FAST START Workshop Series for Research Support at OSU: Fall 2024 Workshops

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. 

Join us to explore how you can transform your teaching praxis and support student success through OpenOKState and open educational resources. Open educational resources (OER) are research, teaching and learning resources intentionally created and licensed to be freely accessed, shared, retained, and in many cases modified at no additional cost to the end user. This session will also provide an overview of funding opportunities available from the Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education aimed at encouraging faculty and instructors to adopt, adapt, or create OER. 

OSU Libraries are known for the plethora of services and resources they offer to our campus community. But did you know that many of the services and resources can be accessed online and from a distance? We invite students, instructors, and faculty to explore the various Library services and resources available to them online, as well as services and resources specific to our distance education community. During this session, we will review access to reference resources and opportunities for online research support, instruction, and help when needed.

This session may be helpful for: Undergraduate students, graduate students, concurrent enrollment students, instructors, & faculty 

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. 

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. 

The Central Sponsored Programs Administration (CSPA) offers a variety of services for faculty, staff, and sponsored programs offices 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. 

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 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. 

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 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. 

The first part of this workshop will detail how to search ScienceDirect, 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. 

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. 

Join faculty and staff from Animal Resources, the Microscopy Facility the NMR Facility, and the Immunopathology Core for an overview of these major research facilities administered and/or supported by the Division of the Vice President for Research or the Oklahoma Center for Respiratory and Infectious Diseases. 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. 

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. 

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. 

This panel will overview the services and oversight provided by units within University Research Compliance. Join Gina Cosden and Brandon Jordan 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.  

As part of Oklahoma State University’s modern land-grant mission, our faculty are encouraged to disseminate their knowledge to the general public. One way OSU accomplishes that is by providing media access to interview faculty as expert sources. This session will cover tips and tricks on how to work with media and the resources available to you within your college and the Department of Brand Management. 

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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 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.