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University Human Resources to offer free lunch time seminars The MUSC University Human Resources Management will offer summer brownbag seminars from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 120 of the Basic Science Building. They are free informational sessions on a variety of interesting and informative topics. Participants are encouraged to bring their lunch.   For information on the seminars, visit http://www.musc.edu/hrm/training/brownbag.htm or call 792-2818. Ideas for future topics can be e-mailed to training@musc.edu. July 28: Want to Buy a Home, but don’t have the down payment? Michaele Russell and Debbie Kidd, Homeownership Resources Center-Family Services, will give tips for buying your first home. The process can be time consuming and very stressful, so the session will discuss various down payment assistance programs, low interest rate programs and forgivable grants for the first time homebuyer. Find out how to enroll in a First-Time Homebuyer workshop where eligible graduates can participate in many first time homebuyer mortgage options such as the South Carolina State Housing Program (ex. $4,000 down payment given, home mortgage loan rate at 4 percent interest). Had a mortgage in the past? You could still qualify. Credit problems preventing homeownership? Russell and Kidd will give information on how to overcome this obstacle. Aug. 2: Practical Ways to Manage Stress Mary Beth Brock, an occupational therapist at the MUSC Institute of Psychiatry, has taught stress management techniques to patients for more than 20 years. At this seminar, Brock will discuss stress and practical ways to manage it using the body, the mind and the spirit. It will include simple ideas that can be used at work, home and even in the car. Friday, July 22, 2005 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.