Students gain valuable experience working with faculty and researchers with the College of Engineering’s summer REU program.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program gives students the opportunity to do industry standard research in their field of interest.
Optical research illuminates a possible future for computing technology
Nathaniel Kinsey, Ph.D., seeks to understand the viability of building computer components using light instead of electrical signals.
More than ever, startups at VCU are turning ideas into businesses
Where science meets commerce, TechTransfer and Ventures is helping inventors find an audience beyond campus.
Engineering students from VCU’s Ram Rocketry student organization competed at Battle of the Rockets
Students participated in the deployable payload sensor event, working together to design, engineer, code and launch a rocket.
Students present innovative research and prototypes at VCU College of Engineering design expo
The annual event represents the culmination of the graduating class’s education and offers design teams the opportunity to display and demonstrate their working prototypes to the Greater Richmond community.
Representing medical advances and transdisciplinary research, 22 VCU researchers are inducted into National Academy of Inventors
“The unstoppable knowledge creation and the transformative innovation being carried out here is felt locally, nationally and globally,” said P. Srirama Rao, Ph.D., vice president for research and innovation.
Virtual VCU worlds used to train, teach and treat in the real one
How researchers and faculty are building virtual reality applications to face society’s grand challenges.
Drug delivery, new therapies, AI, VR: Array of VCU inventors receive Commercialization Fund awards
A Virginia Commonwealth University pharmacy professor and his team have repurposed a long-approved drug that could soon be used to treat eye disorders such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.
Man and machine: Bridging the gap through dance
An arts and engineering team is exploring the potential relationship between robotics and dance.
Class of 2022: Dhruv Fomra thrived in rich research environment at VCU
Dhruv Fomra traveled to the U.S. from his native India to earn his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering.
