University of Richmond News

Kathy Proffitt and her pooch, Max, are fixtures at bucolic Bandy Field park in Richmond's West End.

On May 2, two Penn State School of Music faculty members and six students will embark on a trip that will undoubtedly change their lives and their music-making forever.

He has the Pythagorean theorem tattooed on his shoulder. "My interest in math extends back many years.

Monday morning, Jacqueline S. Fetrow was announced as University of Richmond's next provost and vice president for academic affairs.

Since 2009, Fetrow has been dean of Wake Forest College and Reynolds Professor of Computational Biophysics at Wake Forest University.

During a tour of the city's new jail, officials including Mayor Dwight Jones and Sheriff C.T. Woody say it will open at the end of the year.

At a news conference last week, Mayor Dwight Jones names University of Richmond leadership professor Thad Williamson to head a new city office that's dedicated to fighting the city's entrenched poverty.

A former University of Richmond student is one of two graduates of a prestigious private high school in Pennsylvania accused of running a massive drug ring in the area.

Due to subsequent health factors including heart disease, stroke, and certain types of cancer, many health care organizations have decided to redefine obesity as a disease.

Saturday night, the Sigma Phi Epsilon lodge on University of Richmond's campus was vandalized with slurs most often used to insult a member of the gay community.

Due to subsequent health factors including heart disease, stroke, and certain types of cancer, many health care organizations have decided to redefine obesity as a disease.

Throughout the arduous college application process, Brown University was on the top of Madeline Anderson's wish list.

It was a front-page story revealing that at some selective colleges the number of applicants on the wait-list approached, and sometimes exceeded, the number of applicants accepted.

One of the best aspects of living in Richmond is having a myriad of restaurants scattered about the city.

This spring, the biannual Global Sounds Concert will be held around the fountain on the Westhampton Green with the hope of breaking traditional formal concert boundaries, said Andrew McGraw, director for the concert.

Three notable law professors are weighing in on Virginia's same-sex marriage case, asserting the state's attorney general has an obligation not to defend state laws he believes violate the federal constitution.

Instead of the court, VCU men's basketball coach Shaka Smart and University of Richmond men's basketball coach Chris Mooney are taking each other on at the dinner table.

RICHMOND, Va. : "Threshold" is a New Play inspired by the classic Nigerian novel "Palm Wine Drinkard" by Nigerian Author Amos Tutuola , opens Thursday, April 17th at the Modlin Center, University of Richmond.

This recruiting cycle represents a huge year for talent in California, which means the Pac-12 should be able to put together some very healthy recruiting classes.

Chris Hamby, a University of Richmond graduate, was announced as the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting yesterday.