The Saint Louis University Office of the Vice President for Research hosts Research Resources Week in preparation for the start of each semester. This week includes workshops, informational sessions and discussions highlighting SLU's diverse resources and aims to aid research practices, collaborations and outcomes among faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.
Offerings differ based on applicability and interest, however, with more than 20 sessions, there will be something for researchers of any discipline and level of experience. The sessions are open to all, although participants are asked to register.
OVPR Research Resources Week – August 14-18, 2023
In preparation for the fall semester and the new academic year, the Office of the Vice President for Research announces its third “Research Resources Week.” Offering workshops, informational sessions, and discussions, the programming during the week aims to aid research practices, outcomes, and more amongst faculty, graduate students, and postdocs. A list of the events are as follows:
This session is intended to provide insights on new trends in federal agency "institution-wide" funding programs. This information is meant to inform faculty et al. so they are (1) aware of these programs and the departures from traditional funding priorities, (2) aware of SLU's capacities regarding competitiveness and capacity building for such initiatives, and (3) positioned to substantively contribute to innovative responses to these program solicitations. Topics include: translational research activity, DEIA as a priority, identifying regional partners, and innovation/creativity in proposals.
- Facilitator: Joel Mort, Research Strategist, Office of the Vice President for Research, joel.mort@slu.edu
- When: Monday, August 14, 9-10 a.m.
- Audience: Faculty, staff, graduate students
- Location: Virtual (Zoom link to be sent later)
ORCID is a unique author persistent identifier, that can be used to showcase your papers and presentations. In this presentation we will be going over what is ORCID, Why you should set one up, getting started building your profile and linking this to your MyNCBI account.
- Facilitator: Angela Spencer, Health Sciences Reference Librarian, Assistant Professor, angela.spencer@slu.edu
- When: Monday, August 14, 10-10:30 a.m.
- Audience: Faculty, graduate students
- Location: Virtual (Zoom)
This informational session will cover how to find, apply, and take advantage of fellowships and funding opportunities for those in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Facilitator: David Borgmeyer, Director of Research Development, david.borgmeyer@slu.edu
- When: Monday, August 14, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: DuBourg Hall, Room 450
If you’re working on a systematic review, scoping review, or other evidence synthesis project, Rayyan can help you and your team manage the review process more efficiently, including deduplication, blind review, generating a PRISMA flow diagram, and more. The SLU Libraries recently subscribed to the Rayyan enterprise license, which includes access to, and support of all AI-powered premium features which help streamline the review process. This presentation will give you an overview of the features available in Rayyan and how to get started using it.
- Facilitator: Rebecca Hyde, Research and Instruction Librarian/Professor, Pius XII Memorial Library, rebecca.hyde@slu.edu
- When: Monday, August 14, 2:30-3:15 p.m.
- Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students
- Location: Virtual (Zoom)
This informational session will cover various internal funding opportunities and mechanisms at SLU through the Office of the Vice President for Research. Learn about how to discover new opportunities, take advantage of existing funding, and more.
- Facilitator: Chris Luebbert, Program Manager, Research Development Group, christine.luebbert@slu.edu
- When: Tuesday, August 15, 10-11 a.m.
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: DuBourg Hall, Room 450
This is a one-hour informational session about the BILCN-Research Program. The BILCN- Research (Building Integrated Learning and Coaching Networks for Research) Program is a year-long, cohort-based program consisting of integrated monthly workshops and peer-coaching sessions to promote funded research development and mentorship networks for high-potential SLU research faculty. Faculty participants are selected by a committee of faculty members and must be full-time SLU faculty who have not received major external funding awards in the past 3-5 years but have active research agendas and a project for which they will seek major external funding.
- Facilitator: Joe Lampe, Program Coordinator, Office of the Vice President for Research, joseph.lampe@slu.edu
- When: Tuesday, August 15, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: DuBourg Hall, Room 450
During this session for university-wide faculty we will discuss the following key questions:
- Why should I pursue industry partnerships?
- How can partnerships advance my research goals?
- What University resources are available to support industry partnerships?
- Facilitator: Jaffre Athman, Director of Business Development and Outreach, SLU Institute for Drug and Biotherapeutic Innovation, jaffre.athman@slu.edu
- When: Tuesday, August 15, 1-1:45 p.m.
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: Virtual (Zoom link to come)
This informational session will highlight the ongoing research efforts undertaken by faculty at the SLU-Madrid campus. It will offer details about the SLU-Madrid campus, its diverse departments, and the student body. It will then present the campus's five-year research strategic plan, followed by a discussion on potential collaboration opportunities.
- Facilitator: Charles El Mir, Department of Engineering, SLU-Madrid, charles.elmir@slu.edu
- When: Wednesday, August 16, 9-9:45 a.m.
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: DuBourg Hall, Room450
This session will introduce two IDBI resources available to advance materials science, drug discovery, and chemistry/biology research data storage.
- Schrodinger Suite: advanced molecular modeling for materials research and drug discovery
- CDD Vault: A data management platform for storage and analysis of biologic/chemistry research data
- Facilitator: Jaffre Athman, Director of Business Development and Outreach, SLU Institute for Drug and Biotherapeutic Innovation, jaffre.athman@slu.edu
- When: Wednesday, August 16, 10-11 a.m.
- Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students
- Location: Virtual (Zoom link to come)
This session will offer information on resources, strategies, and guidance for graduate students at all stages to develop as researchers within their disciplines. Topics to be covered will include: finding on-campus resources, developing a research strategy, understanding and seeking funding, and more.
- Facilitator: David Borgmeyer, Director of Research Development, david.borgmeyer@slu.edu
- When: Wednesday, August 16th, 11:00-11:50 AM
- Audience: Graduate students
- Location: In-person, location TBD
This session will cover a brief overview of Division for Diversity and Innovative Community Engagement (DICE) including how we support research efforts including consultation and grant project narratives on diversity and equity at SLU.
Facilitators: Katie Heiden-Rootes, Associate Professor, Medical Family Therapy Program; Assistant Vice President, Division of Diversity and Innovative Community Engagement katie.heidenrootes@health.slu.edu; Allison Brewer, Assistant Vice President for Accessibility, allison.brewer@slu.edu
- When: Wednesday, August 16, 11-11:45 a.m.
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: DuBourg Hall, Room 450/Hybrid (Zoom)
Private foundations and corporations are an excellent source of support for bridge funding, fellowships, early investigators, research and direct service programs across all disciplines. However, competition is still tight. This session will address the differences between government and private funding, cover best practices, especially as they relate to budget preparation, and make you aware of the variety of support services offered including funder research and identification, grantwriting, RFP distribution and meeting reporting requirements.
- Facilitator: Wendy Schlesinger, Executive Director, Corporate and Foundational Relations, wendy.schlesinger@slu.edu
- When: Wednesday, August 16, 1-2 p.m.
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: Virtual (Zoom)
There is a growing chorus of calls to make all dimensions of research "open". There are multiple organizations and guidelines, some seemingly conflicting each other, about the responsibilities of individual researchers and institutions to align with "open". This presentation will cover the motivations behind emerging funding and practice guidelines, and go over resources available to researchers at SLU to address these concerns.
- Facilitator: Daniel Shown, Program Director – Open Source with SLU, daniel.shown@slu.edu
- When: Wednesday, August 16th, 2:00-3:00 PM
- Audience: Faculty, graduate students
- Location: Virtual, Zoom link here
Diverse federal and private agencies strive to support early career researchers in many disciplines. The funding opportunities or programs offered are specifically for early career researchers; in doing so, they narrow the competition and provide unique opportunities for early career researchers to obtain support.
This presentation will cover definitions of “early career” and introduce many of the opportunities available. Brief descriptions of each opportunity will be discussed along with contact points for each. The presentation is appropriate for all disciplines, with some bias toward STEM areas.
- Facilitator: Saran Twombly, OVPR/SLU Consultant, Former NSF Program Director saran.twombly@slu.edu
- When: Thursday, August 17, 9-10:30 a.m.
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: DuBourg Hall, Room 450
Open Source with SLU supports open science, open scholarship, and sustainable innovation by delivering value for researchers with custom software and tools and providing students with realistic software development experience. OS/SLU is the open source program office of SLU. We are on the forefront of an emerging movement of academic open source program offices. We'll give a brief overview of what we've done so far, and how we can help researchers across SLU with custom open source software.
- Facilitator: Daniel Shown, Program Director – Open Source with SLU, daniel.shown@slu.edu
- When: Thursday, August 17th, 10:30-11:00 AM
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: Virtual, Zoom link here
This hour-long informational session will give faculty a chance to learn about the pre- and post-award services provided by the Grant Operation Center, which serves all departments outside of the School of Medicine. Faculty who attend will come away with an understanding of the GO Center’s role in the research enterprise at SLU and know who to contact for assistance with grant applications, grant project expenses, and much more.
- Facilitator: Matt Renaud, Director, GO Center matt.renaud@slu.edu
- When: Thursday, August 17, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: DuBourg Hall, Room 450
Workday for Researchers will cover essential topics that a Principal Investigator needs to know in order to effectively administer a grant. Topics covered will include how to use Workday to start the proposal process, how to review key components of your award in Workday, how to manage Workday inbox tasks, and discuss key HR components of Workday.
- Facilitators: Matt Renaud, Director, GO Center, matt.renaud@slu.edu; Kellisa Fiala, Post-Award Specialist, GO Center, kellisa.fiala@slu.edu
- When: Thursday, August 17, 1-2 p.m.
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: DuBourg Hall, Room 450
This is a full day workshop appropriate for faculty preparing to write a research proposal for extramural funding. The workshop will include presentations by the leader along with time for individual and group work. Appropriate for all disciplines. This will be the only proposal writing workshop offered to faculty during fall 2023.
- Facilitator: Saran Twombly, OVPR/SLU Consultant, Former NSF Program Director saran.twombly@slu.edu
- When: Friday, August 18, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
- Audience: Faculty
- Location: To be determined
EndNote is a citation management program with which users can manage citations in personal libraries and create references and bibliographies based on a number of available journal or writing styles. EndNote is provided by SLU ITS and supported by the library. EndNote 21 was released this summer—we will begin with a quick review of the basics of EndNote and continue into the new updates.
- Facilitator: Katy Smith, Health Sciences Librarian/Asst. Professor, Medical Center Library, katy.smith@slu.edu
- When: Friday, August 18, 9:30-10:15 a.m.
- Audience: Faculty and Graduate Students
- Location: Virtual (Zoom)