Jill Blondin, Ph.D., interim executive director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Global Education Office, recently spent two weeks in Brazil as a Fulbright specialist helping higher education institutions develop strategies for making their campuses more global.

Virginia Commonwealth University and Richmond communities are invited to a panel discussion this evening on the opioid epidemic in Virginia.

Mitchell B. Miller, M.D., who has practiced family medicine in Virginia Beach for more than 36 years, recently was named Virginia Family Physician of the Year by the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians.

INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine has selected Virginia Commonwealth University as a recipient of the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award.

The Center for the Study of Tobacco Products at Virginia Commonwealth University has received a $19.78 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to launch a five-year project focused on predicting the outcomes of government regulations of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.

Through handwritten notes and video messages, students say ‘thanks’ to donors.

Kathleen O’Loughlin, D.M.D., executive director of the American Dental Association, will speak to students at Virginia Commonwealth University on Sept. 17 about the impact of gender inequality on women health care providers and patients.

A Virginia Commonwealth University researcher has found that poor academic achievement can lead to substance abuse.

Virginia Commonwealth University Parking and Transportation will provide free parking for the Richmond community in several of its Monroe Park Campus parking decks in preparation for Hurricane Florence.

A contingent representing public universities from across North America visited Capitol Hill last week to speak with policymakers about ways that universities can collaborate with the federal government to build a modern workforce, spark innovation and improve economic opportunity and mobility.

VCU students learn to repair wheelchairs and develop some innovative projects to help people with limited resources.

The deadline to enter the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts General Demotion/General Devotion competition is Saturday, Sept. 15.

CEOs of nonprofits who purposefully earn less than their peers tend to lead organizations with superior performance, according to a new study conducted by two Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business professors.

Kathleen O’Loughlin, D.M.D., will visit VCU’s MCV Campus to speak about gender equality on Sept. 17.

Woodward, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, associate editor of The Washington Post and author of many books, including “Fear: Trump in the White House,” will speak at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 25.

At the event, “The Future of LGBTQ Studies at VCU: Spotlight on Faculty Research,” university leaders announced the formation of a committee working to launch an LGBTQ studies minor at VCU.

Members of the Virginia Commonwealth University community are invited to attend an upcoming open house to review a draft of the university’s “ONE VCU” master plan.

Every year, VCU introduces exciting new programs, people and places to the university and local communities.

After 12 years at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Willsdon will lead Richmond’s first arts institution dedicated to contemporary art and shape the ongoing vision for the ICA

Hernán Díaz has won the 2018 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, which honors an outstanding debut novel published during a calendar year. His winning book, “In the Distance,” published by Coffee House Press, tells the story of a Swedish immigrant crossing America’s western frontier in the years between the gold rush and the Civil War, a story that encompasses both the vast landscape and the quiet depths of one man’s suffering.

Virginia Premier and Kaiser Permanente are collaborating to create a fully integrated health care experience for Virginia residents receiving care through Medicaid.

Virginia Commonwealth University alumni will bring canned goods and school spirit to the sixth annual Alumni Charity Challenge on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Richmond.

A “Mental Health Mini-University” will bring together policymakers and Virginia Commonwealth University researchers and officials for a discussion on the continued challenges facing the mental health system in Virginia.

Michael McClure, Ph.D., has received a $500,000 Defense Medical Research and Development Neuromusculoskeletal Injuries Rehabilitation Research Award through the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a strategy that could allow a patient to regain use of a severely damaged muscle.

Virginia Commonwealth University will conduct a full test of its emergency communications and alerting systems, including multiple sirens throughout the Monroe Park and MCV campuses, at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 5.

The legendary journalist’s visit is part of the Humanities Research Center’s fall 2018 speaker program, which is bringing a variety of notable scholars and authors to the university.

A glance at some of VCU's newest students as they settle into their first semester.

The program, one of the first residencies of its kind in an arts school, will help improve medical education and advance clinical health and well-being in the community by addressing and solving problems through art and design.

VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have received three grants totaling more than $1 million from the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth to study the factors that increase the risk of youth tobacco use. Study findings will be utilized to inform youth tobacco use prevention strategies and policies.

“A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica,” a new book by Brooke N. Newman, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of History in the College of Humanities and Sciences, is a major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic.