In the Media

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

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 Shuckin'

April 12, 2023 Style Weekly

Featuring: Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program

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

The mighty bivalve

July 10, 2022 Richmond Magazine

Featuring: Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program

‘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