Accomplish ments

We celebrate the accomplishments of UR’s talented faculty and staff.

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OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

TAYLOR ARNOLD, associate professor of statistics, and Lauren Tilton, assistant professor of digital humanities, received a $485,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for their Distant Viewing Toolkit project, an open-source technology for the computational analysis of visual culture.

OLIVIA ARONSON, assistant professor of management, co-published “Entrepreneurinvestor rivalry over new venture control: The battle for Balcones Distilling” in Journal of Business Venturing.

BERT ASHE, Jabez A. Bostwick Chair of English, published “American Blackness in Berlin: Race and Nationality in Contemporary Jazz Performance” in Sonic Identity at the Margins (Bloomsbury Academic).

ELIZABETH BAUGHAN, associate professor of classics and archaeology, was awarded a Samuel H. Kress Grant for Research and Publication in Classical Art and Architecture from the Archaeological Institute of America for the co-edited book Etruria and Anatolia: Material Connections and Artistic Exchange (Cambridge University Press).

JENNIFER BOWIE, associate professor of political science, co-published “State Court Influence on U.S. Supreme Court Opinions” in the Journal of Law and Courts.

SUNNI BROWN, director of media and public relations, won first place in the Virginia Professional Communicators’ annual communications contest in the Information for the Media – Media Pitch category for “University of Richmond expert on Latin American politics discusses Chile presidential election.”

KATE CASSADA, associate professor of education, was elected to a second term as president of Virginia Professors of Educational Leadership, a statewide organization of university professors that prepare public school administrators and supervisors at the master’s, educational specialist, and doctoral levels.

MARILIE COETSEE, assistant professor of leadership studies, published “Consensus, Convergence, and COVID-19: The Ethical Role of Religious Reasons in Leaders’ Response to COVID-19” in Leadership. MONTI DATTA, associate professor of political science, and Arise, an antislavery nongovernmental organization, published the report “Trust and Liberation,” which studies the relationship between trust and the prevalence of human trafficking globally.

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DE SOUSA DIAS, assistant professor of physics, co-published “Transient Structural Colors with MagnesiumBased Reflective Filters” in Advanced Optical Materials and “Al-Au Thin Films for Thermally Stable and Highly Sensitive Plasmonic Sensors” in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

WADE DOWNEY, professor of chemistry, and undergraduate students published “One-Pot Synthesis of 2-Methylfurans from 3-(Trimethylsilyl)propargyl Acetates Promoted by Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate” in Tetrahedron Letters and “Friedel–Crafts Addition of Indoles to Nitrones Promoted by Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate” in The Journal of Organic Chemistry.

DELLA DUMBAUGH, professor of mathematics, coauthored Count Me In: Community and Belonging in Mathematics (American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America).

DANA EL KURD, assistant professor of political science, published “Gateway to Dissent: The Role of Pro-Palestine Activism in Opposition to Authoritarianism” in Democratization. She and a colleague from the University of Miami received a 2021 Spring Centennial Center Research Grant from the Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs to conduct research on graduate student satisfaction within the political science discipline. El Kurd was also named a nonresidential senior fellow at Arab Center Washington, D.C., and was chosen to participate in this year’s cohort for the International Policy Summer Institute at American University.

PRISCILLA ERICKSON, assistant professor of biology, received a $415,081 National Institutes of Health Research Enhancement Award for her research on an invasive fruit fly.

JESSIE FILLERUP, associate professor of musicology, and Joanna Love, associate professor of music, co-edited Sonic Identity at the Margins (Bloomsbury).