VCU InSight

This semester, VCU’s Market 810 cafeteria introduced a new meal option that caters to the campus’s Muslim student population.

In remarks that raised some eyebrows in the audience, the nation’s top transportation official said this week that there is an “unlimited supply of oil” in parts of the world. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood made that statement Wednesday at Virginia Commonwealth University at the end of a town hall meeting attended by about 75 students, staff and faculty members.

In his latest role, he wants to be a T-Rex. Sidney Raskind, a Virginia Commonwealth University advertising student, produces short YouTube videos in which he is something different in every video, from a rake to a dancing turkey.

VCU earned an A- on the “Colleges Sustainability Green Report Card” for 2011. According to Sustainable Endowments Institute, VCU is the greenest university in Virginia.

The documentary “Until the Well Runs Dry: Medicine and the Exploitation of Black Bodies” premiered Nov. 11th at the Singleton Center on VCU’s Monroe Park campus.

Chelsea Gary was named the 2011 “Miss Black and Gold Pageant” winner.

Dr. David Lanning put his skills to the test as he led the surgery team who performed the first separation of conjoined twins in Richmond

Mozart’s Requiem made its debut in Vienna in 1791. 220 years later, the VCU Symphony performed the piece in front of a live audience for the very first time.

Located in the middle of Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom, “Have A Nice Day Cafe” hasn’t been living up to its name.

“The Environment and Object: Recent African Art” exhibition is on display at the Anderson Gallery on the Monroe Park campus. It is free and open to the public until Dec. 11.