Student Issue for July 6, 2021

Today

VCU Writing Center Workshop: Structuring Your Writing for Your Audience

Add to calendar 06-07-2021 11:00:00 06-07-2021 12:00:00 America/New_York VCU Writing Center Workshop: Structuring Your Writing for Your Audience The VCU Writing Center will present an online workshop via Zoom which will focus on the tools necessary to write strong, logical, structurally sound work. Register at the center's events page at the following URL. https://writing.vcu.edu/events/ Trey Burnart Hall hallbr@vcu.edu DD/MM/YYYY

11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The VCU Writing Center will present an online workshop via Zoom which will focus on the tools necessary to write strong, logical, structurally sound work. Register at the center's events page at the following URL.

For more information, contact Trey Burnart Hall at hallbr@vcu.edu or visit https://writing.vcu.edu/events/.

Coming up

Lavender Discussion Group

Add to calendar 14-07-2021 12:00:00 14-07-2021 13:15:00 America/New_York Lavender Discussion Group VCU's Office of Multicultural Student Affairs will present "Lavender Discussion - Life Outside of the Binary: College and Beyond." What is the gender binary? What if you don't subscribe to it? Dae Newman will discuss individual identity and life outside the gender binary. Register at the following URL. https://linktr.ee/vcuomsa Kim Green greenk2@vcu.edu DD/MM/YYYY

Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2021 from noon to 1:15 p.m.

VCU's Office of Multicultural Student Affairs will present "Lavender Discussion - Life Outside of the Binary: College and Beyond." What is the gender binary? What if you don't subscribe to it? Dae Newman will discuss individual identity and life outside the gender binary. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Kim Green at greenk2@vcu.edu or (804) 828-4891 or visit https://linktr.ee/vcuomsa.

Notices

VCU Police To Host Food and Hygiene Drive for Ram Pantry

VCU Police is sponsoring a food drive through July 14 to support VCU's Ram Pantry. The pantry helps to fight food insecurity among VCU students and accepts perishable and nonperishable food items and hygiene items such as deodorant, soap and toothbrushes. Donations can be placed in designated bins at VCUPD Headquarters lobby, 224 E. Broad St.; VCU Facilities and Financial Services Building, 700 W. Grace St.; and Jonah L. Larrick Student Center, 900 Turpin St.

For more information, contact Cpl. Cory Neace at neacecb@vcu.edu or visit https://bit.ly/3hkM5Cu.

Summer Edition of Policy Points Now Available

The summer edition of Policy Points, compiled by VCU's Integrity and Compliance Office, is now available at the following URL. The publication brings awareness to new, updated and retired university policies from the past quarter. Questions: Email policy@vcu.edu.

For more information, contact Jason Block at blockj2@vcu.edu or visit https://policy.vcu.edu/universitywide-policies/policy-points/.

VCU Rec Sports and The Well Merge To Become VCU RecWell

VCU's Health Promotion and Well-Being Center and Recreational Sports recently completed a semester-long integration process to become one department to better serve the health and well-being needs of the VCU community. VCU RecWell will provide a broad range of programs, services, education and outreach to support student and community well-being.

For more information, contact Meredith Hawkins at mlhawkins@vcu.edu or visit http://recwell.vcu.edu.

Do You Vape Electronic Cigarettes?

Individuals who vape/use electronic cigarettes daily are needed to participate in a research study that requires multiple laboratory visits. Compensation will be provided. This study will be conducted at VCU. Principal investigator is Alison Breland, Ph.D., Department of Psychology.

For more information, contact Alison Breland at abbrelan@vcu.edu or (804) 827-3562 or visit http://cstp.vcu.edu/studies.

Other resources

VCU Libraries workshops

See a schedule of workshops and classes that teach how to use collections and databases.

LinkedIn Learning @ VCU

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RamsConnect events

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