Monday, May 17, 2021 from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Join Jennifer Early, Ph.D., project manager at VCU Health and a member of the Family Representative Council for the East Marshall Street Well Project, for a virtual presentation recounting the history of human remains found in the East Marshall Street Well on the VCU Medical Center Campus. Early will explore the practice of 19th-century grave robbing for the purposes of procuring cadavers for medical study and how this practice was only one contributor to institutional racism in health care. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Roy Roach III at rfroach@vcu.edu or visit https://rampages.us/historyandhealth/event-calendar/.

Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 1 p.m.

VCU's Records Management Office will hold Records Management 101 training online via Zoom. Training will cover recordkeeping requirements and practices to be compliant with state regulations and university policy. Register in Talent (keyword "records"). Busy but can’t make it? Try self-paced Records Management 101 training available in Blackboard.

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

Thursday, May 20, 2021 at noon

Join VCU Human Resources, VCUHS HR and Virginia Credit Union to learn the basics about credit and loans and how they work. Gain greater control over your finances by setting personal financial goals and learning about financial resources. Questions: https://hr.vcu.edu/current-employees/worklife/. Register in Talent@VCU or at the following URL.

For more information, contact Cindi Phares at cphares@vcu.edu or (804) 828-1521 or visit https://bit.ly/3sT6ulG.

Thursday, May 27, 2021 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Learn how to ask for what you want at work at a workshop to be presented by VCU's Center for Corporate Education at the School of Business. The session, part of the Level Up Learning series, will focus on strategies for promotion and salary increases. The registration fee is $40. Questions: Email corp-ed@vcu.edu. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Carrie Hawes at cjhawes@vcu.edu or visit http://go.vcu.edu/corped.

Beginning May 17, all students, faculty and staff will collaborate together in one Google Workspace domain. Students involved have been directly notified of action needed.

For more information, contact Doctor Gee at drgee@vcu.edu or visit https://go.vcu.edu/domainmerge.

Nominations and applications for the Executive Committee of VCU's Leadership Career Community are open through May 14. These positions will be for the 2021-22 academic year. Apply at the following URL.

For more information, contact Allison Toney at leadershipcc@vcu.edu or visit https://forms.gle/dkrdKLVRYiPBK7Ck9.

While preparing courses in Canvas, it might be helpful to know what features and tools exist in Canvas, and how they align or differ from Blackboard. To assist instructors with the transition to Canvas, the Learning Systems team has created an "Equivalencies Chart" which maps the tools in Blackboard to those in Canvas. This chart is at the following URL.

For more information, contact Jamillah Martin at canvas@vcu.edu or visit https://ts.vcu.edu/askit/teaching-and-learning/canvas/blackboard-to-canvas-equivalencies-chart/.

The VCU Libraries collection housed on the first floor of James Branch Cabell Library will be unavailable for browsing June 8 through as late as Oct. 15 for the replacement of aged and unstable shelving and old carpeting. Researchers are encouraged to plan ahead and check out needed materials before June 5. Faculty may request books to be pulled and held for pickup at the service desk, or for Front Door Pickup or delivered to their offices by using the “Request” function in the search box.

For more information, contact Sue Robinson at srobinson26@vcu.edu or visit https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/news/2021-news/stacks-project.html.

Black women who are breast cancer survivors and overweight/obese are invited to participate in a research study that requires you to participate in 16 one-hour workout sessions and laboratory visits. Compensation will be provided. This study will be conducted at the VCU Run lab on the Monroe Park Campus. Principal Investigator is Vanessa B. Sheppard, Ph.D., Department of Health Behavior and Policy.

For more information, contact Autumn Lanoye at autumn.lanoye@vcuhealth.org or (804) 827-0000.

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 VCU's Motor Control Lab at the following URL. You may be compensated for your time. Questions: http://www.movr.vcu.edu.

For more information, contact Tiffany Amos at mcl@vcu.edu or (804) 628-2902 or visit https://redcap.vcu.edu/surveys/?s=DHT7NDE3J9.