Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 9 a.m.

Join the VCU Institute for Women’s Health & Highland Support Project in Guatemala and spend a week in partnership with indigenous midwives and community leaders, learning about traditional Maya medicine and exploring the history of health care and healing. Trip dates are May 14-21, 2023. The cost is $1,200 (plus air fare). The application deadline is March 15, 2023. Apply at https://forms.gle/cWsEDTsop15bknPz7. Questions: Email Janett Forte at Janett.Forte@vcuhealth.org

For more information, contact Heather Ashton at ashtonhr@vcu.edu or visit https://womenshealth.vcu.edu/education/womens-health-and-healing-in-guatemala/.

At the beginning of winter break, VCU RealTime will be migrated from on-campus servers to TimeClock Plus cloud, the vendor for RealTime. This transition is planned at the start of winter break on Friday, Dec. 23 to minimize impact on RealTime users and payroll processing. The transition of VCU RealTime will bring a fresh new look to RealTime, however, there will be no changes in how you perform your daily tasks in the system. Employees can clock in and out, enter hours via timesheet and request leave and managers and timekeepers can review, edit and approve hours and leave in the same manner. During the transition, RealTime will be down from 10 a.m.-noon on Friday, Dec. 23. Communication will go out when RealTime is back online and employees who were not able to clock in or out during the transition period should be able to perform a missed punch action at their next scheduled clock in or out time. Non-exempt staff who enter time via timesheet entry will be able to enter their time as soon as the system is back online.

For more information, contact VCU Real Time at realtime@vcu.edu.

The application deadline for the Clinton Global Initiative University has been extended from Dec. 16 to Friday, Dec. 23. Join a global community of emerging leaders who are turning their ideas into action. VCU will help with travel assistance to the annual meeting at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Apply at the following URL.

For more information, contact Kelsey Steenburgh at steenburghbk@vcu.edu or visit http://cgiu.org/apply.

The Cashier's Office at Grace Harris Hall, 1015 Floyd Ave., will close at noon on Wednesday, Dec. 21 for the university's winter break. The office will reopen at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3.

For more information, contact Lee Francis at ycfranci@vcu.edu or (804) 827-1874.

Adults who smoke menthol cigarettes and identify as Black/African American are invited to participate in a study that involves electronic cigarette use for six weeks to reduce their smoking. Participants must be willing to visit the study site, receive phone calls and respond to texts and surveys. Compensation is provided. Principal investigators are Andrew Barnes, Ph.D., Health Behavior and Policy, and Caroline Cobb, Ph.D., Psychology,

For more information, contact Caroline Cobb at cobbco@vcu.edu or (804) 828-1867 or visit http://bit.ly/rvaflavors.

The VCU Wellbeing Lab invites you to participate in a research study on two stress reduction programs for undergraduate students. VCU investigators seek to understand how two online stress reduction programs affect students’ mood and stress-related behavior. Compensation is available. Sign up before Feb. 1, 2023.‬‬

For more information, contact Polina Beloborodova at vcu.stress.reduction@gmail.com or (804) 215-6196 or visit https://beloborodp.wixsite.com/stressreduction.