Read up on the NSF director's visit to campus, the launch of the Institute for Sustainable Energy and Environment, a philosophy summer camp for high school students and more.
Emanuele Alves, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Forensic Sciences, is working to develop a faster, more effective breathalyzer for THC, the component of cannabis most associated with its psychoactive effects.
Grace Gipson, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies, is a pop culture scholar and Black future feminist who studies representation around race and gender in comic books, music, film and television.
Our faculty members in the College of Humanities and Sciences are an amazing group of educators, academics and researchers. Here are just a few faculty news and publication highlights from the year.
When not in the classroom, our faculty can be found participating in ground-breaking research. Here is a sampling of some of the many grants funded during the 2022-23 fiscal year.
Christine Singleton fell in love with literature at a young age, but the sudden death of her father caused her to leave school early. When she was ready to return, she discovered the Mellon Pathways Program, which ultimately led her to VCU and the Department of English.
Before she became a leader of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on Capitol Hill, Sesha Joi Moon, Ph.D., served as a student leader at VCU and became one of the first students to earn a degree from the Department of African American Studies.
