FAST START Workshop Series for Research Support at OSU: Fall 2023 Workshops

The Carpentries is a global, volunteer-led organization whose mission is to introduce researchers to coding and computing. The Carpentries at OSU has been teaching regular workshops on such tools as Python, R, SQL, Git, OpenRefine and Unix Shell since 2015. Workshops are free and taught for participants with no prior experience. In this introductory workshop we will describe the Carpentries teaching philosophy, provide examples of how the different tools are applied, as well as share tentative plans for fall workshop offerings. The OSU Carpentries community is active and growing. Come find out how you can be a part of it and if it is a good fit for you or for your students. 

Join faculty and staff from Animal Resources, the DNA Protein Core Facility, and the Microscopy Facility for an overview of these major research facilities administered and/or supported by the Division of the Vice President for Research. Personnel will describe relevant services, fees, forms, and other useful information for their facility and there will be time for Q&A at the end of the panel. 

An introduction to a range of subscription library databases (such as Scopus, Academic Search Premier, and others), web based search tools (such as Google Scholar, Lens, Dimensions), browser plugins (such as Unpaywall and scite) to conduct literature reviews. The session will also cover citation tracking, creating alerts, exporting and saving citations, and will take a look at how scholarly literature search tools are leveraging large language models and AI. 

The Central Sponsored Programs Administration (CSPA) offers a variety of services for faculty campuswide including grant writing, electronic research administration, and sponsored programs contract review. Dr. Julie Swaringim-Griffin, Assistant Vice President for CSPA, will provide a look into CSPA services and how to access these services to benefit your future proposal submissions and other research activities. 

Every institution operates differently in terms of the grants and contracts process. This session will provide a high-level overview of sponsored programs (i.e., grants, contracts, cooperative agreements) at OSU. Dr. Christine Johnson is the Associate Vice President for Research, and she will provide essential ‘need to know’ aspects of sponsored research at OSU, including the proposal preparation and submission process, minimum proposal documents for internal review, typical timelines for internal proposal routing/review, and the award process. 

Learn about the comprehensive resources available to you from the Office of Technology Commercialization and Cowboy Technologies to protect innovations that spawn from your OSU research and development activities utilizing patents, trade secrets, copyrights or trademarks, and also accelerate innovations to market as commercial products and services that make an impact in the world. You’ll hear about resources that span from intellectual property identification and protection services, commercialization funding opportunities, commercialization education and business mentoring, and others. 

The 360° Critical Skills for Career Success professional development program is designed to give graduate students a framework for approaching their professional development. Join Dr. Carol Powers, Assistant Dean of the Graduate College, for this session to learn more about the structure of the program, the range of programming offered and get a glimpse of the many activities we have planned for the coming academic year. 

This workshop offers a brief overview of art & architecture resources at the OSU Libraries. Join art and architecture librarians, Megan Macken & Sara Mautino, and special collections and university archivists, Sana Masood & Ben Hedges, for an introduction to resources relevant to your research. Learn how to get research assistance, view unique materials, and access resources remotely. We'll also touch on the upcoming transition from ARTSTOR to JSTOR Images and the Library's recent acquisition of the ArtForum Archive. 

This panel will overview the services and oversight provided by units within University Research Compliance. Join Gina Cosden and Brandi Simmons to hear more about how OSU handles Conflicts of Interest and Radiation & Laser safety and how these offices can help you maintain research compliance. This panel will also discuss National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM)-33, which has implications for researchers who need to disclose conflicts of interest.  

Learn tips for designing an effective research poster. What size should it be? What fonts should you use? What are the best practices for pictures and graphs? Find out answers to these questions and also learn about the library's free poster printing service. 

The first part of this workshop will detail how to search Compendex, Scopus, and IEEE for engineering topics. This will include expanding a topic for a literature review, creating keyword alerts, and placing references in Zotero. The second part of this workshop will focus on searching for and locating technical standards. Engineers and scientists rely on technical standards to provide definitions and explanations. What are technical standards? Where are they found? What is the role of a standards provider such as IHS Markit? In this workshop you will increase your subject knowledge of standards and answer the basics related to these technical documents. 

This workshop will give a brief overview of the purpose of the IRB and describe what you can anticipate when you submit a project for review. In the second half of the workshop, the presenters will be available for questions about preparing your own projects for submission. 

Research is more than just developing a project and compiling data. Beginning with your literature review and ending with communicating your results, there are rules and guidelines to be sure that you are working ethically. Dr. Christine Johnson is the Associate Vice President for Research at Oklahoma State University. She will explain research misconduct and discuss topics such as authorship disputes, plagiarism (including self-plagiarism), image modification and the importance of careful record-keeping. Come hear about research integrity, how to work with the OSU Division of Research to avoid misconduct and how to anonymously report it if you have concerns. 

Zotero is a useful and time-saving software program for managing bibliographies and references, allowing labs and research teams to collect and share citations online. This workshop will introduce participants to the basics of using Zotero, which will include creating and adding references to an library, organizing and managing citations, and using Zotero with Microsoft Word and Google Docs for in-text citations and bibliographies. 

This workshop will give a brief overview of the purpose of the IACUC and IBC, specifically describing the Animal Welfare Regulations, NIH Guidelines and Biosafety Oversight. It will describe what you can anticipate when you submit a project for review. In the second half of the workshop, the presenters will be available for questions about preparing your own projects for submission. 

Undergraduate researchers can be a vibrant and valuable addition to your research program. Learn the many ways to engage OSU undergraduates in your work and why you should consider becoming a mentor. We will also introduce funding and support systems for undergraduate researchers. Programs include the Freshman Research Scholars, Wentz and Purdie Research Scholars, Niblack Research Scholars, the AURCA program, OK-LSAMP, and McNair Scholars. 

An informal overview of the forms and resources for current graduate students. Special attention will be given to the GC Round-Up system, which is the home for most of the forms required by the Graduate College. 

Experts Directory is the faculty research information management system, allowing you to review and add data to create your online profile at https://experts.okstate.edu/. This session is intended to help you get started populating your Experts Directory profile, claim Scopus and ORCID identifiers, review and manage publications and grants, add your professional service, and more in your Experts Directory profile.