“Black women always have a right to be heard,” the VCU professor said in a conversation with Trevor Noah.

Commencement will be held on Saturday, May 11, at 10 a.m. in the convention center’s first-floor exhibit halls. Tickets will not be required for attendance at the ceremony.

American Civil War Museum CEO Christy Coleman, Rev. Tyrone Nelson, Rep. Donald McEachin and Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras will speak at events Jan. 20-26.

For hackers, the United States energy grid is a treasure trove of classified information with vast potential for profit and mayhem. To be effective, the power grid’s protection system has to be a bit like a hacker: highly intelligent, agile and able to learn rapidly.

The VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center conducted more kidney transplants in 2018 than any other year in its history thanks to its participation in clinical trials that are expanding donor pools.

JED Campus is an initiative of the nonprofit JED Foundation, which applies a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention among teens and young adults.

The cover story of this week’s London-based Catholic Herald explores a surprising surge in exorcisms — the act of expelling demonic forces from a possessed person — throughout the world, including in the United States.

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Sociology in the College of Humanities and Sciences, has been ranked among the 200 scholars in the U.S. who had the biggest influence on educational practice and policy over the past year.

Just under half of Virginians say bringing one of Amazon’s second headquarters to the state will create more benefits than the investment costs, while 41 percent believe the state is investing too much in the deal, according to a new poll by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Virginia Commonwealth University’s sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week begins Jan. 20. A weeklong series of events — including keynote remarks from Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church Pastor Tyrone Nelson, Rep. Donald McEachin, Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras and Christy Coleman, CEO of The American Civil War Museum — will offer the university and Richmond community an opportunity to honor the iconic civil rights leader.

The first time Harold Barnwell, D.N.A.P., encountered a nurse anesthetist, it changed the course of his life.

Alan J. Lombardo has been named CEO of Sheltering Arms Institute — a joint venture between Sheltering Arms Hospital and VCU Health System — effective Feb. 1.

Deirdre Condit, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and associate dean of faculty affairs for the College of Humanities and Sciences, is an expert on women and politics. She recently discussed the ERA, its history and the politics surrounding the nearly centurylong movement to see it added to the Constitution.

Virginians are almost evenly split between favoring and opposing a state law that would allow localities to train teachers and administrators to be armed in schools, according to a new poll by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.

A lot can happen in a year at Virginia Commonwealth University, and 2018 was no different.

A memorial service for Hall will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Altria Theater. Free public parking is available in VCU's West Main Street Deck.

A VCU Wilder Poll found 42 percent want Democrats in control, 33 percent favor Republicans and 25 percent are undecided.

VCU Alumni is embarking on a yearlong tour to introduce its new strategic plan, ELEVATE, and bring new opportunities and programming to alumni.

By designing customized models for medical training — including surgeries — sculptor Morgan Yacoe presents new ways for doctors to practice their craft.

Professor, pulmonologist and cancer researcher Patrick Nana-Sinkam, M.D., has been elected as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Virginia Commonwealth University Health System today announced it is expanding its executive team to provide focused leadership in key strategic areas related to safety, quality and affordability of patient care and a new inpatient facility for Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU.

Though President Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot in 2018, one-quarter of voters in Virginia’s U.S. Senate and House elections say they made their choices as a response to his administration, according to a new poll by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.

While recent changes to Richmond’s public bus network have improved the region’s access to retail, business and job centers, transit accessibility for the area’s low-income households remains the same or has decreased, according to a new study by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Ankit Mathur’s company, RoundTrip, is reducing wait times, insurance headaches and extra expense for those needing rides to and from hospitals and doctors’ offices.

The holiday break — packed with celebrations, family, friends and travel — can be hard on many people. Those in recovery from addictive behaviors face particular pressure during the holidays.

Patients in a study at the VCU Smell and Taste Disorders Center thought they lost their sense of taste; most actually lost their sense of smell, researchers say.

Children of parents who have alcohol use disorder are more likely to get married under the age of 25, less likely to get married later in life, and more likely to marry a person who has alcohol use disorder themselves, according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Lund University in Sweden.

Cole, VCU’s executive director of audit and compliance services since 2011, has spent most of his career in higher education and government, previously serving 28 years in audit management for the state.

Much is known about the history of Richmond’s Wilton House, which was built in 1753 and home for more than 100 years to Virginia’s prominent Randolph family.