Faculty and Staff

Spiritual but not religious? Atheist? Agnostic? A little bit of everything? As the Office of the Chaplaincy continues to build community amidst spiritual but not religious spiders on campus, we are excited to host an end of semester lunch for SBNR faculty and staff.

Please consider joining us on Wednesday, May 1 from 12:00 to 12:50 in the Multifaith Room of the Wilton Center. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Jamie Haskins (JHaskins@richmond.edu) by the end of the day on Wednesday, April 24. RSVP is required as the lunches are boxed. All are welcome!

World Qigong Day was begun in the 1990's and takes place annually on the last Saturday of April. People of all ages and skill levels come together in sharing the practice Tai Chi and Qigong. This event takes place in over 80 countries, starting at 10am local time.

Our World Tai Chi and Qigong Day event will focus on the practice of Qigong, beginning at 10am in the Multifaith Room in the Wilton Center. Our session will be lead by Qigong instructor Dr. Jennifer Cable (Department of Music), assisted by Rachel Lantz ('19) and Susie Shepardson ('19). This event is open to all, including those entirely new to Qigong (Qigong, or "energy practice," is a part of Traditional Chinese Medicine.) This will be a movement-based experience, lasting approximately 30 minutes. Take a break and join us in this practice of embodied meditation!

Please join us in the Westhampton Living Room on Wednesday, April 24 for presentations by Dr. Glyn Hughes' SSIR students.

Building on fall semester study and insights from class travel to Los Angeles in January 2019, student working groups will predict the future of a system or related issue and offer reflections on navigating that future.

Students or faculty/staff wishing to leave their car on campus for any length of time this summer are required to register their vehicle via this form https://goo.gl/forms/kVPTnm45yruL1toz1. Vehicles should be left in the student section of lot W85 (N Lot) in the row closest to the River Road Fields and Westhampton Way.

Vehicles left unattended on campus without prior registration are subject to towing.

All vehicles must be insured to be parked on campus. If you have any questions, contact Parking Services, parking@richmond.edu.

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Summer regulations begin Monday, May 6. Students remaining on campus will be allowed to park their vehicles in resident or commuter student parking lots. Faculty/staff (E permit) and visitor (V permit) lots restrictions will still be in effect. This regulation pertains to all students including summer school students, recent graduates, student employees, and students participating in summer internships and research.

Parking permits purchased during the fall or spring semesters are valid through August 23, 2019. Students bringing a car to campus this summer should register their vehicle online or in person at Parking Services.

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Phishing is a common method used by cybercriminals to steal money or information. However, lately cybercriminals have put a new spin on an old social engineering attack. Attackers are using other communication methods to increase their chances of success. Not only should you look for red flags in email messages, but also text messages and phone calls should be scrutinized more carefully to avoid digital theft. Visit the Information Security site for more information on how to protect against new types of phishing attacks.

The final Multi-faith Dinner and Discussion of the semester will be held from 6-6:45 p.m. on Tues., April 23, in the Multifaith Room of the Wilton Center.

Multi-faith Dinner and Discussion is a weekly gathering designed for students of all faiths, and those of no faith traditions, to come together for food and discussion. Each week's discussion explores current topics and headlines and how our worldviews inform our understanding of the world around us. We hope you will join us for this week's reflection on how we have grown during the past academic year.

Grading for the spring 2019 semester is now open. Please see the following link for grade submission deadlines: http://registrar.richmond.edu/faculty-staff/grades/deadlines.html.

Prosopagnosia, otherwise known as face-blindness, is characterized by difficulties in face recognition and is thought to affect around 3% of the population. We are looking for participants who struggle with recognizing faces to help us with our research into face-blindness. If you have difficulty recognizing celebrities, friends, and/or other people you think you should recognize, you may qualify for our study. To determine if you can participate in our study, we will first ask you to fill out a personal online questionnaire. If you do qualify, then you will come to the lab in person to take a standardized neuropsychological test in the first session and our study in the second session. Each in-person session takes about one hour and the compensation rate for each session is $10 per hour. If you would like to see if you qualify for our study or if you have any questions, please email richmondfaceblind@gmail.com.

Please join us in the Westhampton Living Room on Tuesday, April 23, for two Sophomore Scholars in Residence class capstone presentations:

4:30-5:30 p.m.: Black Literary Leadership - Monuments to Black Leadership (Dr. Bert Ashe and Dr. Julian Hayter)
6-7:30 p.m.: The Great War - Personalizing the Wartime Experience (Dr. Eric Yellin)

Light refreshments will be served during the intermission.

Please join us for the final Kairos service of the semester from 8 to 8:30 p.m. on Tues., April 23, in Cannon Memorial Chapel. We'll be exploring the theme, "Listening: What is life asking of me?" University Chaplain Craig Kocher will deliver the message. Following the service, we'll have a reception in the Wilton Center Multifaith Room to recognize and celebrate the seniors who have been involved in Kairos.

Kairos is a contemplative Christian service that offers students sacred time to reflect on life's deepest questions. The 30-minute services include scripture, contemporary music, hymns, prayer, silence, and candle lighting. Each service focuses on a theme and question that help students consider their lives and their relationship to the world around them. For the second half of the spring semester, our overall theme is "Lent: Deepening our Relationship with God," and this week's service will focus on John 21:1-14.

On Tuesday, April 23, seven faculty/staff parking spaces along Ryland Circle, next to the Robins School of Business and lot U6 (C Pines) off UR Drive, will be coned off and reserved for food truck parking for SpringFest. These spaces are closed to all faculty/staff all day. This includes the three parking spaces before and the four parking spaces after the walkway leading up to the Robins School of Business.

Faculty/staff can find additional parking in lot U6 (C Pines), the E permit section.

Thanks for your cooperation.

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The University Faculty Senate will meet at 3 PM on Friday, April 26, in Tyler Haynes Commons, Room 305. The agenda for the meeting is available on the Senate website under "Meeting Minutes and Agendas." All University community members are welcome to attend. The minutes from the March 29 meeting have been posted to the Senate website: https://facultysenate.richmond.edu/meetings/minutes/index.html. Any questions may be directed to Gina Flanagan at grakes@richmond.edu.

Stressed out from all the final exams, papers, and projects? The Chaplaincy & CAPS have combined forces again this year to offer a joint Study Break for the Soul and Stress Out Day! The first 100 people to register at the link provided get free goodie bags!

Stop by between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, to de-stress with food, an ice cream bar, mindfulness activities, music, games, arts & crafts, and therapy dogs. The event will take place in the Wilton Center and on the Quatrefoil. Please join us!

We are just weeks away and plans have already begun for the annual Springfest event on May 29. We need your help! It takes a village to make this event happen and we have spots on all committees including the prize, table decor, bingo, theme decor, games, Feedmore collection, and photo op committee.

Our first whole committee meeting is on Tuesday, April 23, at 11:30 a.m. in the Richmond Room. Those interested in working with a fun bunch of people are welcome to join us and bring your lunch. We hope to see you there.

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All members of the university community are invited to attend a lecture by William Edmundson, Professor of Philosophy and Law at Georgia State University.

"Rawls's Philosophical Socialism"

Tuesday, April 23rd at 4:30 p.m. in Richmond Hall, Room 108

This talk is open to the public and refreshments will be served.

This event is co-sponsored by the Philosophy, Politics, Economics & Law Program (PPEL), and the Philosophy Department. Any questions, please contact Shelby DeWalle at sdewalle@richmond.edu.