Faculty Research News

Conscious consumption means shopping your values, whatever those values may be, according to VCU sociology professor Meredith Katz, Ph.D. (Getty Images)

How can I practice conscious consumption?

Aug. 5, 2024

VCU sociologist Meredith Katz offers insight into the concept, plus tips about the best mindset and potential practices.

According to VCU psychology professor Richard Bargdill, Ph.D., the key to creativity - and saving yourself from a slump - is to just have fun with it. (Getty Images)

How do I get out of a creative rut?

July 26, 2024

VCU psychology professor Richard Bargdill outlines the likely causes and potential cures for every artist’s worst nightmare.

Twenty-one projects have been awarded funding from the 2024 VCU Quest Fund. (Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

VCU Quest Fund provides grants to 21 faculty-led projects that target society’s biggest challenges

July 17, 2024

Transdisciplinary research teams are pursuing advances in health, engineering, the environment, homeland security and more.

Internationally recognized biographer Christopher A. Brooks' newest release, “Tales of Koehler Hollow,” highlights the true story of Amy Finney, a formerly enslaved Black woman, and her descendants. (Photo contributed by Christopher A. Brooks/Book cover contributed by Unsung Voices Books)

VCU professor Christopher A. Brooks’ new book explores the Black Appalachian experience

July 15, 2024

In ‘Tales of Koehler Hollow,’ the anthropologist and biographer uses a family’s long history in Southwest Virginia to connect slavery, identity and legacy.

Dace Svikis' research has focused on reducing health disparities in maternal and infant birth outcomes.

VCU women’s health researcher Dace Svikis honored by the Rosalind Franklin Society

July 9, 2024

The Special Award in Science recognizes her recently published work on peripartum care for Black women.

Now in its third year, the VCU Breakthroughs Fund has supported more than 30 projects through investments totaling nearly $6 million. (Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

VCU Breakthroughs Fund provides grants to 10 more faculty-led projects that pursue transformative innovation

July 2, 2024

Health, equity, sustainability and the human experience are the driving forces for transdisciplinary teams that target society’s grand challenges.

Napping can have wide-ranging benefits, as long as you do it right. (Getty Images)

Is napping good for you? If you do it the right way, VCU researcher says.

June 26, 2024

Psychology professor Natalie Dautovich offers insight on the midday pick-me-up you might have left in childhood.

Throughout its more than 100-year history, the ballroom scene has undergone significant changes, though the fundamental aspects of community, acceptance and empowerment remain the same. (Shikeishu, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Beyond the fab and the fun, the ballroom scene has deep meaning with deep roots

June 17, 2024

VCU scholar Julian Kevon Kamilah Glover shares insight, including from her personal journey, into an American cultural force that has crossed the globe.

As sea level rates increase, natural islands respond by migrating landward. Here, overwash breaches a dune located on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. (Photo contributed by Julie Zinnert)

Barrier islands and dunes protect our coastline – but how are environmental changes affecting them and adjacent land?

June 13, 2024

In a new report, VCU biology professor Julie Zinnert shares findings from studying Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

(Left) Seung Duk Lee, M.D., Ph.D., a VCU Health Hume-Lee robotics surgeon, with Kush Savsani, a research assistant and incoming student at the VCU School of Medicine, are among the recipients of the latest round of Commercialization Fund awards. (Photo by Jeff Kelley)

From cancer to road safety, VCU innovators explore solutions with new round of funding

June 4, 2024

Spring 2024 grants from the Commercialization Fund aim to propel campus inventions into the marketplace.