Undergraduate Student News

Arjun (left) and Akash Jagdeesh, senior biology majors at VCU, work as emergency medical technicians for the Richmond Ambulance Authority. (Jonathan Mehring, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

VCU twins are a double-dose of health care service as EMTs and researchers

Oct. 27, 2025

Akash and Arjun Jagdeesh connect campus, community and cancer insights along the Honors College path toward medical school.

Students in a class focused on the poet John Milton visited historically significant sights related to the literature they were studying. Here, the group is in the Wren Library at Trinity College. (Contributed image)

VCU students follow in John Milton’s footsteps — literally

Oct. 24, 2025

Summer study abroad program from the Department of English embraces the life and times of the ‘Paradise Lost’ poet

College students working with the Television Academy Foundation’s The Interviews Curriculum for media studies. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Content Services)

TV icons have creatively joined a new Robertson School course

Oct. 22, 2025

Archival interviews from the Television Academy Foundation are at the heart of a modern curriculum built by professor Joshua J. Smith.

The student team documenting the trees across VCU’s Monroe Park and MCV campuses include Margaret Pletcher, Declan O'Donnell, Daniella Asnicar and Kaleb Rezac. (Contributed image)

How many trees are on VCU’s campuses?

Oct. 2, 2025

Student interns with the Rice Rivers Center are counting trees, and the comprehensive inventory could highlight the environmental and financial impact of the urban forest.

Students taking part in this summer’s Civil Rights Trail trip had the opportunity to attend a lecture at the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Georgia. (Contributed photo).

Civil Rights Trail trip is historical and personal for VCU students

Sept. 17, 2025

The summer journey from the Department of Political Science is experiential learning and, for senior Alexandra Hardesty and others, a reinforcement of passion.

The Summer@Rice group at the North Lookout on Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania, home of the longest-running raptor hawk migration count in the world. (Contributed photo)

Students’ summer field research gets a payoff in the fall

Sept. 11, 2025

Summer@Rice program hosted by VCU’s Rice Rivers Center offers experiential ecology that carries into the new semester – and it comes with a stipend.

A still image from “Blinders,” one of several student films that will be screened at the Richmond International Film Festival as part of a new program, (CAP)SULE. (Contributed image)

Richmond film festival to feature recent VCU graduates

Sept. 10, 2025

Their short documentaries from a Robertson School media production class will be screened on Sept. 24.

In July, third-year political science majors Ella Milton-Benoit and Rebecca Weil took part in the Summer Leadership Institute sponsored by Virginia21. (Contributed photo)

Political science students get crash course in community leadership

Sept. 4, 2025

Undergraduates Ella Milton-Benoit and Rebecca Weil bring lessons from statewide summer institute back to VCU.

VCU senior Emily Colbert served an internship this summer with the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. (Contributed photo)

Emily Colbert gets a closeup of higher ed through APLU summer internship

Aug. 18, 2025

The environmental studies and biology student supported the esteemed university organization’s health and human services unit.

Faith Parker called her neuroscience internship at Boston University “a one-of-a-kind experience.” (Contributed photo)

Faith Parker relished her brain-tester of a summer

Aug. 14, 2025

In Boston, the VCU senior delved into neuroscience, surgery and research, with support from the Internship Funding Program.