In the Media
Virginia’s agriculture at risk after Trump administration’s cuts to NOAA
April 22, 2025 Virginia Mercury
Featuring: Vickie Connors, assistant professor, Center for Environmental Studies
‘Closing the gap:’ VCU’s Ram Pantry receives $500K grant to fight food insecurity
March 26, 2025 WRIC abc8News
Featuring: John Jones, Ph.D., assistant professor, Center for Environmental Studies
VCU’s Ram Fridges bring new purpose to leftovers
March 2, 2025 WRIC ABC8 News
Featuring: John Jones, Ph.D., assistant professor, Center for Environmental Studies
Legislators hope to fund college food pantries with new grant program
Feb. 9, 2025 Virginia Scope
Featuring: John Jones, Ph.D., assistant professor, Center for Environmental Studies
Quake rocks Western Henrico, followed by aftershock
Jan. 16, 2025 Richmond Free Press
Featuring: Dr. Arif Sikder, associate professor, Center for Environmental Studies
Advocates push for dedicated funding to combat algal blooms in Shenandoah River
Jan. 13, 2025 The Northern Virginia Daily
Featuring: Dr. Paul Zimba and Ron Lopez of Rice Rivers Center
Australian crater could offer fresh insight into Earth's geological history
Sept. 20, 2024 Phys.org
Featuring: Arif Sikder, Ph.D., associate professor, Center for Environmental Studies
Undergraduates Blossom Researching Bees in Summer STEM Experience
Aug. 20, 2024 NC State University
Featuring: Tejal Bhor, senior in the Center for Biological Data Science
Researchers send in a drone to study bacteria and algae blooms in Shenandoah River
July 9, 2024 Bay Journal
Featuring: Paul Zimba, Ph.D. and Ron Lopez, VCU Rice Rivers Center
Lake Anna faces another summer of hazardous algae blooms
June 17, 2024 Radio IQ, WVTF
Featuring: Paul Bukaveckas, Ph.D., professor, Center for Environmental Studies
One professor called the decision “shocking,” a state senator described it as “illegitimate,” and car dealership representatives welcomed the move.
June 13, 2024 VPM
Featuring: Arif Sikder, Ph.D., associate professor Center For Environmental Studies
Hope for humanity's survival
Feb. 22, 2024 KDCW
Featuring: Dr. Salvatore Agosta, Center for Environmental Studies
ERDC researchers assess time-of-year restrictions for James River dredging
Feb. 14, 2024 US Army Corps of Engineers
Featuring: Matt Balazik, Ph.D., Rice Rivers Center
Get Ready for More Mosquitos as World Heats Up
Dec. 20, 2023 US News & World Report
Featuring: Andrew Davidson, Ph.D., Center for Integrative Life Sciences Education
Supporting Endangered Atlantic Sturgeon in the Chesapeake Bay
Dec. 19, 2023 NOAA Fisheries
Featuring: Matt Balazik, Ph.D., Rice Rivers Center
Climate, mosquitoes and disease
Dec. 18, 2023 earth.com
Featuring: Andrew T. Davidson, Ph.D., Center for Integrative Life Sciences Education
Endangered Atlantic Sturgeon Threatened By Ship Strikes In Busy James River
Nov. 7, 2023 Chesapeake Bay Magazine
Featuring: Matt Balazik, Ph.D., Rice Rivers Center
Program Innovation: Smart Boxes Feed Food-Insecure Students
Aug. 30, 2023 Inside Higher Ed
Featuring: John Jones, Ph.D., Center for Environmental Studies
Surf, Turf, Above Earth: Students Participate in NASA Field Research
Aug. 16, 2023 NASA
Featuring: Rice Rivers Center
America's Healthiest City ESPN Richmond: Professor John Jones From VCU
Aug. 9, 2023 America's Healthiest City
Featuring: John Jones, Ph.D., Center for Environmental Studies
Extreme heat will drive up health care costs by $1 billion each summer, study finds
July 20, 2023 CNN
Featuring: Stephen Fong, Ph.D., Center for Integrative Life Sciences Education and College of Engineering
Return of the ghost fish
May 17, 2023 Virginia Living
Featuring: Matt Balazik, Ph.D., Rice Rivers Center
A Growing Connection
May 14, 2023 Richmond Magazine
Featuring: John Jones, Ph.D., Center for Environmental Studies
Funding to turn the tide for American shad and river herring in Virginia rivers
May 10, 2023 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Featuring: VCU Rice Rivers Center
Back to the Future
March 14, 2023 Richmond Magazine
Featuring: Greg Garman, Ph.D.; Will Shuart; Ron Lopez. Rice Rivers Center
They outlasted the dinosaurs. Can they survive us?
Feb. 2, 2023 The New York Times
Featuring: Matthew Balazik Ph.D., Rice Rivers Center
WaterIQ Technologies Forms Scientific Advisory Board
Jan. 31, 2023 WaterIQ Technologies
Featuring: Paul Zimba, Ph.D., research faculty, Rice Rivers Center
Lawmakers consider incentives to recycle oyster shells
Jan. 25, 2023 Radio IQ
Featuring: Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Project
Recycling oyster shells could net restaurants a tax credit under proposed legislation
Jan. 24, 2023 Virginia Mercury
Featuring: Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program
Up the Creek
Dec. 6, 2022 Bay Journal
Featuring: Raquel Wetzell, recent VCU Center for Environmental Studies MS graduate
The Way of the Future
Nov. 28, 2022 Richmond Magazine
Featuring: John Jones, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Center for Environmental Studies
How 1,300 mussels from Charles City County are helping clean up Chesapeake Bay
Nov. 4, 2022 Richmond Times-Dispatch
Featuring: Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program
Students study James River, use app to document different organisms
Sept. 7, 2022 Commonwealth Times
Featuring: Center for Environmental Studies Footprints on the James course
Changing views on watersheds in the field [podcast]
Aug. 22, 2022 Freshwater Science Making Waves
Featuring: Students participating in the Footprints on the James field course
Preserving a WWII tail-gunner’s harrowing story in a comic
Aug. 14, 2022 Richmond Times-Dispatch
Featuring: Maggie Colangelo, a senior and double-major in VCU Environmental Studies and VCU Arts
River Management Society presents 2022 River Studies and Leadership Certificates
Aug. 8, 2022 River Management Society
Featuring: Sensairanay "Dare" Duty-Stone, Center for Environmental Studies student
‘Tree of lice’ pinpoints first mammal with a louse infestation
July 4, 2022 Nature
Featuring: Bret Boyd, Ph.D.
Inside VCU's efforts to study air quality, wildlife and waterways
June 2, 2022 Richmond Times-Dispatch
Featuring: Rice River Center
2,000th tagged sturgeon focus of Chesapeake Bay Magazine article
May 10, 2022 Chesapeake Bay Magazine
Featuring: Matt Balazik, Ph.D., research faculty at Rice Rivers Center.
Community members, legislators, academics work to eliminate food insecurity
April 28, 2022 WWBT NBC-12
Featuring: John Jones, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Center for Environmental Studies