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

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

“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.

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.

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

Discovery of the artifact in the James River comes as the Rice Rivers Center is preparing to teach an archaeology class that will explore the history of the site.