An upcoming fashion show, staged to raise awareness of organ donation, will feature models who have either given or received a kidney for transplant. The inaugural Style for Life fashion show and luncheon, sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation of the Virginias, will take place Thursday at The Jefferson Hotel from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The cost is $50 per person.

Nathan O. Randolph, the motorist shot Wednesday morning by police during a traffic stop in Richmond, remained in critical but stable condition yesterday at VCU Medical Center. Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring said preliminary findings suggest three Richmond officers and one Virginia Commonwealth University officer acted appropriately in defending themselves by shooting at Randolph. Herring said the officers fired more than five shots and that Randolph was hit three or four times after getting out of his car and confronting police with a large knife.

The $71.5 million Molecular Medicine Research Building represents the renaissance of biomedical research at VCU, one official says.

Education: University of Virginia, bachelor’s degree in commerce, 1965; Virginia Commonwealth University, master’s in business administration, 1981
  Experience: joined Carter Myers Automotive in 1965, elected president in 1974 and CEO in 1976
  Dealerships: Gateway Hyundai, Colonial Honda and Heritage Chevrolet, all in Chester; Volvo of Charlottesville, Colonial Auto Center, Charlottesville.

The defining moment in the relationship between the historic Oregon Hill community and VCU President Eugene Trani occurred sometime after the 2003 VCU Master Plan had been released. Oregon Hill residents could rest easy—for in that plan a reason ably sized natatorium was scheduled to be built on property VCU owned at West Cary and South Cherry streets.

The Richmond Police Athletic League got a $1,686 boost from Rob Ukrop’s 39th birthday on April 2. For his 13th annual celebration at Chuck E. Cheese, the birthday boy provided the pizza and tokens. Participants contributed $1 or more to support the league.

. . . Dominion Virginia Power has donated $400,000 in smart-grid equipment and started a $45,000 fellowship fund at the Virginia Tech engineering school.

The VCU Visiting Writers Series reading on April 23 by Kelly Link, author of “Pretty Monsters,“ has been canceled. For more information, call 828-1329.

What does a macaroni-and-cheese dinner in a box have to do with the Great Depression? It debuted in 1933 at the height of the Depression, said John R. “Jack” Nelson, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Altria Group Inc. “Innovation is key to being successful in this kind of environment,“ he said yesterday at a Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business event.

Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, will speak at Virginia Commonwealth University’s 2009 spring commencement. A physician and geneticist, Collins is noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project, a complex multidisciplinary enterprise that in 2003 resulted in the completion of a finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book.

A Chesterfield County judge this morning sent three felony charges against former Virginia Commonwealth University Police Chief Willie Fuller to a grand jury.

MOUNT JACKSON It started out as their special place, a spot where a parent and child could sit and talk, sharing ideas and plans for a future filled with such promise. It has evolved by necessity into something vastly different: a spot to preserve memories instead of plan them.

The official Richmond Police Department report classified it as a homicide that occurred as a result of a single gunshot at 12:45 a.m. on March 27, 2008. But the bullet that took the life of Tyler J. Binsted also altered countless lives in numerous families over a wide landscape.

On an empty coffee cup in the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University is drawn a fantastical creature. Nearby is a map of a city that does not exist.  As it does every spring, the gallery, which is part of the school, is giving itself over to showcasing the work of VCU art students.

Information act used in Monroe case T-D got information from city police department in reporting diploma issue It was no secret that he took only two courses at Virginia Commonwealth University. Rodney Monroe, then Richmond’s police chief, publicly spoke of that shortly before he graduated in 2007. But far less apparent were how lapses in judgment and university procedures combined to allow him to get that diploma even though he fell far short of requirements for his bachelor’s degree.