RICHMOND, Virginia, July 2 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Olufunke Grace Bankole wins the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for 'The Edge of Water' She will receive the prize, which is now in its 25th year, during a public event at VCU on Nov. 12. By Brian McNeill Olufunke Grace Bankole has won the 2026 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, which honors an outstanding debut novel published during the preceding calendar year. Her winning book, "The Edge of Water," published by Tin House, is an emotionally reso more PR

RICHMOND, Virginia, July 2 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following Q&A on July 1, 2026, involving R. Andrew Chesnut, professor and chair in Catholic studies: * * * Catholic Church faces flare-up this week between traditionalists and the pope VCU expert R. Andrew Chesnut offers insight into the Society of St. Pius X and the challenge to papal authority. By Sian Wilkerson An ongoing dispute within the Catholic Church between a group of traditionalists and the Holy See is making headlines again this week after four bishops we more PR

RICHMOND, Virginia, July 2 (TNSjou) -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Massey researchers lead multi-decade analysis of new cancer incidence among survivors In recent decades, the risks have declined among cancer survivors, with notable exceptions in female lung cancer and male bladder cancer survivors, as well as among those first diagnosed with cancer at older ages. - As people continue to live longer and the survival rate of cancer diagnoses increases, researchers from VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Ce more PR

ROANOKE, Virginia, June 30 -- The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech posted the following news: * * * Virginia's leading research universities unite to advance biomedical innovation * The next generation of medicine won't be built around treating disease after it appears. It will be built around understanding precisely how disease develops -and predicting its course to enable precise interventions before it becomes irreversible. That vision united researchers from Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commo more PR