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Madonna performs during halftime show of New York Giants vs New England Patriots game at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Madonna performs during halftime show of New York Giants vs New England Patriots game at Lucas Oil Stadium. SHe is wearing a black and gold costume and a gold headdress. She is flanked by dancers in a variety of black and gold costumes.

Meet the professor studying Super Bowl halftime shows

Music professor Joanna Love has built a career studying how pop music, mass culture, and branding overlap, harmonize, and sometimes collide.
Coach Aaron Roussell sits across from a group of Spider Women's basketball players, talking to them during halftime.
Championship Chase
Spider women’s basketball is rolling
The team’s up-tempo style of play is making it one of the nation’s best shooting teams and one of the most entertaining in the country to watch.
An illustrator of people walking along paths going in different directions.
Curriculum Vitae
The Goldwater whisperers

Research experiences and faculty mentorship are a powerful combination for Spiders competing for prestigious national fellowships and scholarships.

President Kevin F. Hallock, teaching a class on the Economics of the University
Academic Excellence
Expert lessons

Kevin F. Hallock, the university’s president, is giving students a deep dive into the economics of the university in a course he is co-teaching.

Spiders Near and Far

Nick Olindo, ’15
Soccer
Fired up
Chicago Fire Football Club's victory over Inter Miami in 2023 brought strategy director Nick Olindo, ’15, back to his time on the sidelines at UR.
Heather Shields, ’07
Show Business
Flip the script
Heather Shields, '07, is a Tony-nominated Broadway producer and general manager reimagining how show business operates.
Kelly Corrigan, W’89, gives a TED Talk.
Lives Of Purpose
Brave enough to love

“Bravery is the great guts to move closer to the wound,” Kelly Corrigan, W'89, said in her recent TED Talk about the bravery required in family life.

Cole Model, ’23
Entrepreneurship
DC’s new hangout app
Cole Model, ’23, made the search for a post-workday hangout spot easier through his app, BuzzPass—DC Happy Hours.
“[AI] is going to amaze you with things it can do, and then it will amaze you with things that the algorithms don’t get quite right.”
—Benjamin Leigh, R’91 and L’96

Eye

A goat chewing grass.
A group of four UR students and a guide raft through Hollywood rapids on the James river.
A photo of student ben mayes at Shalom Farms. He stands in front of tall green plants and is holding a farm implement. He is smiling gently at the camera.
A photograph of five members of the UR Womens' Basketball team holding the A-10 tournament and and A-10 regular season trophies.
Alumni watch the fireworks at the evening celebration by the lake during Reunion
A photo of students storming the court at the Robins Center after Richmond's win over Dayton.
A photo taken from overhead depicting two women creating a print for University of Richmond Magazine on a 1930s letterpress in the Boatwright Library book arts studio.
A photo of four Amazonian representatives walking across the Potterfield bridge with the Richmond city skyline behind them.

Campus News

“The right concept at the right time for our campus.”
— Upen Malani, executive director of dining services
President Kevin F. Hallock, teaching a class on the Economics of the University
Academic Excellence
Expert lessons

Kevin F. Hallock, the university’s president, is giving students a deep dive into the economics of the university in a course he is co-teaching.

Dr. Mickey Quiñones, Dean and Professor of Management at the Robins School of Business, stands with portraits of previous deans.
Milestones
Robins at 75
As the Robins School of Business celebrates its 75th anniversary, it is looking to its future.

Sports

Basketball coach Chris Mooney in a game-time huddle with Spider players
Perspective
Mooney’s moment

Newly minted Hall of Famer T.J. CLine, ’17, reflects on the impact of head coach Chris Mooney, who is starting his 20th season at Richmond.

Members of the 2024 Spiders athletics Hall of Fame class, T.J. Cline, ’17, Abby Oliver, ’12, Rodney Elam, R’76, and Meghan Ogilvie, ’05
Spider Excellence
2024 Hall of Famers

The university inducted four outstanding student-athletes and two teams of distinction into its Hall of Fame during Spider Day Homecoming celebrations.

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