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A VCU researcher led a team exploring restoring sturgeon to rivers in the United Kingdom. (Zoological Society of America)

VCU Rice Rivers Center sturgeon specialist takes his expertise from the James River to the U.K.

Aug. 19, 2024

Matt Balazik led a research team assessing two rivers that offer hope for reintroducing the historic and endangered ‘royal fish.’

VOSRP's Janeski selected to MAFMC advisory board

Aug. 9, 2024

His three-year term began July 1, 2024.

Daniella Asnicar and her fellow interns, supervised by rehabilitation staff members, helped clean sea turtles and their tanks, and supported feeding the turtles using techniques based on their condition. (Contributed photo)

In Greece, undergrad Daniella Asnicar helps sea turtles heal and return home

Aug. 6, 2024

The environmental studies major spent five weeks overseas, with support from VCU’s Internship Funding Program.

The Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program completes their 2023/2024 season

Aug. 5, 2024

Thousands of shell with spat "planted" in the Piankatank River.

Student Tamara Eddy learned canoe skills on the third day of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Footprints on the James class this summer. Sitting in the front of a canoe, Eddy ran one of her first white water rapids at Powhite Ledges. It can be seen upstream from the Powhite Parkway. The image was taken with a GoPro mounted on the bow of the boat. (Photo: James Vonesh)

Footprints on the James continues to make a deep impression on VCU students

July 10, 2024

With the river as a classroom, the monthlong experiential learning program marks a decade of combining undergraduate research, teamwork – and plenty of paddling.

Now in its third year, the VCU Breakthroughs Fund has supported more than 30 projects through investments totaling nearly $6 million. (Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

VCU Breakthroughs Fund provides grants to 10 more faculty-led projects that pursue transformative innovation

July 2, 2024

Health, equity, sustainability and the human experience are the driving forces for transdisciplinary teams that target society’s grand challenges.

Summer@Rice Scholars Program underway

June 25, 2024

The scholarship program allows students to continue their research in-between traditional semesters.

Emily Riffe's article published on award-winning science website for young adults

May 30, 2024

Writing for a different audience was equally challenging and rewarding for this CILSE Ph.D. candidate.

For VCU students, foreign expedition offered a river of knowledge and memories

April 29, 2024

They traveled to Mexico for a journey – and learning opportunity – of a lifetime.

Juniper Peterson checks one of dozens of birdhouses along the James River where he is tracking how much time prothonotary warblers spend sitting on their eggs. (Allen Jones, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Drawn to a nest of secrets, student researcher explores a small songbird’s breeding habits amid a changing climate

April 15, 2024

VCU environmental studies major Juniper Peterson makes a mark in avian ecology lab, where the peace of nature meets the puzzle of data analysis.