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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.

This summer, Nic Carwile is participating in a research internship in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. (Contributed photo)

Family ties, including a father’s illness, propel a son’s research journey

July 8, 2025

VCU biology major Nic Carwile finds special resonance in his prestigious summer internship in Germany.

Robert Sims, who recently retired as a professor in the School of World Studies, joined VCU’s foreign languages department in 1976. (Contributed photo)

Robert Sims, an architect of VCU’s Spanish studies, retires after a half-century

July 3, 2025

The School of World Studies professor influenced countless students – and donated thousands of books to VCU Libraries.

Chris Gough appointed director of the VCU Rice Rivers Center

July 1, 2025

Gough is a biology professor and graduate program director in the School of Life Sciences and Sustainability.

A new article argues that the field of psychology should stop using “dark” to describe antisocial traits. (Getty Images)

Psychologists urge an end to labeling antisocial traits as ‘dark’

June 30, 2025

A VCU professor and colleagues argue in a scholarly article that the term is stigmatizing, misleading and problematic.