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University of Richmond Alum Aamy Bakry Receives 2025 American Chemical Society Pride Merck Graduate Research Award

This award annually recognizes up to six recipients who present their research during a symposium at the Spring American Chemical Society national meeting. Awardees also receive a stipend and a one-year mentorship program that pairs them with an industry employee.

University of Richmond Celebrates Costa Rica For International Education Week

International Education Week returns to the University of Richmond Nov. 18–22, with “Pura Vida: Costa Rica.”

University of Richmond Marketing Professor Sara Hanson Receives State Award for Excellence in Teaching Technology

Marketing professor Sara Hanson has been awarded the H. Hiter Harris III Excellence in Instructional Technology Award from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges.

UR Biology Professor Laura Runyen-Janecky Receives More Than $400K in NIH Grant Funding for Microbiology Research

Runyen-Janecky and her students will study a bacterium in tsetse flies that may inform treatment for fatal illness in Africa.

University of Richmond Museums Multisensory Exhibition Explores the U.S.-Mexico Border

Border Cantos | Sonic Border will be on view at the Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond through Dec. 17.

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