology lab, students are publishing research to explore why these numbers are so difficult to understand, said sophomore Megan Delaunay. This past summer, Delaunay worked 30 to 40 hours a week on number representation, she said.
From Nov. 3-4, a group of 15 students in Al Goethals and Brig. Gen. John Mountcastle's Civil War and Leadership class toured the battlefields of Gettysburg to better understand leadership and decision-making in battle. "That battlefield really is a metaphor for the struggle we all face in the profession and our daily lives," Mountcastle said, "especially the uncertainty of the unknown, the stress and fear of both enemies and letting other people down. "This is something that we really look forward to.
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The staff of University Museums and Modlin Center for the Arts hosted the fifth annual Family Arts Day on Sunday, featuring face painting, stick puppets and an instrument petting zoo, in the Modlin Center lobby. This year's theme centered on "Carnival of the Animals," a piece ensemble-in-residence eighth blackbird performed for the event.
Vice President for Advancement Tom Gutenberger, a major target of criticism by men's soccer alumni during last Friday's press conference, was surprised by the allegations made against him, he wrote in an email. "At no time did anyone from the soccer alumni group tell me that they thought I acted in anything but good faith throughout the process," he wrote.
