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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.

Iresha Picot started a cycling group for Black women and girls in Philadelphia, and it quickly grew in popularity. She also teaches bike maintenance and bike cycling classes because she said, “I want the women to feel like cyclists.” (Contributed photo)

Meet-a-Ram: Iresha Picot makes a mark from mental health to media, from self-care to cycling

Aug. 26, 2026

The 2007 alum has established deep roots and a wide footprint in Philadelphia.

The entrance to Auschwitz I. As an intern with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Michael Farfan worked in Block 24, the brick building directly to the left. (Photo by Michael Farfan)

Michael Farfan explores history in the heart of inhumanity at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Aug. 25, 2026

The VCU senior embraced his summer internship at the Holocaust memorial and museum in Poland.

Shift Education Lab seeks to address a critical opportunity: moving from traditional forms of instruction to more innovative methods that prepare learners to be scientifically literate and to thrive in a modern technological society. (File photo)

Shift Education Lab brings innovation to the evolving K-12 landscape

Aug. 24, 2026

From STEM to study abroad, the VCU hub embraces creativity and collaboration with community partners.

The goal of VCU’s new AI literacy course is to give students the tools to make informed choices without giving up their privacy, judgment or creativity. (Getty Images)

New AI literacy course takes VCU students behind the screen

Aug. 21, 2026

The interdisciplinary offering helps them ‘evaluate what AI produces and make informed choices.’

During a research internship with the St. John’s Church Foundation, Lena Nagle She examined historical records, vestry records and inscriptions on headstones and created educational content, including a presentation on the first Church Hill tunnel collapse of January 1873. (Dean Hoffmeyer, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Lena Nagle explores the grim and the grand of Richmond history

Aug. 20, 2026

The VCUarts senior, who embraces the city’s colorful past, spent a summer research internship delving into St. John’s Church.

Nearly 50 VCU faculty honored for their research and teaching

Aug. 20, 2026

The 2026 NIRA and PEIA awardees elevate VCU’s reputation and the student learning experience.