Over the past year, students and faculty from Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond have been collaborating to clean up and conduct research at Richmond’s East End Cemetery, a long-neglected and overgrown burial site of thousands of African-Americans that dates back to 1897.

Ever wanted to break a world record? Now’s your chance. The Virginia Commonwealth University da Vinci Center is partnering with the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Virginia Hispanic Foundation to attempt a Guinness World Record for the “Largest Display of Piñatas.”

The pins, one for each of the five U.S. military branches, can help create a more supportive community for veterans, said Stephen Ross, director of Military Student Services.

VCU Alumni’s RVA GOLD Chapter has been honored with the 2018 Governor’s Volunteerism and Community Service Award for Outstanding Education Organization.

On a rainy afternoon, dozens of volunteers and VCU Health team members left the auditorium of the Hermes A. Kontos Medical Sciences Building with smiles on their faces. Sixty of them held large envelopes carrying newly awarded grants back to their teams to fund patient care projects and staff initiatives.

Constance Relihan, Ph.D., has been named dean for the University College at Virginia Commonwealth University, effective July 9.

If the future is female, then Virginia Commonwealth University students will be equipped to treat the next XX chromosome population with the advancements in scientific research and innovative medical treatment practices that they are making today.

Virginia Commonwealth University alumnus Jon Pineda’s second novel, “Let’s No One Get Hurt,” tells the story of Pearl, a 15-year-old girl squatting in an abandoned boathouse in a swamp in the American South with her father, who is a disgraced college professor, and two other men.

The relationship between the United States and Pakistan is going through a “bad patch,” primarily because of disagreements over how best to stabilize Afghanistan, according to Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, the ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, who spoke Monday at Virginia Commonwealth University.

A new kind of patio door system that can open as a French door or as a sliding glass door. A nonprofit funeral home serving Richmond.

Beginning April 19, Medical College of Virginia alumni, family, friends and fans will have an opportunity to purchase new gear featuring the MCV vintage logo.

Have you heard the story of how in the summer of 1935 Richmond was enthralled by reports of a monster named “Elmer” that was thumping under the floorboards and behind the walls of a Grace Street row house on what is now Virginia Commonwealth University’s campus?

The VCU Wilder School’s Center for Public Policy and the Virginia secretary of public safety and homeland security are sponsoring a forum on school safety on Monday, April 23, that will examine how officials can best assess, investigate and resolve potential threats as well as the evolving role of school resource officers.

Virginia Commonwealth University Police Chief John Venuti thinks the first step toward addressing sexual assault is to start believing people.

Clint Cuffy has always been interested in machine learning — the area of computer science in which computers use data to learn how to perform tasks, rather than being specifically programmed to do those tasks. But he lacked the opportunity to delve into the subject.

A Virginia Commonwealth University student researcher is perfecting methods of detecting a malaria parasite in mosquitoes in the Brazilian Amazon.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to a Virginia Commonwealth University scholarship program that recruits science, technology, engineering and math students and trains them to serve as secondary school math and science teachers in the Richmond region.

Sales of Chinese herbs in the U.S. have increased in recent years, with many people viewing them as a less expensive, and more effective alternative to traditional pharmaceutics with fewer adverse side effects. However, medicinal teas brewed from these herbs are unsafe if not properly administered, VCU student Julia Grzymkowski has found in her research.

More than 80 teams of engineering and business students will show off their innovative research and design prototypes at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering Capstone Design Expo.

In her office at the 500 Academic Centre building on Virginia Commonwealth University’s Monroe Park Campus, Joann Richardson, Ph.D., has a framed thank you letter from a Jamaican woman who participated in a health study led by a VCU student.

As a research assistant in the Discrimination and Health Lab in the Department of Psychology in Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Humanities and Sciences, Ronald Romero is helping investigate the role of discrimination in racial and ethnic health disparities.

Dance can be a vehicle for examining class and racial divides in the United States and healing those wounds, a Virginia Commonwealth University student researcher has found.

AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins will join Ed Grier, dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business, for a conversation on “The Business of Boomers” on Wednesday, April 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Hotel John Marshall, 101 N. Fifth St.

School districts across the country are struggling to close the racial gap in the teaching workforce and hire more black teachers — particularly male teachers — who are more likely attuned to the cultural needs of black students, thereby creating a space for positive academic achievement.

The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services has selected Virginia Commonwealth University to lead a five-year evaluation of the state’s new Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plus program.

For journalists, sending a drone skyward to cover a news story can provide their audience with otherwise impossible to obtain photos and video.

The Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors has scheduled committee and full board meetings on Friday, May 11, on VCU’s Monroe Park Campus in the James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave., Richmond, Virginia, as follows:

Three Virginia Commonwealth University professors have joined the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, an elite group that comprises the top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers nationally.

During a speech at Virginia Commonwealth University on Thursday, John DeGioia, Ph.D., president of Georgetown University, said institutions of higher education bear a critical responsibility to take the same “restless and relentless” style of inquiry that marks their approach to scholarship and apply it to the complex tension between freedom of expression and respect for diversity and inclusion.

The Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors and VCU Health System Board of Directors will hold a joint meeting on Wednesday, April 11 at 5:30 p.m. at 4708 Old Main St., Riverview Room, Richmond, VA 23231.