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Welcome new CHS faculty fellows

Sept. 25, 2026

Meet the new and continuing CHS faculty fellows advancing leadership in research, academic affairs, and faculty support.

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Five questions with African American Studies and English double major Zaniah Blakely

Sept. 24, 2026

Reading, writing, and community drives Blakely’s academic pursuits

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Blakely Wright combines history and anthropology to better understand the past

Sept. 22, 2026

Wright focuses on marginalized and underrepresented Indigenous histories

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VCU Launches the Baldacci Institute for Civil Discourse

Sept. 17, 2026

VCU has launched the Baldacci Institute for Civil Discourse, supported by a $13 million gift from Michelle and David Baldacci, to foster respectful nonpartisan dialogue and civic engagement across political differences in Virginia.

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VCU to screen true-crime documentary ‘Baby Doe’ with filmmaker

Sept. 16, 2026

Jessica Earnshaw will join College of Humanities and Sciences faculty for a panel after the Sept. 16 viewing in the Commons theater.

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PBS NewsHour anchor Geoff Bennett discusses impact of Black comedy

Sept. 10, 2026

CHS and the Robertson School will host broadcast news anchor Geoff Bennett for a conversation and book signing on his new book, "Black Out Loud."

The Distinguished Faculty Awards honorees will be recognized at the VCU Faculty Recognition Gala on Tuesday, Oct. 27.

VCU honors seven with 2026 Distinguished Faculty Awards

Aug. 27, 2026

Their work touches on medicine, the humanities, public service and education.

This summer, Aarushi Rao worked with Guangwei Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Medicine, to develop a tool that helps researchers analyze screening images from experiments more efficiently. (Dean Hoffmeyer, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

In VCU neuroscience lab, undergraduate Aarushi Rao brought brainpower to new software

Aug. 27, 2026

The sophomore Honors College student and biology major spent her summer with researcher Guangwei Zhang, developing a tool to improve analysis of images.

The VCU Convergence Team Planning Grant Program is reserved for projects of three or more full-time faculty from at least two different schools or colleges that focus on problems that defy single-discipline solutions. (Adobe Stock)

VCU Convergence awards nearly 70 faculty members $150,000 in seed grants

Aug. 26, 2026

The projects supported through the grants bring different perspectives together to tackle complex, ‘wicked problems’ that no single discipline can solve.

VCU’s third annual Humanities Week to explore the theme of repair

Aug. 26, 2026

Hosted by the Humanities Research Center, the Sept. 8-11 program examines reckoning with history and moving toward healing.