Alum and Donor News
New scholarship will support students and honor a longtime LGBTQIA+ champion
June 23, 2021
The Dorothy Fillmore Scholarship will help VCU students actively engaged with the LGBTQIA+ community who face housing instability, food insecurity, tuition issues or other financial hurdles.
Enjoli and Sesha Joi Moon’s JXN Project is an effort to tell Black Richmond stories ‘truthfully and completely’
June 16, 2021
Their work, which celebrates 150 years of history in Jackson Ward, is capturing the neighborhood's pivotal role in the evolution of the Black American experience.
In memoriam: Philanthropist and alum Dorothy Pauley. She ‘carried an air of happiness everywhere she went.’
May 24, 2021
The longtime university benefactor was the namesake — along with her husband, Stan — of VCU Health Pauley Heart Center and also helped lay the foundation for the VCU College of Engineering.
Class of 2021: Problem solver Carlos David Jimenez Morales wants to make an impact on health care
May 5, 2021
Later this month, he will become the first graduate of VCU’s Graduate Certificate in Health Care Innovation program.
‘It takes a village to succeed’: Student earns national scholarship to finish her Ph.D.
April 30, 2021
Josly Pierre-Louis’ parents immigrated to America from Haiti. Their daughter, a VCU grad, is the rising tide for all boats when it comes to her success in chemistry and health research.
The Jenas give to honor VCU’s impact on their family
April 26, 2021
Tripti Jena, M.D., and Purusottam “Puru” Jena, Ph.D., credit much of their family’s well-being to the careers and community they found when they joined Virginia Commonwealth University in 1980.
What would Donna Reed do?
March 26, 2021
VCU graduate Annie Newton discusses “The Donna Reed Show” and how Reed, a celebrated actress, shaped feminism in the 1950s and 60s.
Ana Edwards is preserving Black history — and sharing it with others
Feb. 23, 2021
The VCU alumna and chair of the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project, will receive the VCU history department’s highest honor for graduate alumni March 18.
Women are changing the advertising industry, and it’s leading to better, more authentic ads
Feb. 5, 2021
As another Super Bowl comes and goes, a VCU Robertson School panel says improving gender diversity in advertising is leading to better storytelling and more opportunities for underrepresented voices.