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Workshop Research by, with, and for the Queer Community Please join members of the LGBTQIA+ Faculty Affinity Network at this panel on Research by, with, and for the Queer Community, being held at Douglass Library and via Zoom on Monday 1/13, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Complete details will be circulated soon. One of the presenters will be our Dr. Edward Ales... Monday, January 13, 2025, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Speaker Series The Magic of Found Family: In Conversation with Author TJ Klune Come have a magical moment with New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune as he chats about his Cerulean Chronicles, with special emphasis on his newest in the series, Somewhere Beyond the Sea. If you’re new to the Cerulean Chronicles, that’s okay! Let us lay the groundwork. Klune’s The House in th... Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 7:00 - 8:00 PM - Online
Workshop Introduction to EndNote 21 Learn how to use EndNote 21, a citation management software to help you organize your citations and generate a bibliography in a snap. In this workshop, you will learn how to download EndNote 21, capture references from databases such as PubMed and Google Scholar, create a library, and more importan... Thursday, January 16, 2025, 12:30 - 1:30 PM - Online
Workshop Introduction to Zotero Zotero is a free application that collects, manages, and formats citations and bibliographies. In this introductory, hands-on workshop, we'll learn how to create collections for different projects, attach PDFs and notes to references, tag references for easy searching, and generate citations and bib... Thursday, January 23, 2025, 10:00 - 11:00 AM - Online
Speaker Series Notes on Modern Irrationality with Bestselling Author Amanda Montell Join us as we chat with the New York Times bestselling author, Amanda Montell about her newest book, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality. In a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and... Thursday, January 23, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00 PM - Online
Speaker Series An Inside Look at Working with a Literary Agent: A Conversation with Seth Fishman You’re writing a book (or thinking about it), but what happens next? Join us for an inside look into working with an agent and the beginning stages of the publishing process with Seth Fishman, Vice President and Literary Agent at The Gernert Company. The Gernert Company represents more than 500 auth... Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 1:00 - 2:30 PM - Online
Workshop R for Data Analysis: A tidyverse Approach This session introduces the R statistical software environment, basic methods of data analysis, and the "tidyverse." While R is much more than the tidyverse, the development of the tidyverse packages, led by RStudio, has provided a powerful and connected toolkit to get started using R. Note that gra... Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online
Lecture Elizabeth Kite and the Feeble-Minded Menace Elizabeth Kite was the author or uncredited co-author of the two most sensational works on the “feeble-minded menace” that pervaded American life between 1910 and the late 1920s. Both works—The Kallikak Family (1912) and “The Pineys” (1913)—were set in New Jersey. My presentation will explore the Ne... Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 4:00 - 5:30 PM - Online
Workshop Systematic, Scoping, and Literature Reviews, Oh My! An Introduction to Evidence Synthesis in the Social Sciences Are you a social science faculty member or graduate student interested in learning about systematic or scoping reviews? Are you curious about what these methods entail? This workshop is for you! Evidence synthesis methods are growing in popularity among social science disciplines, but many faculty ... Monday, February 3, 2025, 9:30 - 11:00 AM - Online
Speaker Series How We Create Pandemics, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs with Smithsonian Curator Sabrina Sholts Join us for this enlightening presentation with Smithsonian curator Sabrina Sholts as she talks about how the very fact of being human increases our pandemic risks—and gives us the power to save ourselves. The COVID-19 pandemic won't be our last—because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also mak... Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00 PM - Online