University of Richmond News

The HEARTSafe certification is a collaborative effort with the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation and the American Heart Association that was initiated in 2013.

Nashville's Jumpstart Foundry, a business accelerator program, has been named one of the country's "Top 15" business accelerators.

The Mormon Church is pushing back against the notion that members of the faith are taught they'll get their own planet in the afterlife, a misconception popularized in pop culture most recently by the Broadway show "The Book of Mormon."

Salt Lake City Temple. Saturday afternoon session of the 183rd Semiannual General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 inside the Conference Center.

It will be his eighth year as president, and will coincide with the culmination of the Richmond Promise and the fulfilling of the Promise campaigns.

Well, this is it. After nearly 99 and a half years of printing, The Collegian as we know it is ending.

We were students at the University of Richmond at the same time and although we never met, I feel as if I know you.

Lately, three things have had the University of Richmond campus community buzzing.

For the next three years the A10 Women's Basketball Championship is taking place in Richmond! The event features some of the best female athletes in the country, including some from right here.

For once, Richmond wasn't the filming location for a Civil War film. Instead, it was the setting for a movie whose visceral topic hit close to home.

President Ayers announced his resignation that will take effect in 2015. Trustee Paul Queally made controversial comments at a secret society meeting in New York City.

"Nightlife as an Art Form" is a course in the Theater department that allows students to attend concerts, throw parties and learn to deejay all for academic credit.

University of Richmond placed second in the second-annual Campus ConseRVAtion Nationals competition, an electricity reduction competition against VCU from Feb. 10 to Feb. 28. This is the second year in a row that Richmond lost to VCU.

The Office of Common Ground is currently accepting nominations for the Ally of the Year Award, an honor that will be presented to one faculty or staff member and one student who have had a positive impact on the LGBTQ community at University of Richmond.

After publishing one more issue this Thursday, The Collegian at the University of Richmond is going online-only.

The path to economic stability for the city's poor must begin with jobs - more of them, better paying and easier to get to - says the group that's been working on the budget for mayor's anti-poverty initiative.

This piece comes to us from Erik Nielson, an assistant professor at the University of Richmond.

During the next two summers, University of Richmond will make the River Road entrance "the university's front door," and pave new roads.

Edward L. Ayers, the University of Richmond president who was pulled into a recent controversy involving a trustee's offensive jokes about gay people, said on Friday he intended to resign.

The 2014-15 Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts will feature the Parking Lot Project, where a University of Richmond campus parking lot will be transformed and used for the purpose of collaborative artwork.