Around Campus

VUMC's monthly blood drive scheduled for Oct. 19

The Medical Center will host its monthly blood drive in association with the American Red Cross Friday, Oct. 19, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Medical Center North, Room S-2400. If more than 200 donors sign up, donors will receive a Halloween T-shirt from the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross estimates that fewer than 5 percent of eligible donors give blood. To sign up, call Carlos Ford at 343-4157.

Open Enrollment ends Oct. 19

The Benefits Office must receive benefit Enrollment Forms, no later than 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19. During the annual Open Enrollment period, faculty and staff may change healthcare plan companies, add or drop dental insurance, enroll or re-enroll in a personal spending account, add dependent care and/or health care benefits, or make adjustments to accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy. For more information, call the Benefits Office at 322-8330.

Vanderbilt News Service relocates to Baker Building

The Vanderbilt News Service has relocated to 802 Baker Building from its previous location on the fifth floor of Kirkland Hall. The relocation consolidates a number of offices from the Division of Public Affairs in the Baker Building, including the Vanderbilt Register, Science and Research Communications, Creative Services, Community, Neighborhood and Government Relations, University Events and the Vanderbilt TV News Archives. The phone numbers for the staff of the News Service remain the same, including that of Elizabeth P. Latt, the director of the News Service. The offices of Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Michael J. Schoenfeld and his staff will remain at 405 Kirkland Hall. The News Service serves as a liaison between the University and local, national and international news media.

Cancer Awareness Month events

The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is holding the 2001 Breast Cancer Health Forum, a series of free informational events and a luncheon-fashion show to recognize breast cancer month. The annual luncheon will be held Oct. 23 at Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Breast cancer survivors will model fashions by Chico's, and there will be a number of information booths. The luncheon costs $20 and parking is available at Loews for $7. Reservations must be made by Oct. 17. Other events include "The Beaded Necklace Project" at noon Oct. 16 at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; "Rx: Breast Cancer Information" Internet workshop at noon Oct. 19 at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; "Ask the Expert: A Multi-Modality Workshop" at 5:15 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. For more information or to register for the luncheon, call 936-5855.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to speak Oct. 18

Unlock the secrets of writing dramatic nonfiction from a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Vanderbilt Student Communications and the Communication of Science, Engineering and Technology program invite you to join in a discussion with Jon Franklin Oct. 18 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Sarratt 189. As a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, Franklin's innovative use of literary techniques in nonfiction won him the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and explanatory journalism. With five books and countless stories, essays, honors and awards to his credit, Franklin is recognized as one of journalism's best-known experts on storytelling. He currently is the Philip Merrill Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland. This event is open to the Vanderbilt community.

Community Chorus performs Oct. 21

The Vanderbilt Community Chorus will present music of Bach, Taverner, Moses Hogan and many others Oct. 21. Pamela Schneller, senior lecturer in music and director of the Vanderbilt Concert Choir, Community Chorus and Children's Choral Music Program, will conduct the choir and orchestra in Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV80 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Soloists include Gayle Shay, mezzo-soprano, and Greg Thomas, tenor. The concert is free and open to the public and will be held in the Turner Recital Hall at 4 p.m. For more information, call 322-7651.

Center hosts late-talking children program

Underlying language and communication problems appear to be major factors in reading disorders, behavior disorders, and learning disabilities. How can one determine which speech and language intervention is most likely to be effective? Stephen Camarata, associate professor of hearing and speech sciences and special education, will offer ways to approach this question in a community breakfast presentation titled "Language in Late-Talking Children: Methods and Myths," Oct. 17, at the Kennedy Center. Camarata is a national leader in research on early language development and intervention. He directs the Child Language Intervention Project (CLIP), designated by the National Institute of Health as a National Center for the Study of Language Intervention. CLIP is now serving 200 local children and 400 children in other states and countries. He also directs the Scottish Rite Child Language Disorders Center at Vanderbilt's Bill Wilkerson Center. The program is free and open to the public and will be in Room 241 of the Kennedy Center/MRL Building on the Peabody campus. Breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m. and the program will begin at 7:45 a.m. To make a reservation, call 322-8240.

'Mnemonic Mysteries' at Sarratt until Oct. 26

The Sarratt Gallery is exhibiting the two-artist "Mnemonic Mysteries" through Oct. 26. The gallery hours are from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the weekends. For more information, call 322-2471.