Caps Off Spiders!

Congratulations to UR’s most recent employee graduates

JESSIE BUFORD

Master of Nonprofit Studies

Box Office Manager, Modlin Center for the Arts

RAY DONAHOO

Bachelor of Science in Professional Studies

Floater Manager, Heilman Dining Center

LEAH DOWNEY

Master of Nonprofit Studies

Administrative Assistant, Alumni Relations

RYAN FOULDS

Master of Education

Project Manager, Alumni and Career Services

SLADE GORMUS

Master of Human Resource Management Nursing Supervisor, Student Health Center

INGRID HALE

Master of Nonprofit Studies

Seasonal Application Assistant, Undergraduate Admission

BRIAN IVASAUSKAS (pictured above)

Master of Business Administration

Associate Director of Marketing, University Communications

CINDY KENNON

Certificate in Applied Studies

Associate Director of Financial Reporting, Spider Management Co.

FESS KHAN

Master of Human Resource Management

User Services Project Coordinator, Information Services/User Services

ROSE NICHOLSON

Certificate in Applied Studies

Administrative Coordinator, Department of Chemistry

KATY OLNEY

Master of Human Resource Management Administrative Specialist, School of Law

BLAKE STACK

Master of Nonprofit Studies

Assistant Director of Student Engagement and Operations, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement

ANDREA VEST

Master of Teaching

Administrative Coordinator, Academic Advising Resource Center

Employees listed above graduated in December 2020, May 2021, or August 2021. Many, if not all, received their undergraduate or graduate degrees using the University’s tuition remission program. Visit hr.richmond.edu/ benefits for more details.

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professor of education, and Sarah Anderberg’s Teacher as Curator: Formative Assessment and Arts-Based Strategies. The book features students in PIA’s grant-funded Arts Integrated Learning Certificate program.

KIMMARIE MCGOLDRICK, professor of economics, was ranked the Journal of Economic Education’s No. 7 all-time publisher in the field of economic education and the leading female author as examined by The American Economist.

JOE MINICK, director of multimedia, received the designation of Certified Remote Pilot from the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing him to operate the University’s drone under the FAA’s small unmanned aircraft systems requirements.

CAMILLA NONTERAH, assistant professor of health psychology, received a $50,000 grant from the American Society of Transplantation for her project “The Development of the Barriers in Access to Transplantation Scale.”

I Got Something to Say: Gender, Race, and Social Consciousness in Rap Music by MATTHEW OWARE, Irving May Professor of Human Relations, was named one of the “59 Best Rap Music Books of All Time” by BookAuthority.

SANDRA PEART, Dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies, published The Essential John Stuart Mill (The Frasier Institute).

CYNTHIA PRICE, associate vice president of media and public relations, and Sunni Brown, director of media and public relations, won third place in the Web and Social Media — Social Media Presence — Nonprofit, Government, or Educational category for “@URNews2Use: Twitter Feed for Media Relations.”

CHRISTOPHER VON RUEDEN, associate professor of leadership studies, co-authored “Do wealth and inequality associate with health in a smallscale subsistence society?” in eLife; “Coalitions and Conflict: A Longitudinal Analysis of Men’s Politics” in Evolutionary Human Sciences; “Gender differences in social networks based on prevailing kinship norms in the Mosuo of China” in Social Sciences; and “Opportunities for interaction: Natural observations of children’s social behavior in five societies” in Human Nature.

ANTHONY RUSSELL, associate professor of English and comparative literature, published the chapter “‘Lies like truth’: ‘Macbeth’ and the American Dream” in William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership (Edward Elgar Publishing), which he co-edited with Kristin Bezio, associate professor of leadership studies.

NICOLE SACKLEY, associate professor of history and American studies, received a $6,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her book project Co-op Capitalism: Cooperatives, International Development, and American Visions of Capitalism in the Twentieth Century.

JENNIFER SEVIN, visiting lecturer of biology, received a $3,074 incubator grant from the National Science Foundation for a project focused on undergraduate research exploring the wildlife trade. The funding is part of a larger $71,000 Research Cooperative Network Incubator grant led by the University of Rhode Island with additional collaborators from the University of Florida and the University of Maryland.

VESSELA STEFANOVA, administrative assistant in University Facilities, received University Facilities’ CHEERS (Co-workers Honoring Excellent Employees with Rewards) Award. Winners are selected from a pool of peer-submitted nominees.

RANIA SWEIS, associate professor of anthropology, published Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt (Stanford University Press).

LINDA FISHER THORNTON, adjunct associate professor of human resource management, was named among women entrepreneurs, leaders, and influencers who contribute to Ebsco’s Accel5, a microlearning tool that helps users develop skills such as communication, leadership, and teamwork, in celebration of Women’s History Month.

LAUREN TILTON, assistant professor of digital humanities, was selected as a researcher to work with the Library of Congress on three inaugural Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud projects. JOANNA WARES, associate professor of mathematics, was appointed editor-in-chief of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Undergraduate Research Online, a web-based publication devoted to undergraduate research in applied and computational mathematics. Wares co-published “SIAM Undergraduate Research Online Prepares Students for Career Publishing Endeavors” in SIAM News.

PEGGY WATSON, director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, contributed a recap of the Osher community reading and discussion of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of our Discontents in the April issue of the Osher Network Newsletter.

JONATHAN WIGHT, professor of economics, was ranked among the Journal of Economic Education’s top 20 publishers as examined by The American Economist.

JAMELLE WILSON, dean of the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, received the Women Education Leaders in Virginia 2021 Mentor Award, presented annually to an educational leader who served or serves as an inspirational mentor to women leaders and has consistently supported women for advancement. Wilson was reappointed by Gov. Ralph Northam to the Virginia Board of Education for a second four-year term.

TOM ZYLKIN, assistant professor of economics, received a $72,877 grant from the Economic and Social Research Council in the United Kingdom to support his project “Machine Learning in International Trade Research — Evaluating the Impact of Trade Agreements.”