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Arts

The anniversary concert showcased the company’s legacy of artists, mentors, and dear friends putting one another in the spotlight.

Women's basketball team celebrates NCAA tournament announcement

NCAA Tournament Preview

Six things to know as the Spiders go dancing

Here’s your guide for watching the Spider women in the NCAA Tournament.

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.

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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.

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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.

Madonna performs during halftime show of New York Giants vs New England Patriots game at Lucas Oil Stadium.

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.

Coach Aaron Roussell sits across from a group of Spider Women's basketball players, talking to them during halftime.

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.

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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.

A hockey player, Ethan Gail, '25, the team captain, skates towards the camera in an indoor ice arena. He is in a University of Richmond jersey and holding a hockey stick.

Community

Healthy scratches

Inside the scrappy 20-plus-year legacy of Spider Ice Hockey

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.

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Curriculum Vitae

The Goldwater whisperers

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