Driven by students
More students than ever are enrolled in at least 15 credit hours, which will help ensure that they graduate in four years In the past several weeks, I have had the good fortune to attend several meetings with our students at which I have asked them to share their thoughts about what we are doing […]
Helping our students succeed
More students than ever are enrolled in at least 15 credit hours, which will help ensure that they graduate in four years In the past several weeks, I have had the good fortune to attend several meetings with our students at which I have asked them to share their thoughts about what we are doing […]
Research update
VCU’s sponsored research for FY 2013 totaled about $248 million For FY 2013, VCU’s sponsored research totaled about $248 million, an increase over pre-stimulus funding levels (FY09). Despite large decreases in federal funding because of sequestration, our faculty exceeded FY09 awards for National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation funding by more than $5 […]
Safety update
LiveSafe, a new mobile app, helps connect the VCU community with VCU police You may have noticed an increased visibility of officers around both campuses, and that is very intentional. VCU Police Chief John Venuti has made sure officers are visible during those hours in which members of our university community say they most want […]
Quest Innovation Fund resources available again
Yan Jin, Ph.D., received funding from the Quest Innovation Fund last year for her project, the Center for Media+Health We are offering another round of entrepreneurial seed funding through the Quest Innovation Fund. Introduced last year, the QIF helps kick-start the best ideas from across the university and health system to advance and implement VCU’s […]
Collaborative partnerships lead to historic grants
Robert Balster, Ph.D., is a co-principal investigator on a grant to study so-called modified risk tobacco products and other novel tobacco products In the past several weeks, research teams at VCU have secured two of the largest grants in the university’s history. Both are the result of national leadership. My last update mentioned our $62.2 […]
