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The Office of the Vice Provost for Research & Scholarship gathers all the research events posted to our listservs into a once-weekly email, and we also feature them on our new online calendar. Check out our primer on how to promote your event or email vprs@miami.edu for help.
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Thursday, March 30, 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Join leaders from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research + Scholarship for this update meeting which is designed to provide information to the University research community on policy, procedural and process changes related to research activities. Agenda items for the upcoming meeting include:
- SBIR/STTR Submission Requirements
- Costing Allocations for Grants
- Unobligated Balance Reporting on RPPRs and Prams
- Research Compass
- IT Resources for Researchers
- Foundation Relations Opportunities Database
- Data Exchange Form (DEF): Revised Process
- AAHRPP Reaccreditation Update
and more.
You have the opportunity to submit your questions prior to the meeting by clicking HERE.
Register in advance for the virtual Zoom meeting by clicking HERE.
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Monday, March 27, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
The Institute of Neural Engineering, The Miami Project and Department of Biomedical Engineering invite you to a special seminar to be presented by Dr. Joseph Francis, from the University of Houston, on Monday March 27th at 10 AM. The presentation titled “Affect’s Influence on Bidirectional Brain Machine Interfaces” will be hybrid — in-person at the Lois Pope Life Center 7th floor auditorium and via Zoom.
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Monday, March 27, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Designed for new and intermediate R and R Studio users. It provides an introduction to the R software program, including its programming language, software environment, importing data, descriptive statistics, transforming variables, selecting and splitting data, exploratory tests, and visualization, common statistical methods in R such as means comparisons, ANOVA, linear regression, and basic visualization.
Instructor:
Cameron Riopelle
Head, Data & Visualization Services
Join the in-person session at the Richter Library, Digital Scholar's Lab, Room 344 or virtually in Zoom.
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Tuesday, March 28, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
This course provides an overview of the Office of Research Quality Assurance (RQA) and the auditing process. This course is only offered ONCE A YEAR. Register in advance in ULearn.
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Wednesday, March 29, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Office of Research Administration is offering a course for Clinical Research Coordinators, Principal Investigators, Department Research Financial Administrators and anyone else involved in development and review of clinical research budgets. The course reviews processes for budget development for research proposals submission, budget review and working with ORA on securing appropriate funding for externally-funded agreements. It also includes budgeting procedures for internally-funded clinical research. Some hands-on tools will be demonstrated and provided to all participants. Course includes extended Q&A portion.
Register in ULearn.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
This workshop will introduce you to ArcGIS StoryMaps, an ESRI web-based application that allows you to author interactive stories that can contain narrative text, maps, images, videos and other multimedia content. You will also learn how to publish and share your stories with others.
Participants should register before March 22, 2024, to receive the required ArcGIS Online credentials before the session starts.
This workshop is only for participants with valid UM email account.
Instructor:
Jorge Quintela
Instruction and Engagement Data Librarian
Join the in-person session at the Richter Library, Digital Scholar's Lab, Room 344 or virtually in Zoom; Meeting ID: 938 0938 6013
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Thursday, March 30, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
This class is part of the RAU Curriculum.The class provides a fundamental overview of research administration at the University of Miami from proposal submission through award close and includes basic terminology, regulatory compliance, award negotiation, setup, reporting obligations, audits, and overall award management.
Please register for the RAU Curriculum in ULearn first and access this class through the Curriculum in ULearn. It is important to complete this class in the order that the Curriculum is set up. If you would like to take this class as a standalone course, please contact vprs@miami.edu.
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Thursday, March 30, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
This presentation is intended as an introduction to clinical trial registration and results disclosure requirements. It also intends to provide an overview of the evolution and current state of clinical trial registration and results disclosure in Academia, especially here at the University of Miami.
Level: BEGINNER
At the end of this ILT, participants will be able to:
· Understand the Brief History of Clinical Trial Disclosure
· Identify the current clinical trial disclosure requirements in the US and at the University of Miami
· Identify who is responsible for registration
· Describe the impact of greater transparency in the clinical trial disclosure environment on academia
· Discuss the advantages and implications of using Clinical trial disclosure databases
Zoom link will be provided upon registration of the class in ULearn.
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Thursday, March 30, 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Join leaders from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research + Scholarship for this update meeting which is designed to provide information to the University research community on policy, procedural and process changes related to research activities. Agenda items for the upcoming meeting include:
- SBIR/STTR Submission Requirements
- Costing Allocations for Grants
- Unobligated Balance Reporting on RPPRs and Prams
- Research Compass
- IT Resources for Researchers
- Foundation Relations Opportunities Database
- Data Exchange Form (DEF): Revised Process
- AAHRPP Reaccreditation Update
and more.
You have the opportunity to submit your questions prior to the meeting by clicking HERE.
Register in advance for the virtual Zoom meeting by clicking HERE.
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Friday, March 31, 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Please join us for the 3rd annual symposium of the Sylvester K12 Calabresi Clinical Oncology Research Career Development Program. This annual event features Sylvester K12 scholars, as well as scientific and career development presentations from internal and external clinical and translational research leaders.
Please register in advance for this meeting.
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Friday, March 31, 12:00 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.
This is the keynote presentation for the 3rd Annual Sylvester K12 Calabresi Symposium. Dr. Sequist will explain why lung cancer screening is important, why our society has not embraced it, and how technology may be able to help us in the future.
Dr. Sequist is originally from Michigan. She attended Cornell University and Harvard Medical School, then settled in Boston. She completed her clinical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital. During training she also earned a master’s in public health from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. She joined the faculty at the MGH Cancer Center in 2005 and is currently the Landry Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Program Director for Cancer Early Detection & Diagnostics at Massachusetts General Hospital and the leader of the Cancer Risk, Prevention and Early Detection Program at the joint Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Register for the Zoom session here.
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Friday, March 31, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Designed for new SPSS users. It provides an introduction to the SPSS software program, including its software environment, importing data, descriptive statistics, transforming variables, selecting and splitting data, as means comparisons, ANOVA, linear regression, logistic regression models, and visualization.
Instructor:
Cameron Riopelle
Head, Data & Visualization Services
Join the in-person session at the Richter Library, Digital Scholar's Lab, Room 344 or virtually in Zoom; Meeting ID: 958 8657 0581.
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Monday, April 3, 2:00 pm. - 3:30 p.m.
Do you ever get stressed when you finish writing your paper and remember you still have to cite? Come learn about amazing Zotero and have all of your citations magically cited before your very eyes. This workshop is perfect for new or beginner users of Zotero. This session will cover the basic features of the manager, how to add citations, how to insert citations into your word document, and how to share your Zotero library with other groups.
Instructor:
Erica Newcome
STEM & Interdisciplinary Research Librarian
Join the in-person session at the Richter Library, Digital Scholar's Lab, Room 344 or virtually in Zoom; Meeting ID: 981 5180 4391.
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Wednesday, April 5, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
This is an introduction to topics in research data management designed to foster skills and encourage data management best practices for efficiency, compliance and security in the research environment. This is a discipline agnostic seminar. Specific learning goals include the identification of best practices for: file naming conventions, file system organization, data security, data privacy, backup strategies, data sharing, data documentation, and data publication. These topics introduce practical behaviors to ease the digital research process.
Instructor:
Dr. Tim Norris
Data Scientist
Join the in-person session at the Richter Library, Digital Scholar's Lab, Room 344 or virtually in Zoom; Meeting ID: 916 7071 2015.
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Thursday, April 6, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
This class provides an in-depth look at the Uniform Guidance for sponsored grants and agreements. This Class is part of the RAU Curriculum.
Please register to the RAU Curriculum in ULearn first and access this CBL through the Curriculum. It is important to complete this class in the order that the Curriculum is set up. If you would like to take this class as a standalone course, please contact vprs@miami.edu.
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Thursday, April 6, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The Office of the Vice Provost for Research is offering a course for Principal Investigators, Clinical Research Coordinators, Research Financial Administrators, departments’ regulatory personnel, research patients schedulers, and anyone involved in review of Medicare Coverage Analysis (MCA), a document which lists all items and services to be provided as part of a clinical trial with notations of what should be billed to the research sponsor and what can be billed to Medicare.
The course reviews the fundamentals, variables, and process of developing Medicare Coverage Analysis and its impact on the clinical research financial sustainability, research billing compliance and ability to recruit and retain research patients. Practical cases will be presented and discussed and hands-on materials provided, followed by Q & A time in the end.
Register in advance in ULearn. A link to register/join this webinar in Zoom will be provided 24 hour prior to the session.
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Thursday, April 6, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Introduction to using the software program R for visualization. Prior experience with R required--this workshop assumes knowledge of the R language and environment.
Instructor:
Cameron Riopelle
Head, Data & Visualization Services
Join the in-person session at the Richter Library, Digital Scholar's Lab, Room 344 or virtually in Zoom; Meeting ID: 988 2599 1589 .
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Friday, April 7, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Microsoft Power Automate (previously Microsoft Flow) allows you to easily create automated workflows to improve productivity with business process automation. Some of the functions of this tool are to transfer data between systems, send reminders about tasks/actions, support data flow from APIs, and much more. In this workshop, you will be introduced to the basics of Power Automate and start creating flows from templates.
Instructor:
Kineret Ben-Knaan
Research & Assessment Librarian and Subject Liaison for Judaic Studies
Join the in-person session at the Richter Library, Digital Scholar's Lab, Room 344 or virtually in Zoom; Meeting ID: 960 4491 5970 .
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Tuesday, April 11, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
This class is part of the RAU Curriculum and a pre-requisite to IBISResearch: Managing Awards.
This hands-on workshop focuses on proposals and is intended for administrators and researchers to learn how to navigate the system, create a funding proposal, SF424 federal application, and budgets (including cost share and subaward budgets) in IBISResearch. Participants will route a proposal for department approval and submit to Research Administration for final review and submission to the sponsor.
The learning objectives of this session are:
· Describe IBISResearch terminology
· Demonstrate the navigation of IBISResearch
· Practice how to create a funding proposal and budgets (including cost share and subaward) in IBISResearch
If you would like to get credit for the RAU curriculum, please register to the RAU Curriculum in ULearn first and access this class through the Curriculum. It is important to complete this class in the order that the Curriculum is set up. If you would like to take this class as a standalone online course, please contact vprs@miami.edu.
Note: You must complete the following in order to access this class: Introduction to ORA Class, Introduction to IBISResearch CBL and the IBISResearch Create and Submit a Proposal video.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
This workshop is an introduction to using the software program NVivo to conduct qualitative research, including the NVivo environment, coding, analysis, visualization, and generating reports.
Instructor:
Cameron Riopelle
 Head, Data & Visualization Services
Join the in-person session at the Richter Library, Digital Scholar's Lab, Room 344 or virtually in Zoom; Meeting ID: 921 9866 5440.
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Wednesday, April 12, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
This hands-on workshop focusing Agreements, is intended for administrators and researchers to learn how to navigate the system and create agreements in IBISResearch. Individuals who submit contracts or agreements to ORA regularly are encouraged to attend this workshop. Additionally, it is recommended that Individuals take the IBISResearch: Create and Submit a Proposal for a more in-depth knowledge of IBISResearch prior to attending this workshop.
The objectives of this session are:
1. Demonstrate the new terminology and navigation of the system.
2. Practice how to create agreements in IBISResearch.
This is an elective course in the RAU Curriculum.
Register in advance in ULearn.
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Wednesday, April 12, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Participants will have the opportunity for hands on data entry within the ClinicalTrials.gov Protocol Registration System (PRS) system with guidance. This class is intended for those who are new to Protocol Registration data entry or need additional assistance in navigating the ClinicalTrials.gov Protocol Registration entry system.
Level: BEGINNER
At the end of this ILT, participants will be able to:
· Distinguish the requirements per FDAAA, ClinicalTrials.gov and ICJME and how to navigate the ClinicalTrials.gov Protocol Registration System.
· Identify the tools and documentation that are needed to facilitate the entry of the information into the ClinicalTrials.gov Protocol Registration System.
· Identify how to reduce the number of reviewer comments and minimize time with obtaining an NCT # from the ClinicalTrials.gov Protocol Registration System.
Zoom link will be sent after register for the class in ULearn.
Yolanda Davis
+1 (305) 2430494y.p.davis@miami.edu
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Wednesday, April 12, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Want to write a paper that looks like publication quality? Come join this workshop and learn about the free typesetting program Latex. This workshop is perfect for beginners. In this workshop we will go over what is LaTex, how to get started on a document, basic commands, and more. Take your paper to the next level with LaTex.
Instructor:
Erica Newcome
STEM & Interdisciplinary Research Librarian
Join the in-person session at the Richter Library, Digital Scholar's Lab, Room 344 or virtually in Zoom; Meeting ID: 939 4067 3875.
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Thursday, April 13, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
This hands-on workshop focusing on award management, is intended for administrators and researchers involved in setting up and managing sponsored activities in IBISResearch. Participants will create a continuation, revision, and resubmission application. They will also learn how to submit a Just-In-Time request, or respond to an Agency Request, request an award modification and create an agreement from a related proposal.
The objectives of this session are:
1. Practice how to edit and complete the Funding Award in IBISResearch.
2. Identify how to create an award modification in IBISResearch.
3. Demonstrate how to create follow-up proposals (continuation, revision, resubmission, and renewal).
This class is part of the RAU Curriculum and it is the fourth module in the IBISResearch Training. If you would like to get credit for the RAU curriculum, please register to the RAU Curriculum in ULearn first and access this class through the Curriculum. It is important to complete this module in the order that the Curriculum is set up. The pre-requisites for this class are: Introduction to IBISResearch, IBISResearch Submit and Create a Proposal Video and the IBISResearch Submit and Create a Proposal Hands-on Workshop.
Register in advance in ULearn.
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Thursday, April 13, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
This course will define coercion and undue influence and the professionals’ perceptions of both. This course will also discuss the ways in which coercion and undue influence manifest in research and examples of both. This course will assist attendees to identify strategies to protect against coercion and undue influence in research. Register in ULearn.
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Wednesday, April 19, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The Office of Research Administration is offering a course for Clinical Research Coordinators, Principal Investigators, Department Research Financial Administrators and anyone else involved in development and review of clinical research budgets. The course reviews processes for budget development for research proposals submission, budget review and working with ORA on securing appropriate funding for externally-funded agreements. It also includes budgeting procedures for internally-funded clinical research. Some hands-on tools will be demonstrated and provided to all participants. Course includes extended Q&A portion.
Register in ULearn.
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Wednesday, April 19, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Join us for a Data Citizens lecture on "The Promises of Wearable Bio-Sensing Technology for Youth with Autism" by Dr. Matthew S. Goodwin, Interdisciplinary Associate Professor at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and the Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University.
This session is offered via Zoom or in person: Richter Library, 3rd Floor Conference Room 343, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida 33146. Register in advance.
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Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
One-on-one opportunity to connect with Human Subjects Research Office team members for questions and guidance, open to anyone involved in human subjects research at the University of Miami or the Jackson Health System. First come, first serve, no appointments necessary.
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