This online panel discussion series is on career development with a focus on diversity, inclusion and equity. The session will include four panelists from a diverse array of backgrounds and experiences, including race, ethnicity, gender and job families. Panelists will discuss their own career paths, challenges they have overcome, how they utilized mentors and support systems and how they’ve utilized Great Place HR programs and tools. Register at the following URL. For more information, contact VCU HR at askhr@vcu.edu or visit https://vcu.csod.com/samldefault.aspx?returnUrl=%252fDeepLink%252fProcessRedirect.aspx%253fmodule%253dlodetails%2526lo%253d4b77c85e-940c-45d4-91e9-9a31043a1349.

Join VCU Human Resources and Anthem EAP for a session on the history of adversity, trauma symptoms, triggers and how to care for yourself while dealing with these issues. Explore different sources and types of trauma and develop tools to set healthy boundaries and maintain optimal self-care. Questions: https://ramstrong.vcu.edu/. Register in Talent@VCU or at the following URL. For more information, contact Cindi Phares at cphares@vcu.edu or (804) 828-1521 or visit https://bit.ly/2Weduj1.

Make a game in an hour. This mini-game jam covers the basics of the free, online pixel-based game engine Bitsy. The session will include a brief overview of all the basic functions but largely be driven by your questions as you create your own simple games. The session is organized by the Workshop at VCU Libraries. Questions: https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/events/2021-2022/wednesdays-in-the-workshop-fall-2021.html. Click on the following URL to receive a link to attend the session in Zoom. For more information, contact Gregory Kimbrell at kimbrellgg@vcu.edu or (804) 393-2951 or visit https://vcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kd-mgrD8oGtWrfTAwSDWrM6ysxqkUr6al.

University College’s Common Book Program will host "The Pipelines and the People: From Climate Crisis to Mass Movement,” a lecture given by Kai Bosworth, Ph.D., assistant professor of international studies in the School of World Studies, in Room 303, James Branch Cabell Library Lecture Hall, 901 Park Ave. Bosworth will examine the role the new climate movement played in confronting the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines in the U.S. Great Plains, describing both where and why the movement succeeded as well as ran into limits. Visit: commonbook.vcu.edu. For more information, contact Elizabeth Fagan at fagane@vcu.edu or visit http://commonbook.vcu.edu.

How has the last year and a half changed you? Do you wonder how that differs for others? Come engage online with students, faculty and staff in the fall RAMmalogues session about you and the pandemic sponsored by VCU's Office of Institutional Equity, Effectiveness and Success. RAMmalogues is a space for intercultural, multigenerational and community-wide dialogues around who we are and what matters to us. All students, staff and faculty are invited, but registration is limited to 25. Questions: https://inclusive.vcu.edu/iexcel/rammalogues/. Register at the following URL to be sent a Zoom link. For more information, contact Jan Altman, Ph.D., at iexcel@vcu.edu or visit https://training.vcu.edu/course.aspx?processFlag=2&itemID=17873.

VCU's Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence will present a workshop on engaging students with the functionalities and applications of Nearpod. The session will focus on how the interactive platform can help to engage students in remote and face-to-face classes and synchronous and asynchronous activities. Register at the following URL. For more information, contact Tiffany Freitas at freitast@vcu.edu or visit https://forms.gle/sNz7xR4YjnMM1hjU6.