Julie Pollock, associate professor of chemistry, has received the 2025 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. The Dreyfus Foundation is dedicated to advancing the chemical sciences and established the Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award to support the research of outstanding early career faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions.
Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, was named a University of Richmond Center for Liberal Arts and AI (CLAAI) 2025-2026 Fellow.
Julie Pollock, associate professor of chemistry, co-hosted an episode of the National Academy of Sciences LabX's YouTube series "Chemists in the Kitchen." The episode focuses on how the humble carrot changes while cooking, creating the perfect fall soup.
Marcella Torres, teaching faculty of mathematics, and Shannon Jones, senior teaching faculty of biology, along with students Aamy Bakry, '24, and Emma Brashear, '27, published "Development of a mathematical model of the innate immune response to inhaled toxicants" in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.
Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, received the 2025 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.
Michelle Hamm, professor of chemistry, received the 2025 Distinguished Faculty Service Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.
Colleen Carpenter-Swanson, assistant professor of Biology, along with students, Audrey Breckenridge, '25, Sanskriti Basnyat, '26, and Eva Fitch, '25, published “Validating the antiseizure effects of vitexin and related flavone glycosides in zebrafish” in Frontiers in Pharmacology.
Julie Pollock, associate professor of chemistry and Beth Zizzamia, Spatial Analysis Lab GIS operations manager, along with Hannah Parker '23, published "An Online Interactive Map of Human Metabolic Pathways and Associated Genetic Disorders as a Tool for the Biochemistry Classroom" in the Journal of Chemical Education.
Omar Quintero-Carmona, associate professor of biology, and John Warrick, associate professor of biology published "Transcriptomic Analysis of CAD Cell Differentiation" in MicroPublication Biology, along with students Lillie Wendt '26, Carlos Cevallos, '17, Anna Leigh White, '20, Brooke Fazio, '21 and GC '22, Jasmine Feng, '20, and Dora Posfai, '13.
John Peters, a biology professor at the University of Richmond, has received a National Science Foundation award to support his neuroscience research on the mechanisms of learning and memory.
