On Friday, Nov. 30, Virginia Commonwealth University hosted Commemorating History: Challenges and Opportunities, a day-long symposium to examine VCU's connection to the legacies of the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) and Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), explore how the institution has evolved across five decades, consider our achievements as well as our complicated and difficult history, and discuss how we commemorate history on campus.

00:19 Bill Royall, alumni, marketing executive, former BOV member
01:06 Reginald Gordon, lawyer, Community Wealth Initiatives, City of Richmond
01:56 Baxter Perkinson, alumni, dentist, former BOV member
02:42 George Emerson, patient, developer, VCU Health Sciences board member
03:28 Bill Dewey, faculty, Pharmacology and Toxicology, researcher
04:09 Danielle Dick, faculty, Psychology and Genetics, researcher
04:59 Douglas Wilder, faculty, Wilder School, former Virginia governor
05:41 Larry Little, vice president, Support Services and Planning
06:31 Blue Wooldridge, faculty, Wilder School, researcher
07:15 Selamawit Hailu, graduate student, Psychology, activist
08:09 Dick Robertson, alumni, media executive, former BOV member
08:54 Renee Beck, student, exercise science, Honors College