The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing has partnered with Southside Virginia Community College and Rappahannock Community College to offer accelerated coursework to registered nurses who are students at both community colleges, providing them a faster path to obtaining a bachelor’s degree. Students will be enrolled concurrently at VCU and their respective community colleges.

VCU students are constructing a community garden at Carver Elementary to help fight food insecurity.

Virginia Commonwealth University will host Rams Go Solar, a solar car design and construction competition for middle schoolers, on Saturday, April 13, at the Mary and Frances Youth Center, 120 S. Linden St.

A public lecture at the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University will explore the preschool-to-prison pipeline and analyze the role literacy instruction plays on social, emotional and academic development during the early school years among children of color and children of poverty.

The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University will present “Shadows Are To Shade,” a new project by Richmond artist Corin Hewitt, an associate professor in the VCU School of the Arts.

Leslie Harris, Ph.D., author of “In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863” (University of Chicago Press, 2004), and a history professor at Northwestern University, will speak at Virginia Commonwealth University on Tuesday, April 9.

A three-day town hall meeting at Virginia Commonwealth University will bring together researchers, practitioners and the public to discuss the latest research on substance use, treatment and mental health in young people.

The store on West Grace Street — a national leader among campus technology shops — continues to support student customers and employees.