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Richmond City Council to Honor Two University of Richmond Professors With City's Ambassador Award

November 8, 2006

Richmond professors Douglas Hicks and Jonathan Wight will receive the Richmond Ambassador Award from the Richmond City Council during the council’s Nov. 13 meeting.

On Oct. 17, Hicks and Wight won the Templeton Foundation’s In CharacterPrize for the year’s best journalism about human virtue and its importance in the life of American society.  Their guest opinion column, “Disaster Relief: What Would Adam Smith Do?” was originally published in the Jan. 18, 2005, Christian Science Monitor. The essay encouraged compassion for action to help people in suffering.

City Council will present the award to Hicks and Wight at the beginning of its meeting, which begins at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 900 East Broad St.