Flu Vaccines -- Flu vaccines will be offered free to faculty and staff of the Homewood campus during the week of Oct. 24, in the Great Hall at Levering. The schedule is as follows:

Tues., Oct. 24, 9 a.m. to noon

Wed., Oct. 25, 7 to 10 a.m.

Thurs., Oct. 26, 9 a.m. to noon

Fri., Oct. 27, 9 a.m. to noon
(Garrett Room, Milton S. Eisenhower Library)

Mon., Oct. 30, 9 a.m. to noon

For more information, call 410-516-0450.

Peabody Conservatory Blood Drive -- The Peabody Conservatory has scheduled a blood drive for Mon., Oct. 30, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Unger Lounge. To schedule an appointment to donate blood, call 410-659-8178 or e-mail bbkey@peabody.jhu.edu.

Pilot Project Applications -- The Johns Hopkins NIEHS Center in Urban Environmental Health is now accepting pilot project applications. Projects will be funded for up to $15,000 for the period beginning April 1, 2001, to March 31, 2002. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 18, 2000.

Marketing Education Scholarship Award -- The Baltimore Chapter of the American Marketing Association is accepting applications from eligible undergraduate students for its annual marketing education merit scholarship award, worth $2,000. This merit scholarship seeks to contribute to the educational development of a motivated student in the general field of marketing.

To be eligible, students must be attending an accredited Maryland college or university on a full-time basis, pursuing a bachelor's degree in marketing or a related course of study, and have sufficient credits to qualify them as a junior/senior as of September 2001, when the award will be disbursed.

Applications and eligibility requirements, are available via e-mail at carpye@aol.com. The deadline for applying is Nov. 30.

Intern/Volunteer Opportunities in the Arts -- The Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture and Baltimore's Festival of the Arts Inc., a nonprofit organization, are seeking interns/volunteers to assist with its programs, including the ARTSCAPE festival, Bright StARTS Workshops for Children and the City Mural Project. Opportunities exist in the fields of arts coordination, arts education, development and public relations. Specific responsibilities and time commitments vary by position. There will be ongoing opportunities available October through August.

Send resume and cover letter including areas of interests, such as fund raising, public relations, jurying and installation process, family and children programming, physical arrangements, as well as anticipated goals for internship, such as course credit, experience and introduction to nonprofits.

Send correspondence to MACAC/BFAI, 21 S. Eutaw St., Baltimore, MD 21201; fax to 410-727-4840; or e-mail ask@macac.org. The contact person is Kim Krzyzewski.

Request for Proposals in Statistics Research -- The Acheson J. Duncan Fund for the Advancement of Research in Statistics requests proposals for small grants to support research projects in statistics, probability and stochastic processes.

Hopkins faculty and students are eligible to apply for funding for collaborative projects with a member of the faculty in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Items funded might include, but are not limited to, travel to research conferences and workshops, computer equipment and software, matching funds for grants proposals, short-term visits of collaborators to Hopkins, interdepartmental seminars, partial support for research assistants and seed money for new research. Most grants will be smaller than $5,000.

Proposals should be brief, preferably no more than three single-sided pages, provide itemized expense estimates and be signed by each investigator. Proposals may be submitted to the committee chair, John C. Wierman, 104 Whitehead Hall on the Homewood campus, at any time.

Student Funding Programs -- Two programs are available through the Alumni Association. Both are open to undergraduate and graduate students from all divisions.

The Community Service Grant Program supports valuable volunteer experiences for Hopkins students and to foster positive relationships between the university and its surrounding communities. The program supports students who create their own community service projects or design their own ventures within existing volunteer organizations.

The Student Services Grant Program promotes the student experience at Hopkins by providing funding to student groups or programs and by supporting campus events, activities and programs that benefit and involve students from all university divisions.

Applications are available at divisional alumni relations offices, the Steinwald Alumni House, 3211 N. Charles St., or online at alumni.jhu.edu/alumni/associations/funding/index.html.

Applications for spring funding are due Dec. 1. For more information and for applications, call Dave Sowers in the Office of Alumni Relations at 410-516-6730.

Falun Dafa -- A poster session, video presentation and question-and-answer session on the Chinese practice of falun dafa have been scheduled for Oct. 28, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Garrett Room of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. For more information, call Mr. Shang at 410-377-3561.