Virginia Commonwealth University will test emergency warning sirens at its Monroe Park and MCV Campuses at noon, Wednesday, Sept. 19. The two, 130-decibel sirens will be audible beyond the boundaries of the two campuses.

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Providing a safe environment on our campuses to learn, study, teach, work and participate in campus activities has long been VCU’s top priority.

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Hanan Adeeb Abed, who received her master's degree in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University in May, has been selected for a Fulbright Student Scholarship.

Abed, a native of Chester, Va., will study the perspectives university-aged women have of their roles in the United Arab Emirates. Hanan will be based at Zayed University for 10 months. She will begin her research in early September.

Abed received a bachelor's degree from VCU's Honors College in 2004, with a major in psychology. She was a co-founder and co-director of the Arabic Film Festival at VCU and served as vice-president of the Muslim Students' Association during the 2002-03 academic year.

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Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., urged the spring graduating class at Virginia Commonwealth University on Saturday to work to strike an improved economic balance in the U.S.

Webb, who was sworn in as Virginia's 56th U.S. Senator in January, said previous generations of Americans could boast great accomplishments, such as creating a democracy, winning World War II and prevailing in the Cold War.

"Your generation's legacy – no smaller a task – should be that you restored basic fairness to the economic affairs of our nation," Webb said. "That you fought against the emergence of a class system in our precious democracy and that you rejected the greed that today is all too common in the boardrooms of America's corporations."

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David Wojahn, professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University, was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection, “Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2005,” a career-spanning volume published last year.

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