Our Accomplish ments

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

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OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

SCOTT ALLISON, professor of psychology; Crystal Hoyt, Colonel Leo K. & Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership; and colleagues co-published “Lay Theories of Heroism and Leadership: The Role of Gender, Communion, and Agency” in Social Psychology.

TIMOTHY BARNEY, associate professor of rhetoric and communication studies, published “Colonial Vestiges on the Map: A Rhetorical History of Development Cartography at the United Nations During Post-War Decolonization” in the Journal for the History of Rhetoric and co-published “Envisioning a Remembered Future: The Rhetorical Life and Times of The Manchurian Candidate” in the Journal of Popular Film and Television.

CHAZ BARRACKS, Consortium for Faculty Diversity dissertation fellow in rhetoric and communication studies, was named one of Style Weekly’s “Top 40 Under 40” for 2020. His film Everyday Black Matter premiered at the Afrikana Independent Film Festival.

CINDY BUKACH, associate professor of psychology, and colleagues’ Preparing Undergraduates for Research in STEM-related Fields Using Electrophysiology (PURSUE) teaching materials were featured in Psychophysiology and on the Society for Psychophysiological Research website.

SHELLEY BURNS, director of career programs in business, was named to the Wiley Business Education and Careers Product Advisory Board.

DAN CHEN, assistant professor of political science, published Convenient Criticism: Local Media and Governance in Urban China (SUNY Press).

CHRISTINE CHMURA, adjunct assistant professor of human resource management, and Xiaobing Shuai, adjunct professor of human resource management, received the 2020 Contributed Paper Award from the National Association for Business Economics for “COVID-19, Labor Demand, and Government Responses: Evidence from Job Posting Data.”

RONALD A. CRUTCHER, president, has been named to Virginia Business’s “The Virginia 500 — The 2020 Power List” in the education category.

RANA DAJANI, Zuzana Simoniova Cmelikova Visiting Scholar at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, received the Nansen Refugee Award for the Middle East region from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for her efforts to make books and reading accessible to children in refugee camps.

RAFAEL DE SÁ, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in Natural Sciences, published “Analysis of ultraconserved elements supports African origins of narrow-mouthed frogs” in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution and “Tadpole of the Amazonian frog Edalorhina perezi (Anura: Leptodactylidae) with description of oral internal and chondrocranial morphology” in the Journal of Morphology.

ALICIA DÍAZ, associate professor of dance, debuted “Entre Puerto Rico y Richmond: Bridging Stories of Resistance,” a mixed-media installation that includes a dance film, altars, and an image board contextualizing the colonial relationship between Puerto Rico and the U.S., at the Institute for Contemporary Art.

MIGUEL DÍAZ-BARRIGA, professor of anthropology, and Margaret Dorsey, associate professor of anthropology, received the Association of Latina/ Latino Anthropologists Book Award for Fencing in Democracy: Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State.

KELLING DONALD, associate dean and professor of chemistry, and a postbaccalaureate researcher published “Structural and Energetic Properties of RMX3–NH3 Complexes” in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry.

MARGARET DORSEY, associate professor of anthropology, and Miguel Díaz-Barriga, professor of anthropology, received the Association of Latina/Latino Anthropologists Book Award for Fencing in Democracy: Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State.

MATTHEW J. EDINGER, adjunct professor of education, published “What’s in Your Gifted Education Online Teacher Professional Development? Incorporating Theory- and Practice-Based Elements of Instructional Learning Design” in Gifted Child Quarterly.

BOBBY FAITHFUL, brewing education program manager in the School of Professional & Continuing Studies, was named head brewer at Three Notch’d RVA Collab House, providing opportunities for small groups of brewing education students to have safe, physically distanced, hands-on brewing experiences.

ALI FANNON, assistant professor of legal practice, received the 2020 George H. Hettrick Leadership Award from the Greater Richmond Bar Foundation in recognition of outstanding efforts, innovative thinking, and the development of pro bono programs designed to reach unmet legal needs.