“RVA STEM in Sports” premiers Friday
Muktaru Jalloh Staff Writer In an attempt to find a crossroads between athletics and STEM education, the VCU Center for Sports Leadership program is hosting its first ever RVA Stem in Sports event this Friday. The event, which is also sponsored by the MathScience Innovation Center, the Science Museum of Virginia and others, will take […]
NEXTGEN GOP, Richmond Young Professionals co-host student debt forum
VCU senior Zachary Hogarth said he estimates he’ll have around $37,000 in debt when he graduates this May. “I’m afraid I’m going to spend my entire life working to pay off just four years of college,” Hogarth said. Hogarth was just one of many attendees at NEXTGEN GOP and The Urban League of Greater Richmond […]
UPDATE: Blacksburg teen stabbed to death, authorities say
UPDATED: Feb. 3, 2015 13-year-old Nicole Lovell, whose death led to the arrest of two Virginia Tech students, was fatally stabbed the day she disappeared, a prosecutor said in a Feb. 2 press conference. The victim’s mother, Tammy Weeks, spoke to the press for the first time since Lovell’s disappearance at a Blacksburg Police […]
AFO students say art was trashed before they could claim it
Article updated Dec. 13, 2:00 p.m. “Please don’t touch: Hanging up to dry. Will pick up tom.” That was one of the notes crumpled up in a pile of wood, paint, sculptures and furniture in a dumpster outside the Bowe building this morning. Some VCU Art Foundation students say their work was thrown out into […]
Students get payback against faculty in flag football game
Tensions were high at the faculty vs. students flag football game held on Oct. 8 at Rectacular Spectacular for VCU Homecoming at Cary Street Fields. Students and faculty gathered around the field to see the faculty team duke it out against the Intramural All-Star team for the title of best football team here at VCU. […]