September 2012 Archives

Los Angeles-based writer Daniel Olivas interviews Justin Torres, recipient of the 2012 Cabell First Novelist Award, in a lengthy article in the Los Angeles Review of Books. The interview mentions VCU and the high quality of entries for the award. Torres also tells the interviewer that he won't prepare much for his Nov. 8 book talk and Q&A in Richmond. "I'm pretty terrible at prepared remarks. I much prefer spontaneity and interacting with audience questions. Also, I'm more frank, and crass, and honest, if I'm not given time to prepare."  The article

• About the Nov. 8 event
• Background on the award 
• Previous winners 
• To enter your novel 

Hundreds of MCV campus students take part in health-related community service projects each year. They work in free clinics, do rotations in community settings or go on group service trips such as the annual health care project in  impoverished Southwest Virginia.

To showcase the breadth of those experiences, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences invites members of the university community to submit photographs to the Rams Reaching Out Photography Contest. Details

Submit an entry form and submit it to libtmlsca@vcu.edu via VCU File Drop.

Images of people who are clearly identifiable may require signed photo release forms before they can be displayed in the exhibition at the Tompkins-McCaw Gallery. And, some cell phone photos may not meet quality guidelines.

Students, staff and faculty can invest a few minutes now in a library tour and save time later in the semester. Participants will learn about James Branch Cabell Library collections and resources and how services and staff can assist with assignments. These 30-minute tours begin promptly and groups meet at the base of the stairs on the first floor. No registration required.

• Wednesday, Sept. 5 at 4:30 p.m.
• Thursday, Sept. 6 at 4 p.m.
• Friday, Sept. 7 at 2 p.m.