Symposium will highlight how the curriculum develops skills applicable to all majors and real-life challenges.

For students interested in orthopaedic surgery, dedicated residents and faculty guide them through research and toward the highly competitive specialty.

Driven by a desire to help her community, the VCU staff member returned after a 10-year break to get her bachelor’s degree – and she didn’t stop there.

The biology and business double-major has worked with a medical imaging pioneer and at the NIH, hoping to advance the tracking of Alzheimer’s in addition to cancer.

The working professional (and devoted singer) marks a first for the College of Health Professions program, and her research into swallowing disorders embraces an interdisciplinary lens.

The initial cohort of students explores visual storytelling and scholarship.

Her path to archaeology was molded by VCU classes, a VMFA internship and field work in Romania.

With freshmen leading the way, plus guidance from a junior, students establish a campus unit of the humanitarian nonprofit and provide health care in Guatemala over spring break.

The advertising student will steer Oscar Mayer’s famous Wienermobile for a year before pursuing his master’s at the VCU Brandcenter.

Lily Elizabeth Dunlap embraces a semester of independent study, through which she adapted a poem with personal resonance – and found personal growth.

Kate Ogden blends her interests in teaching, science and art by developing a K-16 curricular resource that explores the intersection of AI and photography.

From diverse research projects as an undergraduate, the aspiring ER physician embraced the link between anthropology and medicine.

In a dual-degree program, the first-generation student from a small town embraces leadership roles.

Next year, VCU itself will be in the spotlight as host of the National Conference for Undergraduate Research.

The third-year student has been a valuable researcher in a mechanical engineering lab whose work focuses on energy technology.

The environmental studies student embraces field work that has taken her straight into the nest.

The four, who have ties to the Honors College, will pursue programs related to diplomacy and science.

Summer research initiative led to a role in a musculoskeletal innovation lab, and she is looking forward to graduate school.