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Of working in two research labs, Liam Babcock, a VCU senior, said, “It’s exciting to see ideas become reality, especially knowing that my work could one day restore quality of life to people who need it.” (Jonathan Mehring, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

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.

Arjun (left) and Akash Jagdeesh, senior biology majors at VCU, work as emergency medical technicians for the Richmond Ambulance Authority. (Jonathan Mehring, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

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.

Students in a class focused on the poet John Milton visited historically significant sights related to the literature they were studying. Here, the group is in the Wren Library at Trinity College. (Contributed image)

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

College students working with the Television Academy Foundation’s The Interviews Curriculum for media studies. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Content Services)

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.

a crowd of students walking around outside of cabell library at v.c.u. on a sunny day

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.

The 10 Under 10 awards program celebrates notable alumni who have earned their first VCU degree within the past 10 years.

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.

SJ Sindu’s new graphic novel, “Tall Water,” is about an American teenager named Nimmi who is visiting Sri Lanka in 2004 when a tsunami strikes. (File photo)

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, Ph.D., a longtime English professor at VCU, died in September. Of Cornis-Pop, a former colleague said, “No one relished new ideas with more enthusiasm. And no one communicated that enthusiasm to students more genuinely.” (File photo)

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.

One thing Matt Balazik, Ph.D., has learned from a career studying Atlantic sturgeon is that there is always something new to discover. “Don’t think everything’s figured out,” he says. (Photo by Jamie Brunkow, James River Association)

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.