News briefs and announcements
Library receives preservation grant
Boatwright Memorial Library has received a $5,000 Preservation Assistance Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The grant will enable the library to conduct a critical assessment of preservation needs for its humanities collections. Library staff and a consultant in library materials preservation will assess current preservation activities and make recommendations for future needs.
The humanities collections that will be the focus of the project include circulating books, bound periodicals and rare books, and other special collections. The latter group includes some 12,500 volumes, ranging from an 11th-century, hand-inscribed Latin prayer book to a 1998 facsimile of the Leningrad Codex.
The library's special collections include the Meredith Collection of 500 Confederate imprints, the Millhiser Collection of more than 200 18th- and 19th-century fine bindings and the Mark Lutz-Carl Van Vechten Collection of more than 1,000 letters, photographs, manuscripts and signed first editions that focus on African-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance and other prominent American writers.
CDC will upgrade resource library under grant
The Career Development Center has received a Philip Morris USA Aid to Education Grant for upgrading its resource library and encouraging increased visitation and use of services by students.
The $18,700 grant will allow technological and physical improvements to the library and fund new programming initiatives to attract greater student utilization of career assistance.
The center serves the University's students, faculty, staff and alumni, as well as employers, with a wide variety of career assistance including career counseling, job search skills, internships, job placement and more.
Octaves receive nominations
The Contemporary A Cappella Society of America has released the nominees for its 2006 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards. The University of Richmond's Octaves' 2005 album, Corner Pocket, has received two nominations (of the four categories they were eligible for)-for Male Collegiate Album and Male Collegiate Song ("For Me This Is Heaven"). The CARAs are the only recording awards for the a cappella community.
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Schola Cantorum releases CD
Vocal ensemble Schola Cantorum has released a CD, Ye Shall Have a Song, which features a wide variety of works from folk songs to spirituals to Tudor motets. Malcolm Bruno of Wales, who has made CDs with many of the world's finest choirs, produced the CD. It is available at the bookstore for $15.
Recycling mania underway
March Madness could take a back seat to "RecycleMania" this year as students compete throughout March with nearly 90 other universities around the country to collect recyclable materials and minimize waste in buildings and residence halls.
The Student Sierra Club is sponsoring the 10-week event with help from University Facilities and Environmental Residents, a new student organization that is trying to improve recycling and energy efficiency in the residence halls and apartments on campus.
The two competitions comprising RecycleMania are the "Per Capita Classic," in which schools will compete to see which can collect the largest amount of acceptable recyclables per person, and "Waste Minimization," in which universities will compete to "minimize all our waste, including recyclables," explained Lauren Skiles, '06, one of the Richmond organizers. The university with the least amount of recyclables and trash per person on campus wins.
The competition began Jan. 29 and will end April 8. Winners receive trophies made from recycled materials.
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RefWorks helps researchers write and cite
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliographic software that enables users to collect references from anywhere, at any time, and turn them into a personalized database. EndNote or other bibliographic files can be easily converted into RefWorks files. The Write-N-Cite feature allows users to insert references directly into a research paper from a RefWorks folder, and references can be formatted into more than 350 citation styles.
Faculty and students will find RefWorks a valuable tool for organizing information sources and creating a database for research projects. Reference folders can be shared with colleagues or students anywhere. University Libraries offered several workshops for faculty on how to use RefWorks. Contact Lucretia McCulley (lmcculle@richmond.edu) for more details.
Richmond ranked 45th worldwide by business journal
University of Richmond is ranked 45th worldwide on a list of universities with business schools with an international business orientation. The ranking, published in the 2005 Journal of International Business Studies, is based on faculty members' representation on editorial boards of 30 leading business journals. "Participation on these editorial boards is highly selective and should provide a quality indication of the schools," the journal article stated.
M.B.A. student publishes in peer-reviewed journal
M.B.A. candidate Will Robinson is the sole-author of an article on flexible work arrangements published in Business and Society Review, a peer-reviewed academic journal-a very rare occurrence for a graduate business student.
Even more unusual, his article, "Ethical Considerations in Flexible Work Arrangements," was reviewed in The Economist. Robinson's article was based on a project he had done in his MBA ethics class in 2004.
Robinson is a full-time consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton and bases his article on a flexible work arrangement he has with that company.
Robinson argues that firms have an ethical obligation to insure that employees under flexible work arrangements be given the same level of support and opportunities for advancement that their traditional office-working colleagues enjoy. While Robinson received that support at Booz Allen Hamilton, a firm he sees as being committed to values, problems can occur, he says, when FWA employees are not valued, supported and promoted.
"When employees do not receive adequate support," Robinson says, "they often are perceived as less valuable on collaborative efforts by their peers and may not be considered candidates for promotion by their superiors."
Hall of Famers inducted
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1987-88 basketball team |
The 1987-88 men's basketball team that reached the Sweet 16 and one of its stars, Peter Woolfolk, highlighted a group of standout athletes who became the newest members of the University's athletic Hall of Fame Feb. 18. In addition to Woolfolk, other starters on the team that won a record 26 games included Scott Stapleton, Steve Kratzer, Rodney Rice and Kenny Atkinson.
Other individual inductees included tennis player Richard Razzetti, R'85; Dr. Lindsay Struthers Bell, W'71, who played three seasons of field hockey, two seasons of lacrosse and four seasons of basketball; and linebacker Pat Turchetta, who was all-state in 1968, the year the Spiders won the Tangerine Bowl, and 1969. He also made All-Southern Conference twice.
Richmond Scholar finalists coming to campus
During the 10 days following spring break, two groups of 45-50 Richmond Scholars finalists will be on campus for interviews and an introduction to the campus and academic opportunities. All bring outstanding academic records and evidence of engagement beyond the classroom. Collectively, they bring tremendous diversity to campus.
The University will award 51 full-tuition, four-year awards to the best of the finalists. Five awards will also include room, board and the designation of an Oldham Scholar. Other designations will include Minnie Roth Weinstein Scholar for an outstanding Virginian, Richmond Artist Scholar for finalists who will major in the arts, and Richmond Science Scholar for finalists with a passion for science. Of the Richmond Scholar award winners, at least 15 will be invited to be part of the Oliver Hill Scholars Program, which promotes an understanding of traditional struggles for civil rights and social justice.
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