Graduate Student News
Navy veteran and VCU doctoral student Jennifer Weggen is serving her military colleagues on many fronts
Nov. 8, 2023
Her research focus on PTSD, traumatic brain injury and heart health, and her work with student and alumni military groups, reflect a longstanding passion with family roots.
3D-printed hairs: Ph.D. candidate, professor developing tiny sensors to detect flow and environmental changes
Oct. 20, 2023
Uses could include surgical robots that better detect minute changes in pressure or temperature, industrial machines that measure air or water flow, a robot that reads braille, or debris detection on a highly sensitive camera lens.
VCU communications professional Gary Garbett is named a Fulbright Specialist
Sept. 27, 2023
He will bring his creative talents and Technology Services experience to international projects.
VCU awarded $3 million from the NIH to continue research training of students underrepresented in the sciences
Sept. 21, 2023
Two renewed grants, which support undergraduate and graduate students in pursuing biomedical and behavioral research, highlight VCU’s national standing.
Welcome to the Ramily
Sept. 13, 2023
Get to know a few of this year’s roughly 8,000 new students who add to VCU’s diverse and expansive community.
From surf, turf and sky, NASA and VCU’s Rice Rivers Center deliver an immersive summer experience for undergraduates
June 29, 2023
In its inaugural session on the East Coast, the environmental research program taps VCU expertise and facilities to give 22 students from across the nation a hands-on role in high-level work.
Class of 2023: Allison Bennett Dyche found few resources on how to teach podcasting to college students. So she created her own.
May 11, 2023
Dyche, who is earning a Ph.D. in Media, Art and Text, is “at the forefront of a growing conversation about how universities can help prepare students for careers in this growing industry,” her dissertation director says.
Students curate fellow students’ work in new VCUarts exhibition
May 5, 2023
The exhibition offers history and museum studies graduate students some hands-on experience in spotlighting the work of their studio-based peers.
Class of 2023: Otis Fulton, who played basketball at UVA, has a lifelong passion for understanding why people behave the way they do
April 6, 2023
In May, the 65-year-old VCU alum will receive his Ph.D. in social psychology from the College of Humanities and Sciences.
Founder of Black History in the Making Awards urges newest recipients to fight for truth
March 3, 2023
Daryl Dance, who started the awards in 1983, says, “Many of the major victories in African American history either began with college students or were joined and supported by college students throughout our nation.”