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President Hallock reflects on efforts across campus to understand and teach the AI-related skills and competencies Spiders should have when they graduate.

The “wow” moments kept coming when a dozen students went to Greece with faculty to study ancient history, archaeology, and language — and experience modern Greek culture.

UR’s home for study abroad, international students, and related initiatives has a new name: the Center for Global Engagement. We checked in with Dean Martha Merritt.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the importance of mental health to the forefront of one family's thoughts, resulting in a new scholarship for deserving students.

“The translator is a traitor,” goes the Italian saying. Five faculty who regularly work on translations describe a word or phrase that challenged their ability to convey meaning from one language to another.

The Davis Projects for Peace grant supports her efforts helping women weavers in rural communities advocate for improved workers’ rights and safer conditions.

UR students spent their summers working with U.S. senators and representatives, for a Los Angeles art gallery, inside the front office of the Philadelphia Phillies, and much more.

“For me, being civically engaged is about treating whatever community you’re in like home and the people who inhabit it like family,” he said.

The University of Richmond earned the No. 22 spot in the U.S. News & World Report 2025–26 Best Colleges
guide, its ninth consecutive year in the top 25.

UR's Class of 2029 has 860 undergraduate students. They include numerous class presidents, a national-level gymnast, and a competitor from the show Chopped Junior.

Does the money that migrant workers send home make a difference in their children’s education? Economics student Neha Kalwala, ’25, looked at the data.

Junior Chloe Goode was named a 2025 Truman Scholar, an award designed to launch careers in public service. She's UR’s first Truman recipient since 2014.