Announcements: Around Campus
Merit Scholarship finalists visiting in March
The University will host approximately 150 merit scholarship
finalists March 14–23. The talented high school seniors will
interview with selection committees, explore campus facilities
and visit classes in session. The students will soon be choosing
between the University of Richmond and other outstanding
schools across the country. Their visit to campus is our chance
to showcase Richmond. Your hospitality will be appreciated if
you meet or assist them as they seek to learn more about the
University.
If class meetings on any of these days are less than optimal
for visitors (e.g., test dates, field trips), please notify the Scholars
Office before March 4 at sconrad@richmond.edu or by calling
ext. 8443. Provide subject, course number and title, location,
day, date and time of affected class meetings. Your information
will be passed on to visiting finalists.
Diversity survey
Faculty, staff and students have an opportunity to participate
in a survey of their thoughts on the diversity climate on campus.
The electronic survey can be completed at http://oir.richmond.edu/DiversityHome.htm. Paper copies will be
provided to staff units that do not routinely use computers.
“The purpose of the survey is to establish a starting point
as a basis of measuring the impact of new diversity initiatives
in the future,” said Provost June Aprille in a memo to the
University community.
The survey will measure the quality of the environment
for diverse populations, said Steve RiCharde, director of institutional
research. “The Common Ground action committee
will analyze the results and share them with the University
community” later in the spring semester, he said.
The George M. Modlin Book Award: Attention seniors
The Modlin Book Award was established by the faculty in 1971
to honor Dr. George M. Modlin upon his retirement as president
of the University, promote a scholarly interest in books and
the development of personal libraries and to encourage undergraduate
students to accumulate collections pertaining to some
particular area of interest. Collections are eligible for the award
only during the student’s senior year. Students should submit to
the University librarian by Friday, April 1, 2005, a list of not
more than 50 entries from the collection. This should include a
full bibliographical citation for each entry and a one-to-two
page rationale for the collection’s theme. The award will be a
check for $500. In case of a tie, the award will be shared, and
each winner will receive a check for $250. The recipient’s name
will be inscribed on a plaque in Boatwright Memorial Library
and will be acknowledged in the commencement program. A
display from the winning collection may be shown in the library.
An award may not be made in a given year if not merited.
James W. Jackson Award for Excellence in Library Research
The library committee is pleased to announce the annual James
W. Jackson Award for Excellence in Library Research. The
award recognizes and encourages excellence in the use of library
research skills in the social sciences. Upper-division students
are eligible, based on a research project completed during the spring of
2005 or during the calendar year 2004. Papers previously submitted
are ineligible. The winning paper should demonstrate a depth
and breadth use of research materials in the social sciences and
clear evidence of thoughtful command of these resources.
Excellent research projects that do not make significant use of
library research materials (e.g. experimental projects) unfortunately
cannot be considered.
Students must be nominated by a faculty member. Each
faculty member may nominate one or two students by submitting
the research paper(s) by noon on April 1, 2005. Please send
papers to Jackson Award Subcommittee, University Librarian’s
Office, Boatwright Memorial Library. The award will be a
check for $450. In case of a tie, the award will be shared and
each winner will receive a check for $225. The recipient’s name
will be inscribed on a plaque in the library and will be acknowledged
in the commencement program.
Exhibitions in University Museums
On view through May 6 at the Joel and Lila Harnett Print
Study Center and at the Harnett Museum of Art through July 30
is “Then & Now: Dementi Studio Photographs of the University
of Richmond.”
“Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Royal House of Stuart,
1688–1788: Works of Art from the Drambuie Collection” will
be on view through May 7 in the Harnett Museum of Art.
From Feb. 11 through May 7 “Rococo to Revolution: European
Prints of the Eighteenth Century” will be displayed.
Continuing through July 10 at the Lora Robins Gallery of
Design from Nature is “Cheers!: Drinking Glasses from the
Permanent Collection.” Also on view through June 26 is
“Fancy Rockingham Pottery: The Modeller and Ceramics in
Nineteenth-century America.” On view through July 30 is “Silent
Spring: Andy Warhol’s ‘Endangered Species’ and ‘Vanishing
Animals’.”
A special online exhibition, “hypertemporality: an exhibition
on internet art,” is available through June 30 at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/museums/hypertemporality/. Included
are the works of five artists (Peter Baldes, Joel Holmberg, Lisa
Jevbratt, Erik Loyer and Alexander Stewart) who are interested
in the notion of how the newest technology brings about such
rapid obsolescence in our society today.
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