Gary Garbett (B.I.S.'08/H&S; M.I.S.'10/H&S), the communications designer for VCU Technology Services, received an undergraduate degree from VCU in 2008 in interdisciplinary study with a concentration in communication arts and media studies and returned to earn a master's degree in interdisciplinary...
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M. Samy El-Shall, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and physical engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University, is one of 13 research scientists and engineers selected nationwide as a 2012-2013 Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. Jefferson Science Fellows advise...
Rick Boyko has always been an ad guy. Even when he was a kid, Boyko paid special attention to the billboards he could see from the backseat of the car. His father worked in advertising, and Boyko used to love...
Kathleen Graber, assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been named a 2012 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the top awards available to artists in the United States and Canada. Graber, who teaches in the Creative...
The Virginia Commonwealth University School of World Studies hosted a donor recognition reception April 10 in the Richard T. Robertson Alumni House to thank the Italian-American Cultural Association of Virginia and Richmond's Original Italian Street Festival for their donation to...
The Alexandrian Society in Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of History is planning its upcoming Spring Symposium, "Atlantic Migration During Slavery: Part 2." The symposium is set for 9 a.m.- 6 p.m. April 25 in the University Student Commons Theater. The...
Before a crowd of more than 300 people, Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao and Gov. Bob McDonnell joined Virginia Commonwealth University leaders in launching a $1 million, multiyear campaign to support the new India Chair in Democracy and Civil Society. The...
Dean Jim Coleman of the College of Humanities and Sciences welcomed members of the Dean's Society and his staff to a hospitality suite at the Siegel Center on Feb. 17 to watch the VCU take on the University of Northern...
Poets & Writers, Inc., has announced that David Baldacci (B.S.'83/H&S), Kwame Dawes and Carol Muske-Dukes are the recipients of the 2012 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and Kathryn Court is the recipient of the Editor's Award."We are very...
VCU's L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs is pleased to announce the public phase of a campaign to raise $1 million to fund the school's first endowed chair. To be a part of this campaign and support...
Since 2008, CreateAthon onCampus has made a huge impact on area nonprofit agencies. The numbers are impressive: 46 nonprofits in the Richmond area have received professional marketing materials and advice valued at more than $700,000. This year's CreateAthon, which concluded...
Describing Virginia Commonwealth University senior Sai Iyer as an overachiever is an understatement. Iyer, who is on track to graduate in May, is pursuing degrees in international studies, religious studies and mass communications. VCU senior Sai Iyer has been named...
Victoria Crenshaw Ph.D.(M.S.'81/AHP; Ph.D.'92/H&S), was recently appointed to the position Vice President of Programs and Services with the Alzheimer's Association, National Capital Area Chapter. Dr. Crenshaw was previously the regional director of operations for HCR ManorCare for Virginia, Tennessee and...
Virginia Commonwealth University's School of World Studies in the College of Humanities and Sciences hosted Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa's Ambassador to the United States, on Feb. 16.Rasool delivered a lecture titled "Overcoming Fundamentalists in a World in Transition: Lessons from...
The Virginia Commonwealth University Office of Sustainability is excited to host the first event in a new Sustainable Academics speaking series next Thursday, February 23 at 7 p.m. in the Kontos MSB auditorium. International economic advisor, acclaimed author, and senior...
From the window of his 19th-floor office, Martin Briley (B.S '75/SW; M.P.A '82/H&S) can spot landmarks across the James River in the South Richmond neighborhood where he grew up. The new president and CEO of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership...
A team of Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter students has captured the top prize in the Innovation Challenge®, a tough international competition that pits the world's brightest graduate school student teams against one another to find creative technology solutions for businesses....
Several Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter alumni have written books within the last year. Mark Svartz (M.S.'02/H&S), Copywriter- I Hate You Kelly Donahue Howard Jordan (M.S.'99/H&S), Copywriter - 101 Reasons to Leave New York Casey Rand (M.S.'08/H&S) and Tim Gordon (M.S.'08/H&S),...
Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter Director, Rick Boyko, will be inducted into the AAF Advertising Hall of Fame in March. It's a huge honor within the advertising industry with about 200 members in the Hall of Fame. The 63rd Advertising Hall...
On Jan. 6, 2012, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced his intention to reappoint Peter Marone as the director of the Department of Forensic Science. Marone has served as director of the Virginia Department of Forensic Science since Feb.1, 2007. He began...
Dr. Leah Bush (M.S.'79/H&S; M.D.'84/M) tries to avoid the word "undetermined" - particularly when it's written next to "cause of death" on a certificate from the commonwealth of Virginia. As the state's chief medical examiner for the past four years,...
Virginia Commonwealth University professor Andrew Chesnut recalled exactly when he first became interested in writing about the folk saint Santa Muerte. It was in March 2009 when news reports indicated that the Mexican army had bulldozed dozens of homemade altars...
R. Andrew Chesnut, Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies and professor of religious studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, will present "Devoted to Death" at noon Feb. 22 at the Library of Congress. The lecture will be held...
The Community Foundation program, in its 24th year, recognizes and celebrates outstanding classroom teachers from the Richmond area's public schools. REB Awards present cash grants to teachers to enable them to pursue postgraduate studies, professional training or world travel.Among those...
Michele Young-Stone (B.A.'92/H&S; M.T.'95/E; M.F.A.'05/H&S) has two forthcoming novels under contract with Simon & Schuster and another well-received novel already under her belt. She's an author making her living writing books, pursuing her dream. And it all started in a...
Sainath Iyer, a senior Virginia Commonwealth University mass communications, international relations and religious studies major, is spending this semester at the White House. Sainath Iyer, a VCU senior majoring in mass communications, international relations and religious studies, is currently an...
Edmond F. Bowden, Ph.D.1982 Doctor of PhilosophyCollege of Humanities and Sciences Edmond F. Bowden came to Virginia Commonwealth University with the intention of earning a master's degree so he could further his career in the chemical industry, where he worked...
Virginia Commonwealth University has launched a $1 million campaign to support a new India Chair in Democracy and Civil Society, the first of its kind in the U.S., to be housed in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and...
David Gordon has won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, which honors an outstanding debut novel published during a calendar year. His winning book, "The Serialist," is a darkly humorous noir parody that chronicles the adventures of a pulp writer...
Former Virginia Commonwealth University star Ivana Rich (B.S.'09/H&S) has been introduced as the new head coach at Virginia State University, the school announced recently. Rich, a two-time All-Colonial Athletic Association honoree, spent last season as a volunteer assistant coach...
The Department of English and the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University announced that "We Don't Know We Don't Know" by Nick Lantz was selected as the winner of the 2011 Levis Reading Prize, awarded in the...
Virginia Commonwealth University, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan have received a grant totaling more than $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to extend their study of how much heat-trapping carbon dioxide forests of the upper...
Earlier this week, Brian McDaniel, School of Business alumnus and current graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University, was listed as one of Richmond's top 5 celebrities to know on Richmond.com. In September 2009, McDaniel, who works in the College of...
Mark your calendars! Virginia Commonwealth University's Alumni Stars program is set for 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21. The VCU and MCV Alumni Associations will honor 11 of our most accomplished alumni before a university audience at a seated dinner and...
Wendy Kliewer, Ph.D., a professor in Virginia Commonwealth University's Psychology Department in the College of Humanities and Sciences, recently completed a six-month Fulbright Research Scholarship in Durban, South Africa, at the University of KwaZulu Natal, one of VCU's international...
Costa doing a tabletop at a skate park in Sacramento, Calif. Photo by Andy Fitzgerald. Zac Costa is not your average scientist. When he's not in the lab or in the jungles of Panama studying amphibian species unique to...
James S. Coleman, Ph.D., a highly regarded ecology and evolutionary biologist and academic administrator, has been named dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Humanities and Sciences, effective July 15. Coleman currently is vice provost for research and professor...
Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts announces the initiation of The Rebecca Mitchell Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize to be awarded annually. A prize of $2,000 and publication in Blackbird will be awarded to the best work of...
Three recent Virginia Commonwealth University graduates have been awarded Fulbright Student Scholarships for the 2011-12 academic year.The new alumni will receive funding to travel abroad to conduct research or teach. The recipients, who each graduated in May, are Glenna...
James S. Coleman, Ph.D., a highly regarded ecology and evolutionary biologist and academic administrator, has been named dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Humanities and Sciences, effective July 15.Coleman currently is vice provost for research and professor of ecology...
Fred M. Hawkridge, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University professor of chemistry and acting dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences, retired June 30 after 30 years of service.The Department of Chemistry has established the Fred M. Hawkridge Fund in Chemistry in...
Virginia Commonwealth University has released the latest issue of Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts. The e-publication is a joint venture between the Department of English at VCU and New Virginia Review, Inc. The spring issue...
Continue reading Spring issue of Blackbird online journal now available.
From June 6-8, 2011 the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania hosted a photo exhibit to celebrate World Environment Day 2011. Part of the Fulbright Reflection Series, this photo exhibit featured Fulbright Fellow Philip Shirk. Shirk is currently...
Serena Caplins A new Virginia Commonwealth University graduate who will remain at the university to pursue graduate studies has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Serena Caplins, who is from Colorado Springs, graduated from VCU in May...
Photo of mountain view from Wendy Kliewer's blog. She's in South Africa as a Fulbright research fellow Wendy Kliewer, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Psychology Department in the College of Humanities and Sciences, has been keeping a blog about...
Starting this month, Bernard K. Means, from the VCU Department of Anthropology, and VCU alumnus John Haynes ('79 B.S./ S) will begin a year-long grant project sponsored by the Department of Defense (DoD) Legacy Resource Management Program. The project called...
Emily Farrar, recent graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Mass Communications, Emily Boyer, current communication arts major, and current advertising student Peter Pagan are putting their skills to the test this summer. Twice a year The Martin Agency, the...
Allison Perry Allison Perry, a senior criminal justice student with a minor in business from Chesapeake, has been selected to become a 2011 Virginia Governor's Fellow. "I was ecstatic to hear that I was selected. After a few...
Virginia "Ginnie" Driggers As long as she's teaching art in some fashion or another, Virginia "Ginnie" Driggers says she'll be extremely satisfied with wherever her career takes her. "But my dream -- at the moment -- is to build...
James S. Coleman, Ph.D James S. Coleman, Ph.D., a highly regarded ecology and evolutionary biologist and academic administrator, has been named dean of the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences, effective July 15.Coleman currently is vice provost for research and...
The Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Lecture in Catholic Studies presents Philip Jenkins, who will give the lecture, "Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis," 7 p.m. March 29, at University Student Commons Theater. Jenkins works in several diverse fields in history...
VCU's College of Humanities & Sciences' Department of History presents the 2010-11 William E. & Miriam S. Blake Speaker Series in the History of Christianity in four lectures, with two remaining. 7 p.m. March 31: "Why the Early Church Did Not Reject...
Student Donald Hawkins (right) received the Department of African American Studies award and the new "Dennis-Weathers Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Community Service," created by Rutledge Dennis, Ph.D., (left). Academic leaders at VCU recognized the accomplishments of nearly three dozen...
