President’s Posts

Michael Rao, Ph.D.

Category results for: May 2016

Thanking VCU Police

VCU is a premier national public research university doing remarkable things. We can do this because our faculty, staff and students are supremely talented and dedicated to advancing our unique mission — and they are able to live, learn, teach, create, heal, and discover in an environment that is safe. As we celebrate National Police […]

Graduating our newest leaders

This weekend, more than 4,700 students will become Virginia Commonwealth University’s newest alumni. This diverse group of students — graduating from one of America’s premier public research universities — is well-prepared for the journey on which they are about to embark. My faculty colleagues have shaped, mentored and prepared the Class of 2016 to do […]

Leaders around the world

  In 1998, Virginia Commonwealth University became the first university to open a campus at Education City in Doha, Qatar. In the nearly two decades since, eight universities from around the world have followed our lead, and higher education in the Middle East has been forever transformed. Today, we celebrate the 15th graduating class of […]