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Fall 2026 VCU College of Engineering faculty promotions

Congratulations to the newly promoted and tenured faculty at the VCU College of Engineering! Join us in celebrating their remarkable achievements and dedication to academic excellence this Fall 2026.

Engineering Research Building

Summer research gives students valuable hands-on experience through REU sites at the VCU College of Engineering

The VCU College of Engineering’s REU programs provide undergraduates with hands-on research, professional mentorship, and skill-building workshops across cutting-edge fields like pharmaceutical engineering and digital forensics.

Student presenting her work at the REU symposium

Helping VCU innovators build stronger startups

A partnership between VCU TechTransfer and Ventures and Central Virginia’s Activation Capital is pairing faculty researchers with business leaders.

Michael McClure of the VCU College of Engineering reviews a decellularized muscle scaffold designed to help the body regenerate muscle tissue after traumatic injury. Through his startup, Sarcogenics, he is working to advance the technology toward clinical use.

Rapid cortisol test, aerial vehicle tech and water tanks are among VCU faculty research projects receiving new awards

Six initiatives are selected in the Commercialization Fund’s latest round of funding that helps bring campus innovation to the marketplace.

Vamsi Yadavalli, Ph.D., a professor in the College of Engineering, has turned his expertise developing biosensors from biological materials toward cortisol, the body’s primary stress hormone.

Four VCU students and recent alums earn prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships for 2026

One Virginia Commonwealth University student and three recent alums have been selected for the 2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, a prestigious national initiative that helps graduate students advance their studies in STEM-based disciplines.

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Helping every body stay in motion

Associate Professor Carrie L. Peterson, Ph.D. is conducting two rehabilitation engineering research studies, both aimed at limiting physical pain and improving mobility across an entire life span.

Carrie Peterson, Ph.D., collaborates with College of Engineering researchers to employ machine learning, training models on complex datasets in order to accurately predict how an individual patient will respond to treatment before the first pulse is ever delivered.

Biomedical engineers from VCU receive NSF graduate research fellowships to continue academic careers

Two VCU biomedical engineering alumnae, Jessica Nguyen and Ellie Sabalewski, received prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to fund their respective Ph.D. research in women's health at Texas A&M and Rice University.

From left: Jessica Nuyen and Ellie Sabalewski

Class of 2026: For Jade Rasberry, biomedical engineering is a personal and shared pursuit

Her longtime passion is reflected in her leadership of VCU’s National Society of Black Engineers student chapter and in her design projects.

Jade Rasberry helped spearhead the National Society of Black Engineers at VCU to national recognition while balancing a capstone project inspired by her younger brother.

VCU innovation may prevent scar tissue and advance joint surgery

The College of Engineering’s Barbara Boyan is leading a new approach to arthrofibrosis that could have a wide-ranging impact on musculoskeletal health.

Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D., and her team at the VCU Laboratory for Musculoskeletal Research and Innovation are working to prevent arthrofibrosis from developing in patients after surgery.

Class of 2026: A Ram even in high school, Jessica Nguyen will carry VCU spirit into graduate school

The McNair Scholar and biomedical engineering graduate now heads to Texas A&M for her Ph.D. program.

As she became more involved in research at VCU, Jessica Nguyen, a biomedical engineering major, says, “I found that I genuinely loved the process of asking questions, working through challenges and contributing to something larger than myself.”
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