VCU Career Services presents the Spring 2020 Careers in the Commons: U.S. Army. The U.S. Army will be in the Student Commons (lobby table 1) on Tuesday, February 18th! Stop by to chat with them about opportunities for students of all class years and majors. For more information, contact Danielle Pearles at careers@vcu.edu or (804) 828-1645 or visit https://tinyurl.com/v4mllgr.

Medicine With Pride at VCU will host Nationz Foundation during a collection of nonperishable food items in an RV at 12th Street by James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Medical Education Center, 1201 E. Marshall St. Nationz Foundation is a Richmond nonprofit organization seeking to raising awareness of HIV/STIs and social determinants. Members of the group will also perform free STI testing. For more information, contact Gerald Coronado at coronadogm@vcu.edu.

The L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs will hold a Virtual "Visit" online. Students will have the opportunity to meet Wilder School faculty to ask questions about graduate programs and determine if the Wilder School would be a good fit. Register at the following URL. For more information, contact Ross Losapio at losapior@vcu.edu or visit http://bit.ly/WSvirtualvisit.

The Pace Center will hold a mindfulness meditation class at 700 W. Frankin St. The goal of the 10-week class is to help explore peace, balance, focus and well-being in the midst of everyday pressures of college life. For more information, contact Akia Lynch at Lyncha4@mymail.vcu.edu or (804) 658-4064 or visit https://www.thepacecenter.com.

The VCU baseball team will take on Norfolk State University at The Diamond, 3001 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. For more information, contact Rebecca Piner at pinerre@vcu.edu.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering will present Dustin Crouch, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Crouch will present on "Combining Computational and Experimental Biomechanics Tools to Understand and Overcome Movement Disability." The session will be held in Room E2221, College of Engineering East Hall, 401 W. Main St. Faculty host is Carrie L. Peterson, Ph.D., assistant professor, VCU Department of Biomedical Engineering. For more information, contact Pam Mason at pwmason@vcu.edu.

Rams In Recovery will host a pop-up naloxone training session in the lobby of the University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave. Naloxone is a lifesaving drug that can be given to an individual who has overdosed on opiates. The free training takes five minutes. Free naloxone will be provided. For more information, contact Jackson Lane at lanejt@vcu.edu or (571) 420-6331.

The Highland Support Project at VCU will host the third part of its "Decolonizing Service-Learning" speakers series. Guadalupe Celeste Ramírez is the director of Asociación de Mujeres del Altiplano in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. The association facilitates technical and educational training on topics including civic participation, entrepreneurship, self-esteem, nutrition, Maya cultural identity and community resilience. The talk will be in Room 1030J, Globe, West Grace Street Student Housing – North, 830 W. Grace St. For more information, contact Madeline Doane at doanemh@vcu.edu or (703) 489-4565 or visit https://www.facebook.com/events/663880810815951/.

The VCU Master of Public Health Program presents a lecture by environmental justice advocate Queen Zakia Shabazz. The talk will be in Room 8-036, Sanger Hall, 1101 E. Marshall St. Questions, Rebecca Bruhl at Rebecca.Bruhl@vcuhealth.org. For more information, contact Sierra Croker at crokersd@vcu.edu or (804) 828-9785.

The Cor Moto Horn Duo will perform at Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall, W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, 922 Park Ave. Admission is free. For more information, contact Michael Potts at pottsmj@vcu.edu or visit https://arts.vcu.edu/music/2020/01/08/guest-artist-recital-cor-moto-horn-duo/.

The Pace Center will hold an open mic night at 700 W. Broad St. A variety of performances will be featured. All are invited to participate. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact Lakiera Mills at millslr3@vcu.edu.

The VCU Department of Painting + Printmaking presents interdisciplinary artist Lavar Munroe, whose work encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and installation art to create hybrid forms that straddle the line between sculpture and painting. Munroe has exhibited at Prospect.4 in New Orleans, the 12th Dakar Biennial in Senegal and the 2015 Venice Biennale. He also represented The Bahamas at the 2010 Liverpool Biennial. The talk will be at the Institute for Contemporary Art at the Markel Center, 601 W. Broad St. For more information, contact Kat Wilson at papr@vcu.edu or visit https://arts.vcu.edu/paintingprintmaking/2020/02/03/lavar-munroe-visiting-artist-lecture/.

VCU Parking and Transportation will host a one-hour GRTC travel training session for students, faculty and staff in Room 1105, Academic Learning Commons, 1000 Floyd Ave. The session will include how to use the GRTC bus system, navigate Pulse/Route 5 routes across campus and commute from areas in Richmond to VCU's Monroe Park and/or MCV campuses. Maximum attendance is 15. Register at the following URL. For more information, contact Kendra Norrell at commute@vcu.edu or visit http://go.vcu.edu/grtc.

The Richmond World Affairs Council at VCU will have its first interest meeting in Room 1030J, West Grace Street Student Housing – North, 830 W. Grace St. All are invited to discuss involvement in upcoming events. Questions, email rwacvcu@gmail.com. For more information, contact Mana Soroush at soroushmp@mymail.vcu.edu or (703) 625-3650.

The Science Hub presents Mychal Smith in an informal series which gives students the opportunity to talk with faculty, graduate students and postdocs about hurdles in their careers and how they dealt with them. Smith is an assistant professor in the Chemistry Department and leads several grant programs for underrepresented minorities in STEM. The session will be in Room 2121, Grace Street Center, 912 W. Grace St. Snacks will be provided. For more information, contact Stacey Wahl at swahl@vcu.edu or (804) 828-0622 or visit https://clc.vcu.edu/sciencehub/.

American Nuclear Society at VCU will present an introductory program to discuss the organization's divisions and conferences. The session will be held in Room 103, College of Engineering West Hall, 601 W. Main St. Members will also be able to voice their opinions about the direction of the society's student section. For more information, contact Sarah Strickler at stricklersc@vcu.edu.

Join VCU's women's basketball team on game day as they take on the Billikens of Saint Louis University. Check out the promo page at the following URL to see what is planned for the game, which will be played at the Stuart C. Siegel Center, 1200 W. Broad St. For more information, contact Rebecca Piner at vcuathletics@vcu.edu or visit https://vcuathletics.com/WBBpromos.

The VCU Brandcenter, 103 S. Jefferson St., will host an on-campus informational session. The session will include an introduction to the master’s program and areas of concentration, a chance to talk with current Brandcenter students and faculty and information about the application process from the director of admissions. Register at the following URL. For more information, contact Rachel Ensing at ensingr@vcu.edu or (804) 828-8384 or visit https://brandcenter.vcu.edu/admissions/visit-us/.

Members of the Iyapo Repository, an afrofuturist archive, will lead a public workshop at the ICA. Iyapo Repository is a resource library that houses a collection of digital and physical artifacts created to affirm and project the future of people of African descent. The repository is named for Lilith Iyapo, a black woman in Octavia Butler’s book series “Lilith’s Brood.” Members of the group archive manuscripts, films, drawings, rare media and more. The event will be at the Institute for Contemporary Art at the Markel Center, 601 W. Broad St. For more information, contact Meredith Carrington at mtcarrington@vcu.edu or visit http://icavcu.org.

VCU School of Dentistry and Dental Hygiene Classes of 2020 will offer free dental checkups and X-rays to qualified patients at VCU Dental Care, Second Floor, 520 N. 12th St. A screening night will also be held at the same time and location on March 18. Each patient will receive a limited visual screening to determine if certain criteria are met to receive additional free dental care. For more information, contact Hannah Ehreth at ehrethh@vcu.edu or (703) 217-8263.