Tristen Taggart only prepared one speech. So at the end of Tuesday’s ceremony for the Presidential Awards for Community Multicultural Enrichment — after Taggart and the other honorees had already been recognized and as Taggart was being announced as the recipient of the event’s capstone award — Taggart gasped, perhaps more surprised than anyone.

High school student Alexandra Wright is getting a jump on her studies in a VCU electrical engineering lab.

Father of liver transplant recipient shares his daughter’s story. ‘She has a new life. I know she doesn’t fully understand it yet.’

From people with amputated limbs to overdose victims, a wide range of people will benefit from the projects developed by Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering students this past year.

Robinson, a School of Education alumnus and the 2019 National Teacher of the Year, works with kids in juvenile detention and helps them by teaching through a ‘personal and profound’ lens.

The VCU Office of Alumni Relations and VCU’s student alumni association, Students Today Alumni Tomorrow, will partner on April 24 to host the university’s inaugural Tag Day.

Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory condition that can lead to cardiac failure when it affects the heart. Kron is investigating a new method to treat it.

Chandak Ghosh’s PACME selection inspired him to pursue a career in public health.

VCU will hold spring commencement on May 11 at 10 a.m. at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.

Teams of students in university’s Pre-Accelerator Program will showcase their ideas — including a solution for package theft and applying gamification to study for medical boards.

Sherman Hamilton’s big break on TV started with a broken bone. Hamilton, a former star guard on the men’s basketball team at Virginia Commonwealth University, was playing in a summer league game in his native Toronto in 2003 when he broke his ankle.

Carlnealius “Tyrees” Dandridge, a custodian at Pole Green Elementary School in Mechanicsville, Virginia, came to VCU Health’s Hume-Lee Transplant Center in 2015 for a kidney transplant evaluation. At that consultation, doctors discovered that not only was his kidney failing, his heart was failing too. Dandridge was in need of a double transplant.

The scholarship, and the Marquita Aguilar Walk-A-Thon that helps fund it, continues to support students — and change lives.

The annual events showcase the best graduate and undergraduate student research.

Installments of $500,000 annually will support scholarships for nursing students who do not have prior nursing degrees or are enrolled in the school’s RN to B.S. program.

Work within the new center, the only one of its kind in Virginia, will focus on researching, creating and patenting drug products.

From predictive deep brain stimulation to more female surgeons, VCU Health neurosurgeons share their predictions for the future of an ever-evolving field.

Following graduation next month, Caitlin Cain will attend graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle to pursue a doctorate in chemistry.

Hess, a longtime cardiologist, died April 13 following a nine-year battle with cancer.

A special issue of the journal Rehabilitation Psychology edited by a Virginia Commonwealth University psychology professor explores disability and social justice in rehabilitation research.

The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing has partnered with Southside Virginia Community College and Rappahannock Community College to offer accelerated coursework to registered nurses who are students at both community colleges, providing them a faster path to obtaining a bachelor’s degree. Students will be enrolled concurrently at VCU and their respective community colleges.

VCU students are constructing a community garden at Carver Elementary to help fight food insecurity.

More than 100 engineering designs, prototypes, innovations and entrepreneurial business cases, created by engineering and business students, will be on display at the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering’s annual Capstone Design Expo.

The National Institutes of Health estimates that 80% of heroin users started with prescription drug medication. Prescribing practices of doctors and dentists prior to the height of the opioid epidemic are to blame for these numbers, said Omar Abubaker, D.M.D., Ph.D., chair of oral and maxillofacial surgery in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry.

20 years after leaving VCU early, Hughes, an English student and aspiring educator, is back and pursuing research that is unlocking her academic potential.

Drashty Mody is examining saltwater intrusion in wetlands — and the James River's water quality — as an undergraduate researcher.

Meyers is using her research on art historian Marilyn Stokstad to create a feminist multimedia exhibition.

Virginia Commonwealth University will host Rams Go Solar, a solar car design and construction competition for middle schoolers, on Saturday, April 13, at the Mary and Frances Youth Center, 120 S. Linden St.

Richard Albright came to VCU to study music. Now he continues his passion for guitar as he pursues a degree in biology.

The senior in VCU’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences is passionate about reducing health disparities, particularly those affecting African Americans.