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No full textA photographic print of an unnamed VCU administrator or faculty member in front of a row of buildings outside.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/rg60/1099/thumbnail.jp
1708 Gallery, Richard Carlyon
No full textA photographic print of Richard Carlyon sitting near a table with various documents laying about, likely at the 1708 Gallery.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/rg60/1139/thumbnail.jp
Administration Staff
No full textA photographic print of five unnamed VCU administrators standing next to a waterfall and river.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/rg60/1163/thumbnail.jp
Administration Staff
No full textA photographic print of three unnamed VCU administrators walking near a sign with Virginia Commonwealth University Administration Building written on it.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/rg60/1164/thumbnail.jp
Department of African American Studies
No full textA photographic print of two individuals having a conversation outside two doors and next to a bulletin board with two informational posters. The poster on the left is titled From Black Purpose to Afrikan Reality with translations for works in Swahili. The poster on the right has similar information. To the right of the posters are three letters, AAS, likely for African American Studies.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/rg60/1170/thumbnail.jp
You\u27re in the Army Now
No full textAn Army recruit plots to exact revenge on a bully Corporal everyone despises. How will he do it? Will he get away with it?
Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program encourages, supports, and assists participants in sharing their stories and experiences of military experience so both writer and audience may benefit
Continued Optimization of a High Resolution Melt-Based Mixture Screening Tool & Evaluation as a Contributor Identification Tool
No full textThe analysis of forensic biological samples is currently performed at the end of the DNA workflow and requires an STR profile for interpretation. Sometimes samples contain minor contributors with low-copy DNA that result in profile alleles that do not pass the analytical threshold, causing convolution during profile interpretation. This research aims to optimize a screening assay and statistical model that uses high-resolution melt (HRM) curve data to make predictions regarding whether a sample is from a single contributor or contains DNA from multiple individuals.
Training and validation sets containing HRM data collected from genotyped buccal swab samples were processed through a prediction algorithm using three machine learning models. The accuracy, reproducibility, and ability to predict the number of contributors in mixtures and the genotypes of single source samples using the integrated Quantifiler™ Trio-HRM assay was assessed.
75.00% of validation set samples were accurately predicted using an 8-category labeling method (7 unique genotypes + mixtures). When genotype labels were changed to “single source” for a 2-category prediction method, the prediction accuracy increased to 81.94%. After increasing the number of mixtures in the training sets so that the ratio of sample types was more even, the 2-category dataset’s overall accuracy increased to 83.30%. Additionally, the assay was 63.95% accurate in predicting the NOC in mixtures ranging from two to six contributors. The inter-analyst reproducibility of the finalized 2-category assay was 66.60% and the intra-analyst reproducibility was 62.50%, which shows the assay is consistently over 60.00% reproducible
Junior Recital, Sydney Bales, violin
No full textJunior RecitalSydney Bales, violinwithBrent Te Velde, piano & Susanna Klein, violinWednesday, November 19, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.Recital HallJames W. Black Music Center1015 Grove Avenue | Richmond, Virgini
Junior Recital, Grace Coyne, soprano
No full textJunior RecitalGrace Coyne, sopranoBrent te Velde, pianoMonday, December 16, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.Recital HallJames W. Black Music Center1015 Grove Avenue | Richmond, VirginiaThe presentation of this junior recital will fulfill in part the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education. Grace Coyne studies voice with Sarah Walston and was also a former student of Cynthia Donnell
Supporting Students in Transition to and from Elementary School
No full textThis report is part of a two-part series focused on supporting students in transition across PK-12 education. Specifically, it explores transitions into and out of elementary school. The report includes a synthesis of recent peer-reviewed literature, analysis of publicly available data (with a specific focus on Virginia and the metropolitan Richmond region), and summary of relevant federal, state, and school division-level policies. It answers the following questions:
1. What are key considerations for supporting students in transition to and from elementary school in the MERC region?
2. How do federal, state, and division policies guide support for student transitions to and from elementary school?
It concludes with a series of key takeaways and recommendations. An executive summary is provided at the beginning of the report