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Thousands of new students, including more than 4,000 first-years, joined the VCU community this fall. Jasmyn Smith is looking forward to getting to know the students and faculty in her Doctor of Dental Surgery program. (Kevin Morley, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Introducing the newest Rams

Sept. 13, 2024

Get to know six students who are just starting their VCU journeys and are eager to embrace the university community.

VCU School of Pharmacy Dean K.C. Ogbonna, Pharm.D., David Volles, Pharm.D., and Director of OEE Wanda Coffey.

UVa Health System’s David Volles awarded 2024 preceptor of the year

Sept. 5, 2024

The Office of Experiential Education celebrates the winners of the 2024 Preceptor of the Year Award and the Outstanding Preceptor Awards.

(Left to right) Xuewei Wang, Ph.D., William L. Dewey, Ph.D., Shelli Fowler, Ph.D., VCU President Michael Rao, Ph.D., Marcie S. Wright, Ph.D., Yan Zhang, Ph.D. and Charlene D. Crawley, Ph.D. (Photo by Thomas Kojcsich, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

42nd annual Faculty Convocation celebrates six VCU role models

Aug. 30, 2024

Honorees included faculty members from the Schools of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, College of Humanities and Sciences and the School of Public Health.

Six VCU faculty members will be honored at the 42nd annual Faculty Convocation on Aug. 29 at 3 p.m. at the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts. (File photo)

42nd annual Faculty Convocation will honor six VCU educators and researchers

Aug. 27, 2024

The annual ceremony, which will be held on Aug. 29, celebrates outstanding teaching, scholarship and service.

Cait Gibson, Pharm.D., earned the Emerging Teaching Scholar Award at the AACP Pharmacy Education conference in Boston in July. (Photo courtesy of AACP)

Pharmacy professor earns national award as emerging teaching scholar

Aug. 9, 2024

Cait Gibson is ‘paving the way for bringing evidence-based practices into the classroom that will improve how we educate future pharmacists nationwide,’ says pharmacy dean.

VCU pharmacy students Bryn Damico, Josephine Gresko, Linda Lyons, Emma Ager and Jessica Torres De La Cruz pause during a four-hour hike at the Little O'Malley Peak, which is located in Alaska’s Chugach State Park – about a 15 minute-drive from the Alaska Native Medical Center where the five classmates spent a five-week rotation. (Photo courtesy of Josephine Gresko)

For five VCU pharmacy students, clinical rotations took them to the edge, geographically

Aug. 8, 2024

The summer stint at the Alaska Native Medical Center offered insight into America’s diverse landscape of patient care and nature.

The lineup of new academic programs for 2024-25 includes offerings in data science, child welfare, pharmaceutical sciences and more. (Allen Jones, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

New VCU school year features debut of 17 degrees, certificates and concentrations that are ‘future-proofing our students'

Aug. 6, 2024

The programs, including several available online, will help fill gaps in the job market and give students new opportunities to address real-world problems.

Michelle Johnson, a Pharm.D. student in the School of Pharmacy, served an internship at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. (Contributed photo)

Personal and professional motivations draw pharmacy student Michelle Johnson to Ghana

Aug. 2, 2024

The Pharm.D. candidate combined a visit to her father with a three-week internship in a hospital’s OBGYN unit.

Twenty-one projects have been awarded funding from the 2024 VCU Quest Fund. (Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

VCU Quest Fund provides grants to 21 faculty-led projects that target society’s biggest challenges

July 17, 2024

Transdisciplinary research teams are pursuing advances in health, engineering, the environment, homeland security and more.

From eager student to esteemed academic dean, B. Ellen Byrne, D.D.S., Ph.D., has left an indelible mark during her 50-year journey at VCU. (Vernon Freeman Jr.)

‘VCU has been my life’: B. Ellen Byrne retiring after a half-century of commitment

July 10, 2024

Academic dean in the School of Dentistry began her campus connection as a School of Pharmacy student in 1974.