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How I found my research: Liam Babcock savors the challenges and lessons of discovery
Oct. 28, 2025
The biology major is working in research labs investigating therapeutics on the MCV Campus.
VCU twins are a double-dose of health care service as EMTs and researchers
Oct. 27, 2025
Akash and Arjun Jagdeesh connect campus, community and cancer insights along the Honors College path toward medical school.
VCU students follow in John Milton’s footsteps — literally
Oct. 24, 2025
Summer study abroad program from the Department of English embraces the life and times of the ‘Paradise Lost’ poet
TV icons have creatively joined a new Robertson School course
Oct. 22, 2025
Archival interviews from the Television Academy Foundation are at the heart of a modern curriculum built by professor Joshua J. Smith.

Grant supports fast-track development of open textbook
Oct. 21, 2025
Faculty in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies are partnering with VCU Libraries to produce a new openly licensed textbook for GSWS 201 students.
VCU Alumni 10 Under 10 award recipients to be honored for noteworthy achievements
Oct. 21, 2025
Distinguished graduates from throughout the university will be recognized at a private ceremony Oct. 25.
Family, war and a tsunami propel ‘Tall Water,’ SJ Sindu’s new graphic novel
Oct. 20, 2025
The VCU creative writing professor from Sri Lanka says her latest work stems in part from the responsibility she feels to bear witness to ‘the horrors and the joys of the world.’

Marina Pugh (B.A. ’20) uses professional and volunteer experience to enhance political campaign operations
Oct. 17, 2025
The School of World Studies and Department of Philosophy alumna worked in political campaigns across Virginia and served in the Peace Corps in Kosovo.
Marcel Cornis-Pop, a leader in VCU humanities education, dies at 79
Oct. 16, 2025
The Romanian-born scholar served as chair of the Department of English and established the interdisciplinary doctoral program in media, art and text.
He is bringing the Atlantic sturgeon back from the brink
Oct. 16, 2025
VCU conservation biologist Matt Balazik strengthens the future for a prehistoric fish – in the James River and around the world.