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Stephen S. Fong Ph.D. affixes a monitor on his car to measure local ozone pollution.

Stephen Fong, Ph.D., measures air quality in Richmond

Oct. 6, 2021

Fong's work part of VCU News article

A comic created by Maggie Colangelo and Bernard Means tells the story of the world's oldest ham.

The subject of a VCU student and professor’s new comic? The world’s oldest ham.

July 16, 2021

The one-page comic gives the Isle of Wight County Museum “another way of telling the story of Smithfield hams.”

VCU students take samples from water pools collecting on rocks on the James River. (James Vonesh, for VCU News)

How VCU’s Center for Environmental Studies is emerging as a national leader in hands-on freshwater education

July 14, 2021

A $497,000 grant from the National Science Foundation is the latest development in the center’s focus on experiential river studies.

VCU students Abby Wright and Nathan Salle took part in a series of VCU courses in 2018 that included a 10-day excursion to Idaho’s Lower Salmon River. Photo by James Vonesh.

New certificate at VCU to provide students with outdoor leadership credentials

June 14, 2021

“These leadership skills are transferable to many jobs, both in the outdoors and elsewhere. The leadership skills that they learn here can take them a long way in the future.”

A VCU Life Sciences doctoral student is working with the Virginia League of Conservation Voters to build a voter education guide ahead of Virginia's June 8 primary, and will continue working with the league this summer to create a nonpartisan voter guide for the November general election (Getty Images)

Putting science on the ballot

June 2, 2021

Doctoral student Kayla Mathes studies forest ecology and is raising awareness of climate change ahead of Virginia's 2021 elections through her work with the Virginia League of Conservation Voters.

Students and recent graduates from across VCU are helping us better understand SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19. Among them is a trio from the VCU Life Sciences bioinformatics program. (Getty Images)

VCU graduate students use bioinformatics to help in the fight against COVID-19

May 27, 2021

Compiling and analyzing state data plays a major role in testing and the vaccination process.

School of Nursing graduates

Scenes from spring commencement

May 16, 2021

VCU photographers attended several of the university's in-person graduation events and captured the unique and emotional celebrations unfolding on and off campus.

Brandee Branche, Class of 2021 speaker. She received her M.D. from the VCU School of Medicine this weekend. (Kevin Morley, University Marketing)
VCU will celebrate approximately 5,200 new graduates with a universitywide virtual commencement on Saturday. (University Marketing photo illustration)

VCU to celebrate spring commencement on Saturday

May 12, 2021

Members of the Class of 2021 will be honored at virtual and in-person events.

A batch of new fast-track opportunities this fall will allow academically qualified VCU students to earn both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from numerous areas of study in as few as five years. (Tom Kojcsich, University Marketing)

VCU launching 20 new accelerated bachelor’s to master’s degree opportunities

April 19, 2021

The accelerated programs across the university will save students time and money.