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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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Recording Available!
Thank you to those who attended the VPRS Administrative Update Meeting on Thursday, March 30th. If you were unable to attend or would like to review what was discussed, below is a link to the presentation and a recording of the session.
Presentation (PDF)
Recording
Passcode: T39N*!3#
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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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Wednesday, April 5, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
This course highlights the importance of recording and documenting adverse events in regards to being compliant with federal, state and local regulations and policies. In addition, attendees will learn how to identify potential causes for non-compliance and steps to correct and prevent such issues amongst their research teams. Register in ULearn.
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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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Monday, April 10, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a Web-based application that allows you to quickly build and manage databases and online surveys. This workshop will show you how to: build survey instruments to enter data; automatically check for errors to guard against bad data; produce online summary statistics and graphics; make analyzable, anonymized datasets; export data to Excel and major statistical packages like R, SAS, SPSS, STATA, and other basic concepts.”
Instructor:
Thilani Samarakoon
Biomedical Data Librarian
Join the in-person session at the Richter Library, Digital Scholar's Lab, Room 344 or virtually in Zoom; Meeting ID: 974 6678 0540 .
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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. This course is only offered ONCE a year. 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, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
This training will help you to develop effective corrective and preventive actions to resolve non-compliance identified in clinical research.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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Thursday, April 20, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn various methods and helpful hints that can be used to manage the records that have been placed on ClinicalTrials.gov to ensure compliance with the regulations and University of Miami Policies. A Zoom link will be sent after registering for the class in ULearn.
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Thursday, April 20, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch with Laura is a monthly discussion session with Laura Kozma, Associate Vice President for Research Administration. There will be new focus each month, including hot topics in research administration, new and significant policies, and changes in the Office of Research Administration (ORA).
April 20, 2023 - Lessons Learned from the Single Audit
Registration is required. Register through Zoom for one or all sessions.
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Friday, April 21, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
This class introduces costs, allocation, and budgeting for those new to the profession and serves as a review for those who may need it. This class is part of 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 session 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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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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