The procedure marks another chapter in the VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center’s storied history of transplantation.

Auctus, a student-run publication, publishes the best of undergraduate research covering a range of disciplines.

“Thick: And Other Essays” has been featured in The New York Times and on NPR, PBS and “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.”

By gaining a deeper understanding of those able to control their antisocial tendencies, researchers may unlock new treatments and rehabilitation strategies.

VCU’s Carrie Peterson is part of a national team seeking to improve health for patients with spinal cord injury.

Childhood memories left a lasting impression on Abdulmojeed Ekiyoyo. “Helping the underserved will be part of my future.”

A. Roger Ekirch, an award-winning author and professor of history at Virginia Tech, will give the lecture Oct. 14 at James Branch Cabell Library.

Kathleen Graber, associate professor in the Department of English in the College of Humanities and Sciences, has published a new collection of poems, “The River Twice,” (Princeton University Press, 2019) that is being described as an “elegiac meditation on impermanence and change.”

VCU’s Comic Arts Collection provides a “rich resource” for students, said Kelly Alder, who teaches Comics and Graphic Novels in the School of the Arts.

Participants in this year’s Alumni Charity Challenge aim to collect 150,000 pounds of food.

The project seeks to use artificial intelligence to help scientists come up with the perfect molecule for everything, from a better shampoo to coatings on advanced microchips.

Researchers are testing how the brain distinguishes exhaled odors that originate in the mouth, which could have implications for the obesity epidemic.

“Eviction Beyond the Numbers: Community Impacts and Policy Landscape of Housing Instability,” will be held Sept. 26 at VCU.

The grant supports a program that embeds VCU psychology doctoral trainees in eight Richmond-area health safety-net clinics.

Born in a refugee camp in Kenya, the former VCU standout now finds himself on North American soccer’s biggest professional stage.

Richmond has long been on the short list of the nation’s most-tattooed cities, so it’s no surprise that one of the oldest annual tattoo festivals is held here.

Professor and alumnus participated in Virginia’s civil rights movement and helped document it for later generations.

Javeria Aijaz, who helped improve blood transfusion safety in her native Pakistan, now sets her eyes on leukemia.

The Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors has scheduled committee and full board meetings on Sept. 13 at the James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Avenue, Richmond, Virginia.

The Sept. 24 event will feature the presidents of Virginia State University, the University of Richmond, Reynolds Community College and VCU.

More than 400 health profession students participate in VCU’s first poverty simulation.

The vaccines would prevent Lyme disease and human granulocytic anaplasmosis, the two most common tick-borne infections in the United States.

Salvatore Carbone, a professor of kinesiology and health sciences, is studying the benefits of a diet rich in healthy fats.

New academic programs and a host of campus changes — Free Store! Wider sidewalks! — greet students as the fall semester begins.

Psychology professor David Chester is looking at what happens in the brains of psychopaths before they cause harm.

Tania Dobrescu has spent the past two summers testing antibodies against the disease during internships at the Naval Medical Research Center.

Sonja Livingston hopes all readers will relate to her story and “will connect with the subjects of tradition and devotion and their role in our lives.”

Fire captain and School of Nursing graduate Michael Roth built a groundbreaking team that uses unmanned aircraft to assist first responders in the field.

“Virginia … is an exceptional location in which to study school desegregation, its successes and failures,” said Brian Daugherity, a civil rights historian.