Undergraduate Student News
New graduate takes leadership roles advocating for women and social justice
May 23, 2022
Stephanie Villanueva-Villar said she will always advocate to ensure that girls and women of color have a seat at the table ‘no matter what career position or job title I may have in the future.’
Class of 2022: Samia Saleem selected as VCU’s student speaker for commencement
May 9, 2022
Saleem plans to celebrate her classmates’ resilience and remind them that each new day is “an opportunity to try again.”
Class of 2022: Commuting hundreds of miles per week, Trevohn Robinson has the drive to succeed in chemistry
May 6, 2022
Graduating senior Robinson credits his mentors at VCU, his parents and his Honda Civic as he prepares for a doctoral degree and career as a chemist.
Building a sustainable urban park – from the ground up
May 6, 2022
How a class of VCU students’ research – on soil to vegetation and everything in between – is laying the groundwork for the Science Museum of Virginia to develop the sustainable green space of the future
Students triumph at prestigious interprofessional case competition
April 28, 2022
CLARION Case Competition focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in health care.
![Erika Misseri is developing an app that will help voters see who's donating to their local candidates' campaigns. "You could pull up, for example, the mayor [of your local community] and see his stockholdings, if he has them, who he is married to, his recent tweets, his vote history, who’s donating to him based on what industry they’re in and who else [those donors] are donating to," she said. (Allen Jones, University Marketing)](https://news.vcu.edu/image/2BBBD413-AD28-4E8D-A9F1-F61960CD3EAB/tn)
Undergraduate co-founds, leads nonprofit to give U.S. voters easier access to info on local candidates’ campaign finances
April 22, 2022
Now building an app for her nonprofit, Erika Misseri credits a VCU course that ‘changed her life’ for encouraging her to pursue research.
Class of 2022: Kendall Gehring is driven to solve cold cases with forensic anthropology
April 22, 2022
“I’ve always loved puzzles,” says Gehring, who has had two internships with the FBI and has been a leader in VCU’s Department of Forensic Science.
Class of 2022: One conversation led to exciting research projects and ‘a new passion’
April 18, 2022
“I’m not sure that I’d even be the person I am today if I had not done this research. It changed my way of thinking,” said Steph Cull, who graduates in May.
How do bones change in outer space? This chemistry major is doing research to find out
April 14, 2022
Lovell Abraham’s hard work earned him a VCU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program fellowship and an award in last fall’s undergraduate poster symposium.
Meet-a-Ram: Atuahene Adu-Gyamfi and Roland Kusi
April 7, 2022
Duo finds success at VCU and creates podcast to tell their stories.