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Peter Zucker, Ph.D., (M.S. ’81, Ph.D. ’83) is paying it forward with gratitude

Sept. 22, 2025

The Department of Psychology alumnus reflects on his educational journey, its influence on his career in organization attunement and the joy of helping current students.

Students taking part in this summer’s Civil Rights Trail trip had the opportunity to attend a lecture at the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Georgia. (Contributed photo).

Civil Rights Trail trip is historical and personal for VCU students

Sept. 17, 2025

The summer journey from the Department of Political Science is experiential learning and, for senior Alexandra Hardesty and others, a reinforcement of passion.

Nelson Wikstrom, the educator, researcher, author and public speaker, impressed colleagues and students alike with his vast political science knowledge. (File photo)

Nelson Wikstrom, longtime professor of political science, dies at 85

Sept. 16, 2025

The former department chair co-authored a leading textbook on intergovernmental relations.

Heather Jones, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology, co-directs the Primary Care Psychology Training Collaborative. (Contributed photo)

VCU professor awarded two grants totaling $3.6M to help build the behavioral health workforce

Sept. 16, 2025

VCU’s Primary Care Psychology Training Collaborative serves both patients in need and future counselors.

Students Jimmy Perez Hernandez, Savvy Figueroa, Layla Hashish and Ashley Dominguez helped to collect donated items, which will be provided to Southwood Apartments residents. (Contributed photo)

VCU students help collect sweatshirts and more for local families

Sept. 12, 2025

The recent donation drive connects the classroom to the community, College of Humanities and Sciences organizer says.

The Summer@Rice group at the North Lookout on Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania, home of the longest-running raptor hawk migration count in the world. (Contributed photo)

Students’ summer field research gets a payoff in the fall

Sept. 11, 2025

Summer@Rice program hosted by VCU’s Rice Rivers Center offers experiential ecology that carries into the new semester – and it comes with a stipend.

A still image from “Blinders,” one of several student films that will be screened at the Richmond International Film Festival as part of a new program, (CAP)SULE. (Contributed image)

Richmond film festival to feature recent VCU graduates

Sept. 10, 2025

Their short documentaries from a Robertson School media production class will be screened on Sept. 24.

VCU announces recipients of 2025 faculty awards for scholarship, teaching excellence

Sept. 10, 2025

Interim Provost Beverly J. Warren today announced 30 winners of VCU’s National/International Recognition Awards and 25 winners of the Excellence in Pedagogical Innovation Awards.

In July, third-year political science majors Ella Milton-Benoit and Rebecca Weil took part in the Summer Leadership Institute sponsored by Virginia21. (Contributed photo)

Political science students get crash course in community leadership

Sept. 4, 2025

Undergraduates Ella Milton-Benoit and Rebecca Weil bring lessons from statewide summer institute back to VCU.

Biology graduate student Kyleigh Johnson takes a sample at Swan Lake. (Thomas Kojcsich/Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

VCU research in action: Finding answers in the algae in Richmond’s lakes

Aug. 22, 2025

Researchers wade into the fluorescent blooms of summer, which threaten human health and the region’s waterways.