Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University is a public research university in Richmond, Virginia, whose roots lie in the Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College founded in 1838 and which took its present name in 1968 when the Virginia General Assembly merged the Medical College of Virginia with the Richmond Professional Institute.弗吉尼亚联邦大学是一所位于美国弗吉尼亚州里士满的公立研究型大学，其源头是 1838 年创办的汉普登-悉尼学院医学系，1968 年弗吉尼亚州议会把弗吉尼亚医学院与里士满专业学院合并，遂成今日校名。

In 2025 more than 29,280 students were enrolled across more than 200 academic programs, 23 of them ranked among the top 50 college programs by U.S. News & World Report, and 79 of its programs are unique to the state of Virginia.2025 年全校在读学生超过 29,280 人，开设 200 余个学位项目，其中 23 个项目被《美国新闻与世界报道》列入全美前 50，另有 79 个项目为弗吉尼亚州所独有。

The university runs two Richmond campuses and a branch campus in Doha, anchors the VCU Health System whose VCU Medical Center is ranked the number one hospital in Virginia, and crossed $560 million in sponsored research funding for the first time in 2025.学校在内设两个里士满校区并在多哈办有分校，其下属的弗吉尼亚联邦大学医学中心被《美国新闻与世界报道》评为弗吉尼亚州第一医院，2025 年受资助研究经费首次突破 5.6 亿美元。

History

• VCU's story begins in 1838, when the Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College opened in Richmond with lectures for a handful of apprentices, and in 1844 the school moved into its first permanent home, the Egyptian Building on Marshall Street.校史始于 1838 年，汉普登-悉尼学院医学系在里士满开学，1844 年迁入第一栋永久校舍，即马歇尔街上的埃及大楼。

• In 1854 the medical department received an independent charter from the Virginia General Assembly and became the Medical College of Virginia, and in 1860 it conveyed all of its property to the Commonwealth for $30,000, becoming a state institution.1854 年该医学系取得州议会独立特许状，改称弗吉尼亚医学院，1860 年又以 3 万美元把全部财产移交弗吉尼亚州，自此成为州立机构。

• When Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant took Petersburg and Richmond in early April 1865, retreating Confederate soldiers burned the city's bridges, armory and supply warehouses, and fire plus shelling destroyed virtually all buildings of the Medical College of Virginia.1865 年 4 月初，格兰特率联邦军攻占彼得斯堡与里士满，南撤的邦联士兵奉命焚烧桥梁、军械库与仓库，大火与炮击几乎摧毁弗吉尼亚医学院的全部建筑。

• With Confederate currency worthless and inflation soaring, the bankrupt medical school sold its ambulance horse for the money that kept it open, and after the war its faculty took part in advances in anesthesia and antisepsis.因邦联货币贬值、通胀失控，濒临停办的医校把急救马车用的马匹卖掉换钱才维持下去；战后该校教师在麻醉与无菌术领域多有建树。

• In 1893 Hunter Holmes McGuire, the surgeon who had amputated Stonewall Jackson's arm, founded the College of Physicians and Surgeons just three blocks from the Medical College of Virginia, and it was renamed the University College of Medicine.1893 年，曾为石墙杰克逊截臂的主刀医生亨特·霍尔姆斯·麦奎尔在距弗吉尼亚医学院仅三个街区处创办内科与外科医学院，后更名为医学大学学院。

• McGuire Hall opened in 1912 as the new home of the University College of Medicine, and in 1913 the Medical College of Virginia and that college merged through the efforts of George Ben Johnston and Stuart McGuire, the merger bringing Memorial Hospital into the school.麦奎尔楼 1912 年落成，成为医学大学学院新校舍；1913 年，在乔治·本·约翰斯顿与斯图尔特·麦奎尔推动下，两校合并，弗吉尼亚纪念医院也随之并入。

• The second half of today's university began in 1917 as the Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health, which in 1925 became the Richmond division of The College of William & Mary and in 1939 the Richmond Professional Institute of The College of William & Mary.今日大学的前身另一半始于 1917 年的里士满社会工作与公共卫生学校，1925 年成为威廉与玛丽学院的里士满分部，1939 年改组为威廉与玛丽学院里士满专业学院。

• The Medical College of Virginia Foundation was incorporated in 1947, the Richmond Professional Institute separated from William & Mary to become an independent state institution in 1962, and in 1968 state legislation based on the Wayne Commission Report merged the two into Virginia Commonwealth University.弗吉尼亚医学院基金会 1947 年注册，里士满专业学院 1962 年脱离威廉与玛丽学院成为独立州立机构，1968 年州议会依据韦恩委员会报告立法，把两校合并为弗吉尼亚联邦大学。

• Virginius Dabney, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, a Pulitzer Prize winner and the editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, was named the first rector of the new university and later wrote Virginia Commonwealth University: A Sesquicentennial History.弗吉尼厄斯·达布尼是托马斯·杰斐逊的后裔、普利策奖得主、《里士满时报快讯》总编辑，被任命为新大学首任校长（rector），后撰写了该校一百五十周年校史。

• Warren W. Brandt, the first president of Virginia Commonwealth University, added 32 degree programs and established the School of Allied Health Professions and the School of Community Services, while more than $20 million of construction produced the James Branch Cabell Library, Rhoads Hall, the School of Business building, the Larrick Student Center and a large addition to Sanger Hall.首任校长沃伦·W·布兰特增设 32 个学位项目，创建联合健康专业学院与社区服务学院，并推动超过 2,000 万美元的新建工程，落成詹姆斯·布兰奇·卡贝尔图书馆、罗兹楼、商学院楼、拉里克学生中心与桑格楼扩建。

• During the 1980s president Edmund Ackell overhauled governance and administration, instituting short-range and long-range planning systems, creating a faculty convocation and writing new faculty tenure and promotion guidelines while opening university resources to community needs.1980 年代，校长埃德蒙·阿克尔全面改革治理与行政体系，建立近期与远期规划制度，设立教师大会并制定新的终身教职与晋升准则，同时向社区开放教学科研资源。

• Eugene Trani became president in 1990 with 21,764 students and retired with 32,284, making Virginia Commonwealth University the first university in Virginia to enroll over 30,000, and his administration completed more than $2.2 billion of capital construction and renovation with the health system.尤金·特拉尼 1990 年就任校长，任内学生从 21,764 人增至 32,284 人，使该校成为弗吉尼亚州第一所学生超过 3 万的大学，并与医疗系统合计完成 22 亿美元以上的基建与改造。

• Michael Rao was appointed the fifth president in 2009 and oversaw growth in enrollment, funding and facilities, including the Engineering Research building and the STEM building that fixed the strategy of becoming a leading scientific university.迈克尔·劳 2009 年出任第五任校长，任内在招生、经费与设施上全面扩张，建成工程研究大楼与理工楼，确立建设一流理工科大学的路线。

• In 2010 a $20 million National Institutes of Health grant brought the Clinical and Translational Science Award, making the university the only academic health center in Virginia in the national consortium that turns laboratory discoveries into patient treatments.2010 年，一项 2,000 万美元的美国国立卫生研究院资助带来临床与转化科学研究奖，使该校成为弗吉尼亚州唯一加入"实验室发现转化为疗法"全国联盟的学术医学中心。

• The Carnegie classification changed to very high research activity in 2011, when sponsored research passed 255 million, and in 2014 a62 million federal grant put the university in charge of a national consortium of universities, hospitals and clinics studying mild traumatic brain injury in service members and veterans.2011 年卡内基分类升为"极高研究活动"，受资助研究经费超过 2.55 亿美元；2014 年又获 6,200 万美元联邦资助，牵头研究军人退伍军人轻度创伤性脑损伤的全国高校医院联盟。

• Adjunct faculty protested in 2018 over low pay and no benefits, and ahead of the 2018-19 budget the administration allocated 4.2 million to raise adjunct compensation from800 to 1,000 per credit hour, still about1,000 short of what the coalition demanded.2018 年，兼任教师因薪酬过低、没有福利发起系列抗议，校方在 2018-19 年度预算中拨出 420 万美元，把兼任课时酬劳从每学分 800 美元提高到 1,000 美元，仍比教师联盟要求低约 1,000 美元。

• In April 2024 students assembled a pro-Palestinian encampment in front of the library, and after roughly twelve hours campus, Richmond and state police dispersed it with pepper spray, riot shields and smoke bombs, arresting 13 students on unlawful assembly charges that were later dropped.2024 年 4 月，学生在图书馆前搭建支持巴勒斯坦的露营区，约十二小时后被校警、里士满市警与州警以辣椒水、防暴盾牌和烟雾弹驱散，13 名学生以非法集会罪被捕，指控随后撤销。

• In the aftermath the university closed the library that is normally open until three in the morning, locked students inside, and rewrote campus rules to bar sidewalk chalk and any gathering of more than 50 people without permission, and in 2025 two student leaders had degrees withheld and one won hers back on appeal.事件后校方提前关闭通常凌晨三点才闭馆的图书馆、把学生锁在楼内，并修订校园规则，禁止粉笔涂鸦与未经批准的 50 人以上集会；2025 年两名学生代表被扣发学位，其中一人经申诉后领回。

• In 2022 the university received a 104 million gift, the largest in its history, to endow the Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health, and the same year the Commonwealth of Virginia supplied most of the funding for a253 million arts and innovation building.2022 年学校获 1.04 亿美元捐款，为其史上最大单笔捐赠，用于设立斯特拉维茨-萨尼亚尔肝病与代谢健康研究所；同年弗吉尼亚州为造价 2.53 亿美元的艺术与创新大楼提供主要资金。

• CoStar Group donated 18 million in 2023 toward an arts and innovation room in that consolidated arts building, and in 2025 sponsored research topped560 million, double the total of seven years earlier, with a stated goal of reaching $1 billion.2023 年 CoStar 集团捐出 1,800 万美元，用于新艺术大楼内的艺术与创新空间；2025 年受资助研究经费达 5.6 亿美元以上，为七年前的两倍，校方目标再翻一番至 10 亿美元。

Academics

• The university is organised as two bodies, Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, with the president serving as chief executive over twenty divisions and a sixteen-member board of visitors selected by the governor of Virginia alongside six non-voting student and faculty members.学校由弗吉尼亚联邦大学与弗吉尼亚联邦大学医疗系统两个主体构成，校长统辖二十个部门，董事会由州长任命的 16 名校董与学生、教师出身的 6 名无投票权成员组成。

• Its professional schools on the medical side are the School of Medicine, the School of Dentistry, the School of Pharmacy, the School of Nursing, the School of Public Health and the College of Health Professions, all based on the MCV Campus.医学板块包括医学院、牙科学院、药学院、护理学院、公共卫生学院与健康专业学院，均设在医学院校区。

• The academic side comprises the College of Humanities & Sciences, the School of the Arts, the School of Business, the College of Engineering, the School of Education, the School of Social Work, the School of World Studies, the Richard T. Robertson School of Communication, the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, University College and the Honors College.学术板块设人文理学院、艺术学院、商学院、工程学院、教育学院、社会工作学院、世界研究学院、理查德·T·罗伯逊传播学院、道格拉斯·怀尔德政府与公共事务学院、大学学院与荣誉学院。

• Seventy-nine programs are unique to Virginia, among them the homeland security and emergency preparedness major at the Wilder School and the real estate and urban land development degree in the School of Business, and the university awards 225 certificate, undergraduate, graduate, professional and doctoral credentials.79 个项目为弗吉尼亚州独有，如怀尔德学院的国土安全与应急准备专业、商学院的房地产与城市土地开发学位；全校共授予 225 种证书、本科、硕士、专业学位与博士学位课程。

• On the medical campus the Guaranteed Admission Program reserves places in several professional health science programs for incoming undergraduates who maintain a high academic standard.医学部校区设有保研通道，让入学时成绩优异的本科生在若干健康科学专业学位项目中获得保证名额。

• VCU Engineering began in 1996 and has grown into purpose-built facilities, while the Institute for Engineering and Medicine and the Center for Drug Discovery link it to the health campuses.工程学院 1996 年创建，如今拥有专属新楼，工程与医学研究所、药物发现中心把它与医学部校区连为一体。

• VCU Life Sciences joins the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, the Center for Environmental Studies and the Rice Rivers Center, offers a PhD in Integrated Life Sciences, and works alongside but separately from the Department of Biology.生命科学板块由生物复杂性研究中心、环境研究中心与赖斯河中心组成，设有整合生命科学博士项目，与生物学系并列而互有关联。

• The da Vinci Center for Innovation in Product Design and Development unites the schools of the Arts, Business and Engineering, added the College of Humanities and Sciences in the fall of 2012, and grants a Master of Science in Product Innovation described as the first of its kind in the United States.达·芬奇产品设计与开发创新中心由艺术、商学、工程三个学院共建，2012 年秋吸纳人文理学院，其产品开发硕士是美国同类项目中的第一个。

• VCU Libraries is the busiest research library in Virginia, holds more than 3 million volumes including over 665,000 electronic books, and receives 2.5 million visitors each year across the James Branch Cabell Library on the Monroe Park Campus and the Health Sciences Library on the MCV Campus.校图书馆系统是弗吉尼亚州访问量最大的研究图书馆，藏纸质书逾 300 万册（含电子图书 66.5 万余种），年接待读者 250 万人次，分设蒙特罗公园校区的卡贝尔图书馆与医学部校区的健康科学图书馆。

• Cabell Library's Special Collections and Archives hold one of the largest book-art collections in the Southeast, the fifth largest graphic novel and comic book collection in the United States, and the papers behind the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.卡贝尔图书馆的特藏与档案部藏有美国东南部最大的书籍艺术藏品之一、全美第五大的图像小说与漫画收藏，并保管埃斯纳漫画产业奖的档案。

• The Health Sciences Library keeps the largest medical collection in the state with journals running back to the nineteenth century, and its Medical Artifacts Collection holds more than 6,000 instruments and devices tracing Virginia health care over the last 150 years.健康科学图书馆拥有全州最大的医学藏书与可上溯至 19 世纪的期刊系列，其医疗文物藏有 6,000 余件器械，记录弗吉尼亚医疗近 150 年的历史。

• A 93,000-square-foot expansion of Cabell Library was dedicated in March 2016, adding 25 study rooms, a graduate and faculty reading room, a silent reading room, The Workshop multimedia production suite, a gaming suite and a makerspace.卡贝尔图书馆 9.3 万平方英尺的扩建工程于 2016 年 3 月落成，新增 25 间研讨室、研究生与教师阅览室、静读室、多媒体制作工坊、游戏区与创客空间。

• Blackbird, a peer-reviewed online literary journal, was founded in 2002 by the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English in partnership with New Virginia Review, a nonprofit literary arts organization in Richmond, and has published Kaveh Akbar, Negar Emrani, Kiki Petrosino and Andrew Zawacki.《黑鸟》是一份同行评审的在线文学刊物，2002 年由英语系创意写作项目与里士满非营利文学机构"新弗吉尼亚评论"合办，发表过卡韦赫·阿克巴尔、内加尔·埃马尼、琪琪·佩特罗西诺、安德鲁·扎瓦基等诗人的作品。

• Research institutes and centers include the Massey Cancer Center, an National Cancer Institute designated center, the Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, the Virginia Center on Aging, the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and the Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research.校内研究机构包括获美国国家癌症研究所认定的马西癌症中心、烟草产品研究中心、弗吉尼亚老龄问题中心、弗吉尼亚精神与行为遗传研究所、临床与转化研究赖特中心。

• Further centers are the Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, the Pauly Heart Center, the Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, the Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute, the Humanities Research Center, the Kornblau Institute, the Institute for Creative Research, the Center on Society and Health, the Center for Biological Data Science and the Cybersecurity Center.另有药物与酒精研究所、保利心脏中心、菲利普斯口腔健康研究所、格蕾丝·E·哈里斯领导力研究所、人文研究中心、科恩布劳研究所、创造性研究所、社会与健康中心、生物数据科学中心与网络安全中心。

• Twenty-three programs placed in the U.S. News top 50 in 2025, and the College of Health Professions alone contributed five, with rehabilitation counseling tied at third, healthcare management and nurse anesthesia tied at eighth, occupational therapy tied at fifteenth and physical therapy tied at thirty-first.2025 年有 23 个项目进入《美国新闻与世界报道》全美前 50，其中健康专业学院独占 5 个：康复咨询并列第三、医疗管理与麻醉护理并列第八、作业治疗并列第十五、物理治疗并列第三十一。

Campus

• The 90.6-acre Monroe Park Campus, renamed in June 2004 from the Academic Campus after the adjoining city park, sits at the eastern edge of the Fan district and mixes modern construction with more than 40 buildings erected before 1900.蒙特罗公园校区占地 90.6 英亩，2004 年 6 月由"学术校区"改现名，地处范区东端，新楼与 40 余栋建于 1900 年前的老建筑交错。

• The 52.3-acre MCV Campus lies in the old Court End district beside Richmond's business and financial core and the state capitol, and houses the VCU Medical Center, the Massey Cancer Center and the Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, with the medical center overseen by the VCU Health System Authority.医学院校区占地 52.3 英亩，位于旧法院尾街区、毗邻市中心金融区与州议会山，内有医学中心、马西癌症中心与里士满儿童医学中心，医学中心由校医疗系统管理局主管。

• VCUarts Qatar, the School of the Arts branch established in 1998 with Qatar Foundation as the first university in Education City in Doha, awards Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees and is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Council for Interior Design Accreditation.卡塔尔艺术分校由艺术学院与卡塔尔基金会于 1998 年合办，是多哈教育城第一所入驻大学，授予美术学士与硕士学位，获全美艺术与设计院校协会、南部高校协会、室内设计认证委员会三方认证。

• The contract renewing that branch in July 2012 ran through July 2022 and bars Virginia Commonwealth University from opening any other degree-granting arts or design program in the Middle East, and its presence, like that of other American universities in Education City, has drawn criticism over Qatar's alleged ties to extremism and its human rights record.2012 年 7 月续签的办学合同有效至 2022 年 7 月，并约定该校不得在中东其他国家开设授予学位的艺术或设计项目；与教育城内其他美国大学一样，其存在因卡塔尔被指与极端主义有关联及人权争议而受到批评。

• Virginia Bio-Technology Research Park was incorporated in May 1992 as a joint venture of the university, the City of Richmond and the Commonwealth, and now hosts more than 60 life science companies, research institutes and state or federal laboratories employing over 2,200 scientists, engineers and researchers.弗吉尼亚生物技术园 1992 年 5 月由大学、里士满市与州政府合资设立，现有 60 余家生命科学企业、研究机构与联邦州实验室，雇用科研与工程人员逾 2,200 人。

• The Rice Rivers Center for Environmental Life Sciences occupies 494 acres along the James River and studies the science and policy of large rivers with their riparian and wetland landscapes.赖斯河环境生命科学中心占地 494 英亩，坐落于詹姆斯河畔，主要研究大型河流及其河岸湿地景观的科学与政策问题。

• Regional sites include the VCU Medical Center at Stony Point in southwestern Richmond, a School of Medicine Inova Campus, a School of Pharmacy Inova Campus and a School of Pharmacy division at the University of Virginia.地方教学点包括里士满西南的斯托尼波特医学中心、因瓦校区医学院、因瓦校区药学院，以及设在弗吉尼亚大学内的药学分部。

• Historic structures on campus include the Egyptian Building of 1844, the White House of the Confederacy and the Ginter House, which now serves the university provost.校园内的历史建筑有 1844 年的埃及大楼、邦联白宫与金特住宅，后者现为教务长办公场所。

• The Altria Theater, once the Mosque and later the Landmark Theater, was built for the Acca Temple Shrine in the Moorish Revival style around 1925 by Marcellus E. Wright Sr. with Charles M. Robinson and Charles Custer Robinson, opened in 1927, was bought by the City of Richmond in 1940, and takes its current name from a university donor company.Altria 剧院原名"清真寺"、后称地标剧院，约 1925 年由马塞勒斯·E·怀特与查尔斯·M·罗宾逊、查尔斯·C·罗宾逊为申纳兄弟会的阿卡圣殿设计成摩尔复兴风格，1927 年开放，1940 年由里士满市购入，今名取自学校的捐赠企业。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Virginia Commonwealth University is placed in the 951-1000 band, while the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 rank it 451-500, U.S. News puts it at 400 among the 2026-2027 global universities, and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places it in the 301-400 band.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将弗吉尼亚联邦大学列入 951-1000 位区间，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名列其为 451-500 位，《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度全球大学排名第 400 位，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将其列为 301-400 位。

• OpenAlex attributes 105,897 scholarly works and 9,685,462 citations to the university, and the institution itself reported more than $560 million of sponsored research in fiscal year 2025.OpenAlex 数据库收录该机构学术成果 105,897 项、被引 9,685,462 次；校方自报 2025 财年受资助研究经费逾 5.6 亿美元。

• The National Science Foundation has designated it a top 50 university for research expenditures since 2023, and it is counted among the three largest research universities in Virginia, with U.S. News & World Report placing it in the top 30 most innovative national universities.美国国家科学基金会自 2023 年起连续将其列为研究支出全美前 50 的大学，学校亦居弗吉尼亚州三强之列，《美国新闻与世界报道》把它列入"最创新大学"前 30。

• U.S. News & World Report classified it as a Tier One national university in 2025, tied for 136th nationally and tied for 69th among public institutions.《美国新闻与世界报道》2025 年将其评为一级国家大学，全美并列第 136 位，公立高校中并列第 69 位。

• VCUarts was tied for second among public university schools of art and design, the School of Business graduate program known as the VCU Brandcenter was ranked first in the nation by Creativity Magazine and named one of the 60 best design schools by BusinessWeek, and the New York Times called the university a rare public research institution that has put the arts front and center.艺术学院在公立大学艺术与设计学院中并列第二，商学院的广告研究生项目 VCU 品牌中心被《创造力》杂志评为全美第一、被《商业周刊》列为全球 60 所最佳设计学院之一，《纽约时报》称其为罕见地把艺术置于核心位置的公立研究型大学。

• By discipline, U.S. News & World Report ranked biomedical engineering 58th, computer engineering 84th and electrical, electronics and communications engineering 89th in 2014, and Washington Monthly placed the university 107th of 438 national universities in 2024 on social mobility, research and public service.学科排名方面，2014 年生物医学工程列全美第 58、计算机工程第 84、电气电子与通信工程第 89，《华盛顿月刊》2024 年在 438 所国家大学中把它排在第 107 位，考量社会流动、科研与公共服务。

• Two Nobel Prizes are attached to the university: Baruj Benacerraf, an alumnus of the Medical College of Virginia, shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and John Fenn, a professor in the College of Humanities and Sciences, won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.与校史相关的诺贝尔奖有 2 项：弗吉尼亚医学院校友巴鲁赫·贝纳塞拉夫获 1980 年生理学或医学奖，人文理学院教授约翰·费恩获 2002 年化学奖。

• Four professors have been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, most recently Steven Woolf in 2001, and there are no Turing Award or Fields Medal laureates recorded among its faculty or alumni.共有 4 位教授当选美国艺术与科学院医学研究所院士，最近一位是 2001 年当选的史蒂文·伍尔夫；教师与校友中没有记录图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主。

• The theatre department counts the costume designer Toni-Leslie James, a two-time Tony Award nominee, among its faculty, and its chair Sharon Ott received the 1997 Regional Theatre Tony Award on behalf of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.戏剧系教师包括两度获托尼奖提名的服装设计师托妮-莱斯利·詹姆斯，系主任莎伦·奥特曾代表伯克利剧目剧院获 1997 年区域剧院托尼奖。

• In 2025 the university and its health system took in 257 million in gifts from more than 22,000 donors, its second-largest fundraising year and a100 million gain on 2021, its endowment stands at $3.23 billion, the second largest for a public school in Virginia, and regular support comes from Richmond's Fortune 500 companies including endowed chairs such as the Philip Morris Chair.2025 年学校与医疗系统收到 2.57 亿美元捐款、来自 2.2 万余名捐赠者，为史上第二高的筹资年度，比 2021 年增加 1 亿美元；该校捐赠基金 32.3 亿美元，规模在弗吉尼亚州公立高校中列第二；里士满的财富 500 强企业长期资助，设有菲利普·莫里斯讲席教授等捐赠教席。

Student life

• More than 79 percent of freshmen live on campus against a residence capacity of about 6,200 students, so many upperclassmen settle in student apartments in the Fan, Oregon Hill and Carver neighborhoods within walking or biking distance of classes.超过 79% 的一年级学生住校，而宿舍容量仅约 6,200 人，因此许多高年级学生租住范区、俄勒冈山与卡弗街区的学生公寓，步行或骑车即可上课。

• Dining is contracted to ARAMARK Higher Education and students in dorm-style halls must carry a residential dining plan, while the university employs more than 12,280 staff within a combined VCU and VCU Health workforce of over 27,000.餐饮服务外包给雅玛高中等教育公司，住宿式宿舍的本科生须购买食堂计划；全校雇员 12,280 余人，连同校医疗系统合计逾 2.7 万人。

• More than 500 registered student organizations span ethnic, cultural, religious, recreational and special-interest groups, and each campus elects its own student government association.注册学生社团超过 500 个，涵盖族群、文化、宗教、休闲与兴趣团体，两个校区各选有自己的学生自治会。

• The university was an academic partner of the largest French film festival in the United States, founded in 1993, whose 2012 edition drew more than 22,000 entries for 27 films.学校曾是美国最大规模法语电影节的学术合作方，该电影节创办于 1993 年，2012 年 27 部参展影片共吸引 2.2 万余人次参与。

• Student media include The Commonwealth Times, an independent newspaper published weekly online and in print, the WVCW online radio station, the comics anthology Emanata, the multi-ethnic Ink Magazine, the literary journals Amendment, Annum Arcanum and Pwatem with its fall chapbook Rabble, and the River City Fashion blog.学生媒体有每周出版的网络与纸质独立报纸《联邦时报》、在线电台 WVCW、漫画选集《Emanata》、多元族裔杂志《Ink》、文学刊物《修正案》《秘卷》与《普瓦特姆》及其秋季小册《暴民》，以及时尚博客 River City Fashion。

• Recreational facilities on both campuses include the renovated Cary Street Gym, reopened in spring 2010 with an 18,000-square-foot fitness center, climbing wall, two pools, racquetball and basketball courts, a track and an aerobics mezzanine, plus the MCV Campus Recreation and Aquatic Center with a 25-meter six-lane pool and an Outdoor Adventure Program of camping, kayaking, rafting and caving trips.两校区都设休闲体育设施：卡里街体育馆 2010 年春重装开放，含 1.8 万平方英尺健身中心、攀岩墙、两片泳池、壁球与篮球场、跑道和有氧夹层；医学部校区文体与水上中心有 25 米六道泳池；户外探险项目组织露营、皮划艇、漂流与洞穴考察。

• More than 3,000 students take credit-bearing service-learning courses built around community-identified needs, and the Greek community comprises 36 international fraternities and sororities in four governing councils with over 1,700 members, 6.3 percent of women joining a sorority and 8 percent of men a fraternity.3,000 余名学生选修以社区需求为导向、计入学分的社会服务学习课程；希腊社团有 36 个国际兄弟会与姐妹会、分属四个治理委员会、成员超 1,700 人，女生 6.3%、男生 8% 加入。

• Campus safety is staffed by 99 sworn police officers and more than 200 security personnel, with over 370 emergency telephone stations and a free RAM SAFE escort service for students and faculty.校园警务由 99 名宣誓警官与 200 余名安保人员承担，校内设 370 余部应急报警电话，并为学生与教师提供免费夜间护送服务 RAM SAFE。

• The Rams field sixteen varsity teams in NCAA Division I as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference, have won more than 30 conference championships, and reached the men's basketball Final Four in 2011, beating Kansas 71-61 before losing to Butler 70-62 and finishing sixth in the coaches poll, the highest ranking in school history.校队"公羊"在大西洋十校联盟（Atlantic 10）参加美国大学体育协会第一级别 16 个项目，累计夺得 30 余次联盟冠军；男篮 2011 年闯入全国四强，半决赛击败堪萨斯 71-61、四强赛负巴特勒 70-62，年终教练榜列第六，为校史最高排名。

Notable people

• Warren W. Brandt, Edmund Ackell, Eugene Trani and Michael Rao served as successive presidents, and Virginius Dabney, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, served as first rector.沃伦·W·布兰特、埃德蒙·阿克尔、尤金·特拉尼、迈克尔·劳先后出任校长，普利策奖得主、《里士满时报快讯》总编辑弗吉尼厄斯·达布尼任首任校董（rector）。

• Hunter Holmes McGuire, the Confederate surgeon of General Thomas J. Jackson, founded the University College of Medicine and became chairman of surgery after the merger, and the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center bears his name.邦联军外科医生亨特·霍尔姆斯·麦奎尔曾为托马斯·J·杰克逊将军主刀，创办医学大学学院并在合并后任外科学主任，亨特·霍尔姆斯·麦奎尔退伍军人医学中心以其名命名。

• Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, the physician after whom Brown-Séquard syndrome is named, taught at the Medical College of Virginia, and George Ben Johnston and Stuart McGuire negotiated the 1913 merger of MCV and the University College of Medicine.以"布朗-塞卡尔综合征"留名的医生夏尔-爱德华·布朗-塞卡尔曾在弗吉尼亚医学院任教；乔治·本·约翰斯顿与斯图尔特·麦奎尔促成 1913 年两所医学院的合并。

• Baruj Benacerraf, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, graduated from the Medical College of Virginia, and John Fenn, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, spent his career as a professor in the College of Humanities and Sciences.弗吉尼亚医学院校友巴鲁赫·贝纳塞拉夫获 1980 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，人文理学院教授约翰·费恩获 2002 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• Patch Adams, the physician, author and activist known for clowning in hospitals, is an alumnus, as is Christopher Poole, the internet entrepreneur who founded 4chan, and David Baldacci, the best-selling crime novelist.以在医院扮演小丑闻名的医生、作家与社会活动家帕奇·亚当斯（Patch Adams）是该校校友；创办匿名图片论坛（4chan）的互联网创业者克里斯托弗·普尔与畅销犯罪小说家大卫·巴尔达奇亦出自该校。

• William Gifford, the chief executive of Altria, the largest tobacco producer in the United States, is an alumnus, and the Philip Morris Chair and other endowed positions in Richmond reflect contributions from local Fortune 500 firms.Altria 集团首席执行官威廉·吉福德为该校校友，该集团是美国最大的烟草制品生产商；菲利普·莫里斯讲席等捐赠教席体现里士满财富 500 强企业的长期资助。

• Musicians with VCU connections include Sam Beam, the singer behind Iron and Wine, Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest, and the bands Lamb of God and Gwar.与该校有关的音乐人包括"铁与酒"的主唱山姆·比姆、"座位头枕"乐队的威尔·托莱多，以及金属乐队 Lamb of God 与 Gwar。

• Poets published by Blackbird include Kaveh Akbar, Negar Emrani, Kiki Petrosino, Andrew Zawacki, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Sofia Starnes, Dave Smith and Julia B. Levine, many of them shaped by the university's Creative Writing Program.在《黑鸟》发表作品的诗人包括卡韦赫·阿克巴尔、内加尔·埃马尼、琪琪·佩特罗西诺、安德鲁·扎瓦基、萨拉·罗斯·诺德格伦、索菲娅·斯塔恩斯、戴夫·史密斯、朱莉娅·B·莱文，多人受该校创意写作项目培养。

• Faculty in theatre include Toni-Leslie James and Sharon Ott, film actor Bostin Christopher is on the teaching staff, and Steven Woolf was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.戏剧系教师包括托妮-莱斯利·詹姆斯与莎伦·奥特，电影演员博斯廷·克里斯托弗亦在任教；史蒂文·伍尔夫于 2001 年当选美国艺术与科学院医学研究所院士。

• On the athletic side, Paul Kostin coached the men's tennis team to twelve Colonial Athletic Association championships, eighteen NCAA tournament appearances and a 2000 national runner-up finish against Stanford while becoming one of five Division I coaches with 900 victories, and the former student section known as the Rowdy Rams took the 2013 Naismith Student Section of the Year award.体育方面，网球教练保罗·科斯坦率男网队十二次夺得殖民地竞技联盟冠军、十八次晋级全国锦标赛，2000 年全国锦标赛决赛负于斯坦福大学获亚军，他本人也是美国大学体育协会第一级别五位 900 胜教练之一；学生助威组织"喧闹公羊"2013 年获奈史密斯年度学生助威区奖。