Faculty and Staff

SPCS professor of education Kate Cassada, assistant chair of the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program, has been named director of the Center for Leadership in Education (CLE), following former director Tom Shields’ appointment as SPCS associate dean.

In collaboration with researchers from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, chemistry professor Julie Pollock has published two articles on toll-like receptor signaling inhibition in inflammatory pathways; 1. Identification of Toll-like receptor signaling inhibitors based on selective activation of hierarchically acting signaling proteins, in Science Signaling and 2. "Triaryl pyrazole Toll-like receptor signaling inhibitors: Structure-activity relationships governing pan- and selective signaling inhibitors," in ChemMedChem.

Chemistry professor Miles Johnson published "Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Palladium Proazaphosphatrane Complexes Invoked in C–N Cross-Coupling," in Organometallics.

Edward Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus, was elected to the board of trustees for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Physics professor Jerry Gilfoyle received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to support his on-going project, “Medium Energy Nuclear Physics at the University of Richmond."

Art history professor Elena Calvillo published the book Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe.

LALIS professor Elizabeth Kissling published research studies exploring the potential of cognitive linguistics for teaching Spanish prepositions in What is Applied Cognitive LInguistics? and exploring the methodological challenges of phonetics research in the highly variable population of Spanish heritage learners in the U.S. in the Heritage Language Journal.

Psychology professor Cindy Bukach has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to supplement her original grant for "Collaborative Proposal: Preparing Undergraduates for Research in STEM-related fields Using Electrophysiology (PURSUE)."

Classics professor Dieter Gunkel co-edited the book Language and Meter, and contributed a chapter to the book on Rigvedic Versification.

Psychology professor Matthew Lowder published, “Lexical predictability during natural reading: Effects of surprisal and entropy reduction,” in the journal Cognitive Science.

Professor of education Kate Cassada, assistant chair for graduate educational leadership & policy studies, has been awarded the University of Richmond Distinguished Educator Award in the School of Professional & Continuing Studies for 2018.

Physics professor Jerry Gilfoyle was appointed the Robert Edward and Lena Frazer Loving Chair of Physics.