For hackers, the United States energy grid is a treasure trove of classified information with vast potential for profit and mayhem. To be effective, the power grid’s protection system has to be a bit like a hacker: highly intelligent, agile and able to learn rapidly.

The cover story of this week’s London-based Catholic Herald explores a surprising surge in exorcisms — the act of expelling demonic forces from a possessed person — throughout the world, including in the United States.

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Sociology in the College of Humanities and Sciences, has been ranked among the 200 scholars in the U.S. who had the biggest influence on educational practice and policy over the past year.

Just under half of Virginians say bringing one of Amazon’s second headquarters to the state will create more benefits than the investment costs, while 41 percent believe the state is investing too much in the deal, according to a new poll by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Virginia Commonwealth University’s sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week begins Jan. 20. A weeklong series of events — including keynote remarks from Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church Pastor Tyrone Nelson, Rep. Donald McEachin, Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras and Christy Coleman, CEO of The American Civil War Museum — will offer the university and Richmond community an opportunity to honor the iconic civil rights leader.

The first time Harold Barnwell, D.N.A.P., encountered a nurse anesthetist, it changed the course of his life.

Deirdre Condit, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and associate dean of faculty affairs for the College of Humanities and Sciences, is an expert on women and politics. She recently discussed the ERA, its history and the politics surrounding the nearly centurylong movement to see it added to the Constitution.

Virginians are almost evenly split between favoring and opposing a state law that would allow localities to train teachers and administrators to be armed in schools, according to a new poll by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.