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Recent Honors & Awards
DOE Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase 1 Award
Lead: LUNA Innovations Inc.
Research Grant
Lead Institution: Kansas State University
Research Grant
Collaborative Research: Studies of light-responsive novel metal and lanthanide-based nanocomposites: X-ray radiation enhancing and radioluminescence properties
The Margaret Lyn McDermid Award (MLM) Rising Star Award
The Margaret Lyn McDermid Awards recognizes women technologists in the greater Richmond area.
Engineering Research Building
The new Engineering Research Building (ERB) will support advanced research and economic development initiatives with a design that emphasizes makerspaces, collaborative research facilities and flexible gathering areas. The ERB will be situated on the southeast corner of Cary and Belvidere Streets, in close proximity to Engineering East Hall and the VCU School of Business.
Explore VCU Engineering
At VCU Engineering, you’ll design what never existed before. Then you’ll roll up your sleeves and make it. In the heart of a creative capital city, you’ll discover ways to turn your big idea into reality.
News and Events
Recent news
The testbeds were developed under the leadership of Erdem Topsakal, Ph.D., director of the CCI Central Virginia regional node and professor and chair of VCU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
elec, ece
Building a sustainable urban park – from the ground up
How a class of VCU students’ research – on soil to vegetation and everything in between – is laying the groundwork for the Science Museum of Virginia to develop the sustainable green space of the future.
chem
Inspired to design: Student follows mechanical engineering passion and becomes DoD SMART Scholar
Isaac Asimov and inventors like Henry Ford are inspirations for Lars Axberg, a mechanical engineering sophomore who recently received the Department of Defense (DoD) Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship.
mech
Her combined passion for people and robots leads to a graduate research fellowship
She believed the combination of both her passions - robotics and biomedical engineering - could lead to solutions that supplement thinly stretched health care workers while also reducing medical errors.
biomed, chem
Recent headlines
April 15, 2022
Attack of the Zombie Crabs - With Good Reason
April 8, 2022
Going with the Phlow - Pharmaceutical Commerce
April 3, 2022
VCU is reducing the cost to make COVID medications. But the funding expires this year. - The Roanoke Times
April 1, 2022
VCU is reducing the cost to make COVID medications. But the funding expires this year. - Richmond Times-Dispatch
March 4, 2022
Tips to help protect yourself online - MSN
March 4, 2022
Tips to help protect yourself online - Yahoo
March 4, 2022
Tips to help protect yourself online - WTVR CBS 6
Events
May 26 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Ph.D. Proposal Defense with Steven Hernandez
Virtual
05/26/2022 11:00:43 EDT