Keeping our campus going While the rest of the university went remote, these employees continued showing up to keep things running during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more »
VCU professors’ study aims to encourage actions to protect the James River Public relations and advertising faculty have received a grant to examine how digital media messaging could more effectively promote public action to improve the river’s water quality. Read more »
Longtime School of Education professor James McMillan to retire McMillan, who came to VCU in 1979, played a leading role in shaping the School of Education’s “standards of excellence in teaching, advising and mentoring.” Read more »
VCU faculty remember former colleague Paul Petrie, founding director of VCUarts Qatar Petrie’s leadership established a global standard of education that has touched the lives of thousands of students. Read more »
A police interrogation measure backed by a VCU professor’s research becomes law in Virginia The new law requires state law enforcement agencies to create a recording of any interrogations conducted in a jail or prison. Read more »
New survey shows employment has remained steady since late April There has been little change in the U.S. labor market since late April, according to a report by economists from Virginia Commonwealth University and Arizona State University. 5/26/2020
Pharmacy and fashion professors join forces for innovative protective equipment solution VCU faculty saw that community health care workers needed protective gear and designed a one-piece full-body suit that they hope groups could mass produce. 5/26/2020
VCU professors’ study aims to encourage actions to protect the James River Public relations and advertising faculty have received a grant to examine how digital media messaging could more effectively promote public action to improve the river’s water quality. 5/22/2020
Most implicit bias training in health care lacks proper foundation, research finds In a forthcoming paper in The Lancet, a VCU psychology professor says such training should be grounded in a clinical translational framework to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care. 5/20/2020
VCU’s Medicines for All Institute partners with industry to secure the domestic pharmaceutical supply chain The institute is part of a new partnership that has been awarded a $354 million U.S. Department of Health and Human Services contract to prevent domestic shortages of critical medications. 5/19/2020
Final recipients of COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity grants announced VCU has awarded nearly $350,000 in funding to 31 COVID-19 related research proposals 5/18/2020
VCU biostatistics professor recognized for accomplishments in oral health Dipankar Bandyopadhyay has earned the Gertrude M. Cox Award from the Washington Statistical Society and RTI International. 5/18/2020