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19th-century ‘Connecticut vampire’ receives forensic facial reconstruction with help from VCU researchers. Read more about the 3-D digital model of skull of man who died in the 1830s and then received unusual burial: https://bit.ly/3vvPlm1

As of 2018, only 51% of American teens were fully vaccinated against HPV. A VCU-led study identified effective messaging strategies for influencing parental perceptions of the HPV vaccine and increasing their likelihood of vaccinating their children: https://bit.ly/3VwEYbT

From sex-specific differences in liver inflammation to genetic solutions for curing liver cancer, read more about the ways that VCU researchers are working to better understand nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and related illnesses: https://bit.ly/3iRheBS

The Health Humanities Lab at Humanities Research Center at VCU is calling for applications for a group of two faculty and two community fellows to create an interdisciplinary learning module on health and healthcare disparities. The deadline to apply is Dec. 15. Learn more here:

Health Humanities Lab Faculty and Community Fellows – Call for Proposals The Health Humanities Lab at VCU’s Humanities Research Center is calling for applications for a group of two faculty and two community fellows to create an interdisciplinary learning module on health and healthcare disparities. The module will be featured as part of the History and Health initiati...

Global healthcare technology company Siemens Healthineers enlists expertise of the VCU Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health to discuss innovative solutions to treat and detect liver disease, an emerging public health issue. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Og8vEV

Robert Diegelmann, Ph.D., a distinguished career and emeritus professor at the VCU School of Medicine donated a collection related to his research into hemostasis to a Richmond-based museum. Read more: https://bit.ly/3E6Afr1

The OVPRI calls for VCU faculty to submit RFAs for internal funding opportunities of nearly $5M to support efforts in response to our strategic research plan. This includes a new opportunity to support large-scale external grant submission plans. Apply: https://bit.ly/3MeEOCu

VCU Humanities and Science's Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research professor Ye Chen, Ph.D., received the Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Best Paper Award from The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the leading international association for professionals in operations research, analytics, management science, economics, behavioral science, statistics, artificial intelligence, data science, applied mathematics and other relevant fields.

His paper, "Data-Driven Robust Resource Allocation with Monotonic Cost Functions," proposed a data-driven approach for resource allocation in logistics, which specifically handled cost uncertainty due to limited data.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3NJkjiC

VCU's School of Medicine is part of a $31 million, multi-institutional study focused on evaluating a new method for pacing the heart in people with heart failure and conduction system disease. The funding was awarded by The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Read more: https://bit.ly/3NjTPEn

Faculty, join the OVPRI Thursday, Nov. 10 at noon for "Navigating the NIH," a talk by Dr. John Ryan on understanding NIH's structure, the review process, and most importantly, how to strategize for success at the agency.

Register:

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The association between recreational cannabis use and posttraumatic stress disorder: VCU researchers reviewed a growing body of research demonstrating that PTSD and recreational cannabis use frequently co-occur. Read here:

The association between recreational cannabis use and posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and methodological critique of the literature - PubMed The association between RCU and PTSD is likely bidirectional. Results inform clinicians and researchers working in the mental health and cannabis use fields how the variability in findings on the association between RCU and PTSD may be attributable, in part, to methodological issues that permeate th...

Hospital-Based Violence Prevention and Intervention Program Seminar

Oct. 17, 2022

12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (EST)

As part of the VCU Clark-Hill Institute's CDC Healthy Communities for Youth center grant, leaders from VCU Health’s Injury and Violence Prevention Program will be sharing insights into the pivotal role in which hospital-based programs operate to prevent injury and violence among youth and adults. A 30-minute Q&A will follow to answer questions about each of the programs. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Register in advance for this meeting and submit your Q&A questions here: https://bit.ly/3yFtISh. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link to join the seminar.

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A VCU-led study of more than 2,700 pairs of twins showed teen alcohol misuse can have consequences for physical health and life satisfaction into an individual's 30s.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3Cub4xL

The OVPRI will present a workshop on strategies for putting together grant applications on schedule with ample time for reviewing and editing Thursday, Oct. 13 at noon. We will share project-management tools to help with submitting your proposal. Register: https://bit.ly/3xr5n1M

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VCU researchers found that negligent landlords — those who allow their properties to become dilapidated despite having tenants — are a significant predictor of violence in Richmond neighborhoods. Read more: https://bit.ly/3RrtG6N

The Alliance for Building Better Medicine, an initiative that involves Richmond-area entities including VCU, secured $53M in federal funds that will help build more labs to restore nation’s stockpile of essential medicines and make them more affordably: https://bit.ly/3ElucAs

Applications for the Fall 2022 Grant Academy are due Friday, Oct. 2.

The Grant Academy provides training and support to help in submitting a successful grant application.

To learn more about the academy and to apply, follow this link: https://bit.ly/2Y4GR7V

Catch up with VCU researchers in the news for Sept. 2022:
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Richmond-Petersburg regional coalition, including VCU, was awarded $53M in Build Back Better Regional Challenge, which works to scale up the region's pharmaceutical manufacturing and R&D cluster to address the need for affordable essential medicines.

Richmond-Petersburg regional coalition, including VCU, awarded $53 million in Build Back Better Regional Challenge The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration Friday announced that a coalition of public and private sector stakeholders in the Richmond-Petersburg region, including Virginia Commonwealth University, will receive nearly $53 million as one of 21 winners of the national Buil...

VCU forgiveness psychologist Everett L. Worthington Jr. knows what makes a good and effective apology. He has a handy acronym he uses to help people remember all the steps of a meaningful request for forgiveness. Read more:
https://bit.ly/3dYo7PJ

Making Amends | Detroit Jewish News It seems simple. If you have hurt another person, you ought to apologize. You also ought to try to fix what you broke. If another person hurt you, the other person ought to apologize and to offer to make things better; you have a right to ask for both the apology and the help.

Applications for the Fall 2022 Commercialization Fund are now open. Offered in the spring & fall, the goal of the fund is to help bring projects to a more mature stage of development in order to improve their chances of being licensed & brought to market. https://bit.ly/3u88edu

Commercialization fund — Innovation Gateway The Commercialization Fund is a resource dedicated to the advancement of VCU inventions. Offered in the spring and fall, the goal is to help bring projects to a more mature stage of development in order to improve their chances of being licensed and brought to market.

Can va**ng cause you to fail a sobriety test?
While ethanol is often a hidden ingredient in e-liquids, a new study finds va**ng won’t trigger a false positive sobriety test – but only if police employ a proper waiting period. Read more: https://bit.ly/3LJqD8Z

Applications for the Fall 2022 Grant Academy are due Friday, Oct. 2.

The Grant Academy provides training and support to help in submitting a successful grant application.

To learn more about the academy and to apply, follow this link: https://bit.ly/2Y4GR7V

VCU will be hosting the Inaugural VR and Healthcare Technology Transfer Conference on September 29th and 30th. The goal of the conference is to share and promote the research being performed within universities to businesses that can license the research for commercial applications. This includes patient care, training, and research tools.
Date: September 29th and 30th
Location: VCU Commons
Reception: Evening of September 28th
Registration: https://techtransfer.ivrha.org/

Inaugural Virtual Reality and Healthcare Technology Transfer Conference - September 29-30, 2022 - Richmond, VA September 29-30, 2022 - Richmond, VA

The OVPRI will present an overview of grant writing for faculty researchers Thursday, Oct. 6 at noon. Learn how to express your research ideas with clarity and persuasiveness and the most critical components of a successful grant application. Register: https://bit.ly/3S2YsDS

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How do we assess vague statements that may neither be definitely true (1) nor definitely false (zero)? VCU philosopher Ken Akiba has a new theory that assigns vague sentences more appropriate values between 1 and 0 to help us judge a statement's truthfulness. The higher value a sentence has, the stronger we should believe it, but not all values are comparable, according to Akiba. https://bit.ly/3Lr5EYb

The Boolean Many-Valued Solution to the Sorites Paradox - Synthese This paper offers the Boolean many-valued solution to the Sorites Paradox. According to the precisification-based Boolean many-valued theory, from which this solution arises, sentences have not only two truth values, truth (or 1) and falsity (or 0), but many Boolean values between 0 and 1. The Boole...