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VCU public safety officials are rolling out the newest educational tool to promote safer driving habits through campus. ...
10/15/2026

VCU public safety officials are rolling out the newest educational tool to promote safer driving habits through campus. The VCU Pace Car, which debuted this week at the Compass, will hit the streets in coming days.

Wrapped in messaging like “Not I-95, Drive 25,” the pace car is a mobile reminder to drivers that the speed limit throughout VCU’s academic and medical campuses is 25 mph. The goal is to consistently remind drivers of the importance of obeying traffic safety laws due to the high volume of pedestrians around VCU’s campuses.

“Many people who are in the VCU footprint aren’t aware that the speed limit’s 25 mph. So with the pace car vehicle, we’re globalizing the speed limit,” said John Venuti, VCU’s associate vice president for emergency services. “We want it moving around. We want people to see the speed limit everywhere they go.”

Read more: https://news.vcu.edu/article/the-new-vcu-pace-car-is-a-moving-reminder-of-the-25-mph-speed-limit-on-campusVCUVCU

At VCU, Caddie Alford, Ph.D., is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of English in the VCU ...
10/15/2026

At VCU, Caddie Alford, Ph.D., is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of English in the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences whose research looks at tech giants and their influence on culture, information, sociality and democratic civic discourse. She co-leads the interdisciplinary AI Futures Hub, which pursues critical humanities approaches to AI, Big Tech platforms and the effects they have on labor, sociality, culture, the environment and democratic discourse.

In this article, Alford clarifies the voices that seem to conflict but often overlap on the future of AI and explains how the discussion’s roots can be traced to the 1940s.

Read more: https://news.vcu.edu/article/doomsday-cults-and-the-silicon-valley-debate-over-ais-threat-to-humanity

Inhaled medicine sounds like it should be the simplest kind of medicine there is. You breathe it in, and it goes where i...
10/14/2026

Inhaled medicine sounds like it should be the simplest kind of medicine there is. You breathe it in, and it goes where it needs to go.

It usually doesn't. The respiratory system evolved as a filter, engineered to trap foreign particles high in the airway so that mucus can clear them. Even the most modern commercial inhalers deliver only about 20% of a dose to an adult's lungs; scale those airways down to a premature infant, and the figure falls to roughly 1%. Inhaled therapeutics fail in testing often because too little of the drug arrives, not necessarily because it is wrong.

For two decades, VCU researchers Michael Hindle, Ph.D., and P. Worth Longest, Ph.D., have been engineering that delivery problem from both ends. Hindle, the Peter R. Byron Distinguished Professor and interim chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics in the VCU School of Pharmacy, focuses on formulation. Longest, the Alice T. and William H. Goodwin Jr. Distinguished Chair in the VCU College of Engineering's Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, handles the device and transport side.

Named VCU's 2025 Innovators of the Year, the pair is now advancing a patent-pending platform that does something no inhaled product currently does: treat the lung's own damaged machinery and the disease at the same time.

Read more: https://news.vcu.edu/article/new-dry-powder-system-aims-to-deliver-two-treatments-to-the-lungs-at-once

The recent death of a pathogen researcher working in Siberia has raised concerns worldwide about suspected pneumonic pla...
10/13/2026

The recent death of a pathogen researcher working in Siberia has raised concerns worldwide about suspected pneumonic plague.

Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old laboratory scientist who worked at Russia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute, died Oct. 2 after being hospitalized four days earlier. Those basic facts aren’t in dispute – but just about everything else is, VCU’s Judyth Twigg said.

Twigg, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Political Science in the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences, and her research focuses on health, demography and health systems reform in Eurasia. She spoke to the Associated Press this week about the circumstances surrounding Shipilova’s death and its aftermath.

VCU News caught up with Twigg for the latest on the case – and how it continues a decadeslong pattern of mystery from Russia on the world stage.

Read more: https://news.vcu.edu/article/pneumatic-plague-scare-in-russia

Moments after the ribbon was cut, students made a literal splash at a popular VCU facility: The Cary Street Gym Aquatics...
10/13/2026

Moments after the ribbon was cut, students made a literal splash at a popular VCU facility: The Cary Street Gym Aquatics Center reopened this Monday, Oct. 5, after months of renovation.

“I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long,” one student said upon taking to the water for a workout.

The aquatics center renovation, which began this April, included upgrading the HVAC system, draining and replastering the pools, resurfacing the pool deck, removing the slide, replacing the starting platforms and installing a new lighting system.

The project’s goal is to elevate the overall user experience, according to the team at Recreation and Well-Being, part of the Division of Student Affairs.

Read more: https://news.vcu.edu/article/cary-street-gym-aquatics-center-reopens-after-monthslong-renovation

What’s in your bag? 🎒 Is it art supplies? Dental care? See what VCU students are packing for their day on campus.👀 Comme...
10/12/2026

What’s in your bag? 🎒 Is it art supplies? Dental care? See what VCU students are packing for their day on campus.

👀 Comment below who you’d like to see in Part 2!

This Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re not just celebrating culture, we’re magnifying our student’s actions.Swipe through t...
10/08/2026

This Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re not just celebrating culture, we’re magnifying our student’s actions.

Swipe through to meet the organization that turned a 5K into a movement that crossed borders. 👉

10/07/2026

This is your sign to channel your inner Troy Bolton because BASKETBALL SEASON IS HERE!!!! 🏀💛🖤

We made it to the Black & Gold Game this Sunday and let's just say… we cannot wait for more. 🐏👀

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