Category Archives: Workshops

Workshops

08/30/10

National Science Foundation Funding Opportunities and Grant-writing Tips for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Scientists

October 14, 2010 – 2 to 4pm
Wayne State University, Welcome Center Auditorium

Dr. Mark Weiss, Director for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) invites social, behavioral, and economic scientists from local universities to attend a session on the structure of NSF, funding opportunities offered by NSF’s Social, Behavioral, and Economic Division, and tips on writing grants for NSF.

Click here for more information and to register (required). This event is free.

08/17/10

Free External Funding Webinars: Grants Resource Center

On August 23, 24, and 25, the Office of Research will host a series of webinars with live feeds from the Grants Resource Center’s External Funding Conference in Washington, D.C.  There will be several sessions each day, listed below.  Please give us a call to let us know you’d like to attend –   810-762-3147 or [email protected].  These sessions are FREE of charge!

The sessions included:

Monday, August 23rd
9:15  am  –  10:15 am     Education Policy Overview
10:30 am  –  11:45 am    Science Policy and Funding
2:30 pm  –  3:30 pm       NSF Faculty Rotator Perspective
3:45 pm  –  4:45 pm       NIH Peer Review and Application Process

Tuesday, August 24th
8:15 am  –  9:15 am        Support for Nursing Programs
9:30 am – 10:30 am        Workforce Development Initiative
10:45 am  –  11:45 am    NIH  and NSF Social and Behavioral Sciences
1:30 pm  –  2:30 pm       Department of Energy – Office of Science:  Past and Future
2:45 pm  –  3:45 pm       National Endowment for the Arts:  Grants and Goals

Wednesday, August 25th
8:00 am  –  9:00 am        What’s New with the Department of Education’s TRIO:  member led Q & A

07/20/10

Data sharing panel/discussion on July 27th

Sharing Research Data: Perspectives from the Campus Community
A panel and discussion on sharing research data will be held next Tuesday from 2:30-4pm in the Library Gallery (100 Hatcher Graduate Library).

Data have been in the spotlight recently, with government open data initiatives spurring interest in data sharing and interoperability. Funding programs such as DataNet aim to build the necessary infrastructure to allow research data to be shared seamlessly and preserved for the long term. At the May 5th meeting of the National Science Board, NSF officials announced that starting in October 2010 all proposals submitted to the NSF must include a data management plan, including provisions for the sharing of research data. In FY 2008-09 University of Michigan researchers received $64.8 million in NSF grants. How will these researchers deal with the new requirements, and how can the campus community best support them in sharing their data?

Please join the University of Michigan’s Art, Architecture, Science and Engineering Libraries and the Librarians’ Forum for an interdisciplinary discussion of data sharing and licensing options available to University of Michigan researchers. Representatives from a number of campus research communities will report on the current state of data sharing in their field. Presentations will be followed by discussion and Q&A.

This event is free and open to the public; no registration is required. Light refreshments will be served.

Speakers:

Dr. Philip Andrews is Professor in the departments of Biological Chemistry, Chemistry, and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan Medical School.  He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Purdue University with Dr. Larry Butler. Recent work in Dr. Andrews’ laboratory has included the molecular architecture of organelles, analysis of phosphoproteins, methods for quantitative proteomics, approaches to improving interaction maps, and computational methods for analysis of proteomics data. Proteome informatics projects include development of new tools for de novo sequence analysis, spectral clustering (Bonanza), the Tranche data dissemination system, the proteomecomons.org data resource, an information management system for proteomics (PRIME), assessment of search results, and specialized tools for viewing and processing proteomics data (MSExpedite, Babel Fish).

Greg Grossmeier is Copyright Specialist at the University of Michigan Library, where his time revolves around giving presentations and answering copyright and publishing questions for faculty, staff, and students. He is also tasked with maintenance of the copyright website and with promoting Open Access publishing at the University. He consults with the Open.Michigan initiative on legal and policy matters around Open Educational Resources and is a Creative Commons Fellow, providing expertise on topics such as Open Educational Resources and the Free/Libre Open Source Software community.  Greg holds an MSI in Information Policy from the University of Michigan School of Information and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Minnesota.

Alex Kanous is Operations Manager of the Data Sharing & Intellectual Capital (DSIC) Knowledge Center, part of the National Cancer Institute’s caBIG initiative located at the University of Michigan. There he participates in a collaborative effort to encourage and facilitate data sharing to advance scientific discovery, consistent with applicable legal, regulatory, ethical and contractual requirements. Mr. Kanous has an MSI with a concentration in Information Policy from the University of Michigan School of Information and a JD with a focus on Intellectual Property from the Michigan State University College of Law.

Event Contact: Jacob Glenn [email protected]
Date: Jul 27th, 2010
Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery in Room 100
http://www.lib.umich.edu/gallery/events/sharing-research-data

03/3/10

Rethinking and Reframing: A Professional Development Series

University Outreach is pleased to invite UM-Flint faculty to Rethinking and Reframing, a professional development series for faculty interested in advancing their scholarly work while addressing community needs. Public Scholarship is “scholarly or creative activity integral to a faculty member’s academic area. It encompasses different forms of making knowledge ‘about, for, and with’ diverse publics and communities. Through a coherent, purposeful sequence of activities, it contributes to the public good and yields artifacts of public and intellectual value” (Source: Imagining America). Please register for the following events online at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/professional_development_for_engaged_scholars

  • Cultivating Partnerships (3/12/10, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm, UCEN Happenings Room) – Featuring Renee Zientek, Executive Director of Michigan Campus Compact, and Mona Younis, University Outreach Project Coordinator
  • Presenting Public Scholarship – (3/19/10, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm, UCEN Ontario Room) – Featuring UM Ginsberg faculty and 2009 Arts of Citizenship Faculty Fellow Awardees
  • Local Encounters: A Symposium Featuring Ripe Partnership Opportunities for Faculty (3/26/10, 10:00 am – 12: 30 pm, Michigan Room B) – Featuring local community organizations offering multidisciplinary partnership opportunities
  • Making Your Work Count (4/6/10, 10 am – 1 pm, Michigan Rooms) – Featuring Timothy Eatman and Julie Ellison, authors of Imagining America report “Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University”

Registration is available for individual sessions, and participants are encouraged to attend the entire series. For questions, please contact Mona Younis at (810) 424-5481 or [email protected].

Rethinking and Reframing is sponsored by Michigan Campus Compact, Thompson Center for Learning and Teaching, and the Office of Research.

10/22/09

Introduction to SPSS workshop

spss1The Office of Research is hosting a multi-session workshop designed to introduce users to SPSS, a powerful software tool used for statistical analysis.  The session will be facilitated by Joe Kazemi from the Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR). This series is being offered on two different occassions, with four session in the first series and five sessions in the next.  Participation in all sessions is required for each series.

The most upcoming session starts next week, October 29. Sign up today!

To register for the workshop series or for more information about the other workshops available, please visit our Workshop Schedule.

10/19/09

Faculty Presenters Needed!

Earlier this year,  a brief study was conducted examining faculty perceptions of undergraduate research at UM-Flint. A central theme pointed out by many of you was the general lack of research skills students possessed. Even if students had an interest in doing research, they did not always have the requisite skills; thus calling for you to devote even more time preparing and training students. In response to your comments and suggestions, the Office of Research plans to launch a series of workshops next semester; designed to improve general research skills of our students. Tentatively, here are the following topic areas:

  • Getting started (identifying research interests, forming research questions, finding a faculty mentor)
  • Conducting literature reviews
  • Library Research
  • Research Design
  • Statistical Analysis and Interpretation
  • Writing Research Papers
  • Creating a Research Presentation
  • Submitting a Paper for Publication
  • Research Opportunities on Campus
  • Panel Discussion: “From the Students’ Mouths: Perspectives from Research Students” (I plan to recruit some of my UROP students for this panel, but I’d love your suggestions for student researchers)

We plan to host these 1-hour sessions in the winter semester, leading up to Meeting of Minds (which, by the way, will be hosted by UM-Flint this year. More on that in the upcoming months). But before we can start publicizing, we need faculty willing to facilitate any of the workshops above. Also, if you have any other research topic areas you would like to cover (ideally, of a general nature), your suggestions are welcomed!

If you’re interested in presenting on any of these areas, please contact Andre Louis. We would like to have a roster in place by December 1st.

Thanks for all you do in support of undergraduate research on our campus!

07/14/09

Mobile Device Security

A Mobile Device Security seminar will be presented by Laurel Marotta at two brown-bag lunches in July. The first presentation on Thursday, July 23, 2009, 12:00-1:00 pm, will be an overview on what mobile device security is, why it is important, and how to protect mobile devices.  The second presentation on Thursday, July 30, 2009, 12:00-1:00 pm, will be demonstrations on when and how to use tools–such as Vista BitLocker, Encrypted File System, File Vault, and True Crypt–to protect mobile devices.  Both presentations will be held in the University Center Happenings room. 

Contact Laurel Marotta with any questions, [email protected].

04/28/08

A Quick Guide to Export Control Regulations and Restrictions on Access by Foreign Nationals

The primary United States regulations controlling export activities are the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) administered by the Department of State; the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) administered by the Department of Commerce; and the foreign asset control regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in the Department of the Treasury. If an activity is controlled under the export regulations, then a license or other approval is needed from the relevant agency unless an exemption applies. Even if approval is not needed, there might be requirements for government review prior to conduct of the activity, for giving notice to the government, or for keeping special records. Also, if an activity is controlled, there likely will be restrictions as to who can participate in the activity. There are potentially severe civil and criminal penalties, including fines and imprisonment, for violating the export laws. Both the organization and the individuals involved are subject to these penalties.

Across the country, universities are struggling to come to terms with export controls – particularly with respect to types of research activities conducted and the inclusion of foreign nationals on some research projects.  At the UM, a Research Restrictions Committee convened by President Mary Sue Coleman in January 2003 recommended that the University :

1. Maintain an open environment with no restrictions on publication
2. Should not accept any project that allows the exclusion of U-M personnel from participating in research due to their ethnicity, national background or nationality, unless a strong case can be made that the project is clearly in the “public interest.”

For more information on export control regulations and restrictions on access by foreign nationals, see:  http://www.research.umich.edu/policies/federal/export_controls.html .  There is a particularly useful section on debunking myths about universities and export controls.  If you have any questions or would be interested in having a workshop for your unit on this topic, please contact John Callewaert, [email protected]