Student Experience
Study abroad for all Spiders
EnCompass celebrates five years of creating opportunities for students to participate in international travel.
Spotlight
Campus Life
University of Richmond Homecoming Weekend 2024
A celebratory weekend full of fun activities for alumni, students, and other members of the UR family.
Research & Innovation
UR professors on sabbatical
Richmond faculty members pursue passion projects and groundbreaking work.
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Student Experience
A Spider who leads the way
Jimmy James has found a way to balance academics with his extracurricular activities as a tour guide, sports editor, and president of the Octaves.
Alumni
Grand slam idea
UR’s Alumni Engagement team hits a home run hosting gatherings at baseball parks across the country.
In the News
Tesla robotaxis, dockworkers and automation: Asking for a Trend
Shital Thekdi, analytics & operations professor and an expert on risk management, is interviewed.
Why can’t it always be summer? It’s all about the Earth’s tilt
Geography and environment professor Stephanie Spera authored this piece, originally published in The Conversation.
Commentary: Nonprofits deliver when no one else can. It's time to unlock their power
Nonprofit studies professor Andrew Schoeneman co-authored this piece.
University of Richmond invites goats back for sustainable landscaping
Rob Andrejewski, director of sustainability, is quoted.
How Harris, Trump would put their stamp on the courts
Law professor Carl Tobias is quoted.
Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: The execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice
Law professor Corinna Lain, an expert on lethal injection policy, is quoted.
SPIDERS MAKING AN IMPACT
Alumni
Richmond alum’s life-saving medical practice
Johns Hopkins pediatric urologist details his journey from UR student to his current role performing infant bladder exstrophy surgery.
Student Chronicles
Year two at Richmond
A group of students from the Class of 2027 look back at their first year and reflect on their first few weeks as sophomores.
Student Experience
Everything’s coming up green
UR student learns the ins and outs of hydroponic-farm marketing and the nuances of financial advising as an intern for two different companies.
University News
Idea Exchange
Speakers at the Faculty & Staff Research Symposium discussed topics ranging from global health and conspiracy theories to Cuban music and Jack the Ripper.
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