Faculty and T.A. Teaching Support, Led by Ronald Figueroa (rfiguero@syr.edu), Michael Pasqualoni (mjpasqua@syr.edu), and John Stawarz (jdstawar@syr.edu)
Description: Whether you're a new teaching assistant or a long-established faculty member, Syracuse University Libraries offer a wide variety of services and resources to support your instruction and improve your students’ learning experiences. This workshop will discuss putting items on course reserve, exploring digital resources such as ebooks from our collections, showing videos in class, supporting students with videos and tutorials about the research process, collaborating with librarians for library instruction sessions, and sharing permalinks to online library resources. We will respond to questions and concerns during this session.
Intended Audience: Faculty, Teaching Assistants
Date and Time:
Money for your Research
Need money for your research? Come grab dinner and join members of the Center for Scholarship and Fellowship Advising and the Office of Research to learn about SU’s resources for identifying funding opportunities. Bring your laptops and keywords in mind to describe your project needs (the who, what, why and how), and leave with navigation tips and potential opportunities.
Food will be provided. The Fall 2022 Graduate Research Roundtable Series is co-sponsored by the Syracuse University Libraries and SU GSO.
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Date and Time:
Tuesday, September 13, 5-6:30 PM, Bird Library, Peter Graham Room
Register Here:
https://syr.libwizard.com/f/gsoresearchroundtablefall2022_researchfunding
Digital Humanities Workshop: Introduction to Text Mining with the HathiTrust Research Center, Led by Patrick Williams
Description: Patrick Williams (Humanities Librarian and Lead Librarian for Digital and Open Scholarship) and Rachel Hogan (iSchool Graduate Student) will present an Introduction to Text Mining with the HathiTrust Research Center, a hands-on workshop. Rachel and Patrick will present an overview of text mining & HathiTrust in general and will focus on the ways we can make use of the HathiTrust Research Center to undertake our own experiments. No programming experience is necessary. Participants will learn to create their own research collections and perform text analysis activities like creating token counts and tag clouds, extracting and visualizing named entities, and exploring topic modeling approaches.
Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
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Saving and Citing Your Sources: An Introduction to Zotero, Led by Winn Wasson
Description: This introduction will provide an overview of Zotero, a free platform that allows students and researchers to save and annotate sources, collaborate with classmates and colleagues, generate citations and bibliographies in papers, and access references from anywhere. Students and researchers of all experience levels are encouraged to attend and ask questions.
Intended Audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty, Staff
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Misappropriation or Misrepresentation of Your Research, Strategies for Facing a Growing and Problematic Trend, Led by Winn Wasson
Description: The good news is that your research got published. The bad news is that a group you have never heard of is now misappropriating or misrepresenting it to push an agenda that neither you nor actual research conclusions support. This workshop aims to help you prepare for how to handle these situations should they arise.
Intended Audience: Graduate Students, Faculty
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What to Expect Post Graduation with an MFA Degree
Panelists from VPA will discuss best practices for students with an MFA degree to find work as an artist, in academia or in other areas. They will discuss how they learned to navigate the highly competitive market and will discuss what guidance they received from their faculty, university, or library before they graduated. The panelists will share their experiences, challenges, and success stories, with question-and-answer opportunities from the attendees.
Dinner will be provided.
Hosted by Syracuse University Libraries and the Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Date and Time:
Thursday November 10, 5-7PM, Bird Library, Peter Graham Room
Register Here:
https://syr.libwizard.com/f/gsoresearchroundtablefall2022_mfagrads