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Kate Sicchio (facing the camera) and her fellow researchers are holding a series of practical workshops with local dance professionals to observe different movement methods and how to apply them to algorithmic development. (Dean Hoffmeyer, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Dance lessons for AI? VCU’s Kate Sicchio links choreography and computers

Oct. 6, 2026

The VCUarts professor and two partners are using a Convergence Team Planning Grant to explore how bodily movement can be expressed in algorithms that drive technology.

Five questions with African American Studies and English double major Zaniah Blakely

Sept. 24, 2026

Reading, writing, and community drives Blakely’s academic pursuits

Gregory Donovan was a founding faculty member of VCU’s creative writing program, which was established the year he arrived on campus. (Photo by Michele Poulos)

Gregory Donovan retires after four decades of inspiring students and helping to shape VCU’s creative writing program

Sept. 14, 2026

Donovan, the author of two poetry collections, was one of the forces behind online journal Blackbird and ‘a passionate and committed teacher’ during his tenure.

The VCU Convergence Team Planning Grant Program is reserved for projects of three or more full-time faculty from at least two different schools or colleges that focus on problems that defy single-discipline solutions. (Adobe Stock)

VCU Convergence awards nearly 70 faculty members $150,000 in seed grants

Aug. 26, 2026

The projects supported through the grants bring different perspectives together to tackle complex, ‘wicked problems’ that no single discipline can solve.