Cups of cold-brew coffee with cold foam topping are like snowflakes: No two are alike. Each pour results in unique patterns arising from the introduction of the milk’s fat molecules, which are hydrophobic. They want nothing to do with the water molecules in the coffee, so they either sit at the top or streak to the bottom, says chemistry professor Julie Pollock. That’s the scientific explanation — and something to get the brain moving with the first cup of the morning.
Photograph by Jamie Betts
Through the ups and downs of any semester, there’s one constant on campus: great food. Princeton Review perennially ranks us among the nation’s best for campus dining.
Students have options for every craving. Trendy acai bowls, falafel salads, and red pepper soup compete with scrumptious classics like bacon burgers, Buffalo chicken dip, and more. The question for students isn’t, “What’s for dinner?” It’s, “What’s not for dinner?”
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BON APPÉTIT
EDITOR’S NOTE
It’s a great day to be a Spider
Jamie Betts, our very talented staff photographer, drew a tough assignment when he was asked to photograph the food on the previous pages. This was not a one-person job, of course. Members of the magazine’s graphic design team tagged along to make sure not only that the photos were great, but also that no food went to waste. Thanks for taking one for the team, Sam and Katie.
It is a credit to UR’s dining staff that we didn’t need to do anything special to get the dishes looking oh-so-perfect. That’s really how they look every day at outlets across campus. You see the same attention to detail everywhere at Richmond, from the faculty who reinvent their syllabi even after years of teaching (see Page 28) to the landscaping teams who renew Richmond’s recognition as one of the nation’s most beautiful campuses year in and year out.
The new Arts & Sciences dean, Jennifer Cavenaugh, commented on it in a story we
recently published on campus for faculty and staff. “Just look at that Well-Being Center and the thoughtfulness behind that,” she said. “There’s an attention to detail and understanding ... that I think is really, really impressive.” Students immersed in challenging coursework might not always consciously register the details, but this level of attentive care creates an environment that propels their academic and personal success.
University of Richmond students have access to truly stellar curricular and cocurricular experiences and opportunities, whether we’re talking about mentored research, internships, wellness programs, international education, or so much more. These strengths are built on generations of philanthropic support, alumni involvement, a laserlike focus on excellence, and plain old Spider Pride that prompts everyone to work hard to get even the smallest things right. I say this as a new and proud alumnus, having just completed one of the university’s master’s programs.
Even as we work to create more opportunities and layers of support for tomorrow’s students, we can truly say that right here, right now, it’s a great day to be a Spider.
Matthew
Dewald, GC’22, Editor
P.S. There’s a small gift from UR Now, the weekly digital news digest, on Page 57 of this issue. Send photos of where you’re showing off your Spider Pride to magazine @richmond.edu, and we’ll include them in next issue.
Illustration by Gordon Schmidt
President Kevin F. Hallock
Vice president, university communications
Tom Addonizio
Editor
Matthew Dewald, GC’22
Class notes editor
Cheryl Spain
Senior director of creative services
Samantha Tannich
Associate director of design services
Katie McBride
Graphic designer/publications
Gordon Schmidt
Photographer
Jamie Betts
Associate vice president for communications and digital engagement
Phillip Gravely, ’96
Staff contributors Whitney Cavin Asher, ’12, Sunni Brown, GC’18, Megan Condict, Catherine Amos Cribbs, ’07, Nicole Hansen, Paul Heltzel, Terrance Henderson, Kevin Heraldo, Ashley Hill, Alicia Hubbard, Pamela Lee, Amy Ogle, ’26, Cynthia Price, Cindy Smith, Greg Thompson, and David Vinson
Rick Hudson, R’77, with an Aldabra giant tortoise. Photograph by Olaf Growald
18 Revival instinct
Rick Hudson, R’ 77, has spent a lifetime working to save freshwater turtles and tortoises from extinction and restore their numbers in the wild.
28 Ungrading
What happens when a professor stops putting grades on her students’ papers?
34 A new legacy?
Scrutiny of sports events played on a world stage is making them a force for change.
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At Richmond, they really are the dog days of summer. This is Kiri, a Portuguese water dog and companion to music professor Jeffrey Riehl, in front of Booker Hall in August.
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MAIL MEMORIES
As a University of Richmond graduate and current United States Postal Service employee, I found the statistics about current parcel volumes at UR interesting [“Care Packages,” Spring/Summer 2022]. However, I do have to offer a correction to the piece, as well as some historical comments.
The current mailroom did not open in 1982. The Heilman Dining Center opened in 1982, but the addition that allowed the campus post office to be centrally located there was not completed until 2009 and, as I understand it, students are now assigned a UR box number. Prior to that, university mail services maintained multiple mailrooms throughout the campus, and your box assignment was dependent on which residential college you were a member of and/or where you lived. Richmond College students had RC box numbers, Westhampton College students had WC box numbers, and students living in the University Forest Apartments had UFA box numbers.
parcel room located in the basement of Boatwright Library, which was used only during a few weeks around the beginning of the fall semester when students often sent larger boxes, footlockers, and trunks for the year. In addition, the ubiquitous Gateway Computer “cow” boxes containing desktop computer systems were a frequently received item. (As a side note: The really fancy computers in those days had 1GB hard drives and internal PCI dial modems with 33.6 kbps speeds. Things have definitely changed.)
More specifically, there was the Richmond College mailroom located in an addition at ground level on the back of the political science/military science building (now Weinstein Hall). It also had a retail window where most postal services were available, including the purchase of stamps, special services such as certified, registered, and express mail, and the sending and receiving of parcels.
There was the Westhampton College mailroom, which was located on the first floor of South Court, where mail could be retrieved and letter mail already bearing stamps could be dropped in a collection box.
There were several combination mail room/laundry facilities located throughout the University Forest Apartments where mail could be retrieved and letter mail already bearing stamps could be dropped in a collection box.
And finally, there was the oversized
The need for a parttime job in my junior year led me to work as a student for university mail services, and I worked there both my junior and senior years. Mail services at that time were managed on a day-to-day basis by Jodi Will. The staff consisted of two clerks, two campus delivery drivers, and a couple of student supervisors — in my day, Bryon LePere, ’97, and Kim Jordan Cheeseman, ’97, both of whom I count as friends and still keep in touch with. A number of student workers worked each day, six days a week.
Following graduation, I returned in the fall one year to assist with the running of the oversized parcel room, and during the 2000–01 academic year, while taking some graduate courses, I worked again for university mail services as a student supervisor. And because I worked in the mailroom, I never switched from an RC box to a UFA box when I moved into the apartments my senior year. I kept the same box for my entire four years. I still remember my UR address like it was yesterday:
RC Box 1108
28 Westhampton Way
University of Richmond VA 23173-1108
I just wish that when they tore the old mailroom down, I’d thought to ask if I could have the front of my old box as a memento of my time at UR and working for mail services. But though it’s a bit worn by time, I do still have my hat. I’ve attached a
snapshot as proof.
Thanks for the article that allowed me to take a pleasant walk down memory lane. Perhaps when I visit in Richmond next week, I’ll take a stroll through the campus post office!
—Erik Jones, ’97 Effingham, New Hampshire
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Aidan Bond, ’20, was in the Big Apple, where he organized and ran for an endurathon fundraiser to help grieving children who have lost a parent or sibling in their healing journey.
Students studying in Prague, Czech Republic, descended about 22 meters underground earlier this summer to tour an ancient silver mine.
Grace Davis, ’24, Anna Ramey, ’22, Melina Geroulanos, ’24, and Ariana Sosa, ’24, traveled to Zaña, Peru, with a medical brigade over the summer.
Back in the classroom
I’m grateful to add a familiar role to my priorities this semester: professor.
The school year started swiftly in August with the familiar footsteps of returning staff, faculty, and students — and nearly 1,000 new Spiders. Our community arrived from around the world, sharing a vibrant diversity of experiences, values, and beliefs.
For as long as I can remember, I have loved the start of the new school year. I love thinking about new ideas, meeting new colleagues, making new friends, and considering all of the new opportunities ahead. I even love office supplies.
And I love the University of Richmond. So many people have dedicated their time, effort, and means to develop and steward this awesome institution. Today Richmond stands on a foundation of generosity.
I am especially grateful this semester to be teaching my first course at Richmond — a First-Year Seminar on compensation. Every Monday and Wednesday at 9 a.m., I
“ Together, we have the opportunity to engage across differences, grow, and build understanding.”
work with 16 undergraduates, teaching in rhythm with faculty across campus. We explore why people earn what they earn while honing skills in writing, public speaking, and library research.
The class is also teaching me. I am learning more about Richmond student experiences, faculty teaching experiences, and the many ways in which our staff makes what happens in and outside our classrooms pos-
sible. I am also learning how to demonstrate values I hold dear: integrity, transparency, effort, inclusion, well-being, collegiality, and giving the benefit of the doubt.
This last one is particularly important, especially in a community as close-knit as ours. A university campus is precisely where we should have open and sometimes difficult dialogue about issues. We have a great deal to gain from engaging in respectful, compassionate conversations and assuming positive intent. I have learned so much in my life from so many people, including those with whom I have disagreed. Together, we have the opportunity to engage across differences, grow, and build understanding.
And, we have the responsibility to ensure Richmond becomes even more remarkable. As an economist, I will continue to champion our comparative advantages, encourage investment in areas of opportunity, and push our Spider community to maximize our impact. I will also continue to actively listen and learn from you.
Together, we will ensure UR’s best days are ahead.
SYLLABUS
This semester, Hallock is teaching a First-Year Seminar called Pay. The course is designed to help students understand compensation. Topics include wage inequality, the gender wage gap, executive compensation, compensation and nonprofits, and superstar compensation.
By
Kevin F. Hallock, president
Photograph by Jamie Betts
ACCOLADES
Sidewalk surfer
A PUBLISHED
SCHOLAR
Wenger shared author credit on an article published in August by the journal Behavioural Brain Research. The study compares wild rats and laboratory rats on a number of measures. It shows, for example, that wild rats have 31% heavier brains and much higher levels of metabolites related to stress than domesticated rats.
You remember the nonstop choices you had every moment in college, right? Study or sleep? Internship or grad school? D-hall dessert bar now or later (or both)?
If you’re Sadie Wenger, ’23, there’s another biggie: Skateboarding or neurosurgery? Wenger is as deft steering her skateboard around Gottwald Center for the Sciences as she is navigating pre-med courses and undergraduate research projects.
Wenger picked up semipro skateboard skills on the streets of New York City, where she grew up. “I did what we call street skating — not halfpipes and bowls, but more stairs and rails and that kind of stuff,” she said.
At Richmond, she majors in biochemistry and molecular biology and minors in Latin American, Latino, and Iberian studies. The opportunity to do undergraduate research played a big part in her decision to attend UR.
“Right now, I’m in the biochemistry lab doing this awesome project on thermophilic proteins — that’s a protein that does well in high temperatures,” she said.
Wenger has been part of undergrad-
uate research projects since freshman year. She has studied anxiety symptoms in rats, completed field work studying macaque monkeys at a Miami wildlife park, and co-written a Spanish-language paper on domestic violence in the Latinx community during COVID-19. The team then translated the paper into English.
Wenger hopes to be a surgeon but recognizes she’ll have to give up skateboarding. “I had both my wrists in splints at the same time once,” she said. Her pre-med studies have given her plenty to think about.
“I currently shadow a urogynecologist,” she said. “She’s amazing. She’s a beast in the OR, but she’s also a great mom. I’m not sure that I want to go into gynecology specifically, but it’s really special to have a mentor whose work aligns so closely with my own goals.”
Wenger said she’s particularly appreciative of the wide variety of opportunities provided by UR’s instructors and researchers.
“I tell my professors how grateful I am, and I really mean it,” she said. “We are so lucky to learn from them.”
UR moves into top 20
The University of Richmond is among the top 20 national liberal arts colleges in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, landing at No. 18 overall. The ranking is UR’s highest from U.S. News. The university moved up from No. 22 last year. In 2016, it ranked No. 32.
“The University of Richmond’s swift ascent in U.S. News rankings affirms the great work happening in every corner of campus and the incredible pride and dedication among our Spider community,” said Kevin F. Hallock, UR’s president. “I am confident that we are on a trajectory to be known, unquestionably, as the best small university in the world.”
The university also received high marks in August from the Princeton Review. UR landed in the top 10 for classroom experience, quality of life, and student support. In July, Richmond was included in the 2023 edition of The Fiske Guide to Colleges, a leading college guidebook that profiles the “best and most interesting” colleges in the U.S., Canada, and the UK.
SERVICE
Spiders on the bench
On a bipartisan vote in August, the U.S. Senate confirmed the Honorable Elizabeth Wilson Hanes to the federal bench. Hanes is a double Spider who earned her undergraduate degree in 2000 and law degree in 2007 from Richmond. She serves on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Another Spider’s nomination to the federal bench is pending. In July, President Biden nominated Kelley Hodge, L’96, to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The Senate’s Judiciary Committee held its hearing on her nomination in September.
Photography by Jamie Betts
This is how Sadie Wenger, ’23, takes a study break.
“I
remain committed to empathy.”
President KEVIN F. HALLOCK , speaking to faculty in August at Colloquy, the annual ceremonial kickoff to the academic year
CURRICULUM
New options
Before this semester, students interested in Africana studies curated courses of study in multiple departments through the interdisciplinary major. Starting this semester, they have a defined curriculum with the launch of UR’s Africana studies program.
In the new program, students can major or minor in Africana studies via more than 50 electives in the School of Arts & Sciences. Courses and programming explore the sociopolitical landscapes, economic structures, and cultural traditions that shape and stem from the African diaspora.
Political science professor Ernest McGowen, the program’s coordinator, and other faculty members collaborated with students to create the program, following a student-driven
proposal for UR to offer Africana studies as an academic option.
Every course the program offers is full for its first semester — evidence of the strong interest in its area of study — and new faculty have been hired in several departments to support the new program.
“The push for this program was strong,” McGowen said. “It is a great opportunity to direct one’s studies toward their interests and fulfill our liberal arts mission.”
Africana studies is one of several new curricular offerings for Richmond students. The university also added minors in sustainability and in data science and statistics. It also added “sustainability” to the newly renamed department of geography, environment, and sustainability.
EXPERTISE
One of the new faculty members hired to support the Africana studies program is assistant history professor Jillean McCommons. She is an expert in the social and political history of Black Appalachians during the civil rights movement and Black Power era of the mid- to late 20th century.
When media cover news and events, they come to Richmond for perspective and expertise. Here’s a sample of recent stories that put the university in the news:
Journalism professor KAREN MASTERSON helped tell the story of doctors in Washington, D.C., arguing over the cause of malaria in the 1880s. “They were the product of their time,” she said.
Research by School of Professional and Continuing Studies liberal arts professor ERIK NIELSON provided context for a story on a federal bill aimed at prohibiting “evidence of a defendant’s creative or artistic expression” from being used during criminal cases. Nielson’s research shows that only rap lyrics are singled out as evidence of crimes.
Psychology professor JANELLE PEIFER commented on the “golden child syndrome,” which occurs when parents treat a child as a “chosen one” who can do no wrong. Such children “may be more likely to develop anxiety and depression given the pressures to perform, achieve, and care for others,” she said.
Leadership studies professor DAVID WILKINS discussed history from a Native American perspective in the podcast’s episode “Through the Decades: The 1970s,” when advocacy prompted “a slew of legislation and Supreme Court decisions and executive actions that began finally to acknowledge indigenous sovereignty,” he said.
Biology professor ISAAC SKROMNE published an explainer for kids that answers the questions, “When Did the First Fish Live on Earth — and How Do Scientists Figure Out the Timing?” It was reprinted by media outlets across the world.
For the latest stories, go to news.richmond. edu/placements.
History professor Manuella Meyer teaching Africana Studies 101 earlier this semester. The program is one of several new curricular options that launched this fall.
AROUND CAMPUS
Science swagger
In a sign that the university is punching well above its weight in the sciences, Richmond’s campus was host to one of seven Beckman Symposia held across the country this summer. The other locations were large research institutions, including Georgia Tech, MIT, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Caltech, Rutgers, and the University of California, Berkeley.
The national Beckman Scholars Program offers a 15-month mentored research experience for exceptional undergraduate students in chemistry and biological sciences. Students who earn the honor receive $26,000 and work in a faculty mentor’s laboratory. The daylong symposium on campus included presentations of research by current Beckman Scholars and descriptions of career paths by keynote speakers. Richmond’s 2022–23 Beckman scholars, Camryn Carter and Helen Xia, will present at next year’s symposium.
Félicitations
France’s culture minister awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters to longtime UR professor Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick. The award is one of the main distinctions among the four ministerial orders of France and rewards those who have distinguished themselves by their creations in artistic or literary fields.
Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, who teaches French and film studies, has taught at UR since 1973. She is also co-director of Richmond’s French Film Festival and a voting member of the Académie des Techniques et des Arts du Cinéma, the French equivalent of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
‘CHIEF TREAT DISTRIBUTOR’
Students play an important role in Lambert’s lab, helping train the rats to learn to drive. Erin Burns, ’22 — “chief treat distributor,” the narrator called her — explained the step-by-step process for the show. The team uses bits of sweet cereal to induce the rats to perform actions that build toward driving.
QUOTATION
“How’s
your kimchi?”
Chemistry professor JULIE POLLOCK , during an August episode of Chemists in the Kitchen, a YouTube series that explores the chemistry of cooking. The episode focused on the fermentation process.
Fast learners
UR’s driving rats took a star turn on the Netflix series The Hidden Lives of Pets this summer. The show included a five-minute segment on them in its “Intelligence” episode, which looks at how “animal intelligence can get a big boost in the right environment.”
UR’s Kelly Lambert, professor of behavioral neuroscience, and her student lab assistants showed off the talents of Sophia and Aletheia, two rats who have excelled at learning to drive small cars in exchange for food rewards.
“I don’t care what kind of mood you’re in,” Lambert said. “When you see a rat driving a car, it’s almost like seeing a pig fly or something. People laugh.”
Amusement is not her purpose. She and her students are teaching rats to drive as part of a larger study on how positive experiences and active environments shape the brain.
Some of the rats live in a standard laboratory environment, but others live in what she calls an enriched environment, with more opportunities for social interaction and more objects to play with — “almost like a rat Disneyland,” she says.
“Being in that enriched environment seems to prepare the animals to learn new tasks,” she said.
These studies have direct implications for the broader mental health crisis plaguing Americans today.
“What determines whether or not you see a glass as half-empty or halffull?” Lambert said. “You’re looking at the same thing, so what is it about brains and people and histories and coping skills that brings you to that point? We’re interested in the life events that bring a person to optimistic or pessimistic interpretations of the same situations.”
Which way is the starting line?
Photograph by Jamie Betts
If you’re forcibly displaced, how much control do you have over where you go?
People go to the closest safe place, but we have seen in places where there’s protracted displacement that people may end up in camps or are prevented from working. If that happens, they often become dependent on food aid, and food aid is unpredictable.
If the closest safe place is somewhere they can’t really live, then they will continue to move.
We saw that with the Syrians who flooded into Europe in 2016–17.
Are internally displaced people more likely to return home than people who cross borders?
We don’t have a conclusive answer, but in states where we have good data on displaced people — like in Colombia and in northern Uganda, two very different places — the answer is no, they’re not more
likely to return. In both those cases, most people went from rural to urban areas, and many of them had no intention of going back. You can think about conflict in this case as accelerating a broader rural-to-urban migration that might occur later for other reasons.
What are the main factors that influence whether refugees eventually return?
Safety is foremost. Nobody returns when it’s not safe. Next is time. How long have they been displaced?
If you’ve been displaced five years or less, you’re more likely to return.
A third is experiences of trauma,
but there’s mixed evidence. Some studies say the more likely you are to experience trauma, the less likely you are to return. Other studies say it’s all about whether you’re returning to a community where you feel safe. Economic opportunities are huge, too. Are they better in your home situation or in your place of refuge?
Different family members probably weigh those factors differently.
I’ll tell you a little vignette. I was doing an interview in central Serbia with a family that was displaced from Kosovo. Everybody’s sitting on the couches in the living room, and
I ask them, “Do you want to go back?”
Mom is chain-smoking and crying and saying, “Yes, I want to go home.” Her daughter sitting next to her was 21. She says, “No, my life is here. My job is here. My friends are here. I’m not going back.”
One of the most important things that I would like people to think about differently is to consider displacement an intergenerational problem. It’s not just about adults moving across borders. It’s about their kids and grandkids.
What are the main issues faced by people who return to their homes?
A lot depends on
the circumstances. A key issue is whether they are part of a minority group returning to an area where they were subjected to violence. That’s very difficult. We rarely see minority groups return home because they don’t feel safe.
The quintessential example is Bosnia, where you had three factions intermixed before the war. What we saw after the war was that even though everybody got their property back, if you were a minority, you would typically sell your house and move to an area where you were then a majority. People want to live in situations in which they are safe.
RECOMMENDED
READING
Do the policies designed to encourage displaced people to return home reflect what displaced people actually want and need? Joireman explores this question using case studies, spatial analysis, and first-person accounts from interviews and fieldwork in her new book Peace, Preference, and Property: Return Migration after Violent Conflict. Examples span post-conflict settings across the world, including Uganda, Liberia, and Kosovo.
HOMECOMING Professor Sandra Joireman studies the experiences of people forcibly displaced by violence, particularly the factors that affect whether they ever return home.
Interview by Matthew Dewald
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INSPIRATION
Fitzgerald said she became interested in journalism when she joined her high school’s yearbook staff. She started in photography, “but eventually I fell in love with writing,” she said. “Now, I get to enjoy learning about anything that interests me through my storytelling.”
of trees and an abundance of asphalt.
Another favorite assignment was covering the May 14 abortion rights rally held in Richmond’s Monroe Park.
A summer internship with the Richmond Times-Dispatch put Madyson Fitzgerald, ’23, smack in the center of the fast-paced news cycle. That’s exactly where she loves to be.
As a metro news intern, she covered Richmond-area news related to national hot-button issues such as abortion, record-breaking fuel prices, and the baby formula shortage. She also covered stories with a unique Richmond focus, such as local Juneteenth and Pride Month celebrations, homicides, and historic African American cemeteries.
Twenty of her stories landed on the front page of the Times-Dispatch. The Associated Press picked up two that subsequently ran in The Washington Post and other media outlets.
Covering Richmond’s urban heat islands was one of her favorite assignments, she said. Typically found in minority and lower-income communities, these areas are marked by above-average temperatures due to a lack
“I had never been to a protest on that scale,” said the senior from Colonial Heights, Virginia. “Police cars ringed the perimeter of the park where thousands of people chanted. I listened to the speakers and interviewed diverse people — young, old, every color, every gender. It was exciting to cover an important issue that is in the spotlight right now.”
In addition to writing print stories, Fitzgerald took a turn at broadcast journalism with her June 21 and July 14 local news synopses that ran on the Times-Dispatch Instagram.
Her majors in leadership studies and journalism informed her Jepson internship at the Times-Dispatch, she said.
“My journalism classes gave me practical skills — how to write concisely, interview people, take photos,” she said. “I learned how journalism is morphing, with print media shrinking, while digital and social media are growing.
“My leadership studies classes taught
me how to communicate with others in a way that respects their identities and stories. At the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, we talk about morals, ethics, and justice. That’s a lot of what goes into good journalism.”
Cocurricular activities have also helped hone her communications skills, she said. She is currently the copy chief — and previously served as a photographer — for The Collegian. As a communications assistant for the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, she writes feature stories and curates social media content focused on equity and inclusion.
This year, as president of the Jepson Student Government Association, she said she wants to communicate the value of a Jepson School education to students who are not familiar with leadership studies. Much of that value derives from Jepson’s focus on ethics, she said. She hopes to bring that same focus to the newsroom in her future career.
“To promote a working democracy, journalists must present unbiased information so that people can make informed decisions about the world around them.”
Photograph courtesy Madyson Fitzgerald
JOURNALISM Senior Madyson Fitzgerald sharpened her reporting and writing skills during an internship with the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
MUSEUMS
CLASS OF 2026
WUNDERKAMMER University Museums has opened its doors to the public for the first time since the pandemic. Awaiting visitors are multiple exhibits, including one featuring student-constructed Cabinets of Curiosity, the mode of choice for wealthy Europeans displaying their collections in the 16th through 18th centuries. museums.richmond.edu
Stellar class
One saved a life in Alaska. Another climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. A third speaks five languages. But they all have one thing in common: They’re members of the Class of 2026.
Yes, this year’s class of 860 firstyear students will graduate in 2026 (gulp). They bring with them varied and impressive accomplishments and experiences.
Several students are entrepreneurs. One created a business helping high school seniors celebrate decision day with college-themed cupcakes. Another created Puzzles for Patients, delivering custom puzzles to hospitalized children. Another student raised $3.5 million for cancer research by selling bracelets.
Several others have already done advanced research. One student’s faculty-mentored research focused on Lyme disease, while another developed models to determine how socio-
economic background may impact susceptibility to endometrial cancer.
“Our students are incredibly accomplished,” said Stephanie Dupaul, vice president for enrollment management. “When reviewing applications, we consider everything we can learn about a student to understand better who they are, the choices they have made, and how they might impact our community. To be competitive for admission, students need both rigorous curriculum and top grades — but our entering students hit those marks and even more.”
According to data compiled in August, 12% of the Class of 2026 are first-generation students, and 26% are students of color. The students come from 38 states and the District of Columbia. Ten percent of them are international students. They come from 27 countries, including Albania, Canada, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
AROUND CAMPUS
Executioners’ tools
Earlier this year, Time magazine reported on an unusual renovation. The South Carolina Department of Corrections refurbished its death chamber to facilitate execution by firing squad. The project was prompted by the state’s inability to procure the drugs necessary for carrying out lethal injections. Will this return to an unquestionably violent execution method be acceptable with the public? Law professor Corinna Lain, who has studied the death penalty for years, says it’s a key question. “Maintaining the death penalty today comes with a critical proviso,” she told Time “Executions cannot offend the sensibilities of the people in whose name they’re being conducted.”
ESTIMATES
All of the data in this story was based on the latest available information at the time of publication. Final official data became available after the university’s census date, Oct. 1. See this data and more at ifx.richmond.edu.
She pointed out that every new method of execution is proposed as a more humane alternative to what existed, even if subsequent experience doesn’t bear this out. South Carolina’s attempt to reach back to a previously discarded method may accelerate growing unease with the death penalty generally.
A responsible steward
Richmond recently received its second STARS gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. The rating recognizes the university’s achievements in sustainability, including a 20-megawatt solar array that matches the university’s entire electricity load with renewable energy; an 18-acre parcel that improves the quality of the water that flows through campus to the James River; and a comprehensive composting program as part of the Rethink Waste initiative.
Congratulations and welcome to the newest Spiders.
On the road again
Perched over the steering wheel of an RV they call Bertha, Ed and Abby Ayers are seeing America again and asking new questions about how we remember the past.
UR’s former first couple — Ed Ayers is now Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus — are on the road to see how Americans today remember the first six decades of the 19th century, a period that is the subject of Ed Ayers’ current book manuscript.
As of this writing, the couple have visited the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Washington, D.C., and Maryland, making stops at museums, memorials, and other significant sites, some famous and others forgotten.
Ed Ayers is documenting the trips on the blog The Discovery of America, which is part travelogue and part reflective essay with his trademark lyricism. Of a visit to New Echota State Historical Site in Georgia, where the infamous Trail of Tears began, he writes, “It derived its haunting power from its incompleteness. ... Today, wide spaces where streets might have been lie between reconstructed buildings ..., the empty spaces filled with wildflowers carrying their own messages of dreams and promises broken.”
Well done
The Institute of International Education awarded UR a 2022 IIE Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education for widening access to international education programs. The award recognized EnCompass, a program created by UR’s international education office that increases study-abroad access for populations of students who may be reluctant to take on international travel or whose academic requirements make study abroad difficult.
WHAT ABOUT THE BOOKS?
Book stacks formerly took up much of the space on B1. But the library didn’t just get rid of all of those books.
Many of them moved down to B2, where the stacks became denser. There was some thinning, particularly of academic journals that students can get (and prefer to get) online.
STUDENT
DINING Heilman Dining Center reopened this semester with its most significant makeover since 2006. “Students have sophisticated palates now and more interest in healthy options,” said Terry Baker, the executive director of dining services. Updates include more Mediterranean options at the pizza station, an expanded menu at the global cuisine station, and an area dedicated to students with special dietary needs.
Boatwright makeover
If it’s been a few years since you stepped inside Boatwright Memorial Library, you’ll be amazed at the changes to it today. Even current students might not have believed their eyes this semester.
The latest big transformation is to B1, the level below the main entrance on the ground floor. Where a maze of bookshelves once stood, there is now a wide-open study space. B1 is also a new home for the book arts, archives, and rare books department.
On a summer preview tour, Lynda Kachurek, the department’s head, didn’t disguise her enthusiasm. When she arrived at UR a decade ago, collections were stored in scattered corners of the library, including the tower room, which required trips in two separate elevators when materials needed to be carted between storage
and the Galvin Rare Books Room. Now the entire collections are nearby in purpose-built storage areas, where they are easily accessible for staff to pull for researchers. There’s also an accession room with plenty of space for student workers to help process new collections and a glass-enclosed reading room where researchers and students can study materials.
Kachurek saved the showstopper for last on her tour: a new 2,000-square-foot book arts studio, where students can lay out their own books with the latest technology and then manually produce them using 20th-century presses and binders. The process is part science, part art — a combination Richmond excels at and a welcome creative outlet for students.
Top-left illustration by Nathaniel Ayers; above photograph by Gordon Schmidt; opposite page photograph by Jamie Betts
LIBRARY
An expanded book arts studio is part of recent renovations to Boatwright Memorial Library.
MENTOR Cort Schneider, UR’s new director of disability services, has conducted sustained study of identity development. It included turning the lens of academic inquiry on himself and his own experiences as a person with a disability.
Cort Schneider embraces his various identities as a father, husband, runner, author, and, in his own word, “crip.”
“I am a proud person with a disability, and I have a dark sense of humor,” said Schneider, who was born with cerebral palsy and walks with crutches. “I refer to myself as a crip in a positive way. In fact, I’m hoping to teach a class at some point called The Rise of the Crips, which is a history of the disability rights movement in the United States.”
“‘I’ll be normal,’ I thought. I always wanted to be normal.”
But he never felt normal and hated his disability. He signed up for a graduate education program so he could teach high school history or maybe get a doctorate and be a college professor. One day he found himself reading a theoretical work for fun about how hegemony works — basically the idea that some ideologies are so pervasive that people buy into them even if it harms them.
Another part of Schneider’s identity is his role at UR: director of disability services. His office is a conduit connecting Richmond students with disabilities to the resources they need for access to an equitable educational experience.
“I like to phrase it this way,” said Schneider, who came to UR from Duke University in May. “We want students to take advantage of the full Spider experience.” Resources can include, for example, classroom-based accommodations, such as extra time on tests for students with a processing disability or a distraction-free testing environment for students with ADHD. “But it can also include things like housing and dining — anything that has to do with access to any part of campus that affects a student, we can have a role in that if it’s requested.”
“I was sitting on a park bench, and I had this moment of Archimedean clarity,” he said. “Oh, my God. My view of my disability is all about this. I’ve bought into this idea that I’m inferior.”
He envisioned a different future as a teenager and in college. A sports guy at heart, he wrestled in high school but never saw improvement. Then his coach cajoled him onto the cross country team. Once Schneider overcame his reluctance, he developed technique and saw his times decrease from 48 minutes to 35 minutes. He wasn’t breaking any ribbons at finish lines, but he could see himself getting faster.
of a disability office than as a professor, so he pursued a doctorate in cultural studies in education. He wrote a dissertation on identity development that completed a turnaround in how he thought about himself and the role he could play for other people with disabilities.
“I wanted to create a space where people could be as disabled as they need to be,” he said. “I’m not a counselor, but that understanding of identity allows me to talk to parents and students about their disability.
That realization put him on a new trajectory, personally and professionally. He decided he could have more power to mentor students as the director
In college at Ohio University, he majored in history and focused on sports broadcasting, calling football and hockey games for the OU Bobcats and weighing job offers in radio after graduation. Sitting in a booth and emanating out as a disembodied voice gave him a chance to feel what he sought at the time:
“When students come to me, I always tell them, ‘You’re powerful, you’re amazing, you’re strong, you’re incredible, and you’re also disabled.
Those things are not mutually exclusive.’”
BY THE BOOK
Running has remained a constant for Schneider for most of his adult life. He runs 10Ks and half-marathons from Richmond to Disney and gets in a few predawn miles in his neighborhood most mornings before work.
He has explored running’s role in his identity development in two major pieces of writing: his dissertation and a trade book, The Trial of Miles: A Disabled Runner’s Memoir
By Matthew Dewald
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MAJOR DEAL
Former leadoff hitter and graduate transfer Wyatt Ulrich, GC’22, signed a free agent minor league contract with the San Diego Padres and reported to its Double-A affiliate in San Antonio.
“I obviously value my degree quite a lot.”
Pitcher and utility player ALDEN MATHES, ’23, explaining his decision to play another season at Richmond after being drafted by the Baltimore Orioles. He was the 45th Spider drafted by Major League Baseball and the first since 2019.
Home field
Pitt Field got a summer makeover that promises to please players and fans alike.
Down the left field line near Westhampton Lake, construction continues on a new indoor batting and pitching practice facility that can be used by players year-round.
“The indoor batting cages are a game changer for the program,”
Tracy Woodson, head coach, said.
“The players do not have to leave campus, as was the case in the past when we had bad weather. They have their brand-new space to get better whenever they have the extra time.
That’s not even mentioning our ability to use this space for practices.”
The other big change is the addition of a plaza in right field for fans. It includes a terrace where they can
bring their own chairs to watch Spider baseball. There are also benches in front of the terrace and turf berms that provide additional seating options, and new bathroom facilities for fans.
“Fans can pull up a chair and not have to worry about cars driving by in the parking lot, and the view is spectacular,” Woodson said.
“There were a lot of alums and parents and friends of the program who helped in raising these funds, and I want to thank all of them for giving our student-athletes these gifts and opportunity.”
The team’s 2022 season ended in the Atlantic 10 Tournament final, one win away from forcing a winner-take-all title game with a bid to NCAA regionals on the line.
Top jumper
For the second year in a row, long jumper Kayla Woods represented Spider track and field at the NCAA East preliminary round after an outstanding spring season. She qualified with a 6.09-meter jump (19 feet, 11.75 inches) in April, took silver at the A-10 Championship, and took gold at the ECAC Championship.
Woods, a six-time A-10 champion, is the Spider program’s record-holder in both the indoor and outdoor long jump. She was also a member of the 4x400-meter relay team that holds the program record in that event.
Spider smarts
The NCAA recognized five Spider programs for being in the top 10% of their sport in the four-year academic progress rate. They included men’s cross-country, women’s golf, women’s lacrosse, women’s tennis, and swimming and diving. Four sports posted perfect scores in the four-year rating ending in the 2020–21 academic year.
Honoree
Richmond football honored Weldon Edwards, R’75, the program’s first Black player, during special events in August.
“It means a lot because our current players need to know the history of the university, other than what is on the surface,” former player and now assistant coach Winston October, ’99, told The Collegian “It gives the player something to play for, understanding that there are some guys before you.”
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Photographs by Jamie Betts and Christian Gravius/Richmond Athletics
Pitt Field now has a right field terrace and restrooms for fans trying to catch home run balls.
STRONG ARM OF THE LAW
Beau English, ’21 and L’24, did doubleduty last fall, navigating his first year at Richmond Law while playing quarterback for the Spiders. He’s doing it again this fall, thanks to extended scholarship eligibility because of the COVID-19 crisis.
The time-management skills required to juggle law school and football are impressive. How did you manage everything?
Well, it was definitely a lot, but I just tried to get into a rhythm and establish a good schedule early in the semester. And then I tried to stick to it for the rest of the semester. [laughs]
I just made sure all my priorities were straight, then I kind
of fell into a groove. Once I got into a good rhythm, it wasn’t so bad.
Can you describe a typical day from last fall?
Well, I would wake up, have [football] meetings in the morning, then go to practice. We’d practice until 11, then I’d go straight to classes for most of the afternoon and try to get lunch somewhere in between. If I was
really busy, I had to go back for position meetings. Then after that, I would do my homework for a few hours and probably watch an hour or so of film. By that time, it’d be about 11 o’clock. And I’d go to bed and do pretty much the same thing the next day.
You transferred to Richmond from the Air Force Academy. Do you think that military background helped with all this? Absolutely. My father was a graduate of the Air Force Academy. He raised me on those principles, and so I’ve always tried
to live my life in a disciplined manner. When I was at the academy, I was balancing the military aspect with
experience because it prepared me well.
What areas of law are you interested in going into?
“I just tried to get into a rhythm and establish a good schedule early.”
academics and football — that was great preparation for doing football and law school. I’m thankful for that
I worked with a firm last summer that just does employment and labor, and I really liked that field. Or immigra-
tion law, because I think it’s such a huge issue in our country today, and I’d like to help any way that I can.
Do you plan to do anything different this fall?
I think I had a pretty good rhythm going last year, so I don’t want to play with that too much.
But, you know, sometimes if I need to take a Saturday night or a Sunday morning off, I’ll do that. Just to stay fresh.
BEAU KNOWS FOOTBALL
In the fall 2021 season, English played in five games, starting twice. His highlight-reel game came during Family Weekend against Elon, where he threw for a season-high 193 yards and one touchdown.
Interview by Glenn McDonald
Photograph by Jamie Betts
BY MICHELLE TEDFORD | PHOTOGRAPHY BY OLAF GROWALD
INSTINCT
WITH MUDDY HANDS AND A FULL HEART, RICK HUDSON, R’77 , HAS TENDERED A LIFETIME OF FIELDWORK AND ADVOCACY TO SAVE FRESHWATER TURTLES AND TORTOISES FROM EXTINCTION AND RESTORE THEIR NUMBERS IN THE WILD.
IN A HOME IN SOUTHERN MADAGASCAR, 10,000 RADIATED TORTOISES WERE STACKED LIKE SACKS OF POTATOES, CROWDED AND STARVING AND DYING.
THE WILD CREATURES WITH ANCIENT LINEAGE AND STRIKING STARBURST PATTERNS ON THEIR SHELLS WERE SET TO BE SMUGGLED TO CHINA, DESTINED FOR PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OR SOUP POTS.
Half a world away, Rick Hudson, R’77, was back on campus for the first time in decades, giving a talk in conjunction with a special exhibit on fossil turtles at the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, when he got word of the seizure. He started fielding calls and making connections, mounting a response to help save these members of a critically endangered species.
“That is what people know about me — that when there is a wildlife crisis, I’m going to be down in the trenches fighting for them and making stuff happen,” said the conservation biologist who has worked for 42 years in Texas at the Fort Worth Zoo — the zoo’s longest-serving employee.
Crises happen often. With more than half of the approximately 350 species of freshwater turtles and tortoises on the planet threatened with extinction, Hudson and the nonprofit organization he helped found, the Turtle Survival Alliance, have developed programs and partnerships to rescue, breed, and reintroduce turtles and tortoises in more than 20 countries from Myanmar to Colombia to the United States.
The alliance’s mission is zero turtle extinctions in the 21st century — a bold proclamation in a world rife with international animal trafficking and challenges caused by climate change. But a combination of personal charm, data-driven expertise, and passion have positioned Hudson well to be their champion.
Said Hudson, “I don’t fight battles I can’t win.”
Illustrations by Katie McBride, photograph at right courtesy Rick Hudson
INTO THE WILD
Hudson’s childhood was filled with the creatures of the wild.
“I was forever with a bucket and a net, and if there was a pond around, I was going to be laying on my stomach trying to catch frogs and tadpoles,” he said. Only when the dinner bell rang would he make his way out of the woods. At the age of 12, he was featured in the local newspaper for his backyard menagerie and assertion he would grow up to work in a zoo.
Hudson was raised in the town of Stuart, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the southwestern part of the state. Residents of the town of less than 2,000 counted on the local pharmacy founded by his grandfather and passed down to his dad. Hudson remembers his father often being called away in the middle of the night to help a family with an emergency. As payment, he would sometimes accept handmade quilts and canned vegetables.
If Hudson inherited his work ethic from his father, then from his charismatic mother he got a desire to always do more. A Richmond native, the stunning young woman had been a fashion model at Miller & Rhoads, the iconic downtown department store. After marrying and moving to rural Stuart, she started a column in the local paper and a radio show. She taught young Rick the art of conversation and a way of politely commanding attention — etiquette tips she also shared with the local children.
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“It was not unusual for me to come home to find girls walking around with books on their heads, learning how to carry themselves proper,” Hudson said. “She was always disappointed because I never tried to dress that well — one shirt tail was always out, and I was always in jeans.”
But she supported his fascination for animals. On rainy days, the two would jump in the car and drive slowly along the roads, looking for box turtles to rescue. Even though she had a primal fear of snakes, she would not say no when young Rick brought them home. “If you’re going to keep snakes, your father’s going to build you a place out back,” Hudson recalled his mom saying.
His love of animals led him to study biology at Richmond. “But I was so distracted in college,” he said. “All I wanted to do was to keep snakes.”
It was a vertebrate zoology course taught by William Woolcott that finally focused his interest. Hudson describes Woolcott as a crusty old scientist who could spin a good story and explicate the importance of systematics,
EVERY TIME I WALKED INTO THE LAB, HE WAS SITTING AROUND READING SNAKE BOOKS.
the science of naming and organizing organisms based on common ancestry. Among those long lists of animals, Hudson saw his future.
After graduation, Hudson enrolled in a veterinary technician program at Blue Ridge Community College and interned at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore to gain the experience he needed to compete for a zoo job.
Among the positions he applied for was assistant curator of herpetology at the Fort Worth Zoo. When the committee called his references, a former employer had all good things to say — except for this: “Every time I walked into the lab, he was sitting around reading snake books.”
Left: Rick Hudson as a child growing up in southwestern Virginia
Pages 18–19: Hudson and a giant Aldabra tortoise at the Fort Worth Zoo
The zoo decided Hudson was just who they wanted.
Today, positions of curator and conservationist are often held by scientists with advanced and specialized degrees. Hudson moved up through the ranks with his bachelor’s degree from Richmond and a desire to get things done.
Nothing illustrated this more than the 1990 rediscovery of the Jamaican iguana. Thought since the 1940s to be extinct, the iguana was rediscovered on the island when a hunting dog retrieved an animal. Researchers then found nesting sites — in a location heavy with invasive mongoose, which were eating their hatchlings. The aging population was hanging on but not growing.
Hudson was among those who used his connections and charisma to network on behalf of the iguana. He founded the Lizard Advisory Group within the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the Iguana Specialist Group for the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the International Iguana Foundation in 2001, for which he still serves as executive director. He organized a workshop in Kingston, Jamaica, to plan a recovery strategy and then launched a worldwide fundraising effort to support a program to raise and release young animals and breed adults in captivity.
“It quickly became one of the bestknown conservation success stories of our time,” said Hudson. “We took a species from thought-to-be-extinct to rediscovery to on the road to recovery within, say, 10 years.”
Success in reintroducing the iguana to the wild also solidified his role as an international conservationist who could mobilize both people and funds.
“I think the zoo really started to trust that my instincts were good, and they, I think more than anything, recognized my passion,” Hudson said. These traits helped Hudson bring together keepers and conservationists in 1999 to mount a concerted effort to combat the Asian turtle crisis, where species throughout the continent were at risk of disappearing, said
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ELEPHANTS AND TIGERS GET A LOT MORE BANDWIDTH THAN TURTLES DO, BUT IT’S ALL THE SAME — IT’S A MATTER OF CONVINCING THE PEOPLE THAT THIS IS THEIR RESOURCE AND THEY WANT TO PROTECT IT.
—ANDREW WALDE, COO, TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE
Anders Rhodin, founder and director of the Chelonian Research Foundation.
“A successful person has an incredible passion and incredible drive to make a difference, to feel like you can affect the world and not just your own backyard,” Rhodin said. “And not just through your personal actions, but in how you inspire other people to join the cause to fight for what you believe is right. ... That’s what Rick does.”
Hudson bridges that gap between those who have the facilities and scientific knowledge to raise animals in captivity and those who search for local populations and understand their habitats. It requires bringing together a lot of people, a lot of data, and a lot of money.
“Elephants and tigers get a lot more bandwidth than turtles do,” Andrew Walde, chief operating officer for the Turtle Survival Alliance, said, “but it’s all the same — it’s a matter of convincing the people that this is their resource, and they want to protect it.”
Since Walde joined the Turtle Survival Alliance 15 years ago, the organization’s annual budget has grown from $400,000 to a little more than $3 million.
Said Walde, “People back Rick.”
THE SOLUTION IS LOCAL
To save the radiated tortoise, Hudson has learned to build schools.
Radiated tortoises are native to southern Madagascar and are the most trafficked tortoise in the world. Adults are about the size of basketballs, their high-domed shells emanating golden stars on a dark surface. They can live for well over 100 years. They crawl through the spiny forest underbrush, eating plants and distributing seeds for new plant life to grow. To get them out of the country, poachers pluck them from their habitats, then smugglers slip them into coat pockets, stack them in suitcases, or load them onto boats.
Hudson recalled a trip to Madagascar in 2010. The scientists drove through native habitat for radiated tortoises, and he got out to see them up close and take photos.
“All of a sudden, the village leaders surrounded us and asked us what we were doing, why would we mess with the tortoise,” he said.
A light bulb went off in his head, and he thought, “Something special is going on here.”
His deliberate and easy manner of conversing helped Hudson forge relationships with the local leaders. They told him of their protective taboo, or fady. They see the tortoises as an embodiment of their ancestors — and therefore something to be protected.
Hudson realized an opportunity and asked the village leaders what the community needed for continuing its tradition of protecting tortoises and their habitat. The leaders answered: a school.
So now, in addition to raising funds to protect tortoises, Hudson also raises money for school construction. Schools are a tangible symbol of the trust the Turtle Survival Alliance and the village leaders have placed in one another.
Opposite page: Hudson releasing a Jamaican iguana in 1998
This page, top: Dignitaries, including Hudson (in blue shirt), at the ribbon-cutting for the Tortoise Conservation Center in southern Madagascar’s Androy region; bottom, a TSA employee feeds rescued radiated tortoises at the center
Photographs:
left Olaf Growald; top right Rajo Adolphe Landry Andrianiaina; bottom right courtesy
Rick Hudson/Turtle Survival Alliance
“ MAKE NO MISTAKE: THE BATTLE TO SAVE SPECIES WILL BE WON OR LOST AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL.
“It was a huge ceremony when we launched the first school,” Hudson said. “Their Ministry of Education got behind us and hired a teacher, and it was just a big deal. All these local politicians showed up, and they’re saying, ‘Well, who would have thought that the lowly tortoise could enhance a community like this.’
“That’s what we wanted. We wanted this to be a shining example for locals to show that protecting tortoises can benefit your community.”
The alliance is now building its third school.
It is also finding new ways to support communities that often face extreme poverty. In 2021, the effects of climate change ravaged the country, with extreme drought and famine causing death to people and their livestock. The Turtle Survival Alliance needed to feed its captive tortoises, so it paid locals to collect the pads of the invasive prickly pear cactus, which the radiated tortoise loves to eat.
It also hired locals as keepers to care for the daily needs of the animals and security guards to protect them from poachers. The relationship is such now, Hudson said, that when a poacher offers local persons money for catching tortoises, the locals instead turn the poacher over to the authorities.
In some ways, local relationships are more predictable than the international laws established in recent decades to curb animal trafficking. Those rely on law enforcement and courts that don’t always follow the rules and often lack resources to stop the smuggling, Hudson said. “Make no mistake: The battle to save species will be won or lost at the community level.”
He holds up partnerships such as in Madagascar as shining successes. Since the original seizure of 10,000 radiated tortoises in 2018, the number of animals cared for by the Turtle Survival Alliance in Madagascar has grown to 26,000. It has established rescue centers and breeding programs for turtles and tortoises in Madagascar and at sites around the world, including the United States. This creates an assurance population, helping to reduce the risk that a species will go extinct.
The goal is to have the tortoises again roam their native habitats. Last year, the alliance released — in cooperation with the Malagasy government and local officials — the first 1,000 radiated tortoises into the wild. The community gathered to celebrate with dancing. Radio trackers on 50 of the animals will allow scientists to continue to check in on their progress and gather data on how they move about their new home. Another 2,000 are set to be released in December.
Hudson is making plans to travel back to Madagascar this fall for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset. He’s looking forward to meeting with donor agencies and finalizing negotiations for the Turtle Survival Alliance to begin co-managing a protected reserve supporting one of the last strongholds of radiated tortoises. “We have to draw a line in the sand around this population if we are going to save this species,” he said.
Opposite page: A juvenile radiated tortoise at Hudson’s home
This page, top: Veterinarian Dr. Mamizara Rakotondrazanany inspects a rescued radiated tortoise at the Tortoise Conservation Center; bottom, an adult radiated tortoise in southern Madagascar
What’s a turtle good for?
Once upon a time, 800-pound tortoises measuring 10 feet long wandered through what is now Australia. These ecosystem engineers with their big feet and huge appetites bulldozed earth and deposited mountains of droppings that served as fertilizer for the seeds of the next generation of trees and plants.
While these mammoth creature are long extinct, their power can be imagined in the wanderings of vulnerable species of giant tortoises today on the Galapagos Islands, said Craig Stanford, a biological anthropologist at the University of Southern California. The difference is, with extinction events in the geologic past, the cause was most often a natural cataclysmic event, like a volcanic explosion or an asteroid impact. Today, it’s most likely us.
Climate change stresses animals, reducing and altering their habitats. Climate change also stresses humans, who search for new ways to feed their families — including clearing native habitat for farmland, poaching plants and animals, and serving up turtle soup.
In the Galapagos Islands, where giant tortoises still roam, human activity over 200 years has literally rounded up and carried away the population. Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island tortoise, died in 2012 on nearby Santa Cruz Island, where conservationists had relocated him for his protection.
While smaller than their ancient counterparts, today’s turtles and tortoises fill roles similar to theirs. Their appetite helps control vegetation and distribute seeds. Their eggs provide nutrition to predators, and turtles control populations on which they prey. Freshwater turtles feed on decaying matter and transfer resources from water to land. “They’re very valuable critters,” said Jennifer Sevin, a Richmond visiting lecturer of biology.
With every species lost, the balance of the ecosystem is jeopardized, endangering other flora and fauna.
But the biggest threat is people’s failure to recognize harm we’re causing or to take action to stop it.
“I think we have a moral imperative to save turtles,” said Rick Hudson, R’77, conservation biologist at the Fort Worth Zoo. “They are survivors of the age of dinosaurs — through countless millennia — but if mankind can’t find a way to coexist with these gentle creatures, what does that say about us as a species? I’m not sure I want to live in a world without turtles, because if turtles go, then a lot of other species are going with them.”
SHARING THE PASSION
Most people have a childhood memory of a turtle. It could be the one you caught in your neighborhood pond, the box turtle you helped cross the road, or a row of turtles sunning themselves on a log that remains in your brain like a postcard from your favorite summer vacation.
Such memories help conservationists. Craig Stanford, a biological anthropologist at the University of Southern California, calls it “the moral reason, the personal reason” people should care about endangered species such as turtles. Said Hudson, “Something about turtles just resonates with a lot of people.”
In 2018, while on Richmond’s campus for the museum talk, Hudson stopped by the classroom of Jennifer Sevin, a visiting lecturer of biology, where nonmajors were getting an introduction to ecology. Sevin said it was especially important for the students to hear how Hudson had adapted his career to the changing needs in conservation, starting with his interest in reptiles and moving into a global position where he networks with national governments and local citizens to care for endangered species.
“It really hit home to them that everyone has a role to play in conservation,” said Sevin, who is a founding member of the Collaborative to Combat the Illegal Trade in Turtles. “This is one way that he can help ensure that future generations can share in that passion.”
Photograph by Olaf Growald, illustration by Katie McBride
Hudson is interested in attracting more people to turtle conservation in much the same way that he was brought in. Among his mentors was John Behler, curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo and Wildlife Conservation Society. Behler was also the scientist who introduced Hudson to the tortoises of Madagascar. “He and I shared the same passion for Madagascar,” said Hudson, “and when he passed away in 2006, I kind of picked up the torch.” In 2013, Hudson was honored with the Behler Turtle Conservation Award, the “Nobel Prize” of their trade, named for his mentor.
Walde, chief operating officer of the Turtle Survival Alliance, is a part of the next generation of turtle conservation scientists. But when Walde looks over his shoulder, there’s no cadre of heirs apparent. Hudson said he thinks about this a lot. In Asia — the epicenter of the turtle extinction crisis — there’s less emphasis in college on the natural sciences. In the United States, those achieving advanced degrees often don’t look to nonprofits for a career path. Those drawn to turtle conservation often don’t have the skills necessary to protect them.
“If we can’t inspire and train the next generation of turtle conservationists, we will not be successful in preventing further extinctions,” Hudson said. “My goal is to change that scenario and establish a series of training workshops to improve capacity for turtle research and conservation, especially in Africa and Asia.”
Those with a passion for the animals will get field training and learn the science of field research, habitat protection, and restoring wild populations. Hudson will be among the mentors, helping ensure the critical work of species survival continues.
“That’s where I want to spend the last years of my career,” said Hudson, who plans to step down from the zoo within the year.
Actually, Hudson has lots of plans for his semi-retirement. He’ll move back to Virginia, where he inherited a family home. He’ll travel — not just for work, but also for pleasure. “I’ve never been to Argentina or Portugal — I have a long bucket list of places I want to visit, most of them known for their exceptional cuisine,” he said.
He helped transition the Turtle Survival Alliance from an organization known for “plugging the dike” — responding to crises — to an organization that also is expert in habitat protection and species recovery, helping keep wild animals wild.
Part of that transition is about telling good stories — taking the show on the road, so to speak. At a summer event for the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo in Indiana, Hudson stood before donors and told of the program in Madagascar. He shared a video showing a tortoise slowly turning its head to look into the camera, followed by a trio tromping off on stubby legs into their new forest home. At a presentation at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, Hudson received the 2021 Commitment to Conservation Award in part for his work in Madagascar.
For all the successes conservationists have had — including the Burmese star tortoises and the northern river terrapin of India and Bangladesh — the threats continue to grow. Climate change puts stress on habitats, but it also affects the very biology of life. The sex of turtles is dependent on the temperature of incubation. “Are females going to be able to adjust where they lay and how deep they lay to accommodate that?” Hudson asked.
And the turtle poaching crisis is not going away. “I can’t retire until I get Madagascar on track,” he said.
It’s not all work. Hudson reflects on the lineage of the animals for which he cares and finds incredible energy in the pursuit of their survival.
“I look into a tortoise’s eyes, and I see a sentient being, wisdom and timelessness. They are ancient survivors of bygone days, and that’s ... why so many people are inspired by tortoises,” he said. “It’s that steady, slow pace that has gotten them here, but they’re up against a rapidly developing world where they are not going to survive unless we can change things. They have been revered throughout history but are now often reduced to commodities. So, we’ve got to change people’s thinking about turtles and tortoises.”
That work, he said, will never be done.
Michelle Tedford is a freelance writer based in Dayton, Ohio, who spent her childhood with a bucket and a net.
Hudson at the Fort Worth Zoo, where he is based
A A A UNGRADING
What happens when a professor stops putting grades on her students’ papers?
A A A
I no longer grade my students’ work — and I wish I had stopped sooner.
BY ELISABETH GRUNER, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
’ve been teaching college English for more than 30 years. Four years ago, I stopped putting grades on written work, and it has transformed my teaching and my students’ learning. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner.
Starting in elementary school, teachers rate student work — sometimes with stars and checkmarks, sometimes with actual grades. Usually by middle school, when most students are about 11, a system of grading is firmly in place. In the U.S., the most common system is an A for superior work, through F for failure, with E almost always skipped.
This system was widely adopted only in the 1940s, and even now, some schools, colleges and universities use other means of assessing students. But the practice of grading and ranking students is so widespread as to seem necessary, even though many researchers say it is highly inequitable. For example, students who come into a course with little prior knowledge earn lower grades at the start,
which means they get a lower final average, even if they ultimately master the material. Grades have other problems: They are demotivating, they don’t actually measure learning and they increase students’ stress.
During the pandemic, many instructors and even whole institutions offered pass/fail options or mandated pass/fail grading. They did so both to reduce the stress of remote education and because they saw that the emergency, disruptive to everyone, was disproportionately challenging for students of color. Many, however, later resumed grading, not acknowledging the ways that traditional assessments can both perpetuate inequity and impede learning.
I started my journey toward what’s called “ungrading” before the pandemic. In continuing it throughout, I have seen the effects, which are like those observed by other researchers in the field.
THREE REASONS
I stopped putting grades on written work for three related reasons — all of which other professors have also cited as concerns.
First, I wanted my students to focus on the feedback I provided on their writing. I had a sense, since backed up by research, that when I put a grade on a piece of writing, students focused solely on that. Removing the grade forced students to pay attention to my comments.
Second, I was concerned with equity. For almost 10 years I have been studying inclusive pedagogy, which focuses on ensuring that all students have the resources they need to learn. My studies confirmed my sense that sometimes what I was really grading was a student’s background. Students with educational privilege came into my classroom already prepared to write A or B papers, while others often had not had the instruction that would enable them to do so. The 14 weeks they spent in my class could not make up for the years of educational privilege their peers had enjoyed.
Third, and I admit this is selfish: I hate grading. I love teaching, though, and giving students feedback is teaching. I am happy to do it. Freed from the tyranny of determining a grade, I wrote meaningful comments, suggested improvements, asked questions, and entered into a dialogue with my students that felt more productive — that felt, in short, more like an extension of the classroom.
IT’S CALLED ‘UNGRADING’
The practice that I adopted is not new, and it’s not my own. It’s called “ungrading,” though that’s not entirely accurate. At the end of the semester, I do have to give students grades, as required by the university.
But I do not grade individual assignments. Instead, I give students extensive feedback and ample opportunity to revise.
At the end of the semester, they submit a portfolio of revised work, along with an essay reflecting on and evaluating their learning. Like most people who ungrade, I reserve the right to change the grade that students assign themselves in that evaluation. But I rarely do, and when I do, I raise grades almost as often as I lower them.
“I asked students, ‘What do you want to learn? Why are you here?’ ”
The first class I ungraded was incredulous. After I explained the theory and the method, they peppered me with many of the questions that other ungraders have also faced. “If we ask you, will you tell us what grade we have on a paper?” No, I answered, because I really won’t have put a grade on it. “If we decide halfway through the semester that we’re done revising something, will you grade it then?” No again, because I’m grading an entire portfolio, not individual pieces. “Will you tell me where I stand?” My comments on your work, and our conferences, should give you a good sense of how you’re progressing in the class. As for motivation, I asked them, “What do you want to learn? Why are you here?” Like most college professors, I teach classes across the curriculum, but I started my ungrading journey in classes that students were taking to
fulfill basic graduation requirements. They were stopped short by the question. They wanted a good grade, and fair enough: That is the currency of the institution.
As we talked, though, we uncovered other motivations. Some took my children’s literature class because they thought it would be a fun or easy way to fulfill the requirement. They confessed, sometimes reluctantly, to anxieties about reading, about writing. They weren’t confident in their skills, didn’t think they could improve. These were exactly the students I was hoping to reach. Without putting grades on their work, I hoped — like my fellow ungrader Heather Miceli, who teaches general science courses to college students — that these less confident students would see that they could improve, could develop their skills, and meet their own goals.
In my more advanced courses, students had an easier time identifying content-related goals, but I have also found surprisingly similar results in their reflections: They, too, want to overcome anxieties about speaking in class, concerns that they aren’t as prepared as their classmates, fears that they can’t keep up.
HOW DID IT GO?
That first semester, students participated in class, did the readings, and wrote their papers. I read and commented on them, and if they chose to, they revised — as often as they wanted.
At the end of the semester, when they submitted portfolios of revised work, their reflections on the process and assessments of their learning tracked closely with my own. Most recognized their growth, and I concurred. One student, a senior, thanked me for treating them like adults. As for my interest in equity, I found that students who were less well prepared did indeed develop their skills; their growth was substantial, and both they and I recognized it.
The system takes time to implement, and I’ve revised it over the years. When I began, I was inexperienced at coaching students to develop their own goals for the course, at helping them to reflect, and at guiding them to think about assessment in terms of their own development rather than following a rubric. And I’ve found that students need time to reflect on their own goals for the class at the outset, at a midpoint, and again at the end of the semester so they can actually see how they’ve developed. They need encouragement to revise their work as well — my comments help, but so do pointed reminders that the process of learning involves revision, and the course is set up to enable it.
Students in introductory classes require a bit more direction in this work than advanced students, but most eventually take the opportunity to revise and reflect. Now, I see students from all backgrounds recognizing their own growth, whatever their starting point. They benefit from my coaching, but perhaps even more from the freedom to decide for themselves what really matters in their reading and writing. And I benefit too, from the opportunity to help them learn and grow without the tyranny of the grade.
This essay was originally published by the nonprofit independent news organization The Conversation. It was distributed by the Associated Press and appeared in more than outlets, including PBS, Channel News Asia, and GHB News in Boston.
A conversation with Elisabeth Gruner about her essay, her teaching, and how former students help shape her syllabus
INTERVIEW BY SUNNI BROWN, GC’18
WHAT FEEDBACK DID YOU RECEIVE FOR YOUR ARTICLE ON UNGRADING? WAS IT WHAT YOU EXPECTED?
I’m not sure what I expected, but it wasn’t this. I got a couple of dozen direct emails, over 50 comments on the site, requests to do podcasts and interviews, and dozens of reprints. For a month or so, it seemed like it was all I talked about.
Most of the feedback was very positive. I did get a few responses from people who clearly either hadn’t read the piece or were already primed to have a negative response, the ones that blamed me for bridges falling down or the decline of Western civilization, that sort of thing, but overall the feedback was very positive.
DID YOU GET ANY FEEDBACK YOU DIDN’T EXPECT?
The ones that surprised and touched me were comments from folks who said they wished they had been offered the option to be ungraded when they were in school or that they thought their kids would have done better in school if they had been ungraded. Those broke my heart a little because it really did demonstrate to me how many people are harmed by the practices we take for granted as normal. We don’t mean to do harm, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
I also recently picked up a letter — remember those? — from my campus mailbox from someone who has done research on teens and responsibility for 30 years. She wrote to endorse my work and encourage me to continue it. So that was a really nice and surprising bit of feedback as well.
COULD YOU UNPACK THE LINE “WHAT I WAS REALLY GRADING WAS A STUDENT’S BACKGROUND”?
Students come into classes with widely varying backgrounds, and those backgrounds can determine how “well” they do in the class. A student from a well-resourced high school has probably read more and written more than one from a less well-resourced high school and is likely to write a more fluent, more “professional”-looking paper right out of the gate. Or they may already have read some of the material I’m teaching. It’s inevitable that those experiences affect a student’s ability to succeed in a course. But I’d really like to know what they learn in the course — how they develop as a reader and a writer, what new awareness they’ve gained, how they’ve made progress on their goals — regardless of what they knew coming in.
Another way of saying this is to say that I have a lot of students who say, “I’m not good at English,” or, “I’m not a good writer.” I want them to be able to leave all that behind in my class and not worry about some label that they are bringing with them from the past.
WHY DOES WRITING LEND ITSELF TO THIS UNGRADING APPROACH? COULD IT BE REPLICATED IN OTHER SUBJECT AREAS?
Writing obviously lends itself to this approach because revision is so central to the writing process. That said, most courses teach material that can best be learned iteratively, by repetition and revision. Ungrading is part of a portfolio of alternative assessment practices that a lot of folks are using. Other related practices include specifications grading, contract grading, and mastery grading, all of which, like ungrading, focus far more on the student mastering the material or meeting certain specified outcomes on their own time rather than on high-stakes testing at a single point in the semester. I know a lot of folks in STEM disciplines are exploring those practices because, again, the point is helping the students learn the material rather than focusing on their performance on exams or tests and then moving on, no matter what the outcome of the test.
THIS APPROACH EMPHASIZES REVISING. WHAT DO STUDENTS LEARN FROM THAT PROCESS?
Ideally, of course, they learn the material by engaging with it repeatedly. So the material could be content area knowledge — who wrote what when, which literary techniques are characteristic of a period, how are sonnets constructed, etc. — as well as the expression of that content area knowledge in a well-organized, clearly written analysis — or a creative response to it. I assign different kinds of writing in different situations. But in any case, the opportunity to revise is always an opportunity to rethink, to reengage, to
explore more deeply.
That said, not all students revise everything, and that’s OK. It’s up to them to decide what work will benefit from revision. Sometimes they are better off focusing on the next assignment and taking the feedback they’ve received on one piece and applying it to the next. That’s their decision.
COULD YOU TALK A BIT ABOUT YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE BEING GRADED AS A STUDENT AND IF THAT HAS INFLUENCED YOUR APPROACH TO YOUR OWN TEACHING?
Honestly, like a lot of professors, I was a pretty good student, but I often felt that there was a disconnect between what I was learning and the grades I received. I learned more when I got more feedback, but I rarely got feedback when I got good grades — and I knew my work could still use improvement. But I think my professors thought that my good grades didn’t require justification, so they just didn’t write much — or anything, sometimes. I also had friends who were really smart and worked really hard whose grades didn’t always reflect that, and I found that frustrating — and unfair.
All of my best learning experiences as an adult have been in voluntary situations where I wasn’t graded, and I think I realized that there were elements of those experiences that I could transfer to the undergraduate experience.
“I often felt that there was a disconnect between what I was learning and the grades I received.”
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE DRIVING FACTORS FOR YOU AS YOU CRAFT A CLASS — WRITING THE SYLLABI, ETC.?
Mostly, I want to keep things interesting. I love reading and writing, and I think they have great value for students — even, and maybe especially, for students who aren’t majoring in English. So I try to keep things engaging and clear and supportive. I often have specific former students in mind when I write my syllabi. I remember books they responded well to or papers they particularly enjoyed or problems they had that I didn’t anticipate and how I could have done better for them, and I try to craft a syllabus to accommodate as many of those stories, those memories, as I can.
I also encounter new texts, new techniques — for example, over the summer, I attended two conferences and a workshop, and I learned new things at each of them that I’d like to bring into my classes and try out. I’ve talked to colleagues at other institutions, heard about things that
they’ve done, and considered how I might try them. For quite a while now, I’ve been particularly focused on inclusion — trying to make sure that all of my students feel included in my classroom, can see themselves in the material I teach and the assignments I craft. I don’t always get there, but I think the more I work at that, the better I do, and ungrading has been part of that journey.
IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE COMMITTED TO REEXAMINING AND EVEN REINVENTING YOUR APPROACHES ON A FREQUENT BASIS. WHAT DRIVES YOU TO DO THAT?
I have a very short attention span. Seriously, one of my favorite things about teaching at the University of Richmond has been the opportunity to reinvent myself over and over without having to look for a new job. It is an immense privilege, and I’m so grateful for it. I have loved the opportunity to explore new things, to experiment, to invent new courses (as well as new approaches to old ones), and to work with a student body and a faculty that is increasingly diverse and engaged. I am just trying to keep up.
Libby Gruner, right, in conversation with a student
SCRUTINY OF SPORTS EVENTS PLAYED ON A WORLD STAGE IS MAKING
THEM A FORCE FOR CHANGE.
A NEW LEGACY?
By Kim Catley | Illustrations by Katie McBride
ON SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2019 , the United States and the Netherlands national soccer teams took to the field to determine the winner of the Women’s World Cup.
The game — played before a sellout crowd of nearly 58,000 in Lyon, France — was a tight matchup without a single goal in the first half. But 62 minutes in, U.S. co-captain Megan Rapinoe scored on a penalty kick. Eight minutes later, midfielder Rose Lavelle expanded the lead to 2-0 and secured the U.S. Women’s National Team’s second consecutive title.
The victory solidified the USWNT’s dominance on the pitch as it became the first women’s soccer team to win four World Cup titles. The moment also put a white-hot spotlight on the team’s ongoing push for equal pay compared to their male counterparts. Just four months earlier, 28 USWNT players filed a federal gender-discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, accusing the league of paying “only lip service to gender equality.”
Soccer holds a unique position among U.S. sports: The USWNT is as popular as its male counterpart, if not more so. The USWNT is undoubtedly the best in the world, while the men didn’t even qualify for the 2018 World Cup or the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The women’s team brings in more revenue, and the 2015 Women’s World Cup final set a record for American viewership — for any soccer game in history.
Despite the team’s success, the lawsuit argued, U.S. Soccer paid the women’s team lower salaries and discriminated against the women in other ways, including medical care, travel, and quality of playing and practice facilities.
A federal judge dismissed some of the women’s claims in 2020, but in February of this year, the two sides reached a multimillion-dollar settlement — and, in May, the U.S. Soccer Federation announced new labor agreements that will pay the men and women equally through 2028.
The USWNT’s quest for equity is one of a number of interrelated sports issues studied by Richmond Law professor Andrew Spalding, chair of the Olympics Compliance Task Force and an expert on international anti-corruption law. His new book, A New Megasport Legacy, explores how major sports competitions can lead to bribery scandals and spotlight human rights violations, such as abuses against ethnic groups — yet they can also be leveraged to bring about legislative and cultural reforms that last well beyond the closing ceremonies. The book draws on Spalding’s research in Brazil, South Korea, France, and Qatar and includes contributions from law students in his yearlong class Corruption in International Sports.
The 18 months encompassing the 2022 Beijing Olympics, the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand are particularly notable. Collectively, they mark a shift: A decade ago, host countries primarily instituted new policies only when faced with scandal. Today, reforms are increasingly a proactive component of the effort to win the right to host a megasport event — a component as essential and long-lasting as building new roads, athletic facilities, and other infrastructure.
“Sports command attention,” Spalding said. “People find them interesting and worth following in ways that they don’t necessarily follow politics.” As a result, sports often can be a catalyst for political and social change.
CHINA, 2022
As the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics opened in February, nongovernmental organizations and citizens around the world called for a diplomatic boycott of the games. They cited various human rights violations ranging from abuses against the Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other ethnic groups to infringing on the freedoms dictated by Hong Kong’s separate governing and economic systems.
The violations, Spalding said, raise questions about whether megasporting events should tolerate preexisting human rights problems in a host country — and whether it’s possible for the international attention surrounding these events to force changes.
Spalding has studied questions like these for years. Initially he focused on corruption and human rights violations directly linked to hosting the Olympics and other major sporting events; for instance, the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, were rife with allegations of bribery between government officials and construction companies, as well as accusations of embezzlement. That same year, Brazil spent more than $11.5 billion to host the World Cup but faced allegations of price gouging and mismanagement, as well as criticism for slum-clearing projects that displaced low-income families to make way for soccer infrastructure.
The concerns about China in 2022, however, were not just about the games themselves — instead, they represent systemic, long-lasting problems. And Spalding said the Olympics called attention to the country’s human rights violations in a way that few other events could have.
“Will China’s posture in relation to human rights be better or worse off because they hosted the Olympics?” Spalding asked. “I think probably better off, even if China makes
no reforms. There’s so much more awareness. We’re all talking about these issues in ways that we otherwise wouldn’t.”
Spalding also believes that China may mark a turning point in the relationship between global sporting events and anti-corruption reform, particularly when juxtaposed with Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup later this year.
“We have to understand China as the end of an era in which megasports coincided with unaddressed systemic corruption and human rights violations,” he said. “With Qatar, we see a transition into potentially a different era.”
QATAR, 2022
When Qatar was named the 2022 World Cup host more than a decade ago, allegations quickly emerged that representatives had bribed officials of FIFA, soccer’s international governing body, to secure hosting rights for the country. But as the World Cup approaches and bribery chatter increases, Spalding said it’s important to remember that many countries — including Japan, Germany, and others that rank among the least corrupt in the world — have all been embroiled in bribery scandals related to hosting international sporting events. Even the U.S. is not above reproach: Most notably, organizers of Salt Lake City’s bid to host the 2002 Olympic Winter Games were indicted after offering more than $1 million in cash, tuition payments, jobs, and other gifts to International Olympic Committee delegates.
“What the world doesn’t understand is that Qatar is ranked about the same; it’s not a systemically corrupt country,” he said.
In reality, Qatar has actively used the World Cup as an opportunity to improve its record, particularly in the area of labor rights. The country has adopted reforms around worker safety, freedom, and self-expression; it has implemented a mandatory, nondiscriminatory minimum wage for all workers; and it has enhanced training for labor inspectors. These efforts, according to Spalding, represent an intentional, proactive effort to improve human rights — a stark contrast to countries that in the past either resisted change altogether or made reforms only after a scandal erupted.
Spalding sees Qatar’s success as evidence of the power of the spotlight that major sporting events bring. He and the eight students in his class are researching universal reforms that could shape future megasporting events and how Qatar can serve as a model for host country reforms. In the spring, the class will travel to Europe to present
on major international sporting events focuses on how they can be a catalyst for political and social change in the places that host them.
Spalding has long studied efforts to fight corruption. In his new book, he says sports have become a valuable tool.
Left, Spalding in the classroom. His research
Above left, stadium construction in preparation for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar put a spotlight on foreign workers and human rights.
Above right, U.S. Women’s National Team player Abby Wambach discusses equal pay in 2016 during a forum sponsored by UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.
its recommendations to the Inter national Olympic Committee and FIFA. These could include incorpo rating human rights and anti-cor ruption analysis and planning in the bidding process; adding specific provisions to contracts with host countries; establishing a compliance program; providing meaningful training to staff and volunteers; and identifying what measures are implemented and which to expand further after the athletes and spectators go home.
Bid) to host the 2026 Men’s World Cup suggests that the tide is turning. Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. entered their bid with a preemptive promise to measure and document positive human rights and anti-corruption outcomes.
Ave Grosenheider, L’22, was enrolled in Spalding’s class for the 2020–21 academic year. She also completed an independent research project comparing and contrasting female representation on the Chinese and U.S. Olympic teams with guidance from Spalding. For the corruption class, Grosenheider delved into the Men’s World Cup in Qatar and, she said, now has a more nuanced understanding of how corruption works in the megasports space.
“Sports are unique in that they bring people together and raise a lot of issues on human rights and corruption,” she said. “It’s a pretty natural place to stop and say, ‘This is causing some issues. What are we doing about it? How can we fix it? How can this be a force for change?’”
Meanwhile, Kaylee Rabatin, L’23, started Spalding’s class this fall. Rabatin played soccer as an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh and sees the class as a way to find a place for sports in her life now that she’s no longer a competitive athlete.
“I saw how, on an individual level, being involved in sports impacted me,” she said. “But when you put them on a global stage — such as the Olympics or the World Cup — you can see the ripple effects in that country or that city. I’m excited to see how it gets amplified across countries.”
Only time will tell if the Qatar World Cup marks a sea change in corruption and human rights reforms, but Spalding is hopeful that it will create momentum that subsequent hosts can build upon. And he says a collective bid from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico (known as the United
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, 2023
In the U.S. Women’s National Team’s February settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation, U.S. Soccer agreed to pay the players $24 million, including back pay, and committed to equally compensating men and women players in all competitions. In May, the men’s and women’s teams struck a collective bargaining agreement that equalizes pay and bonuses, including World Cup prizes. Under the agreement, the U.S. teams will combine the bonuses received from FIFA and split them equally — meaning the men’s teams will receive a lower payout than in the past.
While current and former team members tout the historic agreements as a huge win, Spalding said the global debate over equal pay will likely continue at the Women’s World Cup next summer in Australia and New Zealand. Those two host countries also have taken steps to achieve parity in pay and perks for their men’s and women’s teams, but the women are still at a disadvantage because FIFA awards far more World Cup prize money to men’s teams than women’s — something that the U.S. agreement takes into account but the one in Australia does not.
“The U.S. has clearly set an example and will become the bar by which other countries’ payment schemes are judged,” Spalding said. “The Women’s World Cup is now a symbol in the public’s consciousness of the importance — and the viability — of achieving equal pay.”
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THE WOMEN’S WORLD CUP IS NOW A SYMBOL IN THE PUBLIC’S CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE IMPORTANCE — AND THE VIABILITY — OF ACHIEVING EQUAL PAY.”
Spalding sees the Women’s World Cup as inherently a human rights event because it’s a symbol of progress in respecting women’s rights. Issues such as equal pay are global in scale and not limited to the host country. Yet the event is often overlooked when discussing megasports gover nance. Spalding argues that that should change.
In his new book, he also points to Australia and New Zealand’s efforts to conduct an independent human rights assessment to identify the potential adverse human rights impact of hosting the Women’s World Cup. The study identified three key areas of risk — safety, rights of athletes, and rights of local communities — and recommended mitigation strate gies and necessary training. While Spalding said the proac tive step sets an important prece dent, the study was narrow in scope and focuses on short-term corrections rather than creating a long-term legacy.
Still, he said, the Women’s World Cup next year will serve as one of the latest chapters in an ongoing narrative about the ability of megasports to leave a legacy of improved anti-corruption and human rights norms and practices. He draws a line from Brazil to South Korea, host of the 2018 Winter Olympics, where scandals led to long-lasting reforms such as the historic Kim Young-ran Act — aka the Anti-Corruption and Bribery Prohibition Act — that upended cultural norms and restricted gifts to public officials. Spalding continues the line through Qatar, which deliberately set out to leave a human rights legacy and succeeded.
Hosting the Olympics is both an honor and a massive burden, but whether the moment holds a lasting legacy can’t be known for years to come. An expensive Olympic Village can be converted to residential housing, a resort, or a public sports complex — or fall into neglect and disarray.
An athlete’s performance can draw new interest and increase participation in a sport.
Building wind farms, planting acres of forests, and using a fleet of electric vehicles can create environmental legacies but may not truly counteract a country’s reliance on fossil fuels. And placing attention on corruption and human rights issues can offer a chance for cultural shifts and influential reforms — but only if the host is willing to step into the light.
Regardless, Spalding’s outlook is hopeful.
“During this time from Qatar to Australia and New Zealand to France [site of the 2024 Summer Olympics], we can build substantial momentum for this idea that megasports not only should prevent corruption and human rights scandals, but can deliberately build legacies in the country,” he said. “In the same way that megasports can hopefully leave economic legacies and infrastructural legacies and environmental legacies, I think we can now expect to leave anti-corruption and human rights legacies.”
Kim Catley is a freelance writer in Richmond. She previously wrote about Spalding’s research on Brazil, which hosted the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
SUPPORT SYSTEM
“Give Tim a Second Chance at Life” is the title of a GoFundMe page set up by Peters’ Richmond friends. It’s one of many ways they are supporting him as he continues his medical treatments.
“These are people who are extremely busy, and they’re dropping everything to help me,” Peters said. “It’s not so much about me. It’s about the character this group of friends has.”
Lean on me
You wouldn’t expect a wedding invitation to set in motion a chain of events that transforms multiple lives. But that’s what happened when Tim Peters, ’12, RSVP’d to the groom, his friend Patrick Coughlin, ’12, in 2019.
Peters said he’d be there, despite everything. Until then, he’d been largely keeping the “everything” to himself. But the truth was that for three years, Peters had been having a rougher time than his friends realized.
The formerly vibrant and happy finance graduate had seen his life turned upside down by a bout of Lyme disease and the fallout from it. It ravaged his immune system and brought on fatigue, vertigo, cognitive issues, and more. On hot days, he sometimes collapsed. He often couldn’t eat and spent hours in bed. In 2018, he stopped working and went on disability.
The 2019 wedding was the first time in a few years the two saw each other in person. Coughlin was struck by the changes he saw in Peters.
“I remember checking in with him when he was first having issues, but it was one of those things — Lyme disease? I didn’t really know much
about it,” Coughlin said. “I got a better idea of just how serious and life-changing his situation was.”
They kept in closer touch as Peters tried various treatments and then dealt with a serious case of COVID19. In 2021, on the advice of doctors, Peters moved from Boston to Arizona. He was now without a local support network and more financially insecure than ever. After a few months, he emailed a dozen friends from Richmond, including Coughlin. “I don’t like asking for help,” he basically wrote, “but I’m in a tough spot.” They responded, forming what is essentially a semiformal advisory group. At first, it was hard to know what exactly to do, but with time they offered emotional support for his isolation, an outsiders’ gut check to support his decision-making, and avenues for financial support, including a GoFundMe (see sidebar).
“This is a refreshing story of Spiders helping Spiders,” Coughlin said. “The feeling I hope Tim gets is that he’s not alone. If moments of doubt seep in, he has this network of friends that really love him and are there for him.”
STAY CONNECTED
Come for Homecoming
Homecoming is nearly here (and may be here by the time some of you receive this). If it’s not too late, plan to come to campus Nov. 3–6 for a weekend full of #spiderpride, including Spider football’s homecoming game at Robins Stadium Nov. 5 vs. New Hampshire. For a full schedule of events, go to alumni.richmond. edu/homecoming-reunions.
Return for Reunion
Reunion Weekend 2023 will welcome classes ending in 3 and 8 back to campus June 2–4. Want to help your class plan its big weekend? Email reunion@richmond. edu to volunteer for your class planning committee.
Meet the president
President Kevin F. Hallock has been hitting the road to meet Spiders across the country at presidential receptions. He visited Philadelphia and Virginia Beach in October and has dates scheduled in November for Richmond and Boston.
Go to alumni.richmond.edu and click on “Presidential Receptions” under the Alumni Groups & Events tab for a current schedule and registration information.
Send a class note
Readers tell us they love class notes, but it’s the one part of the magazine we can’t write ourselves. If you’re one of the people who look at your class year and think, “I wish there was more to read,” then do what you learned to do at Richmond — lean in. Send your note to us for next issue to classnotes@richmond.edu. News about milestones is great, and so is chit-chat about everyday life and little moments. We love your photos, too.
Coughlin, far left, and Peters, far right, with classmates at commencement in 2012
LEGACY
A lasting love
One of the last things that Burrell Williams Stultz, W’55, did for Richmond brought her full circle back to one of the first things she did as a Westhampton student.
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As a student, she was historian of nostrae filiae, a club that strengthened bonds between students and alumni. As an alumna, she committed to supporting future students through her estate.
rian of nostrae filiae, a club that across campus. They Scholarship in 2000, and
Burrell and her husband John, B’58, nurtured Spider bonds throughout their lives. They were reunion committee members, season ticket holders, and donors to programs and projects across campus. They made a leadership gift that helped establish the Westhampton Class of 1955 George Modlin Scholarship in 2000, and she invited its recipients to Class of ’55 luncheons over the years. There have been 16 recipients to date.
Before John’s death in
Spiders in your neighborhood
The magazine has it on good authority that there’s one overwhelming sentiment at alumni events lately: It’s good to be back.
After more than two years of pandemic-induced caution that pushed most events to virtual formats, Spiders are getting out again in cities across the country.
The alumni relations programming schedule is again packed. In August and September alone, there were recent grad nights in Boston and Washington, D.C., a miniature golf night in Atlanta, and meetups in London, San Francisco, and Wilmington, North Carolina. Spiders cheered on the Twins in Minneapolis, the Bulls in Durham, North Carolina, and Spider football in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Programming is ongoing. See what’s happening near you at alumni.richmond .edu/alumni-groups.
Posthumous honor
A half-mile stretch of trail in southern California is now a memorial to a Spider and his beloved horse.
Before John’s death in 2016, he told Burrell to stay active, and she did. She was often seen wearing both of their Charter Associates gold pins, a sign of their commitment to support Richmond with an estate gift.
both of their Charter Associates gold pins, a sign of their commitment to support Richmond with an estate gift.
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When Burrell passed in 2021, they fulfilled that commitment. Their final gift supported areas most dear to them: Spider athletics and the Class of 1955’s scholarship.
When Burrell passed in 2021, they fulfilled that comsupported areas most dear
“Burrell and John could not have been
son McIlwain, B’79, who met them on her first day working for UR. Today, she
“Burrell and John could not have been more gracious,” said Rhonda MacPherson McIlwain, B’79, who met them on her first day working for UR. Today, she
A gift to Richmond as part of your legacy ensures that the university and its mission will endure for generations to come. For more information, call the office of gift planning at 804-287-1864 or email giftplanning @richmond.edu.
In April, the parks and recreation department of San Diego County, California, hosted a ribbon-cutting to honor George Carter IV, B’77, and his saddlebred horse, Will Rogers. The pair often took back country rides in the area, including multiday, marathon treks from the beach in Del Mar, California, to Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. His route included the section of trail now named the George Carter Will Rogers Trail in their honor. Carter died in 2021. Carter shared his rides at trailblazersgeorgeandwill.com. The site includes his life advice: “Live honestly. Love deeply. Explore adventurously. Enjoy the ride.”
PLAN AHEAD
Have ideas for a Spider road trip destination next summer?
Johnson, Minnix, and the rest of the alumni relations staff want to hear from you. Drop them a note at alumni@richmond.edu. Information about all upcoming alumni programming is available at alumni. richmond.edu.
ROAD TRIP Maggie Johnson, ’18, and Nick Minnix, two staffers in the alumni relations of ce, tag-teamed a Spider road trip to Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte, North Carolina, this summer.
Wednesday morning, Aug. 3, Maggie Johnson
With nametags printed and Spider swag packed, I leave campus and hit the road. Destination: Raleigh.
I am a big fan of the Spotify playlist. For this drive, I’ve got my summer 2022 playlist. I like country, so it’s got good summer tunes from Miranda Lambert and such.
After a quick 2½ hours, I pull into the hotel, check in, and then bop around to explore.
I’ve never been to Raleigh before, and it reminds me a lot of Richmond.
Wednesday evening 1 Program time.
Our host today is Matt Golden, ’07. Part of our goal is supporting Spider businesses, and Matt is co-owner of Bowstring Pizza & Brewyard.
The building used to be a Gulf Oil storage garage, and it still has an industrial look. Outside, there are picnic tables, a great mural, and string lights. Denite brewery vibes. Turnout is good — about 30 Spiders from class years ranging from 1959 to 2022. I’ve got Spider beach balls and other giveaways for everyone.
One thing I hear over and over is how nice it is to be having events again. People are so excited after two-plus years to get out. And it’s so easy to connect with fellow Spider alumni. I’ve never been to an alumni event where people haven’t mingled.
Thursday morning, Aug. 4
2 An intimate riseand-shine breakfast at Press coffee shop in downtown Durham, right next to the Durham Bulls’ stadium.
Our organizer this morning is Nicole Thompson, W’91, president and CEO of Downtown Durham, a catalyst for downtown’s revitalization. We’re a small group, ve of us — all alumni —
and it’s very nice. One alum drove in from Chapel Hill, and two others work for Duke University. The ones at Duke relocated fairly recently, so they’re really happy to get local recommendations. Moments like this just bring you back and make it easy to nd those bridges of connection. Everyone exchanges phone numbers before we part, and I head back to Richmond. I would love to do this every summer.
Thursday morning, Aug. 4, Nick Minnix
As Maggie drives north, I’m on I-85 South toward Charlotte. The rst season of the podcast Unobscured, which focuses on the Salem witch trials, keeps me company
until I reach the hotel. After getting a little work done there, I head for tonight’s venue, Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, Charlotte’s oldest brewery.
Thursday evening
3 I meet Jim Birch, ’02, Mecklenburg’s chief operating of cer and our host. It looks like a classic German beer hall, the kind of place where people really turn out for Oktoberfest.
Similar to Raleigh, about 30 alumni and guests come, which is a great size. Plenty of people, but everyone gets to meet everyone. After a bit of chitchat, we take a tour of the brewery and see everything from the brewing area to the bottling station, then come back to the bar for a tasting of Copper, their Düsseldorfstyle Altbier
Our event space is available until 8:30 p.m. When that time hits, most of us move into the public area, and it’s like a second Spider happy hour. We’ve got Spiders from classes from 1968 to 2016, and like in Raleigh-Durham, people are really excited to get together again.
I’m getting that vibe from a lot of our events. The next morning, I’m back on the road and already thinking about where to go next.
Illustration by Katie McBride
“Advocacy can take on many different forms.”
LINDSAY ADAMS, ’12 , a professional artist who paints portraits of Black female figures. She recently debuted her solo exhibition “Two Things Can Be True” in Washington, D.C., inspired by her own experience with a disability.
Spiders show support
In April, Spiders showed their support for students during the university’s fourth annual UR Here Giving Day. More than 3,100 donors provided $1.6 million in just 36 hours.
Saif Mehkari, associate professor of economics, and alumni of his discipline played a significant role in UR Here’s success. He contacted a group of math-econ alumni and offered a personal fundraising challenge, and they answered, raising approximately $1,750.
“It’s important to us within the mathematical economics program to build a strong, connected community where everyone feels a sense of belonging,” said Mehkari, who sent a personal thank-you message to each person who gave.
“I think it is important to build a community that transcends the four years in college,” he said. “The promise to students is that while you are here, we professors, along with alums, will invest in you. Once you become an alum, we ask you to pay it forward by helping the next generation of students.”
In November, the annual Spiders Helping Spiders campaign will encourage gifts targeting specific areas of financial need: financial aid, the student emergency fund, and the career opportunity fund. Support for these areas enables Spiders to stay on track when they face financial difficulties or need targeted assistance to prepare for work and life after graduation.
UPCOMING
Spiders Helping Spiders will begin Nov. 15. More information is available at helping. richmond.edu, including detailed descriptions of areas of need and information about matching gifts that can increase the impact of your gift.
THE SWAMP PEDDLERS
JASON VUIC, G’97
The newest book from the always engaging Vuic tells the raucous tale of residential real estate in postwar Florida. The subtitle offers a taste: “How lot sellers, land scammers, and retirees built modern Florida and transformed the American dream.”
RESTITUTION
STEPHEN H. MORIARTY, L’81
In this legal mystery, a successful prosecution turns into a nightmare for the prosecutor when he is swept up by post-trial accusations and is suspected of murder. Moriarty, an ex-prosecutor himself, “nails the dynamics of the courtrooms and of ces” of Virginia’s legal system, one reviewer writes.
A TIDE OF DREAMS
CAREY HENRY KEEFE, B’79
An insider’s story about friendship, loyalty, and how college football helped win World War II. It focuses on Alabama teammates Paul “Bear” Bryant, Carney Laslie, and Frank Moseley. The author is Laslie’s grandchild and Moseley’s godchild and grew up calling Bryant “Uncle Paul.”
THE PLANTING OF BÔ-KEDÉN
JOHN KINCHELOE, R’73
The story of an epic journey set in a mythical European past centers on a clash between believers in peace and an approaching army primed for revenge. The novella won the young adult book category of the 2021 New MexicoArizona Book Award Competition.
The UR Here and Spiders Helping Spiders campaigns directly benefit students on campus today.
Photograph by Jamie Betts
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—Em St. Clair Key, W’60
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PETE MEYER, R’87
Satisfaction, pint by pint
A little luck and a lot of knowledge provided Pete Meyer, R’87, with the opportunity of a lifetime — opening a microbrewery.
“I understand real estate, construction, and development and how to recognize a good opportunity,” Meyer says. “I was just fortunate to develop this brewery at the right time, in the right location, and in the right market.”
Timnath Beerwerks opened its doors in the historic Timnath Feed & Grain Building in Northern Colorado in 2018 with the goal of making the best beer in Colorado. What the Fudge?!?! stout, Blood Orange pale ale, Take Five pilsner, and others did the job as NoCo Style magazine named Timnath the No. 1 Brewery in 2020 and 2021. In addition to the taproom, Timnath’s brews are available in 15 restaurants.
“My brewer definitely knows what he’s doing,” Meyer says. “I have an amazing staff. Now we need to figure out how to grow the business.”
While the brewery’s success is a definite point of pride, it’s not even Meyer’s day job. He is vice president of business development at Brinkman Construction in Colorado, a position he has held for the past 13 years. Meyer has been putting his economics degree to use in the development and construction field for more than two decades.
Both of these jobs have enabled Meyer to support his philanthropic passion. He was recently named president of the board of directors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County.
“I want to be able to have an impact — change maybe one person’s life, one family’s life,” he says.
The convergence of his three community roles seems too good to be true — almost. Timnath’s mission is closely tied to philanthropy, and it provides the perfect location for fundraising events.
“We are focused on the community, and we want to give back,” Meyer says. “We want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.”
—Debbie Juniewicz
JEAN MORRISSEY SANNER, ’93
The stories within us
The way Jean Morrissey Sanner, ’93, now sees it, her dad “is in every kitchen drawer around the country.” She didn’t grow up thinking that. He was an engineer at Reynolds Metal, but she didn’t learn that he helped design the machines that produce its iconic aluminum foil until after he passed away about 20 years ago.
If a family story like that can almost be lost from just one generation to the next, imagine what can be lost over many generations. Sanner knows better than most because she’s a specialist in recovering lost family stories. Her area of expertise is genetic genealogy, which she says isn’t too different from her international studies major at Richmond.
“You take history classes, languages, art history, religion, economics — all these different subjects that I was always very curious about,” she said. “Genealogy is the same way. To be successful at it, you have to understand the push-pull factors of immigration, right? And why, almost always for economic reasons, someone leaves one place to go to another. And you have to understand agriculture.”
For years, Sanner worked in the Richmond area for clients ranging from regular people curious about their backstories to attorneys trying to clear deeds for property sales. Since relocating to the Tampa Bay area in 2018, she’s stayed involved with the research as a member of the executive board of the Florida Genealogical Society — Tampa.
In her own family, she’s found literal Bohemians and women who stood up to attackers a century before #metoo. For others, she’s turned up adoptees’ long-lost biological relatives and family legacies of resilience in pre-Civil War free Black communities. Not every discovery is happy, and she helps those clients too, sometimes referring them to experts for support. Uncovering facts, she said, is powerful.
“Finding great stories, especially when they’re true, can be very transformative,” she said. “When it’s about us — like part of the story takes place in our own genes — I think that’s even more compelling.”
—Matthew Dewald
’61
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“I am really proud to be a SPIDER!”
—Shirley Easter Maize, W’62
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“Remember, classmates, that next spring will be our 60th reunion! Start packing your bags and plan to attend.”
—Ann Cosby Davis, W’63
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6. Kathryn Seashore Schmitt, B’85 and Steve Schmitt, R’86
7. Lynne Dorey Darlington, B’87
8. Chris Aronhalt, R’89
9. David Shipley, R’90
10. Matthew Repella, B’99
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“Students today would probably need to look up the definition of curfew!”
—Ellen Shuler, W’68
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KATHERINE O'DONNELL, ’99
All in for RVA
Years later, Katherine O’Donnell, ’99, clearly remembers the moment. She was riding in a pace car for a professional bike race, winding through city streets when the route crested at Libby Hill, an historic, clay brick-paved neighborhood.
Ahead: A sweeping view of Richmond, her adopted home. Behind: An international pack of elite cyclists in colorful jerseys — a swiftly moving rainbow.
“You could just feel the energy,” says O’Donnell, executive vice president of Richmond Region Tourism, who helped plan the 2015 UCI Cycling Championship. “It was pretty neat.”
That balance — rich history, scenic beauty, cosmopolitan appeal — has fueled O’Donnell’s passion for Richmond and her rise at RRT.
For tourists, she says, there’s a lot to love about the region nicknamed RVA: “amazing” food, art, music, and outdoor activities. And it’s also “filled with interesting, diverse, smart, kind, cool people who love this community and work every day to make it better,” she says.
Besides selling the region to sports events, conferences, and armchair historians, O’Donnell oversees two marketing priorities: BLKRVA, designed to attract Black tourists, and OutRVA, for LGBTQ+ visitors. The goal, she says, is to “shift outdated perceptions” of Richmond’s past by spotlighting its diversity and cultures.
O’Donnell’s embrace of the city began at the University of Richmond. “Not only did it introduce me to Richmond, which I have spent my career promoting, it gave me a foundation in communications” that spurred her success.
She personally encourages out-of-town UR alumni to rediscover the city.
“I consider Richmond my hometown,” she says. “I have been here more than half my life, was married here, am raising my family here, and have the honor and privilege of sharing the Richmond region with the world.”
—Joseph R. Williams, R’84
J.R. PURNELL, ’02
Team philosophy endures
From football huddles to client meetings, much has changed since J.R. Purnell, ’02, attended the University of Richmond, but his focus on teamwork remains as strong as ever.
“Sales is like being an athlete — showing up prepared, putting in the work when no one is looking, following routines to have a minimum output level no matter how you're feeling,” he says. “Internally, I manage my team's deliverables to clients. It feels like being a captain of a sports team.”
Purnell — a Spider running back on two conference championship teams — is now a sales executive at the Los Angeles branch of Falkbuilt, a leader in digital component construction. He sells prefabricated interior construction, an alternative to using drywall. Sustainability is the cornerstone of Falkbuilt as digital component construction uses fewer materials and virtually eliminates on-site construction waste. It is designed for disassembly and can be easily reconfigured.
“It’s manufactured in the factory, shipped, and erected on site, kind of like Legos,” he says. “To me it represents the future of construction. I love showing people a better, more efficient way to work.”
While it has been decades since he suited up for a college football game, sports and fitness remain a priority. This thread “has run through my life and actually has gotten stronger over time,” he says. “In sports, you have public accountability, sacrificing for the greater good, and you pump your teammates up, and those elements are part of the corporate world.”
Purnell would like to do more than help his clients build better spaces as he is also interested in building spaces that combine his passions.
“I love running around and being active, and I believe fitness permeates all phases of a person's life from productivity to capacity and mood,” he says. “I would love to help create a sense of community by building spaces that bring people together through sports or physical games.”
—Debbie Juniewicz
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“Our calendar is filling up with all the postponed activities ... maybe COVID provided me with a much-needed break.”
—Janet Phillips Dunford, W’69
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Richmond a U.S. News top 20 pick for the first time UR climbs four spots to No. 18 for Best Liberal Arts Colleges in 2022–23. Read More >
Picture this: Gallery UR Now’s online Gallery is home to our most stunning and surprising campus photography. Read More >
Our award-winning alumni magazine connects you with Richmond in three issues each year. But we know your love for UR sometimes leaves you wanting more. That’s why we created UR Now.
UR Now is your weekly source for Spider stories. It’s a mix of news that keeps you informed of the latest exciting developments at UR along with engaging videos, stunning photography, and inspiring stories about our alumni, students, faculty, and sta .
Look for the UR Now news digest every Wednesday in your inbox. Not getting it? Go to urnow. richmond.edu to subscribe.
An artist and an advocate Alum Lindsay Adams uses her art to explore the complexities of living with a disability in her exhibition “Two Things Can Be True.” Read More >
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“I was in a triple, so three buzzes meant I had a phone call or visitor.”
—Judy Samuelson Shapleigh, W’72
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CURTIS DUBAY, ’02
One part data, one part art
Curtis Dubay, ’02, recently attended a career day for his son’s third grade class. His job is not the easiest thing to explain to elementary schoolers, though, as he is the chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
“The way I explained it to them is I look at what families are buying and what they’re doing at their jobs and what they’re doing when they’re not at work to determine how much of that activity is going on at any given time,” Dubay said. He joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in January of 2020 and says he’s been an economist in turbulent times most of his career. After graduating from the University of Richmond, he finished up graduate school in 2004 and joined the job market in 2005.
“Basically, the whole time it’s been an unusual economic period,” he said. “It’d be really nice to be doing this while things are normal, but I think it’s more fun to be doing it when it’s totally without precedent.”
That attitude guided him through the two biggest periods of economic disruption in his career: the 2008 recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. He’s always had a knack for numbers, and that passion helps him make recommendations about legislation for the chamber to support or oppose on behalf of businesses all over the country. Right now, though, his eyes are on the economic impact of COVID-19 and the labor market in the coming years. But, he says, their predictions can go only so far, as much of studying the economy is educated guesswork.
“I always tell people no economist really knows what’s going on at any given time,” Dubay said. “We’re always wrong about everything, and you just try to be the least wrong in the right direction.”
—Nicole Hansen
ASHLEY GIBB RAGGI, ’07
Big heart for Little Hands
For Ashley Gibb Raggi, ’07, becoming a mom gave her a deep-seated empathy for other moms.
That’s why in 2020, when she discovered a young nonprofit called Little Hands Virginia that delivers baby essentials directly to families in need, she wanted to be a part of it. Raggi soon became its director of operations, coordinating approximately 100 volunteers to serve more than 150 low- to-noincome families each month.
“I feel like this job was made just for me,” she said. “I love it so much. It’s such a tangible way to help people.”
LHV began in 2019 when its founder was on parental leave but found nowhere to donate items her baby no longer needed. The nonprofit has delivered necessities to over 1,500 children that help them to be safe, clean, and healthy.
“One of our main beliefs is ‘Quality is dignity,’” Raggi said. “Everything’s been thoroughly cleaned and inspected. Clothes have been washed. Our approach respects the dignity of families.”
To identify families in need, LHV partners with more than 60 organizations including the Virginia Department of Health and homeless shelters. With the help of donors, they stocked a formula pantry during the recent formula crisis and replenish diapers to local hospitals and nonprofits on an ongoing basis. Other donations include strollers, clothes, and a variety of baby supplies.
Many of the families that LHV helps speak languages other than English. Raggi, who double-majored in Spanish and rhetoric and communication studies, often communicates in Spanish. Her academic background has also provided perspective on some of the issues LHV families may be facing.
“My classes in rhetoric and communication encouraged me to think critically about the larger systems at play and how people are disproportionately impacted,” she said. “The deeper understanding I gained in my time at UR drives me in my work every day.”
—Whitney Cavin Asher, ’12
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“I am always excited to help a fellow Spider across Virginia and beyond. ”
—Kathryn Seashore Schmitt, B’85
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“We hope you have a few laughs at our expense, especially given what we are coming out of.”
—Lance Baldwin, B’91
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How high can you go?
Richmond was the site of a world record high jump in 1977. The jumper’s technique challenged the dominance of the now-ubiquitous Fosbury Flop.
Eight years after Neil Armstrong made his one giant leap onto the surface of the moon, another leap vaulted the University of Richmond onto sports pages around the world.
Admittedly less history-altering than Armstrong’s hop, this July 1977 leap during a track and eld meet on campus nonetheless set a new world record in the high jump. It also, in the words of Sports Illustrated, “rekindled the debate” thought to be settling in the discipline: How should high jumpers jump?
The record-setter was Ukrainian Vladimir Yashchenko, who was representing the Soviet Union during a junior meet against U.S. athletes held on a track where Robins Stadium is now.
For a week, approximately 150 of the best athletes age 19 and under from the two Cold War rivals lived in residence halls on campus, toured Busch Gardens, and swapped T-shirts. Fred Hardy, Richmond’s track coach, commented on the Soviets buying piles of blue jeans, which were then unavailable in the Soviet Union, but what
seemed to strike him most was the camaraderie among the athletes.
“The kids had no trouble relating,” he said. “Often, members of the opposing teams practiced together.”
Safe to say that no one expected a new world record to come out of the meet, but that’s exactly what happened when the 18-year-old Yashchenko ran toward a bar set at 7 feet, 7.75 inches (2.33 meters), sprang skyward off his left leg, rolled his body stomach-down in a graceful arc, and cleared the bar with his trailing foot.
Yashchenko’s style was called the straddle. Although it was a classic technique that long dominated the discipline, it had recently been eclipsed by the backward style of American Dick Fosbury, who won Olympic gold in Mexico City in 1968. After that, most elite jumpers began using the Fosbury Flop, as his technique was known.
Yashchenko’s new record — and the setting of a new women’s record the same year by another jumper using the straddle — forced athletes and coaches to take notice, but the Fosbury Flop continued to dominate
and remains the technique fans picture today when they think of high jumping. Yashchenko, who went on to break his own record twice, became known as “the last king of the straddle.”
Bill Jordan, R’53, was there on the record-setting day as an assistant UR track coach helping run the meet. He saw the jump from afar and knew it was high, but he didn’t realize he’d just witnessed a world record until a loud cheer went up and the announcement went out over the public address system. “That was how I found out,” said Jordan, who is now retired and enjoying his farm in Northern Virginia.
The Fosbury Flop was harder to teach because of its more complex step pattern on the approach, he said, but another critical development that made it possible was the landing surface. In the old days, leapers landed in a sawdust pit, a recipe for serious injury if you’re using the Fosbury Flop. As landing pads developed, got softer, and rose higher, “you could land any way you wanted,” he said.
But credit Yashchenko’s talent and tness, he said. “If you don’t have any spring in your legs, all the technique in the world won’t get you very high.”
Why didn’t Yashchenko adopt the Fosbury Flop like most elite jumpers of his generation? After his recordsetting jump, he told reporters that the straddle was the technique he learned when he started out and that he stuck with it because his idol, 1964 Olympic champion Valeriy Brumel, was a straddler. “I didn't want to switch,” he said.
By Matthew Dewald
Photograph by Larry Benfi eld
‘My life is not just mine’
Early childhood memories are fuzzy for Trân Thu Đoàn, ’10 — mostly flashes of moving from city to city, sleeping on couches and floors, sharing space with other Vietnamese refugee families.
“I didn’t have parents who read me bedtime stories or corrected my grammar,” she said. “I still struggle with English. When I came to the University of Richmond for college, I was a deer in the headlights.”
Her parents were refugees who fled Vietnam after the Vietnam War. Her father stole a boat as a teenager and lived in a refugee camp in Hong Kong for two years before coming to the U.S. Her mother bought her way onto a boat with her last money, but it flipped over in the Gulf of Thailand. She was rescued but then imprisoned. When she was released, she lived in the countryside for several years until her grandfather sponsored her to come to the U.S., where she met Đoàn’s father.
Because her parents speak only Vietnamese, Đoàn “devoured” books as a high school student in Pittsburgh. She applied to a few colleges recommended to her and came to Richmond as a Bonner Scholar, where she discovered the sciences.
“When I went to college, I didn’t know what professors were, and I didn’t know what research was,” Đoàn said. “My experience made me fall in love with research and made me really passionate about public health.”
She recently completed her doctorate, writing her dissertation on access to mental health care for adolescents. Though her parents spoke to her about their experiences escaping Vietnam, they never discussed mental health or post-traumatic stress disorder.
“There’s a trickle-down effect of parents’ mental health, grandparents’ mental health, that slips into future generations,” Đoàn said. “Hearing my parents’ stories around the dinner table affected my decisions because my life is not just mine. It’s ours. They fought so hard to be in the U.S.”
—Nicole Hansen
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TARIQ ABDUL-AKBAR, ’18
High-yield ideas
It’s an odd combination: Seaweed, slaughterhouse waste, and a young sociology graduate from West Baltimore working in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
But Tariq Abdul-Akbar, ’18, says his venture to create inexpensive organic fertilizer from seaweed and steer carcasses could not only ease an ongoing global fertilizer shortage, but help end food insecurity in developing nations. It shows such potential that his fledgling company, Firdous Biotech, is in the running for an innovation award from the Clinton Global Initiative.
Abdul-Akbar’s quest to build a better fertilizer began during an internship with the Australia Africa Business Council, a bilateral trade organization; at the time, he was a master’s student at Macquarie University in Sydney, just after graduating from UR. The job led him to think about food insecurity in general — and fertilizer in particular.
A lifelong science aficionado — his elementary school project involving earthworms won a Baltimore science fair — Abdul-Akbar, then living in Kenya, tinkered with seaweed, an East African export. High in phosphorus, it helps plants grow, but as a fertilizer, it needed a boost.
Inspiration came on a Zanzibar beach stroll in 2020 when he saw abattoir workers dump steer carcasses into the ocean. “The slaughterhouses are actually right near the coastline,” Abdul-Akbar says.
A few experiments later, Abdul-Akbar determined waste cow parts were the missing enhancement. Preliminary results are encouraging. “Farmers in Kenya were getting near-perfect tomatoes,” Abdul-Akbar says, and one farmer yielded 50 tons of “near-perfect” onions. Now, Abdul-Akbar is recruiting investors to grow manufacturing, and he credits his liberal arts education in part for his success.
“Although I was studying sociology, I did research in the neuroscience lab,” he says. “I had friends who were studying biology and chemistry.”
Besides, sociology and agriculture aren't that far apart. “Everybody’s got to eat,” he says.
—Joseph R. Williams, R’84
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11. Andrew Chiacchierini, ’00
12. Julie Jebo Grant, ’00
13. Kinte Smith, ’01
14. Vito Chiaravalloti, ’03
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How’ve you been?
Spiders’ notes have been in the magazine since 1936. Be part of the tradition. Once a Spider, always a Spider. Random Spider encounters • Births and deaths • New degrees and jobs — retirements, too • Fabulous vacations • Weekend getaways • Classmate reunions • Community service • Weddings and moves • Job losses, setbacks, and fresh starts of all kinds • Revelations, revelry, and reflections • Good reads • Photos, photos, and more photos • Simple notes to say hello
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UR achieves its 75th student Fulbright award
The university celebrated a milestone academic achievement in spring 2022 with the naming of its 75th student to receive a Fulbright. Congress created the Fulbright Program just after World War II, in 1946, to “increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship,” said its namesake, Sen. J. William Fulbright. Fulbright, the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program, sends U.S. students, teachers, and scholars abroad and brings foreign students, teachers, and scholars to the U.S. Participants are chosen for academic merit and leadership potential and travel around the world to study, teach, conduct research, and engage in other activities. Approximately 2,000 U.S. students are chosen for the program annually. More than 160 countries currently participate.
Countries where Spiders have used their Fulbrights
Canada: 1
Fulbright U.S. student: 2
Mexico: 6
Richmond’s first Fulbrighter, Leonard Greenspoon, R’67 and G’70, used his award in 1967 to study in Italy for a year. He went on to earn a doctorate at Harvard and has taught classics for 40 years, currently at Creighton University. Here’s a look at Spiders who followed him.
Czech Republic: 1
Germany: 11
Netherlands: 1
United Kingdom: 1
France: 1
Spain: 5
Morocco: 2
Austria: 2
Slovenia: 1
Ukraine: 2
Kazakhstan: 2
Mongolia: 1
Italy: 2
Switzerland: 1
Israel: 1
Cameroon: 1
Trinidad and Tobago: 2
Colombia: 2
Peru: 1
Chile: 1
Turkey: 1
Tajikistan: 1
India: 1
Kenya: 1
Brazil: 2
Uruguay: 1
Argentina: 2
Bangladesh: 1
Singapore: 1
China: 1
South Korea: 4
Taiwan: 2
Hong Kong: 1
Malaysia: 3
Indonesia: 3
Number of awards for English teaching assistantships
Highest number of awards in a single year (2018)
Number of awards delayed due to COVID-19 but later completed
Fulbright
Janelle Peifer Assistant Professor of Psychology
This Spider is giving voice to better mental health.
JANELLE PEIFER IS DEMYSTIFYING MENTAL HEALTH TALK for good. On HBO’s In Session: The In Treatment Podcast , she aims to make therapy approachable with a special interest in exploring the intersection of trauma and identity. Peifer’s goal: “To normalize conversations about depression, identity, trauma, resilience, coping, and all things mental health — particularly for Black and other people of color.”
See what’s within us and the impact we make. richmond.edu
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
the night before classes
by Jamie Betts
’Twas
Students kicked off the semester with the second annual Spider Drop in August. The dance party on the quad in front of Richmond Hall includes a New Year’s Eve-style countdown of an illuminated Spider that descends the front of Boatwright Tower.
