Influential, passionate VCU Comic Arts Collection Specialist dies at 53
Peggy Stansbery, Staff Writer Constantly approaching her work with wonder and excitement, Cindy Jackson supported and developed a rich comic arts collection at VCU. Cindy Jackson started working in Special Collections and Archives at VCU as an undergraduate student employee in 1996, according to VCU Libraries’ Senior Curator Yuki Hibben, who had worked alongside Cindy […]
Months of delays come to an end, Ram City Market opens on campus
Katie Farthing, Contributing Writer Selna Shi, News Editor “They opened on a Thursday, and I passed [the store] and was like ‘oh, they’re open, they didn’t tell me,’” said Valentina Silva, a Ram City Market employee. “Later that night I got a call and they were like ‘are you available tomorrow?’” Silva, a sophomore communication […]
VCU mistakenly refers to prospective students as accepted in email
Varsha Vasudevan, Staff Writer Selna Shi, News Editor VCU sent February open house invitations to fall 2023 applicants on Dec. 27, 2022 addressing recipients as “accepted students,” but admission decisions had not been made for everyone, VCU spokesperson Michael Porter stated. “We issued an apology and clarification on the same day and sincerely regret the […]
Afrovisualism: Aesthetic theory advances Black creatives, artists’ spaces
Chloe Hawkins, Spectrum Editor Local artists find inspiration and cultural importance in obscure spaces with the help of Afrovisualism. The term “Afrovisualism” coins the Black Aesthetic Continual Theory, according to founder of Afrovisualism, curator, theorist, graphic designer and writer Justin Smith. It is the combination of Black historical frameworks to compare and identify the parallels […]
VCU ranked in top 50 public research universities, receives $405.6 million in grants
Anna Chen, Copy Editor “VCU research is unstoppable,” stated A.J. Hostetler, director of communications for the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. The National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research nationally ranked VCU as No. 50 for fiscal research expenditures in December 2022, after VCU received $405.6 million in research grants, breaking the […]