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Background Virtual activities, hybrid work and virtual mentoring have become part of the ongoing milieu of academic medicine. As the shift to remote mentoring continues to evolve, it is now possible to adapt, refine, and improve tools to support thriving mentoring relationships that take place virtually. This study explores strategies for virtual mentoring as a cornerstone for effective training programs among senior mentors participating in an ongoing mentoring program. Methods We conducted a qualitative study among prior and current participants of an ongoing “Mentoring the Mentors” program about key strategies for optimizing virtual mentoring. Data were coded and analyzed following a thematic analysis approach. Results Respondents were mostly female (62%), white (58%), and associate (39%) or full professors (32%). We found that, with the expansion of hybrid and fully remote work, there are now fewer opportunities for informal but important chance meetings between mentors and mentees; however, virtual mentoring provides opportunities to compensate for reduced interactivity normally experienced in the workplace. The heightened need to plan and be more deliberate in the virtual sphere was woven throughout narratives and was the foundation of most recommendations. Specifically, a central obstacle for respondents was that spontaneous conversations were harder to initiate because virtual conversations are expected to have set agendas. Conclusions Developing new ways to maintain meaningful interpersonal relationships in a virtual training environment, including opportunities for serendipitous and informal engagement, is critical to the success of virtual mentoring programs.

While many students were dusting off instruments along with school books last fall, students of Emilio del Rosario had been practicing hard all summer. \"I don't accept students who don't take lessons in the summer,\" said Del Rosario, a piano teacher at the Music Center of the North Shore in Winnetka. \"In the summer they should be practicing, because they can improve more.\" While Del Rosario is demanding, he gets results. His students have won international competitions, played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and gone on to attend conservatories such as Juilliard in New York and Curtis in Philadelphia.

While many students were dusting off instruments along with school books last fall, students of Emilio del Rosario had been practicing hard all summer.

AL JARREAU STRIVES TO GIVE HIS FANS R&B ALTERNATIVE Al Jarreau recorded and shelved - two albums before finally releasing his latest, Heaven and Earth, in June. \"I listened and relistened to the recordings,\" Jarreau said. \"It's great material, and I'll get back to it someday . . . but I thought, this was really so predictably Jarreau.\"

Other museums are reaching out by providing brochures and tours in other languages. The Art Institute of Chicago distributed an English- and Chinese-language brochure in various Chinese community centers to publicize the summer festival of Chinese art. Translated brochures will also be available in Korean and Japanese when those collections are highlighted in the next year. Guides to this fall's exhibit of art from the ancient Americas are printed in Spanish and English editions. The Art Institute also offers general tours in Spanish at 2 p.m. on the first Saturday of every month. The Art Institute is not alone; the Terra Museum of American Art has Spanish-language tours available for its exhibit, \"Santos de Palo: The Household Saints of Puerto Rico,\" on view through Sunday. The Field Museum of Natural History held its fourth annual \"Neighbors Night\" last May, publicizing the event with fliers in English, Spanish and Chinese. Admission was free, and entertainment included African puppets, a Brazilian band and a demonstration of Chinese calligraphy. The Du Sable Museum of African American History also recently held a similar Neighbors Day.

\"Obviously the real Middle Ages were quite orderly, thank you. But what we're dealing with is not the actual Middle Ages, but the imagery of the meaning of the Middle Ages. We're living in the age of symbols rather than the age of 'facts.' \"

- The Chicago Academy of Sciences, 2001 N. Clark St.: 8 p.m. Oct. 16 to 9 a.m. Oct. 17, for children ages 8 to 10; parents may accompany their children and assist with the program. The theme is \"Things That Go Bump in the Night,\" and participants will decorate a pumpkin and play games. $30, $25 for members. Call 312-549-0775 for more information.

The Shedd Aquarium's recent overnight was the first held in Chicago for adults, and all 220 tickets were sold, according to program coordinator Tom Lincoln. \"This is my fifth overnight,\" said Chambers, who said she had taken her 6-year-old son to sleep-overs at the Museum of Science and Industry and the Field Museum of Natural History. \"Sleeping in a museum makes it more like home, a friendly place. And where can you eat with a view like this?\" she asked during a candlelight dinner held next to tanks filled with colorful fish. One of the institutions that offers overnights on a regular basis is the Field Museum, at Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive. It schedules programs about eight family overnights a year, with a limit of 250 participants for each event, as well as several other overnights for groups such as the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The program is so popular that the museum had to use a lottery system to select the campers for an overnight last spring.

Shirley Lillis was first in line. Sporting a gray-and-cream-striped sweatsuit, she exuded the enthusiasm of a girl at her first slumber party as she waited impatiently for the doors to open.

If conductor and composer Carl Davis were to write the music to a film about his life, the tempo would probably be presto. And on Friday at Ravinia, he will conduct the second United States performance of Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, which Davis co-composed with the former Beatle. \"I thought, Who is the most famous Liverpool composer? . . . What about something with Paul McCartney? I found him and said, `Look, Paul, here's a marvelous situation. We'll do this at the Liverpool Cathedral, the largest in England.'