ChatNovember 15, 2022 — New fund supports students interested in children's literacy.
October 23, 2022 — Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute team of faculty and staff works with police to develop Whistles Against Street Harassment initiative.
October 20, 2022 — New leadership of Special Collections and Archives begins Nov. 28, 2022.
October 18, 2022 — Explore new books in the Art Browsery.
October 17, 2022 — VCU students, faculty, and staff have free access to all Adobe Creative Cloud apps on any device, for use at any time. The upcoming Creative Jam is organized by VCU Libraries, the da Vinci Center and Academic Technologies.
September 22, 2022 — Students will vie for $1000 prize in comic arts contest about censorship.
September 19, 2022 — Friends assume responsibility for alumni scholarship program for local high school students.
September 14, 2022 — Prepare for upcoming rule changes now.
September 12, 2022 — Publisher follows a new funding model for open access academic books.
August 26, 2022 — Scholarship awardee aspires to a career in movie making.
August 24, 2022 — Assistive Technology Lab, located in the Commons, provides tools for help with time management, writing improvement, and converting speech into text, among other needs.
August 18, 2022 — This VCU-focused project will create an Open Educational Resource (OER) for ANTH103.
August 18, 2022 — Selected scholarly presentations by VCU Libraries faculty and staff.
August 17, 2022 — Selected scholarly contributions by VCU Libraries faculty and staff 2021-22.
August 5, 2022 — The new Social Justice Lecture series is envisioned as an annual exploration of topics by national voices who will illuminate concerns at the core of social justice.
August 1, 2022 — The VCU Summer Camp in Philosophy, held for the first time this year, saw high school students prepare presentations on ethics and moral philosophy around abortion, cloning, euthanasia, legalization of drugs, racism and more.
July 27, 2022 — VCU Libraries awards course content grants to eight faculty projects.
July 27, 2022 — 25th Levis Prize night set for Sept. 30.
July 25, 2022 — New department head will lead reorganization of merged workgroups.
July 18, 2022 — Film series debuts Sept. 14.
July 1, 2022 — Cabell First Novelist Award marks 21st year.
June 21, 2022 — Summer fellows begin internships.
June 16, 2022 — This list of faculty-recommended books can help you learn about and celebrate Juneteenth.
May 15, 2022 — Fourth annual contest honors edgy design.
May 16, 2022 — VCU Libraries fares well in first Giving Day fundraising effort.
May 12, 2022 — As a first-generation college student and native of Richmond, Whitney Brown has big aspirations to improve lives in her community.
May 12, 2022 — Jimenez Sablich, a native of Peru, is studying the stories and details behind the distinctive style so that she can share it with others.
May 5, 2022 — Some second floor booths to be treated for bedbugs.
May 3, 2022 — Study of barriers to faculty adoption of open access and open educational resources underway.
May 2, 2022 — Undergraduates invited to apply by May 16 for new humanities-libraries fellowship.
April 24, 2022 — Library open later to provide finals season study spaces.
April 11, 2022 — The Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest winner announced.
March 24, 2022 — Similar to Little Free Libraries, the boxes address student food insecurity by providing free nonperishable food and other goods.
March 9, 2022 — For the fourth time in 10 years, VCU Libraries participates in nationally-normed LibQUAL survey.
March 8, 2022 — The Friends of the VCU Libraries invite students and alumni of the previous five years (2017 - 2021) to submit their own designs for use on VCU Libraries T-shirt and other promotional materials. Deadline for submission is April 24. The prize is $500.
February 28, 2022 — 2022 grant cycle is now open.
February 24, 2022 — Project will engage rural librarians who can help educate their patrons about access to clinical trials and reliable health information.
February 24, 2022 — New research/maker series explores technology in fresh ways.
February 23, 2022 — VCU Publishing honors two outstanding articles from its open access journals.
February 21, 2022 — Student input needed in design of new space at Cabell Library. Sessions are virtual.
February 17, 2022 — $10,000 grant should advance diversity initiatives and humanities research skills at VCU Libraries.
February 17, 2022 — VCU faculty discuss experiences creating open educational resources.
February 14, 2022 — Couples share their Ram romances, from study dates at Cabell Library to a match made on a study abroad trip.
February 14, 2022 — ‘This is not a matter of just making people feel bad. It’s telling people the truth so that they can understand why the society is as it is,’ said Annette Gordon-Reed.
February 11, 2022 — A topic of great ongoing interest for the Libraries’ faculty, cultural competence is more vital than ever as VCU’s population evolves along with the Commonwealth.
February 10, 2022 — VCU Libraries faculty and staff participated in Walking the Ward a tour of historic Jackson Ward that provided attendees with a history of a center of African-American life.
February 7, 2022 — Interested to know more about Juneteenth, its legacy, and the Black experience? These resources from VCU Libraries address related topics.
February 1, 2022 — The Richmond Academy of Medicine Joseph Lyon Miller Collection, which dates to 1500, returns to 12th and Clay streets after more than three decades.
January 26, 2022 — VCU Libraries again hosts StudyWell activities.
January 17, 2022 — The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington turns to crowdsourcing, works with students at Virginia Commonwealth University and across the country.
January 14, 2022 — Attend Feb. 22 online event to learn more about rare diseases and their unique challenges.
January 11, 2022 — Are you interested in NIH grants? Be aware that 2023 will bring new data management and sharing requirements.