Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2021 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

VCU's Honors College Berglund Seminar Series will host "Intro to The Well and Recreational Sports Managing Stress and Taking Care." Join Mia Liadis, a health educator at VCU's Health Promotion and Well-Being Center, to learn more about the merger of Rec Sports and The Well to form Recreation and Well Being (RecWell). Email the following address for the Zoom link.

For more information, contact Jared Johnson at jajohnson4@vcu.edu or visit https://honors.vcu.edu/news--events/events/.

Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2021 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Join faculty and staff from the VCU School of Nursing and VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation to learn about a new graduate certificate program that will make it simpler for those with an interest in innovation to develop products and solutions to challenges facing the health care industry. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Lloyd Young at youngel3@vcu.edu or visit https://connect.business.vcu.edu/register/sept-hc-cert.

Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2021 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Join the Poetry Club for the group's first event of the semester. Share your poetry at a virtual meeting and hear the work of others. Click on the following URL for the Zoom link.

For more information, contact Maheen Farooqi at farooqims@vcu.edu or visit https://tinyurl.com/PCOpenMic.

Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2021 at 9:15 p.m.

"Welcome to the Show," a film written, directed and produced by VCU Department of Theatre graduate Dorie Barton (MFA 2020), will be the opening night feature at the Richmond International Film and Music Festival at the Byrd Theatre, 2908 W. Cary St. Barton is a VCUarts adjunct instructor. The film, which includes VCUarts students and alumni, is about four best friends who attend an immersive theatre production on a wild last hurrah as college students. The student discount code is RIFFVCUtheatre.

For more information, contact Sarah Moore, theatre marketing coordinator, at mooresw4@vcu.edu or (804) 828-2695 or visit https://riff.eventive.org/schedule/60db608d4373f30053f40cd0.

Wednesday, Sep. 8, 2021 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Asti Jackson, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, will speak via Zoom at the Changing the Face of Science – Diversity Speaker Series. The series, designed to provide an inclusive and interactive platform for scholarly exploration, is hosted by the VCU Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences and the VCU Center on Health Disparities. Questions: http://www.healthdisparities.vcu.edu. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Khana Nelson at khiana.meade@vcuhealth.org or (804) 827-0719 or visit https://forms.gle/KoL4BZ92C4D89UiBA.

Thursday, Sep. 16, 2021 from noon to 1 p.m.

VCU's Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence will present a workshop on creating a caring, supportive and safe learning environment for the university's students. Participants will learn how to respond in the moment to the non-academic needs of students and how to connect students with available resources at VCU to help address these needs. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Tiffany Freitas at freitast@vcu.edu or visit https://forms.gle/WEijbQZVmUJPg8NJ9.

Monday, Oct. 4, 2021 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Center for Corporate Education at VCU's School of Business will present Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. This four-day, in-person workshop taught at Snead Hall, 301 W. Main St., will allow participants to pursue a project that could benefit from Lean Six Sigma operational analysis and methodology. The course will be held Oct. 4-7. The registration fee is $2,425.50. Register at the following URL or email corp-ed@vcu.edu for more information.

For more information, contact Carrie Hawes at cjhawes@vcu.edu or (804) 828-3165 or visit http://go.vcu.edu/corped.

Draft policies are available for public comment until Sept. 10 at the following URL: Accessibility and Reasonable Accommodation for Individuals with Disabilities, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Central Bank Internal Loans, Investment and Liquidity and Tax-Exempt Department Compliance.

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

Want to know more about evidence-based teaching practice? VCU's Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence will host a virtual learning community to explore peer-reviewed research on teaching and learning in higher education. The group will likely explore research on inclusive teaching and effective approaches to increase student engagement. The group will meet on the following Tuesdays from 1-2 pm: Sept. 14, Sept. 28, Oct. 12 and Oct. 26. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Tiffany Freitas at freitast@vcu.edu or visit https://ctle.vcu.edu/initiatives/communities/.

The educational technology company Instructure is offering virtual one-on-one, 25-minute consultations for any interested faculty member who has questions about using Canvas features. These sessions are free through Sept. 30. Participants will be paired with a Panda Pro who can assist with Canvas topics of your choice. Sign up for a session at the following URL.

For more information, contact Katie Shedden at kshedden@vcu.edu or visit https://www.instructure.com/panda-pros.

Researchers in the Department of Physical Therapy are conducting a study to test the use of wearable sensors to track tummy time in infants. Full-term and preterm infants aged 3-6 months are invited to participate. Parents of enrolled infants will attach the sensors to their infant's clothing and record natural play for few hours each day at home for three days. Compensation will be provided.

For more information, contact the VCU Motor Development Lab, Department of Physical Therapy, at inamdark@vcu.edu or (804) 415-8603.

Are you a health-care clinician or student who practices or trains in Virginia? If so, then you are likely eligible to participate in a survey study conducted by faculty at VCU. We are interested in how health-care professionals have learned behavioral health counseling, specifically motivational interviewing. Those who complete the 20-minute survey will be entered into a bi-monthly gift-card drawing. Click on the following link to participate.

For more information, contact Rashelle Hayes, Ph.D., at rashelle.hayes@vcuhealth.org or (804) 827-3695 or visit https://redcap.vcu.edu/surveys/?s=NWWYMP4W44.

Individuals who smoke tobacco cigarettes daily are needed to participate in research studies. Compensation will be provided. View the screening survey at the following URL. 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.

Researchers are looking for volunteers who were recently diagnosed with COVID to participate in the COVID-CARE study. Volunteers must be aged 18 and older, have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the last 48 hours and be located within the Richmond area. Volunteers will be asked to review and electronically sign an informed consent document, complete online surveys, and complete two COVID tests at home provided at no cost. If you are selected for the study, you will be compensated for your time. To access the study’s website and see if eligible, go to the following URL.

For more information, contact Mandy Adams at study4u@vcu.edu or (804) 827-3784 or visit http://www.covidcarestudy.org/.