Faculty Research News

One VCU Research Weeks 2023 is designed to showcase and amplify the impact of the research, scholarship and creative work contributed by VCU faculty, students, trainees and staff.

VCU celebrates innovation with One VCU Research Weeks 2023

March 20, 2023

Numerous events will showcase VCU’s unstoppable pursuit of knowledge, creativity and scholarship.

Qingguo Xu, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics of the School of Pharmacy, was one of six recipients of the fall 2022 round of TechTransfer and Ventures’ Commercialization Fund Awards. (Tom Kojcsich, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Drug delivery, new therapies, AI, VR: Array of VCU inventors receive Commercialization Fund awards

Feb. 28, 2023

Cholesterol drug may help treat eye disorders.

Arnethea Sutton, Ph.D., studies the impact of sociodemographic, health care and psychosocial factors on racial disparities in cardiovascular toxicities experienced by breast cancer survivors. (File photo)

Arnethea Sutton selected for National Cancer Institute Early Investigator Advancement Program

Feb. 24, 2023

Sutton, a VCU alum, is an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences.

As a student, Jayme Canty was encouraged to be part of the next generation of leaders. "Excellent leadership was a standard and requirement, not an option," Canty said. (Photo by Office of Institutional Equity, Effectiveness and Success)

Meet-a-Ram: Jayme N. Canty, who researches the South’s impact on Black queer women

Feb. 17, 2023

Canty’s book, “Snapping Beans: Voices of a Black Queer Lesbian,” which is based on interviews with 39 women, will be published by SUNY Press.

Brooke Newman, Ph.D., an associate professor of history at VCU, is a historian of early modern Britain and the British Atlantic. (Contributed photo)

VCU history professor receives prestigious MacDowell fellowship

Feb. 16, 2023

During her residency, Brooke Newman will work on her forthcoming book on the historical links between the British monarchy and slavery.

Among four research projects receiving funding from the Transdisciplinary Environmental Research Incubator is an effort studying Black-led urban agricultural spaces. (Getty Images)

Transdisciplinary Environmental Research Incubator funds four new research collaborations

Feb. 2, 2023

“The incubator will soon become a model for future research collaborations across the university,” said Cristina Stanciu, Ph.D., director of the Humanities Research Center.

Puru Jena, Ph.D., distinguished professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Humanities and Sciences and director of VCU’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and Environment. (Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Indian Chemical Society recognizes Puru Jena for contributions to chemistry

Jan. 30, 2023

Cristina Stanciu, Ph.D., a VCU English professor and director of the Humanities Research Center, is author of the new book "The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924."

VCU professor Cristina Stanciu on her new book, ‘The Makings and Unmakings of Americans’

Jan. 26, 2023

A cultural history of Americanization, the book draws from an archive of Indigenous and new immigrant writing and visual culture.

Dace Svikis, Ph.D., a VCU professor, traveled to Mizoram, India, in the fall as part of the Fulbright Specialist Program. Here, she delivers the keynote speech at the international seminar, "Make Mental Health a Global Priority," at Mizoram University. (Courtesy Dace Svikis)

VCU professor, Fulbright specialist travels to India to train community leaders on substance use disorder treatment

Jan. 9, 2023

The international collaboration between VCU psychology, psychiatry and OB/GYN professor Dace Svikis and 2019-2020 visiting scholar Lalchhanhima Ralte began with a Fulbright exchange fellowship program.

Headlines about the prominence of Ukrainian women on the front lines of war are misleading, said Jessica Trisko Darden, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at VCU's College of Humanities and Sciences. “The Ukraine war echoes a global pattern where national militaries accept women in larger numbers than in the past — yet relegate women to roles that distance them from front-line combat,” she wrote in a recent column in The Washington Post. (Getty Images)

Ukraine’s need for women in war conflicts with nation’s gender norms, VCU professor’s new research finds

Jan. 6, 2023

“The Ukrainian military has tried to adopt more equal policies, but those have faced pushback from Ukrainian society, which largely sees women’s place in society as guardians of the home and family,” political science professor says.