More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and the United Nations projects that global demand for water will rise by nearly one-third by 2050.

The book by the VCU alumna and motherhood expert has been named one of the 10 life-changing self-help books every woman should read in 2019 by Parade magazine.

The 154,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open for classes this fall, coinciding with the college’s 50th anniversary.

Virginia Commonwealth University Health System announced today that Colonial Orthopaedics physicians will join MCV Physicians, the physician practice group affiliated with VCU Health. This expansion of services will provide patients greater access to the best network of primary and specialty-care providers in the Tri-Cities area.

Herbert Hirsch was a longtime Rams fan. After his death, his family is following VCU’s postseason with heavy and full hearts.

Cognitive imaging, patient simulation and digital dentistry are helping students prepare for the future of health care.

On Nov. 21, 1979, the skeletal remains of a young man were discovered in a wooded area in Downe Township, New Jersey. The man’s death, which was ruled a homicide, has been unsolved for nearly 40 years and his identity is a mystery.

Sitting on a rotating turntable is a small wooden game called Nine Men's Morris, part of the collection of Agecroft Hall & Gardens, a historic house museum within a Tudor manor that was brought to Richmond in the 1920s piece by piece from Manchester, England.

The VCU Board of Visitors will meet on Thursday, March 21, and Friday, March 22, on VCU’s Monroe Park Campus. The full meeting schedule is included below.

“Our goal was to use an evidence-based approach to understand why parents in rural areas have or have not vaccinated their children against HPV,” said Sunny Jun Kim, Ph.D., the lead researcher on the study.

The five-year project will use telemedicine, remote monitoring, one-on-one coaching and community partnerships to improve participants’ health.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced its 2019-20 fellowship recipients. More than half are from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.

This year’s rankings included sharp increases from the School of Education, the School of Social Work and the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs.

Fourth-year students attending the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine will participate in Match Day, which pairs medical students with residency programs in their chosen specialties, on Friday, March 15. Medical schools across the country participate annually in the Match. The National Resident Matching Program expects this year to be the largest in history.

At CreateAthon@VCU, held during spring break, student volunteers work round-the-clock to provide communication solutions to local organizations.

Virginia Commonwealth University has raised $700 million toward its $750 million goal in the Make It Real Campaign for VCU, the university announced today.

The Virginia Commonwealth University College of Health Professions will celebrate the ribbon-cutting of its new 154,000-square-foot building on Monday, March 18. Attendees will have an opportunity to tour the new space, which is equipped with cutting-edge learning laboratories designed for patient simulation and diagnostic technology.

Fans and players share the superstitions and game-day rituals they use to help lead the Rams to victory.

In 2018, more than 55,000 people in the United States were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute. The pancreas is an organ behind the stomach that aids in digestion and regulating blood sugar levels.

Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts will present its annual spring student exhibitions beginning March 15 at The Anderson, 907½ W. Franklin St.

Cristina Stanciu, Ph.D., an English professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, has received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to teach in Romania for one year and to conduct research for a new book manuscript, “Archives of Memory and Survival: Indigenous Representation in Residential School Literature and Film.”

Montserrat (Montse) Fuentes, Ph.D., dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences, has accepted the position of executive vice president and provost of the University of Iowa, effective June 28.

Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Health Professions will be home to Virginia’s only baccalaureate concentration in diagnostic medical sonography starting this fall.

With “Captain Marvel,” the first solo female-superhero movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe set to debut this weekend, Cindy Jackson, library specialist for comic arts in Special Collections and Archives at James Branch Cabell Library, pulled out an array of key “Captain Marvel” comics from VCU Libraries’ Comic Arts Collection.

As companies and organizations wrestle with how to increase diversity, often under public scrutiny, Oscar Holmes IV, Ph.D., works to understand what happens when they foster inclusion and how they can maximize productivity in the process.

Karen Helderman, who previously served as audit director for the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts, has been named the executive director of audit and compliance services at Virginia Commonwealth University. Helderman started in her new position on Feb. 25.

Nominations can be submitted through March 8.

“Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” by Matthew Desmond, Ph.D., which was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, has been selected as Virginia Commonwealth University’s 2019 Common Book.

Using a new hybrid nanomaterial — a combination of graphene and palladium — may help save time and lower the cost of drug production.