Research Weeks 2025 agenda
Featured events
April 15, 2025 | 3 p.m.
Cabell Library Lecture Hall (Room 303)
VCU State of the Research Address
Srirama Rao, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research and Innovation
Reception to follow at Scott's House
April 23, 2025 | 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Student Commons (Commonwealth Ballrooms)
Graduate Student Research Symposium
The 28th Annual Graduate Research Symposium will bring together graduate students from across the university to share their research with the VCU and local community.
April 24, 2025 | 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Student Commons (Commonwealth Ballrooms)
Poster Symposium for Undergraduate Research
All undergraduate researchers from every discipline are encouraged to present. Presentations may be for completed research projects, completed papers or research in progress.
Full schedule of events
School of Dentistry Research Day
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Lyons Building
The School of Dentistry's research day will consist of invited keynote talks and a poster session. This year's research keynote is on infection and inflammation.
Nursing Research: The Unexpected Researchers
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. | School of Nursing (Room 1013, Lobby)
From community-based health research initiatives and inter-professional research collaborations to spearheading nation-wide multi-partner projects, the School of Nursing's "Research Weeks" event will showcase student and faculty-led research from within the School of Nursing.
Gordon Ginder Innovations in Cancer Symposium
Dewey Gottwald Center
This symposium honors Gordon D. Ginder, MD, who has dedicated a lifetime to Massey's cancer research and patient care. This event will be focused on AI and Data Science: A New Frontier for Oncology and will feature several nationally-recognized experts in this field.
The Blake Lecture in the History of Christianity: The Wisdom of Lincoln for a Zero-Sum World
5 - 6:15 p.m. | Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Peter W. Marty examines how a zero-sum mentality shapes society and highlights Lincoln’s leadership in fostering the common good.
Computational Medicinal Chemistry Symposium
Apr. 3: Full day | Apr. 4: Half day | Biotech One
Join the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at VCU School of Pharmacy for a symposium and reunion celebration. Hear speakers share their latest research in the fields of QSAR, artificial intelligence, drug discovery, structural biology and molecular modeling.
Dr. David Wheeler Memorial Lecture in Spatial and Cancer Statistics
12 - 1:30 p.m. | Molecular Medicine Research (Room 1013) or Virtual (Zoom)
Lance Waller, Ph.D., professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University, will be the inaugural speaker for the Dr. David Wheeler Memorial Lecture in Spatial and Cancer Statistics.
BNFOThon 2025
Grace E. Harris Hall
The VCU Center for Biological Data Science proudly announces BNFOthon 2025 - a hackathon devoted to solving bioinformatics problems by combining knowledge and skills from biology, medicine, statistics, and computer sciences. Open by invitation.
19th Annual Women's Health Research Day
1 - 4:30 p.m. | Larrick Student Center
The symposium this year is titled "Nutrition and Women's Health." Abstracts from all fields with elements of women's health and/or sex/gender differences are encouraged.
18th Annual VCU Politics and Government Student Research Conference
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Student Commons
A student research conference on government, public policy, and foreign affairs, where students from regional colleges and VCU are paired with faculty for professional-style research panels.
School of Education Research Colloquium
9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Cabell Library Lecture Hall (Room 303)
Learn more about our innovative, ongoing research at the VCU School of Education! The event features SOE doctoral student poster presentations, faculty lightning talks and panel discussions around effective research partnership development.
Focused Inquiry Expo
2 – 5 p.m. | Grace E. Harris Hall (Focused Inquiry Learning Lounge 5516)
The Focused Inquiry Expo will showcase the creativity and research of students in UNIV 111, 112, 200 and 299. This is a chance to celebrate FI students and their accomplishments. Students will give talks and readings, display their multimodal projects and much more!
VCU State of the Research Address
3 p.m. | Cabell Library Lecture Hall (Room 303)
Srirama Rao, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Innovation
Community Engaged Research Support Circle
12 - 1 p.m. | Virtual (Zoom)
The Council on Community Engagement's Research Workgroup is hosting a panel discussion and supportive space for those involved with community-engaged research. During the event, we will discuss current strategies for community-engaged research efforts and share resources.
College of Health Professions Research Week
April 16: 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. | April 17: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. | College of Health Professions
Learn more about our innovative, ongoing research at the VCU School of Education! Join us CHP Research Week as we celebrate our groundbreaking discoveries and continued quest to lift lives and improve the human condition.
Impact Summit: Undergraduate Research, Mentors Matter
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. | Cabell Library Lecture Hall (Room 303)
More information coming soon.
Self-Management and the Transfer of Medical Responsibility from Parent to Child in Youth with Spina Bifida
1 - 2:30 p.m. | Biotech One (Founders Corner Conf. Rm., 1st Floor)
Join Loyola University Chicago’s Grayson N. Holmbeck, Ph.D., as he discusses self-management in youth with spina bifida, focusing on medical responsibility transfer, family dynamics and independence.
Recovery in Practice Symposium
April 17: 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. | April 18: 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. | April 19: 9 - 10:30 a.m. | ICA
Join the VCU Humanities Research Center, VCUarts, Rams in Recovery and Richmond’s Inclusive Recovery City Initiative for Recovery in Practice - a conference that will feature artists, writers, and activists with lived experience with substance use disorders.
Demo Day at Feedback Fridays
4 - 7 p.m. | Shift Retail Lab
VCU Demo Days is a bi-annual pitch competition held each fall and spring semester at Shift Retail Lab's Feedback Friday events. Participants have the opportunity to deliver investor-style pitches and compete for seed funding and support.
Integrative Life Sciences Showcase
Student Commons
The annual ILS Showcase is a student-run event that showcases and celebrates research from the Integrative Life Sciences Doctoral Program. Open by invitation.
Graduate Student Research Symposium
9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Student Commons (Commonwealth Ballrooms)
The 28th Annual Graduate Research Symposium will bring together graduate students from across the university to share their research with the VCU and local community.
Public Interest Technology in the Age of AI with Margaret Hu
4 - 6 p.m. | Cabell Library Lecture Hall (Room 303)
The joint public-private deployment of AI systems is unfolding almost invisibly. The philosophies and ambitions that guide these black box systems are also opaque.
Poster Symposium for Undergraduate Research
10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Student Commons (Commonwealth Ballrooms)
All undergraduate researchers from every discipline are encouraged to present. Presentations may be for completed research projects, completed papers or research in progress.
College of Humanities and Sciences Student Research Pecha Kucha
2 - 3:15 p.m. | Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Building (Room 202)
More information coming soon.
Evolutionary and Cognitive Roots of Human Social Behavior
3:30 - 5 p.m. | STEM building (Room 110)
Join University of California San Diego's psychology professor Michael E. McCullough, Ph.D., as he explores the evolutionary and cognitive roots of human social behavior, from forgiveness and gratitude to empathy, morality and religion.
Engineering Capstone Expo
9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. | Stuart C. Siegel Center
This event showcases more than 90 student projects and presentations, the result of more than eight months of work between students, project partners and faculty advisers. They seek to offer solutions that will have a lasting impact on society and humankind.
2025 VA–NC Alliance Undergraduate Research Symposium
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Student Commons (Commonwealth Ballrooms)
The LSAMP Research Symposium is an annual event that highlights the research of students in STEM through oral and poster presentations. Students and partners are provided information about graduate programs, networking, and professional development opportunities.
Rice Rivers Center Research Symposium
Rice Rivers Center
More information coming soon.
Open by invitation.
