President’s Posts

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VihuYEGV3U&w=560&h=315] For the past few weeks, many people across the nation have worked hard to raise awareness about the effects of ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. As part of this effort, we have all seen the “Ice Bucket Challenge” on […]

The Presidential Research Quest Fund, formerly the Presidential Research Incentive Program, recently announced its sixth round of internal funding awards, totaling more than $867,000 to support faculty engaged in new, emerging or continuing research. PeRQ Funds are part of an important initiative that provides seed funding in a competitive environment and helps our internationally renowned […]

Earlier this week, VCU’s leadership team engaged in a series of in-depth discussions about our progress in achieving the ambitions outlined in our Quest for Distinction strategic plan. The conversations were informative and revealing: By any measure, the first three years of Quest have been profoundly successful, thanks to my colleagues across the institution who […]

Watch this video about Research Week 2014.

You are helping brighten VCU’s star on the national map. I had the great pleasure to deliver this message to the university community in today’s State of the University Address. I could not be more proud of all that we have accomplished together. In a very short time, VCU has emerged as one of America’s […]

The future Institute for Contemporary Art During the past two years, we have all worked hard to make the ambitions outlined in our Quest for Distinction strategic plan into our new reality. I am so proud of the astonishing progress that Virginia Commonwealth University has made. Through deliberate and strategic actions, a series of game-changers […]