President’s Posts

This is a particularly exciting time at Virginia Commonwealth University because we’re celebrating significant milestones from our past as we chart strategic stepping stones for our future. When this institution began in 1838, no one could have imagined the enormous impact we’d make in 2019.

  For many years, I have talked about making sure that what we do at VCU matter beyond our own campus, about focusing our limited resources toward solving urgent and vital problems people face, amd about making the biggest possibilities of life more accessible to more people. Since 1838, we have committed to being a […]

Dear members of the VCU and VCU Health communities: I am pleased to announce that P. Srirama Rao, Ph.D., will become the new Vice President for Research and Innovation, effective Oct. 1. Dr. Rao – no relation to me — comes to VCU from the University of Minnesota, where he is professor and associate dean for […]

Dear VCU and VCU Health Communities, We are pleased to welcome William Gregory Hundley, M.D., as the inaugural director of the VCU Health Pauley Heart Center, effective July 1. Dr. Hundley is a proud alumnus of VCU School of Medicine. With his outstanding reputation as a physician-scientist and mentor, Dr. Hundley is a perfect fit […]

It is my pleasure to share a message from Dr. Marsha Rappley, Virginia Commonwealth University Vice President for Health Sciences and CEO of the VCU Health System.   In celebration of National Nurses Week, I would like to share my gratitude to our nursing team at VCU Health. Our nurses have set a high bar for […]

At a nationally premier research university, having a nationally premier library matters. I could not be more proud of VCU Libraries and the legacy of learning they have inspired for more than a century. VCU Libraries are profoundly important to our emergence as one of America’s most-respected urban public research universities. Earlier this academic year, […]