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The stories of 2021
Dec. 17, 2021
Jill Biden’s visit. The 10th anniversary of VCU’s historic Final Four run. Rabia Kamara takes the ice cream world by storm. Here are the VCU News stories of the year.
A research gem for the river
Oct. 18, 2021
New VCU Rice Rivers Center Research Facility brings game-changing capabilities for researchers exploring the ecosystem of the James River.
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.