Undergraduate Research Seminars
OUR seminars are professional development and/or knowledge-building opportunities for undergraduate researchers. They provide information on a variety of research-related topics. Student researchers from all disciplines are welcome, as are students at all research experience levels.
Funded students are required to attend seminars; please review your program contract, Moodle page, emails, and/or handbook for more on your program requirements.
Spring 2023 Research Support Seminars
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- Speaking with Faculty and Basic Research Expectations
- Maximizing the Library as an Undergraduate Researcher
- Map Your Data and Tell a Story: Getting Started with ArcGIS Online and StoryMaps
- Conferences: Finding Them, Applying, Presenting, and Etiquette
- The Good, the Bad, and the Tufte
- Getting Started with R
- Help Session for Summer Awards
- The Business Side of Publishing and Accessing Research
- Research Fraud, Retractions, and Citation Patterns
- Managing Real World Data with Google Sheets
- Engaging with Communities as a Researcher
- Help Session: Review, Practice, and Feedback (offered twice; Note: In order to count these sessions for PD requirements, you must have a completed project brought with you for review).
Past Seminar Topics
Fall 2022 Seminars
- Student Research Experiences
- Research Types and Communicating with Mentors
- The Business Side of Publishing and Accessing Research
- Elements of Visualization Design
- Award Proposals/Presenting Help Session
- Research Fraud, Retractions, and Citations Patterns
- UFO and Funding/Graduate School
Summer 2022 – Steps in Research Series
- Steps in Publishing
- Steps in Poster Presenting
- Steps in Talking about Research
Spring 2022 – Debunking Research Series
- What is research? Proposals, steps, and dissemination
- How do I speak with a professor?
- DEI in research: Who is a researcher?
- How do I present at a conference?
- How does publishing in a journal (or other space) work?
- Presentation and poster prep & giving/receiving feedback
- Opportunities for Fall 2022
Fall 2021
- Research, resumes, skills, and paths
- Communicating research findings
- (Summer) Research experiences for undergraduates