Five out of five students with intellectual disabilities who graduated from VCU ACE-IT in College this spring have found jobs in their career areas of interest.

Virginia Commonwealth University students will soon have two new on-campus restaurants to choose from: Au Bon Pain, the Boston-based bakery and café chain, will open at 944 W. Grace Street, and Shake Smart, a healthy lifestyle smoothie bar, will open in the former Market 810-2-GO space inside Shafer Court Dining Center.

Vaughn Garland, Ph.D., a Virginia Commonwealth University adjunct professor, approached his colleagues with the idea of a summerlong festival exploring sound art. After hearing the idea, his colleagues in the School of the Arts knew immediately they needed to be a part of the venture.

On behalf of the Virginia Department of Veterans Services, former Virginia first lady Dorothy McAuliffe presented an award to Virginia Premier for “demonstrating its outstanding commitment to promoting the hiring of women veterans.”

Gov. Ralph Northam appointed two new members to the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors and reappointed two others to four-year terms.

Coastal lifestyle brand Toadfish Outfitters to donate all proceeds of its Virginia sales.

A symposium at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education will explore the latest ideas and available resources for supporting successful transitions for young children through age 5, from early intervention to preschool and kindergarten, as well as transitions across the daily routine.

The decisions in Whitford v. Gill and Benisek v. Lamone could affect the partisan composition of Congress for the next decade or more.