President’s Posts

Michael Rao, Ph.D.

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Homecoming 2015: Celebrating our legacy

Rodney the Ram rides in the 2015 VCU Homecoming parade. The institution that would become Virginia Commonwealth University began in 1838 in the old Union Hotel, at Main and 19th streets in downtown Richmond. Its founding filled a great need: Even though it was the nation’s third-largest state at that time, Virginia had only one […]

The importance of athletics

Pictured from left: Women’s Basketball Head Coach Beth O’Boyle, VCU President Michael Rao, Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Ed McLaughlin and Men’s Basketball Head Coach Will Wade. Earlier today, we cut the ribbon on our Basketball Development Center, a best-of-its-kind practice facility for our men’s and women’s basketball teams. It was an exciting […]