The former VCU star has spent 38 years in professional baseball as a player, scout and now president of the Seattle Mariners. Last season, his club fell eight outs short of the World Series. But if Dipoto’s learned anything from a life in the national pastime, it’s that today is a fine day to try again.
Fifty years ago, this assistant dean of student life at VCU helped gay students sue the university for violating their constitutional rights. Over the next two decades, Lenton, Ph.D. (M.Ed.’73), became one of Virginia’s most relentless advocates for the rights of gay people.
The only Lyme disease vaccine to hit the market was pulled 24 years ago. It worked against the tick-borne disease but not well enough. VCU microbiologist Richard Marconi, Ph.D., has engineered a new version with a novel twist: It’s part synthetic.
Jennifer Weggen, Ph.D., and a team of VCU researchers are putting science behind breath work. “Your body can do so much for you, if you let it.”
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In central Kentucky, dry-stone mason Russell Waddell (B.S.’11) stacks rocks to preserve a “sense of place.”
Ruby Scoops founder Rabia Kamara (B.S.’10) serves up a few (conversational) scoops for the summer
Political science professor Jessica Trisko Darden’s book sheds light on Nazi women and war crimes
Everett Worthington, Ph.D., has studied forgiveness for 30 years and found it comes with many ancillary health benefits.
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Linda Foley (B.S.’65) discusses civil society, scholarships and how baton twirling brought her ‘outside my little world’
A century-old oaken plank on a trough connects VCU to the origins of modern surgery.
People are seeking medical advice from AI. A better idea? A clinician with a deeper Rolodex.
Nostalgia! Architecture! Shadow boxes!
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