Research
I taught rats to drive, but they taught me to enjoy the ride
A neuroscientist on lessons learned from teaching rodents to drive a mini-car.
Features
Portfolio
Look Again: Art for Our Curriculum
A spring exhibition focused on recent acquisitions highlights the university’s art collection as an ongoing record of campus intellectual life.
Inquiry
AI @ UR
Artificial intelligence is now part of higher education. UR’s approach encourages experimentation focused on enhancing student learning.
Curriculum Vitae
The health studies boom
Enrollment in health studies is growing quickly. Here’s an inside look at why students are increasingly choosing it and where it’s taking them.
Music
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.
Championship Chase
She shoots, she scores
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.
Well-Being
Run. Chat. Marvel. Repeat.
In the golden glow of the rising and setting sun, senior Ava Tankersley is channeling two of her passions — staying fit and building community — with her Sunrise Social Club. Everyone’s welcome.
Milestones
Robins at 75
As the Robins School of Business celebrates its 75th anniversary, it is looking to its future.
Curriculum Vitae
The Goldwater whisperers
Research experiences and faculty mentorship are a powerful combination for Spiders competing for prestigious national fellowships and scholarships.
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.
Lives Of Purpose
7 over 70
In this riff on “30 Under 30” lists, meet seven Spiders who show that a Richmond education keeps rewarding alumni for decades after graduation.