11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Calendars for 2020 featuring the Dogs On Call therapy dogs will be on sale for $10 on the first floor at Main Hospital, 1250 E. Marshall St. All proceeds support the Dogs On Call and the Center for Human-Animal Interaction. Therapy dogs visit patients, students and staff. Calendars will also be available for purchase at the same times and location on Dec. 19.

For more information, contact Jessica Hale at jessica.hale@vcuhealth.org or (804) 827-7297 or visit http://www.chai.vcu.edu.

12 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.

Jewish Life at VCU will host a Jewish Medical Ethics Lunch in the first-floor conference room, Hunton Student Center, 1110 E. Broad St. The topic will be "Choosing Priorities When Resources are Limited."

For more information, contact Rabbi Friedman at mjfriedman@vcu.edu.

Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019 at 4 p.m.

The VCU Division for Inclusive Excellence has released its Request for Proposals (RFP-IE-002) Building a Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Certificate Program to seek partners who will design and develop course content for its Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Certificate Program. These sessions will be added to the course and program compendium offered through the division's new education platform, IExcel Education. This RFP is open to all VCU faculty, staff and students, as well as to community partners who are vested in the success of the university. An open informational session will be held in the Wanda S. Mitchell Conference Room, Division for Inclusive Excellence, 817 S. Cathedral Place. Those interested in submitting a proposal by the end of January can learn more about the RFP and submission/development process by attending one of the informational sessions prior to Jan. 13 when the “Intent to Submit” form is due. To access the full RFP, visit the following URL and click on the banner item at the top “Request for Proposals.”

For more information, contact Jan Altman at iexcel@vcu.edu or (804) 828-8947 or visit http://inclusive.vcu.edu.

Grade sheets are accessible on faculty eServices and are due by noon Dec. 18, at which time grade entry will no longer be available. Continuing this semester is an option to try out the new Banner 9 grading module. The traditional link and the new Banner 9 link both may be reached via faculty eServices. Within Banner 9 is the ability to upload grades from an Excel file. Faculty may only access grade sheets for courses to which they have been assigned in the Class Schedule.

For more information, contact The Office of Records and Registration at rar@vcu.edu.

Construction and related utility work at and around the VCU Health Outpatient Facility and Inpatient Children’s Hospital sites will affect traffic patterns on the MCV Campus for several months. For current information and updates, visit the URL below.

For more information, contact Carrie Carroll at carrie.carroll@vcuhealth.org or visit http://vcuhealth.org/traffic.

VCU and the Brain Injury Association of Virginia will host the 2020 Heading Forward Brain Injury Rehabilitation Conference. The event will be held April 30-May 1 at the Westin Richmond Hotel, 6631 W. Broad St. The call for submissions is now open. Presentations must relate to acquired brain injury but are not restricted to TBI. Adult and pediatric presentations will be accepted. Proposals are due Jan. 6. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Ana Mills at ana.mills@vcuhealth.org or visit https://www.biav.net/heading-forward/.

Are you currently experiencing low back pain, between the ages of 18-60 years old and interested in the possibility of nine weeks of nonsurgical experimental treatment? If you answered yes to all three you may qualify for our research. What? New, innovative and fun virtual reality games are designed to help people with chronic back pain move and feel better. Where? All appointments, testing and treatments are conducted at VCU. When? Participation in the study involves 24 one-hour appointments scheduled over a 57-week period. Who? The VIGOR Study team consists of professionals in the field who have been selectively chosen and extensively trained. Interested? Contact us at the following URL. You may be compensated for your time.

For more information, contact Tiffany Amos at mcl@vcu.edu or (804) 828-4766 or visit https://redcap.vcu.edu/surveys/?s=DHT7NDE3J9.