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The Blackbird team is exploring new ground with the launch of the Blackbird Literary Podcast, which offers a multidimensional experience designed to bring each page to life. (Contributed photo)

Blackbird literary journal team launches multidimensional podcast

Aug. 13, 2025

Through performative readings and music composition, the new format brings the written word to life.

Anne de Marcken is the author of the novel “It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over.” (Photo by Nina Subin)

Anne de Marcken wins the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for ‘It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over’

Aug. 11, 2025

De Marcken will receive the prize, which is now in its 24th year, during a public event at VCU on Nov. 5.

In a new virtual lecture series, VCU’s Grace Gipson explores the Afrofuturism movement’s evolution as well as its many forms and contributors. (Contributed photo)

From fashion to funk, virtual lecture series explores Afrofuturism

Aug. 8, 2025

In a six-part exclusive on Audible, VCU’s Grace Gipson gives shape to how a movement has influenced our culture.

Burhan Buttar served an internship this summer at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, an academic medical center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (Contributed photo)

Burhan Buttar deepens his interest in medical career with internship at Wake Forest

Aug. 7, 2025

Buttar is exploring different paths for where his pre-med track could take him. His recent internship was focused on dermatology and gave him invaluable experience.

Students from the NASA Student Airborne Research Program flew missions across Virginia this summer to support the agency’s Earth science goals. (Milan Loiacono, NASA)

NASA student scientist training program takes flight at VCU

Aug. 6, 2025

Undergraduates from across the country landed on campus this summer for the Student Airborne Research Program, hosted by VCU’s College of Humanities and Sciences.

Bashar Hauter, Kashaf Baig, Oniya Smith and Naeem Ahmed are among the VCU students taking part in the Summer Academic Enrichment Program this year. (Contributed photo)

Summer program steels students for demanding health sciences studies

Aug. 4, 2025

VCU’s Summer Academic Enrichment Program has a proven history of giving undergraduates a critical boost toward pursuing doctoral degrees in dentistry, medicine, pharmacy and physical therapy.

Emma Cummings processes a bird as part of her responsibilities during an internship at Assateague Island National Seashore off the coast of Maryland. (National Park Service)

Recent VCU grad Emma Cummings is bonding, and banding, with the birds

July 24, 2025

In Yellowstone this season, the National Park Service staffer is powered by a lifelong interest in nature and avian ecology lessons from the Rice Rivers Center.

Fulbright recipients from VCU will travel to Argentina, Bulgaria, Germany, Nigeria and Taiwan during the 2025-26 academic year. (File photo)

Five recent graduates receive prestigious Fulbright awards for the 2025-26 academic year

July 23, 2025

The selections continue VCU’s upward trend of honorees in the federal cultural exchange program.

Michelle Peace, Ph.D., wants consumers to be informed about what they are putting into their lungs when they use vaping and cannabis products. (Nathan Hanger, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Her mission: Clearing the air about the hidden danger in vapes

July 14, 2025

Mold? Nail polish remover? VCU forensic toxicologist Michelle Peace is unearthing what’s truly inside the unregulated products that are billed as alternatives to smoking.

Genealogist Viola Baskerville taught students in the Gabriel Summer Institute how to research their own family history. (Jonathan Mehring, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Gabriel Summer Institute helps high school students uncover their roots

July 9, 2025

The VCU program explored Richmond’s Black history and taught genealogy research skills.