RICHMOND, Virginia, Aug. 11 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * VCU Rice Rivers Center offers its first coordinated summer session With hands-on learning and high-tech tools, the field station hosts five courses that explore the land, water and air along the James River. By Joan Tupponce On their urban campuses in downtown Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University students may not think about the insects and soil that surround them. But less than 25 miles away, VCU's river campus - the VCU Rice Rivers Cent more PR

RICHMOND, Virginia, Aug. 11 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Massey receives $2.7 million National Institutes of Health grant The five-year award will support Massey in its work to develop the next generation of cancer researchers and to help those most at risk for cancer throughout Virginia. By Bill Potter VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center was recently awarded a $2.7 million Worta McCaskill-Stevens K12 grant from the National Institutes of Health. The five-year grant will allow Massey to mentor pr more PR

RICHMOND, Virginia, Aug. 11 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * NASA summer program helped Cree Taylor soar - and land on her academic focus The agency's Student Airborne Research Program encouraged the self-identified 'dabbler' to home in on research with a personal connection. By Madeline Reinsel Cree Taylor likes to learn, and she likes to stay busy. Whether she's climbing atmospheric monitoring towers, checking on prothonotary warbler bird boxes or identifying fish in Italy, the environmental studies ma more PR