Graduate Student News
VCU honors society wins national award for project focused on supporting children with incarcerated parents
Feb. 21, 2023
“Working to improve the lives of children of incarcerated parents from the Richmond community was a perfect way to try to help our community,” said Steph Cull, one of the student leaders of VCU’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi.
Class of 2022: Four standouts in research training program for underrepresented students earn their doctorates
Dec. 9, 2022
The Initiative for Maximizing Student Development program at VCU expands opportunities for biomedical students from historically excluded groups. Four Ph.D. students from the program will be graduating this month, the biggest class in its history.
VCU forensic science department wins three research awards
Nov. 16, 2022
Scientists, who each worked in VCU’s Forensic Toxicology Research lab, honored at Society of Forensic Toxicologists meeting.
Divorce or relationship discord between parents may indicate children’s genetic risk for future alcohol misuse
Nov. 16, 2022
A study, co-authored by a VCU developmental psychology doctoral student and a Rutgers researcher, found that experiencing adversities around divorce and marital discord can be “one pathway through which genetic risk for alcohol problems is passed from parents to their children.”
History buff and VCU graduate student Jacques Moore is fascinated with the British monarchy
Oct. 19, 2022
His interest led him to co-author a book that celebrated the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s reign.
Angela Lehman helps untangle Virginia’s school desegregation history
Oct. 7, 2022
Graduate student now eyes career related to museum or historic site work.
Adults who misused alcohol as teens report dissatisfaction and poor health in midlife, study finds
Sept. 27, 2022
A Virginia Commonwealth University- and Rutgers-led study of more than 2,700 pairs of twins showed the consequences of drinking in adolescence for health can last decades.
Students triumph at prestigious interprofessional case competition
April 28, 2022
CLARION Case Competition focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in health care.
Unfolding history: VCU students contribute to massive Holocaust research project
Jan. 11, 2022
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s History Unfolded project is using crowdsourcing to better understand what Americans knew about the Holocaust from reading local newspapers.