Undergraduate Student News

The Summer@Rice group at the North Lookout on Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania, home of the longest-running raptor hawk migration count in the world. (Contributed photo)

Students’ summer field research gets a payoff in the fall

Sept. 11, 2025

Summer@Rice program hosted by VCU’s Rice Rivers Center offers experiential ecology that carries into the new semester – and it comes with a stipend.

A still image from “Blinders,” one of several student films that will be screened at the Richmond International Film Festival as part of a new program, (CAP)SULE. (Contributed image)

Richmond film festival to feature recent VCU graduates

Sept. 10, 2025

Their short documentaries from a Robertson School media production class will be screened on Sept. 24.

In July, third-year political science majors Ella Milton-Benoit and Rebecca Weil took part in the Summer Leadership Institute sponsored by Virginia21. (Contributed photo)

Political science students get crash course in community leadership

Sept. 4, 2025

Undergraduates Ella Milton-Benoit and Rebecca Weil bring lessons from statewide summer institute back to VCU.

VCU senior Emily Colbert served an internship this summer with the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. (Contributed photo)

Emily Colbert gets a closeup of higher ed through APLU summer internship

Aug. 18, 2025

The environmental studies and biology student supported the esteemed university organization’s health and human services unit.

Faith Parker called her neuroscience internship at Boston University “a one-of-a-kind experience.” (Contributed photo)

Faith Parker relished her brain-tester of a summer

Aug. 14, 2025

In Boston, the VCU senior delved into neuroscience, surgery and research, with support from the Internship Funding Program.

Burhan Buttar served an internship this summer at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, an academic medical center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (Contributed photo)

Burhan Buttar deepens his interest in medical career with internship at Wake Forest

Aug. 7, 2025

Buttar is exploring different paths for where his pre-med track could take him. His recent internship was focused on dermatology and gave him invaluable experience.

Students from the NASA Student Airborne Research Program flew missions across Virginia this summer to support the agency’s Earth science goals. (Milan Loiacono, NASA)

NASA student scientist training program takes flight at VCU

Aug. 6, 2025

Undergraduates from across the country landed on campus this summer for the Student Airborne Research Program, hosted by VCU’s College of Humanities and Sciences.

Bashar Hauter, Kashaf Baig, Oniya Smith and Naeem Ahmed are among the VCU students taking part in the Summer Academic Enrichment Program this year. (Contributed photo)

Summer program steels students for demanding health sciences studies

Aug. 4, 2025

VCU’s Summer Academic Enrichment Program has a proven history of giving undergraduates a critical boost toward pursuing doctoral degrees in dentistry, medicine, pharmacy and physical therapy.

This summer, Nic Carwile is participating in a research internship in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. (Contributed photo)

Family ties, including a father’s illness, propel a son’s research journey

July 8, 2025

VCU biology major Nic Carwile finds special resonance in his prestigious summer internship in Germany.

Alexis Washington is a news intern with NBC station WWBT this summer through an Association of Virginia Broadcasters program. (Contributed photo)

Alexis Washington is sporting experience from the TV studio

June 30, 2025

Framed by summer internships, the broadcast journalism student will help VCU Athletics in the fall.