Features

A grid of portraits featuring Barry Greene, Ellen Sisson, Rachel Pierce Newell, Steve Gordon, Laura Lee Chandler, Jean Scott, and Birch Douglass. The grid has two open squares with a dark blue background.
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.
A photo of Molly Rossi, '16, sitting outside on the mall in Washington D.C. She is surrounded by trees and the U.S. Capitol Dome is visible in the background.
Lives Of Purpose
The unstoppable Molly Rossi
Molly Rossi, ’16, always trusted that there was a bigger story about the world around her — and she’s never stopped searching for it.
A man wearing a hat kisses the Stanley Cup
Champions
The view from the top
This summer, three Spiders reached the pinnacle of success in professional sports. They describe the experience and how UR helped them along the way.
A female student stands in front of a large painting taking notes in a notebook.
Experiential Learning
Pictures of the floating world

Students spent spring break in NYC selecting a new work for UR’s Harnett Museum of Art. See what they saw — and picked.

Shannon Jones stands in front of a screen displaying a diagram, presenting to a class of students
Belonging
The making of a scientist
A toxicology course is giving some students one more chance to take a class from the professor they say is key to their persistence and success in STEM.
A portrait of Oksana Kis with a decorative border on the left.
Curriculum Vitae
Humanities amid hardship
Visiting faculty member Oksana Kis, a Ukrainian historian, questioned whether her scholarship matters as her country defends itself from Russia's invasion.
#SpiderLove
Love, eventually
A kiss in the gazebo between Scott Hurd, B’89, and Diane Kraynak, W’89, was 25 years in the making.
An overhead image of Courtney Paulk swimming in the James River.
Well-Being
Brain waves
Open water swimmers face immense physical challenges — but the mental strength required is laced with lessons we can all learn from.
Candlelight ceremony at Westhampton Lake
#Spiderpride
101 things we love about UR

D-Hall desserts. Scholarships. Publishing with your professor. Triceragoose. We asked far and wide to compile a list of things Spiders love. Here are 101 of them, in random, not rank, order.

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Notebook
We weren't invisible anymore
Fifty years ago, the first generation of Black undergraduates at Richmond organized UR’s first Black History Week.
A photograph of Russell Nance, L'97, standing on a row of bourbon barrels, in a rickhouse full of additional bourbon barrels stacked to the ceiling. He is smiling, and wearing dark rimmed glasses, a blue t-shirt and jeans.
Lives Of Purpose
Will the real Russell Nance please stand up?
Is this alum a Manhattan attorney or a central Virginia bourbon distiller? At first glance, it looks like two Spiders with very different lives both call themselves Russell Nance, L'97. But they look alike, talk alike, and wear the same stylish glasses. What’s going on?