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  Producing Opera: Staging the Human Condition

  Nimisha Bangalore, Jennifer Cable, Bryan Carapucci, Maria Navarro Castillo, Jane Cleland, Shanna Gerlach, Alexandra Harter, Madison Kloster, Joanne Kong, Paige Levine, Carl Lingerfelt, Jacob Litt, Kate McCarthy, Richard O'Flynn, Torey Bates Samuel, Susan Shepardson, Johann Stegmeir, and Duncan S. Trawick

  Research and Capstone Project for the University of Richmond SSIR (Sophomore Scholars in Residence) Program.
  What better than to use the knowledge gained during the first semester to stage a production during the second semester? Students worked together to produce a 30-minute opera/musical theatre scenes program, completing all aspects of the production themselves: auditioning singers, casting, directing (stage and music directing), costume design and building, set design and building, lighting design and installation, promotional materials and finally, offering their production to the campus community. Faculty mentors assisted as needed, offering direction and guidance across the course of the semester.

  (Course: Producing Opera: Staging the Human Condition)

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  "Stitching Life Together” A Capstone Project

  Jane M. Berry, Alex Bruno, Elizabeth Cooper, Stephanie Elmaleh, Olivia Lavin, Mallory Haskins, Peter Kade, Adrian Matthews, Gibran Merchant, Rachel Morris, Pascaline Munezero, Henna Ragoowansi, Alexandra Serek, William Tague, Ben Weinstein, and Emily Wu

  Our Sophomore Scholars in Residence class, Longevity and Happiness, made a quilt for its capstone project. Each member of the class (15 students, 1 faculty) designed and then sewed together a 12 x 12 inch square, based on a particular person or theme from the course. Most of the squares depict the lives of individuals we met and interviewed over the year, including several from Canada, where we traveled for fall break to interview the exceptionally long-lived individuals in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. We also interviewed several individuals from Richmond, VA. Throughout the spring semester, we learned and practiced our sewing skills, bought fabric, visited quilting stores, and finally stitched together the squares to batting and backing to create our capstone quilt for its presentation as part of the 2018 Arts & Sciences Student Symposium. The quilt traveled to Nova Scotia in June 2018 as part of a Summer Research Fellowship project awarded to SSIR students Elizabeth Cooper, Mallory Haskins, and Peter Kade. These students returned to Lunenburg to conduct follow-up research based on their coursework in Longevity and Happiness, and shared the quilt with some of our interviewees from the trip to Nova Scotia in October 2018. The quilt will hang in Richmond Hall, Department of Psychology, University of Richmond.

  (Course: Longevity and Happiness)

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  The System: Reimagining Richmond: Diversity at the University of Richmond

  Maxim Ermoshkin, Sariah Gonzalez, Taylor Hoogsteden, and Brooke Sommers

  Research and Capstone projects for The System

  Building on the 2017 fall semester and insights from the trip to Los Angeles, student working groups will predict the future of a system or related issue for an audience of their peers, offering reflections on navigating that future. These projects might take the form of posters, video installations, original speculative fiction, or mixed media that will be incorporated into the atmosphere of a campus party, both to maximize the student audience, and to celebrate our determination for an exciting future.

  (Course: The System)

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  The System: Social Group

  Lilly Alemayehu, Kyla Coleman, Abdoulaye Diallo, Katie Gallagher, Jennifer Munnings, Tracy Naschek, and Camryn Travis

  Research and Capstone projects

  Building on the 2017 fall semester and insights from the Fall 2017 trip to Los Angeles, student working groups will predict the future of a system or related issue for an audience of their peers, offering reflections on navigating that future. These projects might take the form of posters, video installations, original speculative fiction, or mixed media that will be incorporated into the atmosphere of a campus party, both to maximize the student audience, and to celebrate our determination for an exciting future.

  (Course: The System)

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  The System: The Administration Presentation

  Anthony Isenhour, Lanqin Wang, Carissa Gurgul, and Alice Vo

  Research and Capstone projects

  Building on the 2017 fall semester and insights from the Fall 2017 trip to Los Angeles, student working groups will predict the future of a system or related issue for an audience of their peers, offering reflections on navigating that future. These projects might take the form of posters, video installations, original speculative fiction, or mixed media that will be incorporated into the atmosphere of a campus party, both to maximize the student audience, and to celebrate our determination for an exciting future.

  (Course: The System)