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A group stands smiling in front of a "TARA MILLER MELANOMA CENTER" sign in an office setting.

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RMC Alumnus Mentors Students on Pathways to Biomedical Science Careers

Ahron Flowers '14 has hosted RMC students for internships at Penn Medicine's Tara Miller Melanoma Center the past two summers.

A group stands smiling in front of a "TARA MILLER MELANOMA CENTER" sign in an office setting.

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RMC Welcomes 12 New Full-Time Faculty Members

Randolph-Macon College recruited and hired 12 talented tenure-track teacher-scholars to join the faculty at the start of the 2025-2026 academic year.

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SURF Symposium Celebrates Summer of Undergraduate Research

Twenty-nine students presented the findings of their research, a culmination of a summer's worth of hard work, creativity, and collaboration.

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A biology student writes on a clipboard while observing marigolds at a farm.

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Friends of Flowers: Measuring Companion Plants’ Impact on Pollinators at an Urban Farm

Wyatt Richardson '26 has spent his SURF summer studying the impact of wild flowers and other plants on pollinator populations at Shalom Farms in Richmond.

A biology student writes on a clipboard while observing marigolds at a farm.
Paul Sekyere-Nyantakyi receives an honorary degree diploma during a Randolph-Macon graduation ceremony.

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Tireless Dreams

Paul Sekyere-Nyantakyi ’93 went from driving a cab just to survive, to leading a laboratory that’s raising healthcare standards across his native Ghana.

Paul Sekyere-Nyantakyi receives an honorary degree diploma during a Randolph-Macon graduation ceremony.
RMC Professor Nick Ruppel and Jonas Fike ID trees around campus as part of a research project to officially classify the RMC Campus as an arboretum.

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Randolph-Macon’s Campus Officially Accredited as Arboretum

The work of Jonas Fike '24 and biology professor Nick Ruppel has resulted in RMC's accreditation as a Level I Arboretum through ArbNet.

RMC Professor Nick Ruppel and Jonas Fike ID trees around campus as part of a research project to officially classify the RMC Campus as an arboretum.
Three people wearing safety gear stand by a construction site with two orange excavators near a river in the background.

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Environmental Studies Program to Monitor Benefits of Removing Ashland Mill Dam

The environmental restoration is the product of a partnership between RMC, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, and Davey Mitigation.

Three people wearing safety gear stand by a construction site with two orange excavators near a river in the background.
A person looks through a microscope, with a laptop displaying a related image beside them in a dimly lit room.

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SURF Students Advance Professor’s International Research on Fertilization

AC Tetterton '26 and Allison Carey '25 completed SURF projects in Dr. Jim Foster's lab exploring the membranes, proteins, and matrices that make the sperm acrosome work.

A person looks through a microscope, with a laptop displaying a related image beside them in a dimly lit room.
An RMC student stands in front of a research poster, explaining its contents to a man in a gray jacket. The poster displays graphs, text, and images under the title about a study on the role of TRKB signaling in memory.

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Summer of Undergraduate Research Culminates in SURF Symposium

Students shared findings from their research, covering a broad range of topics, in both oral and poster presentations.

An RMC student stands in front of a research poster, explaining its contents to a man in a gray jacket. The poster displays graphs, text, and images under the title about a study on the role of TRKB signaling in memory.
Melanie Gubbels Bupp

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Q&A: The Biology of Cancer

A deeply personal search for a cure for a friend with cancer first led Dr. Melanie Gubbels Bupp to explore some of the cutting-edge immunotherapy work being done in cancer research.

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