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Man and machine: Bridging the gap through dance
An arts and engineering team is exploring the potential relationship between robotics and dance.
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Optical research illuminates a possible future for computing technology
Nathaniel Kinsey, Ph.D., seeks to understand the viability of building computer components using light instead of electrical signals.
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More than ever, startups at VCU are turning ideas into businesses
Where science meets commerce, TechTransfer and Ventures is helping inventors find an audience beyond campus.
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Engineering students from VCU’s Ram Rocketry student organization competed at Battle of the Rockets.
Students participated in the deployable payload sensor event, working together to design, engineer, code and launch a rocket.
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Virtual VCU worlds used to train, teach and treat in the real one
How researchers and faculty are building virtual reality applications to face society’s grand challenges.
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“The unstoppable knowledge creation and the transformative innovation being carried out here is felt locally, nationally and globally,” said P. Srirama Rao, Ph.D., vice president for research and innovation.
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Drug delivery, new therapies, AI, VR: Array of VCU inventors receive Commercialization Fund awards
A Virginia Commonwealth University pharmacy professor and his team have repurposed a long-approved drug that could soon be used to treat eye disorders such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.
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Class of 2022: Dhruv Fomra thrived in rich research environment at VCU
Dhruv Fomra traveled to the U.S. from his native India to earn his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering.
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Radhika Barua, Ph.D. and fellow VCU professors Afroditi Filippas, Ph.D., and Everett Carpenter, Ph.D., are part of a team of VCU researchers working to create new types of magnets.
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A study from Elsevier BV, based at Stanford University, finds that 17 VCU College of Engineering professors are in the world’s top 2% of most-cited researchers in 2022.
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