Undergraduate Student News
![Erika Misseri is developing an app that will help voters see who's donating to their local candidates' campaigns. "You could pull up, for example, the mayor [of your local community] and see his stockholdings, if he has them, who he is married to, his recent tweets, his vote history, who’s donating to him based on what industry they’re in and who else [those donors] are donating to," she said. (Allen Jones, University Marketing)](https://news.vcu.edu/image/2BBBD413-AD28-4E8D-A9F1-F61960CD3EAB/tn)
Undergraduate co-founds, leads nonprofit to give U.S. voters easier access to info on local candidates’ campaign finances
April 22, 2022
Now building an app for her nonprofit, Erika Misseri credits a VCU course that ‘changed her life’ for encouraging her to pursue research.
Class of 2022: Kendall Gehring is driven to solve cold cases with forensic anthropology
April 22, 2022
“I’ve always loved puzzles,” says Gehring, who has had two internships with the FBI and has been a leader in VCU’s Department of Forensic Science.
Class of 2022: One conversation led to exciting research projects and ‘a new passion’
April 18, 2022
“I’m not sure that I’d even be the person I am today if I had not done this research. It changed my way of thinking,” said Steph Cull, who graduates in May.
How do bones change in outer space? This chemistry major is doing research to find out
April 14, 2022
Lovell Abraham’s hard work earned him a VCU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program fellowship and an award in last fall’s undergraduate poster symposium.
Meet-a-Ram: Atuahene Adu-Gyamfi and Roland Kusi
April 7, 2022
Duo finds success at VCU and creates podcast to tell their stories.
‘Energy’ fuels 24-hour CreateAthon@VCU’s return to in-person collaboration for local nonprofits
April 1, 2022
“We’re the little guys,” said one organization’s founder while expressing gratitude after students shared their vision for her organization and three other ‘scrappy’ nonprofits in the creative sprint’s 15th year.
Class of 2022: Akira Goden is passionate about mental health in the Black community
March 30, 2022
A double major in African American studies and psychology, her dream is to combine those two fields as a therapist.
VCU students open Hopewell grade schoolers’ eyes to science at STEAM Day
March 10, 2022
On their first day of spring break, VCU science, technology, engineering, arts and math students showed off science experiments to students at Patrick Copeland Elementary School.
Honors student starts club to assist refugees in Richmond, raise awareness
March 7, 2022
‘Through volunteerism, and through conversations, we want VCU students to gain a better understanding of this local population of people that are often very underserved and falling through the cracks.’
Starting over: Jessica Seppi took a class that caused her to change direction, and she couldn’t be happier
Jan. 13, 2022
The transfer student pivoted from broadcast journalism to statistics after discovering a love for applying math to the real world.