4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Learn how to build a positive credit score and pull your own credit report at annualcreditreport.com at this workshop, in the Alumni Association Board Room of the University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave. Bring your laptop. Money Mondays is brought to you by VCU TRIO Student Support Services, the Money Spot at VCU, and the Virginia Credit Union.

For more information, contact TRIO Student Support Services at trio@vcu.edu or (804) 828-9517 or visit http://www.trio.vcu.edu.

12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research and VCU Postdoctoral Association present “An Introduction to Echo Liquid Handler and Fluorescence Polarization as a Tool for Drug Screening” with Pradip K. Singh, Ph.D., in Room 2-010, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, 509 N. 12th St. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Stacey Wahl at swahl@vcu.edu or visit https://rampages.us/howtotalks.

4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

VCU's Global Education Office presents professor Audelino Sac Coyoy, who will speak about "Social and Political Forces Pushing Immigration of Indigenous People to the U.S.," in Room 1030J, West Grace Street Student Housing – North, 830 W. Grace St. Sac is a Maya-K’iche’ political scientist who teaches at the Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala. He is a delegate for the government committee on the Definition of Indigenous Sacred Places as part of the Guatemalan Peace Accords and consultant to the U.N.

For more information, contact Renee Russell at vrrussell@vcu.edu or (804) 828-3636.

6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The VCU chapter of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice presents "Love Shouldn't Hurt: Domestic Violence Panel," a Q&A in Virginia Rooms C and D, University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave.

For more information, contact Nila Cameron at cameronnc@vcu.edu.

7 p.m.

The VCU Department of Music presents the VCU Percussion Ensemble with special guests percussionist Adam Groh and the Orange County High School Percussion Ensemble with director Tom Doss in a free concert in the Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall, W.E. Singleton Center for Performing Arts, 922 Park Ave.

For more information, contact Anne Marie Dumain at dumainamm@vcu.edu.

7 p.m.

The VCU Department of Music presents a violin and viola studio recital in the Recital Hall of the James W. Black Music Center, 1015 Grove Ave.

For more information, contact Anne Marie Dumain at dumainamm@vcu.edu.

7 p.m.

Emerging Healthcare Leaders will host a mentorship social in the Jackson Ward Conference Room, Jonah L. Larrick Student Center, 900 Turpin St.

For more information, contact Vamsi Divakaruni at divakarunirv@vcu.edu.

7 p.m.

The Minority Association of Pre-Health Students will host a physician Q&A panel in Room 1004A, West Grace Street Student Housing – South, 835 W. Grace St. Students may question doctors in the fields of ophthalmology, emergency medicine, radiation oncology and pediatrics. Anonymous questions are also being collected at the following URL.

For more information, contact Nujuma Moussa at moussana@vcu.edu or visit https://goo.gl/forms/wJpC3Yz1qXlitXSN2.

Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 from noon to 12:45 p.m.

The College Behavioral and Emotional Health Institute and Institute for Contemporary Art present Lunchtime Mindfulness Meditation @ ICA at the Institute for Contemporary Art, 601 W. Broad St. The free sessions are guided by experienced teachers. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Marcie Walsh at walshmj2@vcu.edu or (804) 287-0546 or visit https://icavcu.org/learn/.

Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 from noon to 1 p.m.

VCU's Academic Learning Transformation Lab will host a workshop on "Retention in the Large Classroom" in Room 4100, Academic Learning Commons, 1000 Floyd Ave. The session will explore strategies and learning activities that foster engagement and improve retention while keeping in mind the demands of a larger online or face-to-face class size. If possible, please bring a laptop.

For more information, contact Peyton Burgess at dpburgess@vcu.edu or visit https://altlab.vcu.edu/event/retention-in-the-large-classroom/.

Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Learn paper engineering techniques that make cut-outs move at "DIY Pop-Up Books," an Innovative Media department event in The Workshop at James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave.

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

Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

VCU's Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence offers a workshop with a Blackboard Grade Center specialist who can help set up an easy-to-navigate page, in Room 4100, Academic Learning Commons, 1000 Floyd Ave. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Tiffany Freitas at freitast@vcu.edu or visit https://goo.gl/forms/eAe6WidiWMJZfeJ83.

Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The VCU Association of Information Technology Professionals presents a workshop on LinkedIn in Room B2165, Snead Hall, School of Business, 301 W. Main St. Learn how to develop, update and leverage a LinkedIn account. Pizza will be available.

For more information, contact Giovanni Knight at knightgn@vcu.edu or visit http://aitpvcu.com.

Friday, Oct. 26, 2018 from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Join VCU School of Education for a Research Resource Palooza featuring Robyn McDougle, Ph.D., director of the L. Douglas Wilder School's Center for Public Policy, in Room 4084B, Oliver Hall – School of Education, 1015 W. Main St. A discussion will focus on resources available to VCU faculty and staff and opportunities for research support and partnership available with the Center for Public Policy and SOE Centers. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Dr. Jose G. Alcaine at jgalcaine@vcu.edu or (804) 828-2009 or visit https://goo.gl/forms/GRb9QDT9HDMJwHqn1.

Monday, Oct. 29, 2018 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

VCUarts and VCU Libraries is sponsoring "Master of the Hellboy Universe: A Conversation With Mike Mignola" at the W.E. Singleton Center for Performing Arts, 922 Park Ave. Mignola, creator of Hellboy, will join in conversation with chair of VCUarts Communication Arts TyRuben Ellingson.

For more information, contact Lindsay Parnell at parnelllj@vcu.edu or visit https://arts.vcu.edu/calendar/event/master-of-the-hellboy-universe-a-conversation-with-mike-mignola/.

Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

VCU's Equity and Access Services presents a Sexual Misconduct/Violence and Sex/Gender Discrimination Policy Review Session in Room 311, James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave. Audience members will be invited to contribute feedback.

For more information, contact Tammi Slovinsky at tslovinsky@vcu.edu or (804) 827-1963.

Friday, Nov. 9, 2018 from 10 a.m. to noon

VCU's C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research and the Natural Language Processing Lab in the Department of Computer Science present a double seminar with an "Introduction to Natural Language Processing" and "Machine Learning With Clinical Applications," in Room 2010, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, 509 N. 12th St. RSVP at the following URL.

For more information, contact Amy Olex at alolex@vcu.edu or visit http://bit.ly/clinical-nlp-ml.

VCU faculty members will receive an email on Oct. 22 for a request to take the VCU Libraries Ithaka S+R Local Faculty Survey. A $2 donation will be made to Feed More for each completed survey. Also, VCU Libraries will award two $1,000 professional development stipends to randomly selected faculty, one each from two schools with the highest survey participation rates. This survey information is vital to the services and resources that VCU Libraries offers its research, instructional and clinical communities.

For more information, contact Sue Robinson at srobinson@vcu.edu or visit https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/news/2018/vcu-libraries-will-survey-faculty-needs-and-priorities-beginning-oct-22.html.

VCU Recreational Sports' Thalhimer Tennis Center will be closed Oct. 22-28 for installation of the fall/winter bubble cover.

For more information, contact Amanda Simmons at alsimmons@vcu.edu or (804) 827-0321 or visit https://recsports.vcu.edu/facilities/.

Registration is open through Oct. 23 for VCU Recreational Sports' Faculty/Staff Basketball League. Only VCU faculty and staff with a Rec Sports membership are eligible. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Will Adams at wpadams@vcu.edu or (804) 828-8839 or visit https://portal.recsports.vcu.edu/FusionIM.

Top Hat, the new VCU Student Response System, was fully implemented at the start of the fall semester. Academic Technologies asks for feedback to assist in addressing concerns, understanding the features that are most important to users and planning future enhancements. The survey may be found at the following URL.

For more information, contact Jana Avery at jcavery@vcu.edu or visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdomt7-ehMYUrJmVnXbrpXsMqCWBH2b1xi-o7OfWZ6UKSiDA/viewform?usp=sf_link.

In celebration of Geographic Information Systems and maps and their ability to connect people, regions and systems, VCU Libraries will mark GIS Day from 2-5 p.m. Nov. 14. Want to participate by giving a three- to five-minute lightning talk? Make a proposal at the following URL by Nov. 9.

For more information, contact Sue Robinson at srobinson26@vcu.edu or visit https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/events/2018-19/gis-day.html.