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Are you a VCU campus partner interested in hosting an upcoming Weeks of Welcome event? Learn how the WoW Campus Relations and RamsConnect Committee can help you advertise your program or event during WoW. Virtual informational sessions will be held at 11 a.m. today, at 1 p.m. (Thursday) June 30, at 11 a.m. (Wednesday) July 13 and 1 p.m. (Thursday) July 14. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Jonathan Fuller at fullerjd2@vcu.edu or visit https://vcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuduiqqTwiGdIfTlPEb1LSw310RR3Az9PJ.

Thursday, Jun. 30, 2022 at 4:45 p.m.

A meeting to gauge interest for a new crochet and knitting club will be held at the Pace Center, 700 W. Franklin St. The group will be open to all levels and will encourage students to create together.

For more information, contact Grace Conklin at conklingc@vcu.edu.

VCU's Cashiers office will close at noon on Thursday, June 30, for fiscal year-end processing. All payments and deposits should be at the Cashiers Office at Grace Harris Hall, 1015 Floyd Ave., no later than 11:30 a.m. June 30 to ensure timely processing. The last pickup at the VMI Building drop box, 1000 E. Marshall St., will be 9 a.m. on June 30. After this time, items should be brought to the Harris Hall Office.

For more information, contact Lee Francis at ycfranci@vcu.edu or (804) 828-8774.

Weeks of Welcome (WoW) is a comprehensive, campus-wide initiative which will take place in the first few weeks of the semester. Consider hosting a program or event during WOW that will be advertised to the VCU community via RAMsConnect. Event submission forms should be submitted by July 15 at the following URL.

For more information, contact Jonathan Fuller at fullerjd2@vcu.edu or visit https://cglink.me/2dV/s70503.

Human Resources will present "How to Retire With the Virginia Retirement System" for VCU employees. These sessions are open to VCU employees only, not VCU Health System employees. View upcoming sessions at the following URL.

For more information, contact VCU Benefits at benefits@vcu.edu or (804) 827-1723 or visit https://bit.ly/3NqLY7a.

VCU Continuing and Professional Education offers learning options for the VCU community and the public. Choose from Aikido, automation and controls, bookkeeping, craft beer, customer service, data analysis, digital marketing, early childhood guidance, event planning, Excel, Google Analytics, health and wellness, language and culture, makerspace training, management, online teaching, paralegal, play therapy, social media, storytelling, supply chain operations, test prep, world drumming and more.

For more information, contact VCU Continuing and Professional Education at ocpe@vcu.edu or (804) 828-1322 or visit https://ocpe.vcu.edu/courses/.

The Michelson Philanthropies and Science Prize for Immunology focuses on transformative research in human immunology, with trans disease applications to accelerate vaccine and immunotherapeutic discovery. Apply at the following URL by Oct. 1.

For more information, contact Emily Komornik at komornikea@vcu.edu or visit https://michelson.secure-platform.com/a.

As of July 1, Facilities Management, Physical Plant will be renamed Facilities Operations. The name change will not have any impact on the services provided.

For more information, contact Molly Case at casems@vcu.edu or visit https://fmd.vcu.edu/departments/facilities-operations/.

Recreation and Well-Being has a new website, recwell.vcu.edu. Please visit and bookmark the new site. As of July 1, both recsports.vcu.edu and thewell.vcu.edu will be retired and will redirect to recwell.vcu.edu.

For more information, contact Connie Kottmann at crkottman@vcu.edu or visit http://recwell.vcu.edu.

Individuals who vape/use electronic cigarettes daily are needed to participate in a research study that requires multiple laboratory visits. Compensation will be provided. This study will be conducted at VCU. Principal investigator is Alison Breland, Ph.D., Department of Psychology.

For more information, contact Alison Breland at abbrelan@vcu.edu or (804) 827-3562 or visit http://cstp.vcu.edu/studies.

This is a research study aiming to receive feedback on a sexual health intervention designed for couples. To be eligible to participate, you have to identify as Black or African American and be 18 to 35 years of age. The study requires participation in a 120 minute session and completion of a questionnaire. Compensation is available.

For more information, contact Kristina Hood, Ph.D., at progresslab@vcu.edu or visit https://progress.vcu.edu.

We are inviting male and female Type 2 diabetes patients with painful diabetic neuropathy ages 18-75 to participate in a research investigation of a new treatment to alleviate pain and examine its effects on pain perception. In addition to the new treatment, this study involves completing surveys and undergoing tests to evaluate perceptions of pain. Volunteers will be compensated for their time. Participants are only required to come once for the study. The study is conducted within the VCU Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Lab. Questions: Email Edmund Acevedo, Ph.D., FACSM, at eoacevedo@vcu.edu.

For more information, contact Bhushan Thakkar at thakkarbs2@vcu.edu.

There is a potentially useful technique measuring blood flow on ultrasound as a way to noninvasively identify extremity compartment syndrome (dangerously elevated pressures in arms or legs). VCU's Dept. of Emergency Medicine plans to perform a study to investigate this hypothesis with 25 healthy volunteers. The study will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. If you are interested in participating, RSVP to the following email address.

For more information, contact Stephanie DeMasi at stephanie.demasi@vcuhealth.org.