Get creative with coding using Pure Data, an open-source visual programming language designed for musicians, visual artists and performers to create software without writing lines of code. This session walks participants through the basics of the software as they create their own interactive projects. The event is organized by the Workshop at VCU Libraries. Questions: https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/events/2021-2022/wednesdays-in-the-workshop-fall-2021.html. Click on the following URL to receive a link to attend the session. For more information, contact Gregory Kimbrell at kimbrellgg@vcu.edu or (804) 393-2951 or visit https://vcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsc-2vqzwtGtPBjK4ApO6RaByl-eRNzpbf.

The School of World Studies and VCU Libraries will present a climate justice activism event in Room 303, James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave. The goals of the session are to highlight actions being taken by Richmond, VCU and local communities and to support students to network and organize their own actions in response to the climate emergency. The agenda includes a panel on the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, information on Richmond and VCU's response to the climate emergency and an evening networking event for students. For more information, contact Beth Kreydatus at eakreydatus@vcu.edu.

VCU Phi Delta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi and the American Red Cross will sponsor a blood drive upstairs in the Ballroom of the University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave. All donors will receive a free T-shirt, free cookie coupon and a $10 Amazon e-gift card. Make an online appointment at the following URL. For more information, contact Katie Miller at katherine.miller2@redcross.org or (804) 774-9739 or visit https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=VCU.

Thinking of going to graduate school? Join The Money Spot and graduate students from various disciplines for answers to questions about financing grad school. Questions: http://themoneyspot.vcu.edu. Register at the following URL. For more information, contact Carley Toney at finsuccess@vcu.edu or visit https://vcu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jc3T1UEfSMqEvNSvy0WJsw.

Grab some friends for teams of three to four members to test your knowledge of STEM in popular culture. The event will be held in Park Plaza, directly behind Hibbs Hall. Prizes will include VCU hoodies and other official VCU gear. Pizza will be available. The event will be hosted by the Science Hub at the Campus Learning Center. (Sponsors will also help create teams from individual participants.) Questions: https://clc.vcu.edu/science-hub/. Register at the following URL. For more information, contact Brian Cone at coneb2@vcu.edu or visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1n_zXX9iKrT9QAFAfbz3kilc-XGMM3qTaGiQWIniOUYg/edit.

The early childhood concentration prepares individuals to work with families and young children from birth through age 5 who have and are at risk for developmental disabilities. Using a hybrid of online and face-to-face formats, the program is learner-centered, innovative and collaborative. The program prepares students to serve infants and young children representing a wide range of abilities, including those at risk for developmental delays and those at risk for or with severe disabilities. Register at the following URL. For more information, contact Jazmin Tilfas at soeinfo@vcu.edu or visit https://vcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvceCgrzspG9XPMnVyDZ6UVGF1LsAFytyt.

VCU's Program in Judaic Studies and the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond will present a lecture by Gil Troy, Ph.D., professor of North American History at McGill University and author of "The Zionist Ideas; Visions for the Jewish Homeland — Then, Now, Tomorrow." The talk will be in Room 1107, Academic Learning Commons, 1000 Floyd Ave. All who attend must be masked and fully-vaccinated. For more information, contact Tyler Conrad at conradtl@vcu.edu.

VCU's Humanities Research Center and VCU Libraries will present author Bill Campbell and artist Bizhan Khodabandeh, who will discuss their work on a graphic novel which is a fictionalized retelling of a community’s resistance to a violent 1923 march of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. The event will be in Room 303, James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave., and will also be live-streamed. Register at the following URL. For more information, contact Tyler Conrad at conradtl@vcu.edu or visit https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/events/2021-2022/campbell-khodabandeh.html.

VCU's Office of Sustainability will host volunteer opportunities for meadow planting at the Amelia Street School in Randolph. Planting will take place at 1821 Amelia St. on the weekends of Nov. 6-7 and Nov. 13-14, with morning and afternoon time slots. Sign up to help create pollinator landscapes and increase Richmond's native biodiversity. For more information, contact Wyatt Carpenter at carpenterlw@vcu.edu or visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKZ7JbMlz2NzBgemBnNb4KjRWWsVxhvS1G-O3Vl4dmpwH3vQ/viewform?usp=sf_link.

How important is your racial identity to you? Do you wonder how that differs for others? Come engage with students, faculty and staff in an upcoming RAMmalogues session about race and ethnicity. Share your experience navigating a racialized society and bear witness to what others have to share in open dialogue. RAMmalogues is a space for intercultural, multigenerational and community-wide dialogues around who we are and what matters to us. The session will be in Room 250, James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave. Questions: https://inclusive.vcu.edu/iexcel/rammalogues/. All students, staff and faculty are invited, but registration is limited to 25. Register at the following URL. Questions: Visit https://training.vcu.edu/course.aspx?processFlag=2&itemID=17875. Register at the following URL. For more information, contact Jan Altman, Ph.D., at iexcel@vcu.edu or visit https://inclusive.vcu.edu/iexcel/rammalogues/.

Adobe staffers will provide tips and advice on how to use Adobe Portfolio to showcase projects from conceptualizing the layout to building the content. Presenters will be Kirsten Nagel, senior customer success manager, and Jim Babbage, senior solutions consultant. The workshop, which will be hosted on Zoom, will be presented by VCUarts and VCU Career Services. It will be open to all majors as well as alumni. Register on Handshake at the following URL. Questions: Email Anna Umbreit at umbreita@vcu.edu. For more information, contact Career Services at careers@vcu.edu or visit https://vcu.joinhandshake.com/events/787391/share_preview.

Join the Center for Interprofessional Education and Inter Health Professionals Alliance for an interest meeting via Zoom for the National CLARION Competition. This is a student case competition for health professional students, enabling them to achieve a 360-degree perspective on patient safety in today's health care system and how it might be improved. Student teams, consisting of four students composed of at least two disciplines, are given a case and charged with creating a root cause analysis. The team presents its plan to a panel of interprofessional judges that evaluates their results in the context of real world standards of practice. The local VCU winning team competes at the national level for scholarship and prizes. Click on the Zoom link at the following URL. For more information, contact Melissa Burton at mhburton@vcu.edu or (804) 828-2898 or visit https://zoom.us/j/92068698498.