Experiential Learning Scholarships
 Are you planning an internship, research experience or study abroad trip for 2019? Do you have an interest in attending a professional conference or have an idea for a social entrepreneurship project? The Baldacci Student Experiential Learning Fund grants academically promising students of diverse areas of study and backgrounds with financial support to pursue internships, conferences, research, domestic or study abroad, and/or social entrepreneurship opportunities. Awards between $1,000-$5,000 will support the above experiential learning activities. Applicants must be full time undergraduate rising juniors or seniors, in good academic standing, and be primary majors in the College of Humanities and Sciences. Learn more and apply here. Accepting applications through January 31, 2019. |
Business Services Scholarships
VCU's Department of Business Services offers a variety of scholarships, all funded through key campus business partners and revenues generated from departmental programs. Last year they awarded 53 different scholarships in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $7,500. Their scholarships are diverse and include opportunities for out-of-state students, nursing students, graduate students, single parents, excellence in community service and more. You can now apply online for all of the 2019-2020 Business Services scholarships. Click here to learn more and apply. The deadline is Friday, February 15 at 4:30 PM. |
Meet VCU's Authors: Christine Cynn
 The Humanities Research Center presents Christine Cynn, Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, speaking on Prevention: Gender, Sexuality, HIV, and the Media in Côte d’Ivoire. Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 4:00 PM in the Multipurpose Room, Second Floor (Room 250), Cabell Library. Learn more.
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Campus Connector New Route
 The Campus Connector is now an express route, serving James Branch Cabell Library, Sanger Hall and J. Sargeant Reynolds RamRide stops only. This change comes as VCU enters into the second phase of its pilot program with GRTC, originally announced in August. As part of this agreement, students and employees of VCU and VCU Health System receive unlimited transportation on the GRTC Pulse Bus Rapid Transit and regular fixed-route bus service (local and express) at no cost. VCU News has more. |
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The Weaponization of Social Media
 The Robertson School is launching a new Speaker Series this spring intended as networking opportunities for students, alumni and the professional community for discussions about current media issues. Author Emerson Brooking will be the first speaker in the spring semester on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 5:30 PM in the University Student Commons, Commonwealth Ballroom B. Space is limited and seats will be given on a first-come basis. His talk is titled "The Weaponization of Social Media." Brooking is the author of Like War and a DC-based expert on the relationship between the internet and conflict. Free and open to the public. Learn more.
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Rethinking the History of Slavery
 Michael Guasco, Associate Professor of History, Davidson College, and author of Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World will speak on 1619: Rethinking the History of Africans and Slavery in Early America on Thursday, January 31, at 4:00 PM in the Cabell Library Lecture Hall. 2019 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the first recorded arrival of Africans in British North America. The Humanities Research Center is hosting a year-long series of speaker events and programs, entitled Virginia’s Past, Present, and Future, to foster an informed and constructive conversation about the events of 1619 and the mythology that has built up around them; the subsequent experience of Africans and African Americans in Virginia, British America, and the United States; the continued impact of that history; and the possibilities for a future in which Americans can shed that legacy, building together a just and inclusive multi-racial society. Learn more.
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Virginia Clinical Research Conference
 You won't want to miss the inaugural Virginia Clinical Research Conference: Engagement 2019 on April 12 at the Hilton Richmond Downtown Hotel, where clinical research coordinators, investigators and clinicians will share perspectives, discuss best practices, and collaborate on new opportunities in clinical research. Join your peers from across the state at the one-day conference that is focused on involving stakeholders (patients, families, communities, clinical providers, and research team members) in the planning and conduct of clinical research. Space is limited to 200 attendees. Early Bird Registration ends Feb. 12. Deadline to register is March 29. Learn more. |
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First-Generation College Student?
 At VCU thousands of students are among the first in their family to attend college. While being first is an exciting accomplishment, navigating college can be challenging. You First at VCU is here to help you get your bearings, set your course and be your guide all along your academic journey. Learn more about You First at VCU. |
2018-19 VCU Visiting Writers Series
 Author Yiyun Li will speak on January 20 at 7:00 PM in Cabell Library. She is the author of four works of fiction, Kinder Than Solitude, The Vagrants, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; a children’s book, The Story of Gilgamesh; and a memoir, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. Where Reasons End, a new novel, will be published in February 2019. Learn more.
The January 24 Visiting Writers Series event has been cancelled.
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Meet VCU's Authors: Myrl Beam
 The Humanities Research Center presents Myrl Beam, Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, speaking on Gay Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics. Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 4:00 PM in the Multipurpose Room, Second Floor (Room 250), Cabell Library. Learn more.
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Race and Christianity in Early Virginia
 Learn more about the historical intersection of race and Christianity in Virginia with Dr. Rebecca Goetz, associate professor of History at New York University and the author of The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race. This is the second event in the year-long series Virginia's Past, Present, and Future, presented by VCU's Humanities Research Center and Department of History in partnership with American Evolution: Virginia to America, 1619-2019. The talk will be in the third-floor Lecture Hall, James Branch Cabell Library on Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 4:00 PM. Learn more.
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Glynis Boyd Hughes is majoring in English and minoring in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies after pursuing a social work career that began in 1997. Her love of language and books, and her belief that the English language fosters communication and understanding are the key reasons she returned to VCU. A recipient of the Jean Roy Riely Fund Scholarship that recognizes a female junior or senior older than 50 who is pursuing a higher education, Boyd Hughes is grateful to all who give and donate to ensure those coming behind them can also fulfill their dreams. She is exploring the use of religion and responsibility in selected works by Flannery O’Conner and Zora Neale Hurston, completing a comparative analysis of these selections as part of a fellowship awarded by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). She will then present her findings at the UROP Research Symposium in 2019. 
