10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

VCU's Office of Trademarks and Licensing will host a vendor fair in the Virginia Rooms of the University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave. Students, faculty and staff may meet with licensed vendors who can help produce VCU-branded products for departmental use, student groups, giveaways and promotions. A raffle will be held and free cookies and beverages will be available.

For more information, contact Christy Rabil at crabil@vcu.edu or (804) 828-3615 or visit http://www.bsv.vcu.edu/trademarks-and-licensing/.

8 p.m.

The VCU Department of Music presents the U.S. Army Blues Jazz Ensemble at the Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall in the W.E. Singleton Center for Performing Arts, 922 Park Ave.

For more information, contact Anne Marie Dumain at dumainamm@vcu.edu or (804) 828-1169 or visit https://arts.vcu.edu/music/2018/08/22/us-army-blues-jazz-ensemble-september-18/.

8 p.m.

United Healthcare Network will host its first workshop, "Pre-Health Undergraduate Experience," in Room A, University Student Commons.

For more information, contact Grace Linder at linderge@vcu.edu or (610) 737-4223 or visit https://vcu.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/unitedhealthcarenetwork.

Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2018 from 11 a.m. to noon

Need to book space for meetings or events? Need a refresher on rules and best practices? Event Services will hold a space reservation training session about VCU's internal reservation portal, Virtual EMS, at the theater in University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave. A session will also be held at the same location from 3-4 p.m. Sept. 27.

For more information, contact Saher Randhawa at randhawasu@vcu.edu or (804) 828-0317 or visit https://usca.vcu.edu/event-services/.

Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2018 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The Career Development Collaborative, one of the career communities supported by the Great Place: HR Redesign, will host a discussion in Rooms A and B, University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave., on best practices for building student engagement and enhancing student program attendance. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Katybeth Lee at kelee@vcu.edu.

Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2018 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The VCU Libraries Innovative Media department presents Wednesdays in the Workshop at James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave. This week, an introduction to video production.

For more information, contact Sue Robinson at srobinson26@vcu.edu or (804) 828-0129 or visit https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/events/2018-19/wednesday-workshops-2018-19.html.

Thursday, Sep. 20, 2018 at 1 p.m.

VCU's Records Management Office will hold a Records Management 101 training session in Room 2-010, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, 509 N. 12th St. Register at the following URL, using the keyword "records." Self-paced Records Management 101 training is available. On-site department training can be requested at recman@vcu.edu.

For more information, contact Amber Peranski at aperanski@vcu.edu or (804) 828-2097 or visit http://training.vcu.edu.

Friday, Sep. 21, 2018 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Wanda Hernandez, former curator of Nuestras Historias at Richmond's Valentine Museum, will discuss the impact of the Latino community in the Richmond area in Commonwealth Ballroom A, University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave., at an event co-sponsored by VCU's School of World Studies and the Division for Inclusive Excellence.

For more information, contact Anita Nadal at nadalaa@vcu.edu or (804) 828-8947 or visit http://www.inclusive.vcu.edu.

Friday, Sep. 21, 2018 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Academic Technologies will host an advanced online Zoom training session for VCU faculty and staff. Led by a representative from Zoom, a range of advanced features will be demonstrated and explained, followed by a live Q&A period. Register at https://training.vcu.edu/ (keyword: Zoom).

For more information, contact Jana Avery at jcavery@vcu.edu or (804) 828-4772 or visit https://ts.vcu.edu/askit/video-services/video-conferencing-support.

Friday, Sep. 21, 2018 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Join VCU's Military Student Services, the VCU Alumni Military Veterans Council and the Office of Government Relations in Room 303, James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave., to hear Virginia legislators talk about their military service, the lessons learned from it, their transition to civilian life and how these experiences prepared them for political and government service. A Q&A session and reception will follow. RSVP at the following URL.

For more information, contact Stephen Ross at stross@vcu.edu or visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe603JmB20X3RG--LxJn5BaRzH0pS87udsPDeYIXPDJXQfDSw/viewform.

Thursday, Sep. 27, 2018 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

VCU's Office of Faculty Affairs presents "Addressing Traditional Tradeoffs: The Case for Course Redesign" with Carolyn Jarmon, Ph.D., vice president of The National Center for Academic Transformation, in Room 303, James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave. RSVP at the following URL.

For more information, contact VCU Office of Faculty Affairs at vpfacaffrs@vcu.edu or visit http://provost.vcu.edu/engage/calendar/jarmon-presentation.html.

Thursday, Sep. 27, 2018 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Tompkins McCaw Library for the Health Sciences announces six films in the Real Life Film Series, to be screened in the Jonah L. Larrick Student Center, 900 Turpin St., showing documentaries on health science topics, along with discussions about how the subject matter relates to current work at VCU and impacts global health. First up: "Clínica de Migrantes" with speaker Mark Ryan, M.D., a VCUH family physician who has a large Latinx practice.

For more information, contact Sue Robinson at srobinson26@vcu.edu or (804) 828-0129 or visit https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/events/2018-19/real-film-2018-19.html.

Friday, Sep. 28, 2018 from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences will host the University of North Carolina's 24th National Health Equity Research webcast, "From Awareness to Action: Leveraging Resiliency in the Context of Stress and Adverse Childhood Experiences," in lecture room 2010 at the library, 509 N. 12th St. Panelists include K. Dhaliwal, co-founder and associate director of RYSE; L. Reese, Ph.D., professor, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine; and K. Perreira, Ph.D., professor, Department of Social Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill.

For more information, contact Thelma Mack at mackta@vcu.edu or (804) 828-0017 or visit https://events.vcu.edu/details.asp?myVal=67969.

Utility work and construction at the VCU Health Outpatient Facility construction site, at the corner of North 10th and East Leigh streets, will affect traffic patterns in the area of the MCV Campus over the next several months.

For more information, contact Jake Hughes at jake.hughes@am.jll.com or visit https://www.vcuhealth.org/news-center/building-projects/outpatient-facility-updates.

The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute, L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, is accepting applications for the VCU Leadership Development Program. The goal of this 10-month program is to develop current and emerging leaders who represent the academic and administrative units of the University and the VCU Health System. Applications are due Oct. 15.

For more information, contact Olivia X. Barnes at gehli@vcu.edu or (804) 827-1169 or visit https://www.gehli.vcu.edu/.

VCU's Amendment Literary and Art Journal is accepting submissions from VCU students for its Fall 2018 journal. Literature and art of all genres and mediums are sought, relating to Amendment's message of "social progression through artistic expression." Deadline for submissions is Sept. 28. Email chametzkyhs@vcu.edu.

For more information, contact Amendment Literary and Art Journal at amendmentvcu@gmail.com or visit http://amendmentvcu.com.

Virginia Commonwealth University's December Commencement exercises take place at 10 a.m. Dec. 8 in the E.J Wade Arena at the Stuart C. Siegel Center. Faculty participating in the ceremony will wear academic apparel. Regalia must be ordered at your respective campus by Nov. 2. For ordering information, visit the following URL.

For more information, or visit http://apps.bsv.vcu.edu/retailstr/commencement.pdf.