President’s Posts

Michael Rao, Ph.D.

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Honoring outstanding faculty

SCHEV Faculty Awards 2016, VCU President Michael Rao with Lawrence Schwartz (left) and Everett Worthington (right) Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of honoring two distinguished faculty colleagues who were given Outstanding Faculty Awards by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Lawrence Schwartz, who serves as who serves as the Charles and […]

SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Awards 2016, with Lawrence Schwartz (left) and Everett Worthington (right).

Innovation to advance humanity

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3eahWo5RP4&w=560&h=315] Earlier this week, I had the great pleasure of honoring Peter Pidcoe, my faculty colleague in the Department of Physical Therapy in the School of Allied Health Professions, during the Invented at VCU event, our university’s annual celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship. Dr. Pidcoe’s work is impressive and inspiring: He has invented a […]

Peter Pidcoe, D.P.T., Ph.D., holds an early prototype of his Self-initiated Prone Progressive Crawler, or SIPPC. Today, the hardware and computer on the SIPPC are fractions of the size they once were.