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Black History in the Making alumni Dr. Eloise Berry

Black History in the Making Award alumni highlight: Catch up with 1997 award recipient, Eloise Berry

Feb. 13, 2025

For Black History Month, we’re shining a spotlight on Black History in the Making Award recipients.

Jatia Wrighten, Ph.D. and Alexandra Reckendorf, Ph.D., talked to students about political and social movements during their session in the U.S. Democracy United/Divided course. (Kevin Morley, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

For the many layers of American democracy, new course taps into the many layers of VCU faculty expertise

Feb. 13, 2025

Nearly three dozen specialists in the College of Humanities and Sciences are collectively teaching U.S Democracy United/Divided this semester – and organizers think the concept will evolve.

School salad bars encourage kids to make healthier choices, according to new VCU research. (Getty Images)

School salad bars raise fruit intake among kids and benefit economically diverse schools, VCU researchers find

Feb. 13, 2025

Their latest study, centered on a Virginia school district, adds to evidence that salad bars are encouraging healthier dietary choices in the school cafeteria.

Aashka Patel was one of four VCU undergraduate student researchers to present their work as part of an inaugural showcase at the General Assembly Building. (Kevin Morley, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Hoping to inspire change, VCU undergraduates highlight their research for Virginia lawmakers

Feb. 12, 2025

Three projects, which touched on health and the environment, were part of a statewide showcase Feb. 6 at Capitol Square during the annual General Assembly session.

Phillip Glass, a physics graduate student, shows off pressure sensors on a glove, part of a suite of wearable prototypes to help patients with Parkinson’s disease. (Kevin Morley, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

From fingers to toes, wearable and vibrating technology from VCU inventors could help Parkinson’s patients and others

Feb. 12, 2025

The flexible, lightweight glove and 3D-printed shoe sole might restore the brain-body feedback loop that mobility conditions can disrupt.

Tom Robbins and his wife, Alexa D'Avalon, visit James Branch Cabell Library in 2012. (VCU Libraries Gallery)

The legacy of the singular American writer Tom Robbins lives on at VCU

Feb. 12, 2025

The 1959 graduate died this week at age 92, but VCU Libraries is home to his papers, which capture the vibrant voice and irreverent spirit reflected in ‘Even Cowgirls Get the Blues’ and other works.

Paige Dossett and Samuel Dobbs, who married in 2016, met as students near VCU’s Monroe Park Campus. (Contributed photo)

Unbreakable bonds: Their time at VCU was ‘a real blessing’ for alums Samuel Dobbs and Paige Dossett — even if their first date was a bit of a stretch

Feb. 11, 2025

The couple, who married in 2016, met by chance as students and never looked back.

Erin Washington and Myia Graves were just looking for a roommate when they met. What they ended up finding was a best friend. (Kevin Morley, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Unbreakable bonds: How Myia Graves and Erin Washington went from roommates to besties

Feb. 11, 2025

What started as a DM on Instagram turned into a friendship full of musicals, late-night videogames and endless fun.

Sally Hunnicutt, who retired in September, speaks at the opening of the STEM Building in 2023. Hunnicutt played a role in the building’s conception and development. (Kevin Morley, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Sally Hunnicutt retires after a career teaching students ‘how scientists see the world’

Feb. 10, 2025

Hunnicutt served in the Department of Chemistry for 26 years, earning a reputation for ‘creating that positive momentum in a student’s life that can change their life trajectory.’ Two spaces in the STEM Building bear her name.

Political science major Brianna Cobbs spent the fall semester traveling back-and-forth from Washington, D.C., for a communications internship with CNN. (Thomas Kojcsich, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

VCU student Brianna Cobbs gets semester-long crash course in political reporting

Feb. 5, 2025

During CNN internship, the second-year political science major contributed to the newsroom and even helped out on Election Day.