University of Richmond Magazine

Three photos; A UR basketball player shooting a ball, a student athlete graduating, and a student athlete lifting weights.

Athletics

Beyond the scoreboard

Spider student-athletes have an entire team behind them taking a holistic approach to nurturing their potential.

A photo of professor Joe Hoyle. He is smiling at the camera and standing in his office, which is plastered with posters, postcards, art, and other mementos.

Curriculum Vitae

The professor who merges Socrates and spreadsheets

Accounting professor Joe Hoyle has spent decades refining a teaching style that’s both demanding and deeply supportive.

A photo of Jack Bricklemeyer and Dr. John Obeck in Obeck's dental office in Tampa, FL. Both are wearing blue scrubs and smiling at the camera.

Careers

Five reasons an alum-supervised internship is the ideal summer

Spiders help Spiders when alumni host current students as interns. Here's how it pays dividends for everyone involved.

Spiders Near and Far

Danielle Stokes poses in front of the Virginia Science Museum.

Energy Law

Danielle Stokes and the energy discussion

“I want to see the world in the way it could be,” Stokes, ’13, says. “Striving for an ideal — that’s my why.”

A group of spiders tailgaiting at football games since 1970

Spider Family

Tailgate tales

Think 40 years of tailgating is impressive? This crew has 55 seasons, kazoos, oysters — and no plans to stop.

Maggie Morganfield Parker, ’05, in a playroom for children

Expert

How to help children heal and grow through playtime

Professor and certified play therapist Maggie Morganfield Parker, ’05, offers tips for designing and participating in good play with children.

A collage featuring a house, trees, road, and people on bicycles.

Lives Of Purpose

Tailwind of Love

As Eli Beech-Brown cycled hundreds of miles in memory of his late father, his best friend and 2024 classmate Miles Goldman documented the journey.

“You’re helping the students not just learn the content, but learn how to be better citizens, better classmates.”

—Mary Catherine Nebel, ’10, C’15, and GC’17

Eye

Campus News

“Thanks to our Spider community, our university’s best days are ahead.”

—Kevin F. Hallock, president

Morrie and Betty Markoff, in a still image from the film

Cinema

Aging and renewal

A 79-year marriage is the subject of a very moving documentary by film studies professor Sonja Bertucci. The film will be screened on campus Sept. 16.

Musicians Danny Kortchmar, Waddy Wachtel, and Steve Postel in a recording studio

Lifelong Learning

Revisiting the unheralded hitmakers of the 1970s

Bill Pike, G’83, recalls the teamwork it took to pull off an Osher Institute class focused on session musicians behind some of the 1970’s biggest hits.

Outcomes

Grad school boost

Sports

Women’s Golf

Inaugural champions

The A-10’s first-ever trophy for women’s golf went to the Spiders.

A photo of baseball coach Mik Aoki with the Spiders baseball team.

Portrait

Forward momentum

Spider baseball coach Mik Aoki measures his program’s success by more than just what happens on the field.

Spider travels

An illustration of two men, shown from the back, almost in silhouette, looking at Mt. Denali, which is shown prominently in the distance. The men are flanked by a bear on one side and a bull moose on the other side.

Well-being

The Denali test

Two Spiders ventured into the Alaskan wilderness to challenge themselves, marvel at the majesty of the natural world, and continue a friendship forged at Richmond.

Travel

On the road (with mom)

Lauren Portee, ’17, travels across the mid-Atlantic for her PBS travel show — and her co-host is her mom. They're having a blast together.

Watson Mills learning a new dance in North Korea.

Perspective

Five days in ‘the Hermit Kingdom’

Watson Mills, R’61, has traveled to more than 175 countries. His journey to North Korea was unlike any other.

A selfie of Logan Jones-Wilkins on his bicycle on a dirt road in Ecuador

Travelogue

The bicycle diaries

Logan Jones-Wilkins, ’23, cycled 1,489 miles across the mountains and rainforests of Ecuador as part of a summer research grant.

Faculty spotlight

Research

I taught rats to drive, but they taught me to enjoy the ride

A neuroscientist on lessons learned from teaching rodents to drive a mini-car.

A portrait of professor Janelle Peifer in her office. She is a young black woman with long braids wearing a green and black dress, and she is sitting in a chair, smiling at the camera.

Curriculum Vitae

In session

Psychology professor Janelle Peifer unpacks identity, trauma, and personal development in the classroom and in scholarship for the public.

Curriculum Vitae

The professor who merges Socrates and spreadsheets

Accounting professor Joe Hoyle has spent decades refining a teaching style that’s both demanding and deeply supportive.

Shannon Jones stands in front of a screen displaying a diagram, presenting to a class of students

Belonging

The making of a scientist

A toxicology course is giving some students one more chance to take a class from the professor they say is key to their persistence and success in STEM.

Spider expertise

Expert

How to fail spectacularly

“Go cheap or go home.” Jason Vuic, G'97, says that was the formula of the mid-1970s Tampa Bay Bucs, one of the NFL’s most disastrous teams ever.

Expert

How to design the best room in your home

Gwynne McCue, ’97, is a Manhattan-based interior designer and “a practical magician.” She shares her tips for creating your perfect interior.

News, Expert

How to agree to disagree

Curtis Blair, R’92, has learned a lot about dealing with difficult situations and people at his workplace — NBA basketball courts.

Roben Farzad interviews U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Expert

How to host a great interview

Roben Farzad, journalist-in-residence in the Robins School, interviews thinkers and newsmakers as host of NPR’s Full Disclosure. Here are his tips for doing it well.

Spider nostalgia

Back Then

When the Spiders went marching in

Facilities staff discovered a colorful relic from UR’s bygone marching band era.

An illustration of a large banana split on a basketball court

Back Then

Bananas for Spider spirit

In the 1970s, Spiders tried to break world records for largest indoor banana split and largest submarine sandwich. Inside the Robins Center. Really.

Back Then

Soccer '96

The women who signed on to launch Spider women's soccer's inaugural season took a risk and set a standard for the new program.

Mikhail Gorbachev during his 1993 visit to the University of Richmond and the spring 1993 cover of University of Richmond Magazine

Back Then

Mr. Gorbachev, put down that ball

When Gorbachev visited UR in 1993, he made history — and mischief — by autographing an unexpected item before taking the stage.

More to Explore

Q&A

We often feature UR students who leave the U.S. to study abroad. Lucas Dominguez Molina, ’25, went the other way — leaving home in Madrid to study for a year in UR’s Robins School of Business.