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Class of 2024: With a master’s in public health, Melanie Cruz looks to serve diverse communities
Dec. 18, 2024
VCU faculty and travel opportunities helped shape the two-time graduate, who is serving as a Virginia Management Fellow.
Latino Virginia oral history project gives voice to stories that supplant stereotypes
Nov. 12, 2024
The collaboration from VCU professors Gabriela León-Pérez and Daniel Morales will form a public database documenting the state’s fastest-growing minority population.
A year-end review of students and alums who earned prestigious scholarships through the National Scholarship Office
Nov. 11, 2024
Recipients represent a variety of fields and backgrounds, and their scholarships will provide invaluable opportunities to deepen their studies, gain new perspectives and grow in their fields.
To prepare for graduate studies in public health, Harper Reed seized a study abroad opportunity
Sept. 27, 2024
The recent VCU graduate spent the summer exploring public health in Botswana.
How can I practice conscious consumption?
Aug. 5, 2024
VCU sociologist Meredith Katz offers insight into the concept, plus tips about the best mindset and potential practices.
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.
Four VCU students and two recent alums selected for prestigious National Science Foundation funding
May 1, 2024
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports their advancement in STEM disciplines.
Class of 2024: Family and diversity inspire Sheila Hernández-Rubio on her path toward medicine and community
April 30, 2024
With a NIH project starting soon, pre-med student embraces how undergraduate research and multicultural groups shaped her VCU experience.
VCU students, faculty document oral history of the East Marshall Street Well Project
April 2, 2024
The Health Humanities Lab, a research lab at VCU’s Humanities Research Center, is conducting the project in collaboration with the Family Representative Council.
In VCU Honors College, students get teaching and tutoring experience through partnership with Richmond public high school
Feb. 19, 2024
Now in its eighth year, the Open-Honors Connect program enhances undergraduate learning while expanding course offerings for the city school system.