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Mar 19, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creat...
Mar 19, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Presented by Dr. Pamela Geyer, Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mar 19, 2024
1:00 PM
Virtual Event
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Mar 19, 2024
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Virtual Event
Topic TBA Sergii Bezuglyi, PhD; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
Mar 19, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Two Aspects of Non-LTE Evolution in Plasmas: Relative Entropy and Pressure-Strain Interaction Professor Paul Cassak; Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University Energy conversion and the time evolution of systems in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) are well understood, but terrestrial and space/astrophysical plasmas are often not in LTE. How the departure from LTE impacts the energy conversion and time evolution of systems are at the forefront of research in numerou...
Mar 20, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
Open Access to scientific literature is one of the most hotly debated topics in scholarly publishing. This workshop will provide an overview of what scientists need to know when making their research open access. We will cover the basics of what we mean by open access, how open access relates to the NIH Public Access policy, open access journals in the biomedical sciences, predatory publishing scams, and best practices for evaluating your open access options. PLEASE NOTE Class will be taug...
Mar 20, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
Open Access to scientific literature is one of the most hotly debated topics in scholarly publishing. This workshop will provide an overview of what scientists need to know when making their research open access. We will cover the basics of what we mean by open access, how open access relates to the NIH Public Access policy, open access journals in the biomedical sciences, predatory publishing scams, and best practices for evaluating your open access options. PLEASE NOTE Class will be taug...
Mar 20, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and cha...
Mar 20, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Online venue,
Virtual Event
1. Overview R is a popular programming language for statistical computing and graphics. This 2-day workshop focuses on the basic concepts and features of R that will serve as building blocks for data analysis tasks. The workshop is taught using RStudio in the Interactive Data Analytics Service (IDAS). 2. Prerequisites This workshop is for learners who have no experience with R and no experience with computer programming. A basic understanding of general descriptive statistics may be help...
Mar 20, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Emily Liu, a Cell and Developmental Biology Student in the Amy Ryan Lab will present a seminar titled "Invasiveness of Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) -Associated Fibroblasts." Zewei Zhang, a Cell and Developmental Biology Student in the Thomas Rutkowski Lab will present a seminar titled "ER Stress is Diminished by Hepatocyte De-Differentiation."
Mar 20, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Virtual Event
Do you want to maximize your time spent searching for funding opportunities or potential project collaborators? Join us to learn how Pivot can save you time and effort in identifying the right funding opportunities for your research lines as well as identifying collaborators with the relevant expertise. Register here.
Mar 20, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Virtual Event
The Pentacrest Museums will host a free virtual program to explore the impact of smoke on public health in the Western and Midwestern United States. In conjunction with our latest exhibition, Facing the Inferno: The Wildfire Photography of Kari Greer, the museums use Exhibition Spotlight to illuminate deeper themes of the exhibit and build further connections to our campus and community. Meet researchers from the University of Iowa and other organizations who are shaping the conversation aro...
Mar 20, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pr...
Mar 20, 2024
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Virtual Event
This hands-on session will help you improve your searching through best practices for basic and advanced searching and show you features for saving or exporting citations. The session will also help you understand medical subject headings (MeSH) and how they improve your search as well as the benefits of a MyNCBI account. PLEASE NOTE: Advance registration is required for Zoom. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.
Mar 20, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker Tianyu Zhang Abstract Real-time cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are subject to stringent Quality of Service requirements in terms of both timing and reliability. The correct behavior of real-time CPSs depends not only on their functional accuracy but also on the temporal precision. Real-time CPSs have a variety of applications, including avionics, autonomous vehicles, industrial internet-of-things (IIoT), etc. In this talk, I will introduce some of my recent works on the design of r...
Mar 21, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pro...
Mar 21, 2024
10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as: • Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys • Manually and automatically sending surveys • Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms • Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a bas...
Mar 21, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
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Mar 21, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Presented by Yutong Wang Graduate student in Dr. Ted Abel's lab Presented by Ben Kelvington Graduate student in Dr. Ted Abel's lab
Mar 21, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Series features top-tier scientists and physicians performing high-impact research in a variety of areas. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Beth Stevens for a lecture titled "Mapping Microglia States to Function in Development & Disease." Beth Stevens, PhD. Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Co-Sponsored by the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Mar 21, 2024
6:30 PM
Join artist, innovator, designer and UIowa alum Suzanne Tick for two insightful conversations about her work. What Now? Wednesday, March 20 | 6 p.m. |E125 Visual Arts Building What Now? will feature the ever-changing discussion of evolution, connectivity with the world around us, and what is relevant for the time as we move forward as creatives in a post-Covid world. Making Materials Matter Thursday, March 21 | 6:30 p.m. |240 Art Building West Making Materials Matter is a visual journ...
Mar 21, 2024
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us for a reading and discussion, co-hosted by Prairie Lights, to celebrate Christopher Goetz’s recent book, The Counterfeit Coin: Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment. Goetz is an associate professor and head of film studies in the Department of Cinematic Arts. After the reading, Corey Creekmur, associate professor in the departments of Cinematic Arts and English, will join Goetz for a conversation and Q&A with the audience. A reception will follow the event. Thursday, March 21, 202...
Mar 22, 2024
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
The National Science Foundation (NSF) considers two criteria in their review of proposals: intellectual merit and broader impacts (BI). Broader impacts relate to how the proposed research will “benefit society or advance desired societal outcomes” and is increasingly used as the differentiator between which excellent proposals to fund or not. The Training Team from the NSF-supported Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) organization will conduct five interactive virtual workshops on F...
Mar 22, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Online venue,
Virtual Event
1. Overview R is a popular programming language for statistical computing and graphics. This 2-day workshop focuses on the basic concepts and features of R that will serve as building blocks for data analysis tasks. The workshop is taught using RStudio in the Interactive Data Analytics Service (IDAS). 2. Prerequisites This workshop is for learners who have no experience with R and no experience with computer programming. A basic understanding of general descriptive statistics may be help...
Mar 22, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker Jingyan Wang Abstract High-stakes evaluation problems—to estimate the quality of items or people—arise in many real-world applications such as admissions, hiring, grading, and peer review. My research focuses on understanding and improving these evaluation problems along the dimensions of accuracy, fairness, efficiency, and reliability. In this talk, I describe one line of my research on correcting human bias under different behavioral models. The first type of bias arises in a se...
Mar 23, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Join us for a talk on Saturday, March 23 at 2 p.m. featuring painting conservator and UIowa alum, David Goist. His presentation, aptly titled "The Unvarnished Truth," focuses on unvarnished paintings from the late 19th and 20th century and the artistic motivations behind leaving works unfinished. Applying a varnish to safeguard the delicate layers of a painting is a centuries-old tradition that offers a certain visual appeal but can alter the artist's original vision. Goist will reflect upon...
Mar 25, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker Jyotikrishna Dass Abstract With the rapid increase in data collected from various edge devices across distributed networks, there is a pressing need for innovative solutions to harness intelligence at the network edge. Traditional cloud-based centralized learning methods won’t suffice. Instead, federated learning, an emerging approach, keeps data local at its source, avoiding the need for centralization on a cloud server. This method pushes model updates to the edge and aggregates...
Mar 26, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as: • Importing data from csv • Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic • Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables • Sending automated, conditional email alerts • Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data missingness codes, and opening data queries • And more This training...
Mar 26, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Virtual Event
Presented by David M. Holtzman, PhD Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Distinguished Professor Scientific Director, Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Dept. of Neurology Washington University School of Medicine
Mar 26, 2024
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Virtual Event
This is an information session to provide an overview of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) programming. Event Information The Research Development Office is hosting a virtual information session on Tuesday, March 26 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Join us virtually for an overview of funding opportunities for NEH research activities, including programs such as Public Scholars, Summer Stipends, Fellowships, Collaborative Grants, and more. In addition, Dr. Claudia Kinkela (Senior Pr...
Mar 26, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
No description
Mar 26, 2024
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Virtual Event
Topic TBA Sergii Bezuglyi, PhD; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
Mar 26, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Virtual Event
Topic TBA Michael Connolly; University of Iowa
Mar 26, 2024
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The Pentacrest Museums host visiting artist Kari Greer for a special event to discuss themes of her exhibition Facing the Inferno: The Wildfire Photography of Kari Greer, now on display at the Old Capitol Museum. Greer will discuss her art, her career, firsthand knowledge of fire from the 1990s to today, and how photographic documentation impacts our collective understanding. Following her keynote, Greer will be joined by UI faculty from Carver College of Medicine and the colleges of Enginee...
Mar 27, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as: • Creating participants • Creating tasks and schedules • Active tasks and their unique data output • Direct messages and announcements • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Mar 27, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from noon to 1 p.m. We will discuss the changes and demonstrate HawkIRB enhancements being implemented to streamline the IRB review process. The monthly session will cover upcoming enhancements and their expected rollout dates. Please join us to learn more about the IRB Eff...
Mar 27, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pr...
Mar 27, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker Lingxiao Wang Abstract The past decade has witnessed rapid growth and tremendous success in machine learning (ML) across various applications, particularly in those involving large ML models trained on vast amounts of data. However, these advancements also raise significant privacy, security, fairness, and copyright concerns. In this talk, I will talk about my efforts toward addressing these concerns through two important problems: federated optimization and over-parameterized ...
Mar 27, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Harnessing the Unique Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials for Novel Device Applications Professor Steven J. Koester; Russell J. Penrose Professor in Nanotechnology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Two-dimensional (2D) materials, crystalline materials characterized by strong in-plane bonds and weak out-of-plane coupling, have been intensively studied for the past two decades. 2D materials possess many unique properties that make them interestin...
Mar 28, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event ...
Mar 28, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pro...
Mar 28, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as: • Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with VLOOKUP • Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering • Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables • Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables • Transforming unusable dat...
Mar 28, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
"Connected Landscapes: Chromatin Mechanisms of Cancer and Pluripotency" Presented by Alexey Soshnev, PhD University of Texas at San Antonio Faculty Host: Dr. Pamela Geyer
Mar 28, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Presented by Angela Smith Graduate student in Dr. Kathleen Sluka's lab Presented by Trevor Butler Graduate student in Dr. Jon Resch's lab
Mar 29, 2024
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
The National Science Foundation (NSF) considers two criteria in their review of proposals: intellectual merit and broader impacts (BI). Broader impacts relate to how the proposed research will “benefit society or advance desired societal outcomes” and is increasingly used as the differentiator between which excellent proposals to fund or not. The Training Team from the NSF-supported Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) organization will conduct five interactive virtual workshops on F...
Mar 29, 2024
12:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Meet faculty and undergraduate & graduate students in linguistics to learn about their research projects and the university's linguistics program. Linguistics Day Schedule 12:30–12:45 p.m. Welcome and refreshments 12:45–1:30 p.m. Undergraduate posters 1:45– 2:15 p.m. Panel style presentation of faculty & lab + Linguistic Ambassadors 2:15–2:40 p.m. Alumni testimonials 2:45–3:30 p.m. Oral presentations 3:30–4:15 p.m. Ga...
Apr 1, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker Nairen Cao Abstract In today's big data era, processing large-scale graphs, especially those with millions of nodes, presents formidable challenges. Traditional sequential algorithms often fall short in efficiency, making the shift toward parallel or distributed algorithms essential. My research contributes to this field by developing efficient parallel algorithms that address these challenges. In this talk, I will highlight two major areas of my work: Single-source Shortest Pa...
Apr 2, 2024
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Join us for networking, a compelling panel discussion with Department of Energy (DOE) awardees, and lunch. Connect with your colleagues over coffee and lunch while our experienced panelists, who have successfully navigated the application processes, share their experiences and insights in obtaining DOE funding. About the Department of Energy The Department of Energy (DOE) is dedicated to ensuring America's security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challen...
Apr 2, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Presented by Dr. Todd Washington, Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Apr 2, 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Virtual Event
You’ve received funding for a project, and your research funder expects you to share the data. Or perhaps you are working on an article, and the journal requires you to share your data. In this workshop, we’ll walk through the process of preparing data for sharing or publication, important decisions to make, and ways to enable your data to have a broader impact. PLEASE NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes...
Apr 2, 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Virtual Event
You’ve received funding for a project, and your research funder expects you to share the data. Or perhaps you are working on an article, and the journal requires you to share your data. In this workshop, we’ll walk through the process of preparing data for sharing or publication, important decisions to make, and ways to enable your data to have a broader impact. PLEASE NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes...
Apr 2, 2024
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Virtual Event
Topic TBA El Hassan Zerouali, PhD; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
Apr 2, 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Thompson Auditorium
The United States is seeing an alarming rise in pregnancy-related diseases and death. Join us as we delve into the intricacies of pregnancy health and how this impacts the health of all members of society. During this program, we’ll showcase tools and research discoveries at the UI Carver College of Medicine that will help address the immediate and long-term effects of pregnancy-related disease. From cardiovascular disease to mental health concerns like depression, we’ll share the latest adv...
Apr 3, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Presented by Eric Kaiser, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Neurology Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Apr 3, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pr...
Apr 3, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on, and there will be time for questions at the end. PLEASE NOTE Advance registration is required for Zoom classes. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minut...
Apr 3, 2024
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
SURF is an annual, low-stress platform for undergraduate students to practice communicating their research, scholarly, and/or creative work to a broad audience. All students involved in mentored research or creative work are invited to present their work at these festivals utilizing posters or other visual displays. Exhibition space will allow students to bring in three dimensional objects from their research or creative scholarship! Registration to present at FURF and SURF is required, but ...
Apr 3, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker Amir Ghasemian Abstract Networks have attracted wide interest in the scientific community as a powerful tool for studying complex systems. In this talk, I answer important questions about the limitations of model selection, link prediction, and community detection in complex networks. Although many community detection algorithms exist, the No Free Lunch theorem implies that no algorithm can be optimal across all inputs. For example, little is known in practice about how different ...
Apr 4, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pro...
Apr 4, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Presented by Sydney Walker, Graduate Student Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Advisor: Dr. Brandon Davies
Apr 4, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Presented by Pravda Quinones Graduate student in Dr. Ted Abel's lab Presented by Ritu Arya Graduate student in Dr. Yumi Imai's lab
Apr 5, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
Join us for an information session on the STEM Innovator program and how it can equip students with critical STEM innovation and entrepreneurship skills. Event Information The Research Development Office is hosting a virtual information session on Friday, April 5 from 10 to110 a.m. Dr. Leslie Flynn (Clinical Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship) will provide an overview of the STEM Innovator Program and how it may be incorporated into NSF Broader Impacts and NSF CAREER pro...
Apr 5, 2024
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Around the country, visionary faculty members and administrators are finding inspiring ways to engage students, artists, researchers, staff, and community partners in learning about and responding to climate change and its environmental effects through the very landscapes in which they live and work. As part of this year’s Obermann series, “Envisioning Interdisciplinary, Experiential Environmental Research,” we are thrilled to welcome two leaders whose brilliant cross-sectoral, cross-discipl...
Apr 5, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker Weiran Wang Abstract Multiple views of data, both naturally acquired and artificially produced, have been proven useful in representation learning. In this talk, I will discuss the weakly-supervised setup of multi-view learning and a series of methods based on Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and the underlying probabilistic model, and focus on the question of whether we can disentangle the variations shared by both views, from the variations that are private to each view. We...
Apr 5, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
On April 5 from 4 to 5 p.m. Dr. Lena Hill will deliver the 23rd annual Craft Critique Culture interdisciplinary graduate conference keynote presentation in the Academics Room of the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU, Room 256). Dr. Hill is the provost at Washington and Lee University. Before working at Washington and Lee she was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Iowa where she taught in the English and African American Studies Departments. She is the author of Visualizing Blackn...
Apr 8, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the third Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion! This is open to all—students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science (we have several male faculty in regular attendance and we appreciate the support!). Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
Apr 8, 2024
3:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Virtual Event
We invite experts in the field of visual communication to discuss the current challenges and opportunities that synthetic media pose for the contemporary media environment, and how we can utilize visuals as data to answer social scientific questions. Schedule Opening Remarks: 3-3:15 p.m. Melissa Tully, Sang Jung Kim, Alex Scott and Bingbing Zhang Keynote 1: 3:15-4:15 p.m. Speaker: Bryce Dietrich Moderator: Sang Jung Kim Topic: Video-as-data; Seeing Racial Avoidance on Virtual Streets...
Apr 8, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker Adithya Murali Abstract Software verification is key to engineering trustworthy and reliable systems. However, verification is at an impasse in techniques for practical adoption. In this talk, I will argue that the current state-of-the-art is fundamentally un-democratic: programmers have no hope of being able to use existing automated tools to verify their code without a PhD in programming languages! I address this challenge from both theoretical and practical standpoints, showin...
Apr 9, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creat...
Apr 9, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Presented by Nick Hammons, Graduate Student Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Advisor: Dr. Ernie Fuentes
Apr 9, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
NIH will begin requiring a Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMSP) on all NIH funding proposals starting Jan. 23, 2023. This session will help you create a useful and well-written plan that meets the requirements and can be put into practice in your project. We’ll dig into each section of a plan, including: describing the types of data for your proposed project; standards for data and metadata; selecting a repository; addressing preservation and access requirements; and considerations for ac...
Apr 9, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Apr 9, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Virtual Event
Topic TBA Hersh Singh, PhD; Fermilab
Apr 9, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Hunting for High-Energy Neutrinos: the Coherent Radio Technique Austin Cummings, PhD; Penn State University High energy neutrinos provide a unique window into observations of the most violent physical phenomena in the universe. At the highest energies, the flux of these particles at Earth is incredibly low, making direct detection challenging, a problem which is further compounded by their miniscule interaction probabilities. By measuring emission from particle cascades sourced from neutri...
Apr 10, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and cha...
Apr 10, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Dr. Licia Selleri, a professor in the anatomy department at the University of California San Francisco will present a seminar titled "Why the Long Face?: Regulatory Dynamics of Midfacial Elongation in Evolution and Disease."
Apr 10, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pr...
Apr 10, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker Ning Luo Abstract As our reliance on digital techniques grows, ensuring the reliability and security of software becomes more crucial than ever. In this talk, I will discuss my research on synergizing cryptography and formal methods to achieve next-generation security and reliability of software. I will explain how to integrate cryptography into formal methods and enable software verification even without access to the software’s source code. I will also demonstrate how to liberat...
Apr 11, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pro...
Apr 11, 2024
10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as: • Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys • Manually and automatically sending surveys • Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms • Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a bas...
Apr 11, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Presentation by Dr. Abhinava Mishra, PhD University of California Santa Barbara
Apr 11, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Presented by Tate Neff Graduate student in Dr. Ling Yang's lab Presented by Alexis Ramos Graduate student in Dr. Adam Mailloux's lab
Apr 11, 2024
7:00 PM
What motivates you as a changemaker? What forces are preventing you (and others) from thriving? These questions are essential to the work of creating social change, and they are exactly what Lesley-Ann Noel asks you to explore in her new book, Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo (Ten Speed Press, 2023). In the book and at her Prairie Lights reading, designer and design educator Lesley-Ann Noel shares essential design strategies for making a las...
Apr 12, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Ramon and Victoria Lim Medical Science Lectureship Series features eminent scientists working in neuroscience and internal medicine. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Yifan Cheng, PhD for a lecture titled "Structures of INO80-hex and -nuc complexes - the basis of its mechanistic versatility." Yifan Cheng, PhD. Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco HHMI Investigator
Apr 12, 2024
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Harmit Malik is a biologist, a member of the USA National Academy of Sciences, and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. His research focuses on genetic conflict and has direct implications for understanding human disease. Dr. Malik will also give a talk for the public, “Paleovirology: Ghosts and Gifts of Ancient Viruses,” on Saturday, April 13. This talk is part of Iowa City Darwin Day Science Fest, a two-day celebration of science designed to promote scientific literacy and increase publi...
Apr 13, 2024
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Joseph L. Graves Jr. is a professor of biological science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and former associate dean for research at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. His research focuses on the genomics of adaptation and evolutionary theories of aging. He has also written two books that address myths of race in the U.S. and is frequently interviewed for articles, podcasts, and documentaries on this topic.
Apr 15, 2024
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Topic TBA Patrick Langer; University of Iowa
Apr 16, 2024
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Virtual Event
Do you want to maximize your time spent searching for funding opportunities or potential project collaborators? Join us to learn how Pivot can save you time and effort in identifying the right funding opportunities for your research lines as well as identifying collaborators with the relevant expertise. Register here.
Apr 16, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as: • Importing data from csv • Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic • Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables • Sending automated, conditional email alerts • Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data missingness codes, and opening data queries • And more This training...
Apr 16, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Virtual Event
"Development of the Human Neocortex: from Progenitors to Circuits" Presented by Li Wang, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Neurology University of California, San Francisco
Apr 16, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Presented by Adrian Elcock, PhD, Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Apr 16, 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Virtual Event
This hands-on session will help you improve your searching through best practices for basic and advanced searching and show you features for saving or exporting citations. The session will also help you understand medical subject headings (MeSH) and how they improve your search as well as the benefits of a MyNCBI account. PLEASE NOTE: Advance registration is required for Zoom. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.
Apr 16, 2024
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Virtual Event
Topic TBA Juan Felipa Ariza Mejia; University of Iowa
Apr 17, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as: • Creating participants • Creating tasks and schedules • Active tasks and their unique data output • Direct messages and announcements • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Apr 17, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Online venue
Virtual Event
1. Overview This 2-session workshop is a gentle introduction to the practical applications of machine learning, primarily using the Python package scikit-learn. The workshop is taught using JupyterLab in the Interactive Data Analytics Service (IDAS). 2. Prerequisites Participants are expected to be familiar with Python and JupyterLab. Theoretical (mathematical) knowledge of machine learning concepts is not required but may be helpful. 3. Eligibility This workshop is available to curren...
Apr 17, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pr...
Apr 18, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pro...
Apr 18, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as: • Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with VLOOKUP • Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering • Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables • Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables • Transforming unusable dat...
Apr 18, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Presentation by Dr. Michael Schnieders, Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Apr 19, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Online venue
Virtual Event
1. Overview This 2-session workshop is a gentle introduction to the practical applications of machine learning, primarily using the Python package scikit-learn. The workshop is taught using JupyterLab in the Interactive Data Analytics Service (IDAS). 2. Prerequisites Participants are expected to be familiar with Python and JupyterLab. Theoretical (mathematical) knowledge of machine learning concepts is not required but may be helpful. 3. Eligibility This workshop is available to curren...
Apr 19, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
Thinking about applying to the NSF CAREER program? Want to learn more about this funding opportunity and hear from previous awardees? Then this panel session is for you! Event Information The Research Development Office is hosting a NSF CAREER virtual panel session. This panel session will provide an opportunity to hear from four accomplished CAREER Award recipients regarding their experience with the application process, need-to-know information, plus much more. Click here to learn more ...
Apr 19, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
The Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference will be held at the University of Iowa April 19–21, 2024. Co-sponsors are the Obermann Center, the Departments of English and History, and the Schools of Art and Music. The conference venues are the Old Capital reception hall and Senate Chamber, Schaeffer Hall, MacBride Hall, and Old Brick. Special events include a plenary address by Elizabeth Yale, "Human Evolution in the Popular Press: Victorian Women on Mother Love, Mutual Devotion, and...
Apr 19, 2024
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Consortium for the Study of War and Genocide The aim of this in-person speed networking event is to build the momentum for the development of an Interdisciplinary Consortium for the Study of War and Genocide. It is envisioned that this Consortium will bring together scholars and artists working in the areas of war, genocide, or ethnic and political violence to facilitate collaboration and exchange of knowledge. Background The 20th century was marked by levels of mass vio...
Apr 22, 2024
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Topic TBA Professor Gregory Howes; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
Apr 23, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Presented by Elva Denise Diaz, PhD Professor Department of Pharmacology UC Davis School of Medicine
Apr 23, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
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Apr 23, 2024
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Virtual Event
Topic TBA Patrick DeBonis; Purdue University
Apr 23, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Virtual Event
Topic TBA Tyler Grover; University of Iowa
Apr 24, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Dr. Dakota Jones, a Post-Doctoral Fellow from the University of Pennsylvania will present a seminar titled "Mesenchymal Cell Plasticity and Signaling in Lung Regeneration."
Apr 24, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from noon to 1 p.m. We will discuss the changes and demonstrate HawkIRB enhancements being implemented to streamline the IRB review process. The monthly session will cover upcoming enhancements and their expected rollout dates. Please join us to learn more about the IRB Eff...
Apr 24, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pr...
Apr 25, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event ...
Apr 25, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pro...
Apr 25, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
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Apr 25, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Presented by Andrew Kain Graduate student in Dr. Stephanie Gantz's lab Presented by Isaias Herring Graduate student in the labs of Dr. Krystal Parker and Dr. Aislinn Williams
Apr 25, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Rising seas, toxic rivers, deforestation, smoke-filled air—headlines remind us daily of the local, national, and international impacts of climate change. Join us for a wild pecha kucha ride through the effects of climate change with researchers who also tirelessly seek solutions. World-renowned climate scientist, Jerald Schnoor will open with big picture issues. That will set the stage for artist Isabel Barbuzza’s work on South American lithium salt mines, environmental literary scholar Eric...
Apr 26, 2024
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Carver College of Medicine Research Day will be April 26, 2024, featuring Keynote speaker Joshua Denny, M.D., M.S. speaking at noon. Joshua Denny, MD, MS Chief Executive Officer All of Us Research Program Center for Precision Health Research NHGRI https://allofus.nih.gov/about/who-we-are/joshua-denny The event will include a poster session and mini-symposia, and abstracts from all disciplines are welcome. This event is open to the public.
Apr 26, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Graduate students from the Learning Sciences and Educational Psychology program have been working diligently in both research and design and are ready to share their findings with you! Everyone is welcome. There will be food and good conversation. Hope to see you there!
Apr 30, 2024
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Virtual Event
Topic TBA Associate Professor Richard Baker; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
Apr 30, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Virtual Event
Topic TBA Robert Pisarski, PhD; Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory
May 1, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pr...
May 1, 2024
5:00 PM
Obermann Center Working Groups provide space, structure, and discretionary funding for groups led by faculty that may include advanced graduate students, staff members, and community members with a shared intellectual interest. Groups have used this opportunity to explore new work and to share their own research, to organize a symposium, and to develop grant proposals. This program allows participants from across the campus and beyond to explore complex issues at a moment when cross-discip...
May 2, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pro...
May 2, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Presented by Amy Whitaker, PhD Fox Chase Cancer Center Faculty Host: Dr. Todd Washington
May 2, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Presented by Emma Simpson-Wade Graduate student in Dr. Marie Gaine's lab Presented by Tayfun Ates Graduate student in Dr. Deniz Atasoy's lab
May 7, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creat...
May 7, 2024
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Virtual Event
Topic TBA Associate Professor Richard Baker; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
May 7, 2024
5:00 PM
Obermann Center Faculty Fellows (formerly Fellows-in-Residence) fully devote themselves to projects within an interdisciplinary community. The program supports artists, researchers, and scholars during periods when focus and feedback are crucial. The program is rooted in our mission: to support the work of individual scholars, while also providing Fellows with the opportunity to enrich an individual, discipline-specific project through interdisciplinary exchanges with a lively intellectual c...
May 8, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and cha...
May 8, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pr...
May 9, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pro...
May 9, 2024
10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as: • Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys • Manually and automatically sending surveys • Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms • Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a bas...
May 13, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the third Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion! This is open to all—students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science (we have several male faculty in regular attendance and we appreciate the support!). Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
May 14, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as: • Importing data from csv • Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic • Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables • Sending automated, conditional email alerts • Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data missingness codes, and opening data queries • And more This training...
May 14, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
Do you want to maximize your time spent searching for funding opportunities or potential project collaborators? Join us to learn how Pivot can save you time and effort in identifying the right funding opportunities for your research lines as well as identifying collaborators with the relevant expertise. Register here.
May 14, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
May 15, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as: • Creating participants • Creating tasks and schedules • Active tasks and their unique data output • Direct messages and announcements • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
May 15, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pr...
May 16, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pro...
May 16, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as: • Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with VLOOKUP • Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering • Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables • Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables • Transforming unusable dat...
May 16, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Series features top-tier scientists and physicians performing high-impact research in a variety of areas. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Zhijian ‘James’ Chen for a lecture titled "DNA Immunity – From Human to Bacteria." Zhijian ‘James’ Chen, PhD Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science Director, Inflammation Research Center Professor, Department of Molecular Biology Professor, C...
May 22, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from noon to 1 p.m. We will discuss the changes and demonstrate HawkIRB enhancements being implemented to streamline the IRB review process. The monthly session will cover upcoming enhancements and their expected rollout dates. Please join us to learn more about the IRB Eff...
May 22, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pr...
May 23, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pro...
May 29, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pr...
May 30, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event ...
May 30, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Office Hours: IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment necessary. First come, first served; computers are available. HSO Staff will be available to: Answer questions about conducting human subjects research. Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system. Provide suggestions and guidance about study pro...
Jun 6, 2024
All Day
The Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Iowa will be hosting the 54th Annual Pharmaceutics Graduate Student Research Meeting (PGSRM). We are delighted to bring experts from academia and industry together with students to focus on the ideas and approaches enveloping big data pharmaceutical studies. Theme: "Pharmaceutics on the Horizon: Innovation, Application, and Collaboration" *Registration coming soon!*
Jun 10, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the third Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion! This is open to all—students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science (we have several male faculty in regular attendance and we appreciate the support!). Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
Jun 11, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creat...
Jun 11, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Jun 12, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and cha...
Jun 13, 2024
10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as: • Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys • Manually and automatically sending surveys • Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms • Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a bas...
Jun 17, 2024
All Day
The Midwest Social and Administrative Pharmacy Conference has a rich history that traces back to its inaugural event in 1985. The first gathering, known as the Midwest Pharmacy Administration Conference, was organized and hosted by faculty at Purdue University. This initial meeting took place at a pivotal time when the history of pharmacy administration as a discipline was coalescing. The conference stemmed from a recognition that pharmacy schools and graduate programs in the Midwest played ...
Jun 18, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as: • Importing data from csv • Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic • Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables • Sending automated, conditional email alerts • Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data missingness codes, and opening data queries • And more This training...
Jun 19, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as: • Creating participants • Creating tasks and schedules • Active tasks and their unique data output • Direct messages and announcements • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Jun 20, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as: • Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with VLOOKUP • Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering • Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables • Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables • Transforming unusable dat...
Jun 26, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from noon to 1 p.m. We will discuss the changes and demonstrate HawkIRB enhancements being implemented to streamline the IRB review process. The monthly session will cover upcoming enhancements and their expected rollout dates. Please join us to learn more about the IRB Eff...
Jun 27, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event ...
Jul 8, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the third Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion! This is open to all—students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science (we have several male faculty in regular attendance and we appreciate the support!). Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
Jul 9, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creat...
Jul 9, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Jul 10, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and cha...
Jul 11, 2024
10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as: • Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys • Manually and automatically sending surveys • Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms • Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a bas...
Jul 16, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as: • Importing data from csv • Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic • Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables • Sending automated, conditional email alerts • Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data missingness codes, and opening data queries • And more This training...
Jul 17, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as: • Creating participants • Creating tasks and schedules • Active tasks and their unique data output • Direct messages and announcements • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Jul 18, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as: • Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with VLOOKUP • Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering • Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables • Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables • Transforming unusable dat...
Jul 24, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from noon to 1 p.m. We will discuss the changes and demonstrate HawkIRB enhancements being implemented to streamline the IRB review process. The monthly session will cover upcoming enhancements and their expected rollout dates. Please join us to learn more about the IRB Eff...
Jul 25, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event ...
Aug 12, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the third Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion! This is open to all—students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science (we have several male faculty in regular attendance and we appreciate the support!). Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
Aug 13, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creat...
Aug 13, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Aug 14, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and cha...
Aug 15, 2024
10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as: • Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys • Manually and automatically sending surveys • Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms • Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a bas...
Aug 20, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as: • Importing data from csv • Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic • Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables • Sending automated, conditional email alerts • Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data missingness codes, and opening data queries • And more This training...
Aug 21, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as: • Creating participants • Creating tasks and schedules • Active tasks and their unique data output • Direct messages and announcements • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Aug 22, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as: • Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with VLOOKUP • Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering • Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables • Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables • Transforming unusable dat...
Aug 28, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from noon to 1 p.m. We will discuss the changes and demonstrate HawkIRB enhancements being implemented to streamline the IRB review process. The monthly session will cover upcoming enhancements and their expected rollout dates. Please join us to learn more about the IRB Eff...
Aug 29, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event ...
Sep 9, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the third Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion! This is open to all—students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science (we have several male faculty in regular attendance and we appreciate the support!). Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
Sep 10, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creat...
Sep 10, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Sep 10, 2024
5:00 PM
Obermann Center Faculty Fellows (formerly Fellows-in-Residence) fully devote themselves to projects within an interdisciplinary community. The program supports artists, researchers, and scholars during periods when focus and feedback are crucial. The program is rooted in our mission: to support the work of individual scholars, while also providing Fellows with the opportunity to enrich an individual, discipline-specific project through interdisciplinary exchanges with a lively intellectual c...
Sep 11, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and cha...
Sep 12, 2024
10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as: • Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys • Manually and automatically sending surveys • Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms • Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a bas...
Sep 17, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as: • Importing data from csv • Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic • Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables • Sending automated, conditional email alerts • Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data missingness codes, and opening data queries • And more This training...
Sep 18, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as: • Creating participants • Creating tasks and schedules • Active tasks and their unique data output • Direct messages and announcements • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Sep 19, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as: • Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with VLOOKUP • Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering • Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables • Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables • Transforming unusable dat...
Sep 19, 2024
5:00 PM
Co-sponsored by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and the Office of the Vice President for Research, Books Ends—Obermann/OVPR Book Completion Workshop supports University of Iowa faculty from disciplines in which publishing a monograph is required for tenure and promotion. The award is designed to assist faculty members in turning promising manuscripts into important, field-changing, published books. Applications for upcoming Book Ends workshops are due Sept. 19, 2024 (5 p.m.).
Sep 25, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from noon to 1 p.m. We will discuss the changes and demonstrate HawkIRB enhancements being implemented to streamline the IRB review process. The monthly session will cover upcoming enhancements and their expected rollout dates. Please join us to learn more about the IRB Eff...
Sep 26, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event ...
Oct 8, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Oct 9, 2024
5:00 PM
The Obermann Interdisciplinary Research Grants (IDRG) foster collaborative scholarship and creative work by offering recipients time and space to exchange new ideas leading to invention, creation, and publication. IDRG groups work at the Obermann Center for two or four weeks, usually in July and/or August. Applicants propose work on a project with colleagues from across the University, across disciplines within their own department, or with colleagues from other parts of the country or the w...
Oct 14, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the third Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion! This is open to all—students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science (we have several male faculty in regular attendance and we appreciate the support!). Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
Oct 15, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creat...
Oct 16, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and cha...
Oct 17, 2024
10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as: • Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys • Manually and automatically sending surveys • Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms • Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a bas...
Oct 22, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as: • Importing data from csv • Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic • Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables • Sending automated, conditional email alerts • Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data missingness codes, and opening data queries • And more This training...
Oct 23, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as: • Creating participants • Creating tasks and schedules • Active tasks and their unique data output • Direct messages and announcements • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Oct 23, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from noon to 1 p.m. We will discuss the changes and demonstrate HawkIRB enhancements being implemented to streamline the IRB review process. The monthly session will cover upcoming enhancements and their expected rollout dates. Please join us to learn more about the IRB Eff...
Oct 24, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event ...
Oct 24, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as: • Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with VLOOKUP • Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering • Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables • Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables • Transforming unusable dat...
Oct 30, 2024
5:00 PM
Is there a burning topic in your discipline or a topic that cuts across disciplines that we should bring to campus? Is there a format for the conversation that can energize an intellectual community around that topic? That might be the perfect topic for an Obermann Arts & Humanities Symposium! These imaginative half- and whole-day symposia connect the arts and humanities with design, politics, health sciences, environmental studies, technology, and other disciplines via a compelling topic. ...
Nov 5, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Nov 11, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the third Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion! This is open to all—students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science (we have several male faculty in regular attendance and we appreciate the support!). Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
Nov 12, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creat...
Nov 13, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and cha...
Nov 14, 2024
10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as: • Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys • Manually and automatically sending surveys • Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms • Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a bas...
Nov 19, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as: • Importing data from csv • Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic • Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables • Sending automated, conditional email alerts • Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data missingness codes, and opening data queries • And more This training...
Nov 20, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as: • Creating participants • Creating tasks and schedules • Active tasks and their unique data output • Direct messages and announcements • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Nov 20, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from noon to 1 p.m. We will discuss the changes and demonstrate HawkIRB enhancements being implemented to streamline the IRB review process. The monthly session will cover upcoming enhancements and their expected rollout dates. Please join us to learn more about the IRB Eff...
Nov 21, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event ...
Nov 21, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as: • Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with VLOOKUP • Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering • Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables • Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables • Transforming unusable dat...
Dec 9, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the third Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion! This is open to all—students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science (we have several male faculty in regular attendance and we appreciate the support!). Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
Dec 10, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creat...
Dec 10, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Dec 11, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and cha...
Dec 12, 2024
10:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as: • Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys • Manually and automatically sending surveys • Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms • Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a bas...
Dec 17, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as: • Importing data from csv • Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic • Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables • Sending automated, conditional email alerts • Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data missingness codes, and opening data queries • And more This training...
Dec 18, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as: • Creating participants • Creating tasks and schedules • Active tasks and their unique data output • Direct messages and announcements • And more This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap. Register by clicking the virtual event l...
Dec 18, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from noon to 1 p.m. We will discuss the changes and demonstrate HawkIRB enhancements being implemented to streamline the IRB review process. The monthly session will cover upcoming enhancements and their expected rollout dates. Please join us to learn more about the IRB Eff...
Dec 19, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as: • Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with VLOOKUP • Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering • Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables • Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables • Transforming unusable dat...