ARTES LIBER ALES Fall 2008 Volume II, Issue I
The Newsletter of the Liberal Arts
A&S DEAN’S LETTER
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Greetings, Things have been so busy on campus that it doesn’t seem possible another summer has come and gone. With 175 Arts & Sciences students on campus participating in undergraduate research fellowships, conferences taking place at Richmond, such as the Victim Assistance Academy (see page 10) and Richmond’s National Debate Institute, and 60 first-year students arriving early to participate in an exciting new first-year experience called Roadmap to Success, it’s easy to understand why things never slowed down. As if all of these programs weren’t enough, the School of Arts & Sciences has also been actively involved in launching the University’s first social network, http://groups.richmond.edu (see page 8). At 500+ members, and growing, we’re thrilled to be provid-
ing faculty, staff and students with a new tool to communicate, collaborate and create online. Anyone who visits groups.richmond.edu can request an invitation to join; once a member, I encourage you to join an Arts & Sciences specific subgroup—either “A&S Faculty & Staff ” or “School of Arts & Sciences Students.” Be sure to check out our calendar of events on page 14. You’ll find highlighted fall events such as the English department’s Writers’ Series and the music department’s Free Concert Series, but remember that http://as.richmond. edu is always the best place to look for news and announcements about all upcoming Arts & Sciences events. Andrew F. Newcomb Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences University of Richmond
School of Arts & Sciences Mission Andrew F. Newcomb Dean
Dona Hickey Associate Dean, Faculty Development
Artes Liberales is published twice a year for faculty, staff, students, and friends of the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Richmond.
Kathy Hoke
Electronic issues of Artes Liberales can be found online at http://as.richmond.edu
Scott Johnson
Director of Communications Rachel Beanland
Susan Johnson
Communications Assistant Giavanna Palermo
Associate Dean, Research Support Director, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Associate Dean Director, Academic Advising Resource Center
Associate Dean Program and Resource Development
Joseph Boehman
Associate Dean Dean of Richmond College
Juliette L. Landphair
Associate Dean Dean of Westhampton College
To explore the liberal arts through intellectual inquiry, shared investigation, and creativity, thereby fostering a community whose members pursue knowledge for its intrinsic value and its contributions to professions, society and the world.
Send story ideas or comments to gpalermo@richmond.edu. Sara Perkins, ’09, spent the summer working with associate professor of art Tanja Softic on a School of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Fellowship. Another one of her pieces can be found on the back cover of this issue.
It doesn’t take much to see the influence of geography professor David Salisbury’s research on his teaching—just visit his office. The walls are adorned with Amazonian canoe paddles, tribal masks and hunting bows. Green plants hang around the window and, sitting in the midst of it, Salisbury looks right at home. “As a geographer, I’m lucky that my work takes me to such an interesting and exciting place” said Salisbury, who just finished his first year at Richmond. “And Amazonia applies to so many academic sectors, from Latin American & Iberian studies to geography to international and environmental studies.” One of the ways Salisbury applied his research in Amazonia to his geography class was to digitize tapes of film from his fieldwork, through a grant from the Program for Effective Teaching Enhancement, and show them to his class, giving them access to his first-hand film of people in the Amazon hunting, farming and interacting. “I think the films resonated with my students because I was there. The people I filmed were people I knew, so the material really came alive,” he said. His Quest-generated course, called “Amazonia in the Age of Globalization,” had an emphasis on connection. Salisbury showed his class various ways that, from food to medicine, the Amazon was an unexpected part of their daily lives in the United States. One unusual
connection was specifically tied to the city of Richmond. “While I was getting my Ph.D., I came across the writings of an oceanographer and naval officer named M.F. Maury who wanted the U.S. to appropriate the Amazon back in the 19th century” he said. “Imagine my surprise to find a statue of Maury on Monument Avenue in Richmond.” Salisbury took his class down to the statue to discuss Maury’s writings and to enjoy Amazonian snacks—Brazil nuts and popular Amazonian drinks like guarana and acai juice. “Because of his research experiences as a doctoral student, Dr. Salisbury could provide accounts of what the Amazon is truly like,” said Sam Pugsley, ’08. “He incorporated photos and videos of his travels into the lectures, which really made the Amazon more accessible. He also dispelled a lot of preconceived notions we held about the region. Besides that, his easy-going personality and genuine care for students made him one of the best professors I had at Richmond.”
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Geography professor David Salisbury brings the Amazon to Richmond
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Before she ever sat down in a science class at Richmond, Kendra Cunningham, ’11, was researching the HIV virus in chemistry professor Carol Parish’s lab. Her passion for fighting the AIDS epidemic in the black community caught Parish’s attention while Cunningham was still a high school senior in Hampton, Va. Through an HHMI-sponsored program designed for pre-freshman, Cunningham conducted computational chemistry research on HIV the summer before she began college. “The experience helped me realize my ability in science,” Cunningham said. “Once I became familiar with the software used in the lab, Dr. Parish gave me my own project. I was even able to present a poster on my research at a conference. I walked into my freshman year with a lot of confidence about who I am and what I’m able to do.” Cunningham, an Oliver Hill Scholar, credits Parish, whom she calls her mentor, with pushing her to her intellectual limits. “Dr. Parish has had a tremendous impact on me,” she said. “She’s a great role model for women who want to pursue chemistry. I appreciate her support of minorities in science.” Through Parish’s support, and her own accomplishments in the lab, Cunningham was awarded a scholar-
ship from the American Chemical Society for her freshman year. “I used this research opportunity to blend the biological, chemical and medical aspects of HIV with its social, political and economic implications within the black and poor communities in the U.S.,” she said. This summer, Cunningham is studying HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors. The inhibitors are designed to block the active site of the HIV-1 Protease, which is responsible for the maturation of the HIV virus. She wants to understand the inhibitor’s interaction with the protein. “I’ve evolved a lot as a researcher
since last summer,” she said. “My chemical intuition is stronger, and I’ve become more open to making mistakes—it’s how I learn best.” Cunningham will continue her research through next spring. She hopes to pursue graduate study in a U.S. city where the HIV rate is high and is considering a medical degree or a Ph.D. in medical sociology.
A&S STUDENT RESEARCH
Pre-freshman researcher returns to the lab for second summer
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A&S ALUMNI FOCUS
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Since graduating from Richmond in 2006, Kevin Panicker has been committed to helping others help themselves. He knows, from both his nine-month internship with the ex-offender reentry program at Boaz & Ruth and his current 11-month internship with the micro-enterprise development network, HOPE International, that one of the most effective ways to make a difference is to provide people with the resources to improve their circumstances. Panicker, who was a Bonner Scholar at Richmond, majored in international studies with an economics concentration. After he graduated, he signed on to spend a year volunteering in his local community through Americorps. The Center for Civic Engagement put him in touch with one of their community partners, Boaz & Ruth, a faith-based organization located in Richmond’s Highland Park neighborhood, that works to empower ex-offenders to re-develop their lives through classes
focused on specific skills and practical, on-the-job training in businesses run by the organization. Panicker’s involvement with poverty alleviation at the local level began when he was a high schooler living in Kijabe, Kenya. As a member of his school’s outreach club, he helped distribute food and clothing to families affected by extreme drought. The exposure to such poverty, Panicker said, is not something he will ever forget. “Boaz & Ruth interested me because the people for whom the organization exists are not just recipients of aid,” he said. “They’re active participants in the process of changing their own lives and are then enabled to change the life of their community.” During his internship, one of Panicker’s responsibilities was to launch a small group of Boaz & Ruth-run businesses in a historic firehouse building in Highland Park called Firehouse 15. “Part of my role was to gather input from local community members on
poured in—the country will remain poor if the government doesn’t care for the welfare of its citizens.” There are rewarding parts of the job too; Panicker particularly enjoys visiting the people HOPE DRC serves. “One of my recent visits was to a woman who, with the help of HOPE loans, has built a small business, which started on $50 loans and has expanded to $500 loans,” he said. “She can now provide for her family and is even able to give to the needy. The loan moved her from a position of dependence and vulnerability to a position of independence and resilience.” Since both internships focused on social entrepreneurship or “business as mission,” Panicker said he is inspired to pursue further avenues where social change is effected through the powerful forces of the free market. “I’ve gained some really significant knowledge and experience over the past two years, and I look forward to putting it to work in continuing to help people, especially the poor,” he said. Panicker’s time in the Congo ends in August, and he plans to enroll in a two-year master of arts in crosscultural studies program at Fuller Theological Seminary in September.
Panicker stands with Nate Hulley, B’01, in front of the HOPE DRC office in Kinshasa. Hulley is the director of HOPE DRC.
To learn more about Boaz & Ruth and other community engagement opportunities, visit the Center for Civic Engagement at http://engage.richmond.edu http://engage.richmond.edu..
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selecting local merchants,” Panicker said. “Boaz & Ruth emphasizes connecting people from very different walks of life, as well as connecting divergent communities. Firehouse 15 will be a place where members of the Richmond community, near and far, can shop, eat and enjoy themselves.” In October 2007, Panicker started a second internship with HOPE International, an organization that, like Boaz & Ruth, works to alleviate poverty without creating a mentality of dependence. Panicker said he chose the organization to learn more about non-profits that use business as a means to accomplish their social mission. HOPE provides small business loans, savings services and business training and mentoring to over 200,000 individuals worldwide, 80 percent of whom are women. Panicker’s time with HOPE began at their headquarters in Lancaster, Pa., where he researched economic and microfinance conditions in prospective countries. In February, he relocated to a field office in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The director of HOPE DRC is another Richmond graduate, Nate Hulley, B’01. Panicker is currently developing monthly performance measurement reports for HOPE DRC and creating a system for the development and submission of client profiles. “The most frustrating thing about being in the DRC is interacting with a corrupt and inefficient government system,” said Panicker. “There’s a direct link between the leadership in a government and the poverty of a country. It doesn’t matter how much money is
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A&S FEATURE
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Faculty and students connect with Richmond’s new social network, groups.richmond.edu Somewhere between Facebook and Blackboard sits a little application that’s gaining steam at the University of Richmond—groups.richmond.edu. Groups is a Richmond-specific social network that brings faculty, staff and students together to collaborate on projects and engage in group discussion. Students have long been fans of Facebook, a social network originally launched for college students that is now open to anyone and is currently 36 million American members strong. Over 600 members of the University of Richmond’s Class of 2012 had joined the Richmond Class of 2012 Facebook group prior to their first day of class. To join Groups,
request an invitation at:
http://groups.richmond.edu
Most joined shortly after they received their acceptance letter this past spring. Groups.richmond.edu isn’t a replacement for Facebook. It’s a supplement. The platform is intended to build connections among faculty, staff and students over a shared experience, Richmond. There’s a reason the University is calling the new network “Groups.” As opposed to Facebook where students concentrate much of their attention on building a profile that conveys their personality, all the while collecting a plethora of friends from the many facets of their day-to-day life, Groups’ emphasis is on building mini-communities focused on particular aspects of campus life. Just like on Facebook, anyone can build a group. Unlike on Facebook,
Wondering what Groups can do? Groups.richmond.edu lets you: • Connect with people from all over campus—without knowing anyone’s E-mail address • Build a profile that links back to your personal Web page, blog, Twitter account and more • Join interest-specific groups • Maintain a blog viewable only by other members of the groups.richmond.edu community • Maintain private and public photo albums • Upload, share and comment on videos • Launch your own groups • Send private messages to individuals or community-wide messages to entire groups • Leave comments on individual profiles or group pages • Post invite-only events and manage RSVPs • Embed RSS feeds and javascript widgets on your profile page or on any group pages you administer • Invite other people to join groups.richmond.edu
comments, send private messages to members, post photos and videos and contribute to a new kind of academic dialogue in a place where students and faculty both have something to learn.
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however, these mini-communities, or groups, take center stage. Just a few short months after the site’s inception, groups.richmond.edu boasts almost 100 groups. A first-year student might join an academic advising group, an orientation group and a few academic interest groups. A second year student who’s just declared a French major might join the French group, the international studies group and the study abroad group as he begins to consider where to study his junior year. Most professors are leery of communicating with students via Facebook. They recognize that students, who consider their virtual circles of friends to be reflections of themselves, aren’t overly eager to “friend” their linear algebra professor. Meanwhile, 15-24 year olds are using social networks as their primary communication tool, reading messages on Facebook while the unread E-mail messages in their inbox fall further and further below the fold. Groups.richmond.edu is intuitive for students. If they use Facebook, they can use Groups. Faculty and staff who haven’t previously logged on to a social network will face a steeper learning curve but the comfortable nature of the conversations within Groups make it well worth the effort. Once a member, launching a new group is as easy as clicking “create a new group.” Choose to make the group wide-open and let others with similar interests join on their own or make it closed and issue personal invitations. Inside a group, members can launch discussion threads, leave
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A&S IN THE COMMUNITY
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Criminal justice professor helps launch state’s first Victim Assistance Academy Two years ago, criminal justice professor and chair Joan Neff received a call from Mandie Patterson, the chief of Victims’ Services for Virginia’s Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). Patterson wanted help establishing a statewide victim assistance academy and it took only one phone call for Neff to enthusiastically sign on. The federal government has long been in the business of training crime victim service providers to meet the needs of crime victims. The National Victim Assistance Academy has become a model that 34 states, including Virginia, have now emulated. “There’s a lot of training going on at the federal level that would be better done at the state level, tailored to the needs of specific regions,” said Neff. DCJS was in the process of applying for a federal grant to develop Virginia’s first statewide program. Patterson named Neff to the steering committee. Neff concluded that for the program to work at UR, the program needed the help of not one but two sponsoring organizations at the University—the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Continuing Studies. So David Kitchen, an associate dean in the School of Continuing Studies and director of summer programs, joined her at the table. What began with a simple phone call
evolved into a six-day, 45-hour training program designed to provide 30 victim assistance providers from across Virginia with the tools to help crime victims gain control of their lives. “We had to start at the beginning. To design and construct a program that would work for Virginia’s victim service providers, we had to first create a needs assessment survey to determine people’s training needs,” said Neff. Neff and her team distributed an online survey to 1,300 people who worked in victim services across the state. The survey asked about their backgrounds, work experience and training needs. The results helped Neff ’s team determine that developing a curriculum for service providers with less than three years’ experience was the single biggest contribution the academy could make to Virginia.
Harawa spent the summer conducting research, designing handouts for the courses, working with the University’s planning committee, putting together Powerpoint presentations and corresponding with the academy’s participants. “It’s been really fulfilling,” said Harawa, who is also a Cigna Scholar and a research assistant in the criminal justice department. “It affirmed my desire to go into public service law—this is a field about passion, not money.” Harawa will be applying to law school in the fall but plans to continue his work with the academy by participating in an independent study course during the academic year.
Neff encouraged one of her students, Daniel Harawa, ’09, to apply for a Burhans Fellowship through the Center for Civic Engagement. The fellowship enabled Harawa to spend his summer working for the DCJS where he assisted academy organizers (see inset). On July 27, participants and program leaders gathered for the opening of Virginia’s first Victim Assistance Academy, launching six days of coursework framed around victims’ rights. Presentations ranged from a history of the crime victims’ movement, the scope of crime and its impact on victims to understanding trauma, domestic violence, sexual assault, homicide and child victimization. The academy’s 30 participants were as diverse as the course offerings. Law enforcement officers, prosecutors, probation and parole officers, volunteers, sexual assault and domestic violence advocates and victim/witness staff all gathered with the same goal: to more
effectively help crime victims regain control of their lives. Rev. David H. Knight, whose 21-yearold son Jamie was murdered in 1997, gave the remarks at the academy’s graduation ceremony, “It was people like you who were a source of strength in the days and years that followed... Those you touch will always be grateful to you, even years later.”
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Daniel Harawa, ’09, is a sociology and American studies double-major who, with the help of a Burhans Fellowship from the Center for Civic Engagement, interned with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, helping to plan the Victim Assistance Academy and, in the process, earning his own certificate of completion.
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A&S IN THE WORLD
Ryan Manion, Matt Jordan and Chris Hamby play a set at the Black Horse Jazz Club in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Jazz Ensemble tours Mexico “We felt like stars,” said Mike Davison, director of the University of Richmond’s Jazz Ensemble, about the group’s recent trip to San Miguel and Mexico City, Mexico. “Five or six hundred people would come to watch us play. After the shows, they would approach us to ask for autographs.” Davison and his colleague, music professor Gene Anderson, traveled south of the border with 14 students this past May to play in venues that ranged from art museums and courtyards to restaurants and nightclubs. The music department emphasizes travel; both the Jazz Ensemble and Schola Cantorum make a tour each spring. Davison had traveled with the University’s more intimate jazz combo before, but this year, the entire ensemble was invited to come along. Davison was inspired to travel with such a large group of students because he believes that when students travel, live and perform together, it gets them excited— something that translates directly into their music. “This trip was a terrific experience for the students
because it was completely different than the formal concerts we hold during the year,” Davison said. “It’s great for them to experience playing for a packed club.” A far cry from Camp Concert Hall, the informality of the performances helped students connect with the audience in a new way. While in San Miguel, they got one restaurant gig by walking in and asking if there was room to play that night. Within hours, after a few phone calls and some furniture rearranging, they were playing jazz for enthusiastic diners. “I’ve found that when a country doesn’t have ownership over a type of music, they’re exceptionally appreciative of it,” said Davison. “Mexicans don’t often hear live jazz, so they want to come up and talk to you. It’s a totally different sensation than playing in the U.S. and is really valuable for the students.” Anderson was proud of the way that the students conducted themselves as ambassadors for the University, but also added that it wasn’t hard with such a warm and responsive audience. “They were amazingly receptive to our music,” said Anderson. “It was a great trip in every respect.”
Richard Becker’s [music] nine poem sequence, “Fates,” online since August 2007 as a part of a joint electronic text project of The Literary Review and Web Del Sol, will be featured as one of nine chapbooks in The Literary Review Summer 2008 issue. Kelling Donald [chemistry] received research grants from the Jeffress Memorial Trust and the Research Corporation for his work on bonding preferences across phases and has had two papers accepted for publication. Kathrin Bower, Sharon Scinicariello and Martin Sulzer-Reichel [MLC] applied for and received a two-year grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education to launch a Middle Eastern studies minor. The program will expand offerings in Arabic and a variety of courses taught in English related to the Middle East. Carol Parish [chemistry] had a paper, “An Extended Multireference Study of the Electronic States of para-benzyne,” published in The Journal of Chemical Physics with an undergraduate coauthor and a collaborator from the University of Vienna, Austria.
Claudia Ferman [LAIS] has recently finished filming a documentary on Pedro Juan Gutierrez and is already working on the post-production of the film, Dirty Havana, which will be completed by late 2008. N. Elizabeth Schlatter’s [University Museums] book, Museum Careers: A Practical Guide for Students and Novices, is being published by Left Coast Press. The book features cover art by Tanja Softic [art]. Con Beausang [physics] was awarded a Department of Energy grant worth $117,000 over three years for nuclear structure research at Richmond. In addition, his second DOE grant for stockpile stewardship research was renewed for an additional year at a funding level of $170,000.
Jan French’s [anthropology] book, Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast: Legalizing Identities will be published by University of North Carolina Press in Spring 2009.
In June 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Joe Troncale [MLC] received the “Petropol” Award at a ceremony in the Alexander Pushkin Museum for his essay, “The True Water of the Universe: A Sense of the Source of Being in the Work of Evgeny Orlov.” He is the first American to receive this award.
In March 2008, Laura Runyen-Janecky [biology] and five student co-authors published a paper, “Role and regulation
A chapter by Mark McGarvie [history] appears in the recently released Cambridge History of Law in America.
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of iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis genes in Shigella flexneri virulence,” in the journal Infection and Immunity.
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A&S HIGHLIGHTS
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SEPTEMBER September 19 Gottwald Science Center Science Symposium, sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute @ 3 p.m. in the Gottwald Atrium 55 students give poster presentations @ 4:45 p.m. in Gottwald A001 Four students give 15-minute oral presentations @ 7:15 p.m. in Gottwald A001 Michael Summers, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UMBC, gives keynote address titled, “New insights into the mechanisms that retroviruses use to assemble and package their genomes” September 19 @ 7 p.m. Camp Concert Hall, Booker Hall of Music Department of Music holds Family Weekend Concert (Part of music department’s 2008-09 Free Concert Series) September 22 @ 4 p.m. Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall Eric Lott, professor of English and American studies at the University of Virginia, gives a talk on race and American culture September 25 @ 7:30 p.m. Keller Hall Reception Room The history department hosts the Bottimore lecture, “The Treason Trial of Jefferson Davis: A Panel Discussion”
OCTOBER October 1 @ 7 p.m. Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall Australian novelist and two-time Booker Prizewinner Peter Carey reads from his work (Part of the English department’s 2008-09 Writers’ Series)
October 6 @ 8 p.m. Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall Australian writer John Kinsella reads from his poetry, memoirs and short stories (Writers’ Series) October 26 @ 3 p.m. Camp Concert Hall, Booker Hall of Music Richard Becker and Doris Wylee-Becker give a duo-piano recital (Free Concert Series) October 28 @ 4 p.m. Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall Crimmel Lecture and Panel, “How Can Liberal Education Inform Professional Education?”
NOVEMBER November 2 @ 3 p.m. Camp Concert Hall, Booker Hall of Music The Schola Cantorum and the University Women’s Chorale perform (Free Concert Series) November 6 @ 7:30 p.m. Keller Hall Reception Room The history department’s Freeman professor, Don Doyle, gives a lecture, “America’s International Civil War” November 13 @ 7:30 p.m. Perkinson Recital Hall, North Court The David Esleck Trio performs (Free Concert Series) November 17 @ 4 p.m. Brown Alley Room, Weinstein Hall Fiction writer and memoirist Bliss Broyard gives Quest-sponsored talk on her latest book, One Drop (Writers’ Series) Modlin Center for the Arts Calendar at http://modlin.richmond.edu/ University Museums Calendar at http://museums.richmond.edu/
Visit http://as.richmond.edu for the School of Arts & Sciences’ full calendar of events.
Artes Liberales catches up with one Arts & Sciences graduate each issue to ask the age old question—What are you really going to do with a liberal arts degree?
Name: Major: Minors: Hometown:
Caitlin Larwood, ’08 Journalism Italian Studies/Business Simsbury, C.T.
What did your senior year look like as you were preparing to make the leap to NYC? As a liberal arts student, it can be a little disconcerting to watch your friends in the business school finalize their jobs by September or October and receive their sign-on bonuses by Christmas. The kinds of jobs I was looking into, mostly marketing positions, had a different hiring cycle. But the extra time allowed me to explore the kinds of jobs that would suit my interests and skills. I realized that I had a lot of options. When it did come down to searching for a job in earnest, what were you looking for? Because I majored in journalism but minored in Italian studies and business, I was able to do a pretty broad search. After studying abroad in Milan, I fell in love with city life. I knew that I wanted to end up in New York when I graduated.
I treated interviewing like it was a fulltime job. And because I’d been a journalism major at Richmond, I wasn’t nervous to go out and interview. My public affairs and reporting class had required me to go off campus and into the city of Richmond to interview people. I’d been an assistant features editor at The Collegian and I’d also had lots of great internships that helped me put all the pieces together. By July, you’d landed a job at the Wall Street Journal. Not a bad first job! I’m a digital advertising sales coordinator. The weekend before the fourth of July, three job offers came in all at once. Each one was fantastic and I felt really lucky to be able to choose the one that was the best fit for me. At the WSJ, I’m working with a team that’s really intellectual and a lot of fun, and I’m challenged on a daily basis. So now that you’ve got the job, where do you see it taking you? At 22, it’s hard to say what my dream job is. I love publications and writing and I’m really interested in the business of journalism. I don’t think newspapers are dying, but I do think journalism is being tested, so it’s an interesting time to be in the business.
ELEVEN MONTHS OUT
When my best friend from fourth grade called and told me there was an opening in her apartment beginning July 1, I started seriously interviewing.
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Sara Perkins, “Creation.” The piece reflects the artist’s experience of the world, exploring the visual representation of spiritual themes and experiences through experimentation with media, styles, forms of expression and technical skills.
Sara Perkins, ’09, spent the summer working with art professor Tanja Softic thanks to a Summer Research Fellowship from the School of Arts & Sciences
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