1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity and the American Red Cross will host a blood drive at the Pace Center, 700 W. Franklin St. Donors will receive a free T-shirt and a coupon from Dunkin'. Schedule an appointment (recommended) at the following URL and enter the sponsor code pacecenter. Questions: Email Katie Miller at katie.miller2@redcross.org or Alyna Duong at the following email address.

For more information, contact Alyna Duong at duonga2@vcu.edu or visit http://redcrossblood.org.

3:30 p.m.

VCU's National Scholarship Office will offer a virtual informational session about the Critical Language Scholarship and the Boren Awards. Both programs fund the study of a critical language abroad and are open to both undergraduates and graduate students in all majors. Questions: http://blogs.vcu.edu/natlscholar. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Meredith Sisson at mrsisson@vcu.edu or visit https://forms.gle/hQkty1mwrcNfJ1cF8.

Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021 at 6:30 p.m.

V Cubed (Virtual Volunteer at VCU) will host a President's Volunteer Service Awards Interest Meeting on Zoom. The meeting will be geared for those interested in learning how to achieve a service award. Register for the event at https://cglink.me/2dV/r1163364. The Zoom link is https://vcu.zoom.us/j/93714995100.

For more information, contact Akhila Kunuthuru at kunuthurua@vcu.edu or visit https://vcu.campusgroups.com/vcubed/home/.

Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Check out more than 150 VCU organizations and departments at the Student Org Fair in Monroe Park. The rain date is Aug. 31. Looking for more in-depth information about university clubs and organizations? Students are invited to drop in at The Underground in the University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave., Aug. 30 through Sept. 3. Student Leadership and Involvement ambassadors will be on hand discuss personal interests and match them with student organizations.

For more information, contact Nicole Patterson at nlpatterson@vcu.edu or visit https://cglink.me/2dV/r1154737.

Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 at 7 p.m.

VCU's Catholic Student Association invites all health care faculty and students for an evening of food, friends and fellowship at the home of Fidelma Rigby. M.D. The event is open to all medical and graduate students; you do not have to be Catholic to attend. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Andrea Nguyen at amnguyen@vcu.edu or visit https://forms.gle/euk1xj2PMbakiHobA.

Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 at 9 a.m.

Attend via Zoom the Fall 2021 Biostatistics Student Research Symposium (Day I), hosted by VCU's Department of Biostatistics. Students enrolled in the Biostatistics graduate program will present their research conducted during Summer 2021. The Zoom link is https://zoom.us/j/95733658725?pwd=OFBRaUdJd2RwdU9QUWNPY0RWRmxUdz09. The meeting ID is 957 3365 8725. The passcode is 373907.

For more information, contact Dipankar Bandyopadhyay at dbandyop@vcu.edu or visit https://biostatistics.vcu.edu/news/student-research-symposium-2021/.

Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2021 at 4 p.m.

The VCU Faculty Club will return to the Institute for Contemporary Art at the Markel Center, 601 W. Broad St., for an in-person Faculty Club event. Provost Fotis Sotiropoulos will provide opening remarks to kick off the first Faculty Club event of 2021-22, which will also feature a research roundtable discussion, "Enriching the human experience through media, virtual reality, or artificial intelligence: opportunities with collaborative potential between engineering, the arts and education." Questions: http://go.vcu.edu/facultyclub. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Pam Hendrix at pahendrix@vcu.edu or visit https://forms.gle/E2HJ4NA5vU2wj3Hy6.

Thursday, Sep. 2, 2021 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Google Meet provides the faculty host attendance reports and a recording automatically, and the use of a chat room for class collaboration is easy to set up. Collaboration Services invites you to learn all about Meet and Chat for online learning enhancement. Register at the following URL.

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

Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

This inaugural, regional virtual research symposium hosted by VCU in collaboration with Eastern Virginia Medical School and Virginia State University will focus on the biology of inflammasomes and the therapeutic potential of inhibiting the inflammasome in diseases. Join a panel of experts who will present the latest investigations and discuss the future of inflammasome research. Register at the following URL for this free event.

For more information, contact Lauren Harris at harrisl4@vcu.edu or visit https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvfuygqzMpH9OJvPpgfU6FHPszgZD6GVGz.

VCU Continuing and Professional Education offers online learning for the VCU community and members of the public. Choose from Aikido, bookkeeping, computer skills, counseling and behavioral health, cultural competency and languages, customer service, event planning, Excel, Google Analytics, paralegal studies, play therapy, podcasting, supervisory and leadership, and test prep for the GMAT, GRE, LSAT, ACT, SAT, MCAT, PCAT, DAT and WordPress.

For more information, contact VCU Continuing and Professional Education at ocpe@vcu.edu or (804) 828-1322 or visit https://ocpe.vcu.edu/courses/.

VCU's Health Sciences Library will host webinars on PubMed, Embase, CINAHL and more to help students, faculty and staff with research. Register at the following URL.

For more information, contact Brandon Burneson at burnesonbp@vcu.edu or visit http://go.vcu.edu/healthwebinars.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act affords students the rights to inspect and review educational records, request that records which they believe to be inaccurate or misleading be corrected, provide written consent to disclosures of personally identifiable information except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent and to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education. See complete rights under FERPA at the following URL.

For more information, contact Records and Registration at rar@vcu.edu or (804) 828-1349 or visit http://rar.vcu.edu/.

VCU's Office of Records and Registration is responsible for notifying the university community that it does not release nonpublic information about VCU students. This information is used and shared in a limited and carefully controlled manner. It is not disclosed, except as permitted by law, unless authorized by the student.

For more information, contact Records and Registration at rar@vcu.edu or (804) 828-1349 or visit http://rar.vcu.edu/.

The All of Us Research Program at the National Institutes of Health is inviting more than a million people across the United States to help build one of the most diverse health databases of its kind. VCU has partnered with All of Us to help the VCU community contribute to that database. People who join will give information about their health, habits and where they live. By looking for patterns, researchers may learn more about what affects people’s health.

For more information, contact Leslie Bobb at allofus@vcu.edu or visit https://www.joinallofus.org/VCU.