Scholarship Applications Due Tomorrow
 Are you planning an internship, research experience or study abroad trip for 2019? Do you have an interest in attending a professional conference or have an idea for a social entrepreneurship project? The Baldacci Student Experiential Learning Fund grants academically promising students of diverse areas of study and backgrounds with financial support to pursue internships, conferences, research, domestic or study abroad, and/or social entrepreneurship opportunities. Awards between $1,000-$5,000 will support the above experiential learning activities. Applicants must be full time undergraduate rising juniors or seniors, in good academic standing, and be primary majors in the College of Humanities and Sciences. Learn more and apply here. Accepting applications through January 31, 2019. |
2018-19 VCU Visiting Writers Series
 Author Yiyun Li will speak on January 30 at 7:00 PM in Cabell Library. She is the author of four works of fiction, Kinder Than Solitude, The Vagrants, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; a children’s book, The Story of Gilgamesh; and a memoir, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. Where Reasons End, a new novel, will be published in February 2019. Learn more.
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State of VCU Address Tomorrow
 Join VCU President Michael Rao for the State of the University Address tomorrow, January 31, at 11:00 AM in Room 303, Cabell Library. Doors will open at 10:30 AM. Seating is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis. A live webcast of the address will be streamed on VCU’s home page, and VCU's Facebook page. For more information, contact UNIVevents@vcu.edu or visit go.vcu.edu/sotu2019. |
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Rethinking the History of Slavery
 Michael Guasco, Associate Professor of History, Davidson College, and author of Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World will speak on 1619: Rethinking the History of Africans and Slavery in Early America on Thursday, January 31, at 4:00 PM in the Cabell Library Lecture Hall. 2019 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the first recorded arrival of Africans in British North America. The Humanities Research Center is hosting a year-long series of speaker events and programs, entitled Virginia’s Past, Present, and Future, to foster an informed and constructive conversation about the events of 1619 and the mythology that has built up around them; the subsequent experience of Africans and African Americans in Virginia, British America, and the United States; the continued impact of that history; and the possibilities for a future in which Americans can shed that legacy, building together a just and inclusive multi-racial society. Learn more.
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Meet VCU's Authors: Myrl Beam
 The Humanities Research Center presents Myrl Beam, Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, speaking on Gay Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics. Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 4:00 PM in the Multipurpose Room, Second Floor (Room 250), Cabell Library. Learn more.
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Virginia Clinical Research Conference
 You won't want to miss the inaugural Virginia Clinical Research Conference: Engagement 2019 on April 12 at the Hilton Richmond Downtown Hotel, where clinical research coordinators, investigators and clinicians will share perspectives, discuss best practices, and collaborate on new opportunities in clinical research. Join your peers from across the state at the one-day conference that is focused on involving stakeholders (patients, families, communities, clinical providers, and research team members) in the planning and conduct of clinical research. Space is limited to 200 attendees. Early Bird Registration ends Feb. 12. Deadline to register is March 29. Learn more. |
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Business Services Scholarships
VCU's Department of Business Services offers a variety of scholarships, all funded through key campus business partners and revenues generated from departmental programs. Last year they awarded 53 different scholarships in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $7,500. Their scholarships are diverse and include opportunities for out-of-state students, nursing students, graduate students, single parents, excellence in community service and more. You can now apply online for all of the 2019-2020 Business Services scholarships. Click here to learn more and apply. The deadline is Friday, February 15 at 4:30 PM. |
Study Abroad Spring Fair 2/5
 It's not too late to find a study abroad program for summer or fall 2019. Please join the Global Education Office at their Study Abroad Spring Fair in Rodney's Lounge inside Shafer Court Dining Center on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Students can learn more about faculty-led, short-term and semester-long options and talk with study abroad staff, returning students and faculty program leaders. Ten students will receive a $500 study abroad award. Learn more. |
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"Before the Flood" Screening
 The Biology Department and VCU Libraries will co-host a screening and panel discussion of “Before the Flood” on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019 from 6 - 8:30 PM in Room 303, Cabell Library. The documentary follows actor Leonardo DiCaprio's journey to learn about climate change. For more information, contact Ching-Yu Huang at cyhuang@vcu.edu. Request a free ticket here. Learn more about the Environmental Film Festival.
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Black History Month Lecture
 VCU Libraries presents a thought-provoking discussion about how our society treated African American veterans after their military service and how that affected them and their communities at the 17th Annual Black History Month Lecture. February 20, 2019 from 7:00 – 9:00 PM in the Cabell Library Lecture Hall (Room 303). Learn more. |
Race and Christianity in Early Virginia
 Learn more about the historical intersection of race and Christianity in Virginia with Dr. Rebecca Goetz, associate professor of history at New York University and the author of The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race. This is the second event in the year-long series Virginia's Past, Present, and Future, presented by VCU's Humanities Research Center and Department of History in partnership with American Evolution: Virginia to America, 1619-2019. The talk will be in the third-floor Lecture Hall, James Branch Cabell Library on Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 4:00 PM. Learn more.
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Tressie Cottom, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, was interviewed recently on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” about her critically acclaimed new book, 
Activities Programming Board (APB) is a student-led organization that fosters school spirit, awareness, diversity and inclusion through a wide variety of events for the VCU community. The committees within APB are: Marketing, Finance, Special Events, Weekend Programming, Lectures and Live Entertainment. They are beginning their recruitment efforts for the 2019-2020 APB staff and want to connect with as many students on campus as possible! 
