Research Skills
Communicating Your Research to a Non-Specialist Audience
Event Date:October 16, 2023 – 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Location:Zoom “So, what’s your research about, anyway?” Whether you’re at the beginning of your graduate program or you’re working as a postdoc, you might often get this question from family, friends, or even colleagues from other fields. If you sometimes struggle with explaining your research, […]
Communicating Your Research to a Non-Specialist Audience
Event Date:October 11, 2023 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Location:Atkins 146 “So, what’s your research about, anyway?” Whether you’re at the beginning of your graduate program or you’re working as a postdoc, you might often get this question from family, friends, or even colleagues from other fields. If you sometimes struggle with explaining your […]
Understanding IRBs: How to be an Ethical Researcher
Event Date:September 14, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Location:Atkins 146 (CGLL classroom) Whether you’re a social scientist sending out a survey, an educational leader evaluating how to improve a curriculum, a software or computer scientist designing an app to improve data visualization, or an engineer exploring how to improve a device, you may […]
Atkins Library Area 49 Workshop
Event Date:September 15, 2021 – 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Location:Zoom Area 49 is the library’s collection of innovation spaces. It includes a Makerspace, an EZ Video Studio, a Visualization Lab, and much more. We not only provide access to these spaces, but we also offer consultations for how to develop and complete nontraditional projects […]
Atkins Library Research Fundamentals for Graduate Student Success
Event Date:September 9, 2021 – 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Location:Zoom While in graduate school, you will have many varied research and study needs. Atkins Library provides access to a range of resources, spaces, and services that will support you and your academic success while at UNC Charlotte. In this workshop, we will introduce you […]
Atkins Library Grad Student Open House
Event Date:September 1, 2021 – 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Location:Atkins Library, Area 49 (2nd floor) The first of three events! Join us on Wednesday, September 1, from 4:00 to 5:00 pm at the second floor of Atkins Library at Area 49 for a welcome and introduction to the Atkins Library world. You’ll be able […]
How-to: Planning and Publishing Academic Research
Event Date:March 19, 2021 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Location:Zoom Publishing can be a daunting task for a young researcher. Planning out future research projects, knowing where and how to publish, and balancing that work with other responsibilities is not an intuitive skill. In this event, we are excited to have professors from the […]
Understanding IRBs: How to be an Ethical Researcher
Event Date:February 22, 2021 – 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Location:Zoom Whether you’re a biologist studying the effects of a medicine in animals, or a social scientist sending out a survey, you will need Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval before starting your research. In this workshop, you will hear from members of UNC Charlotte’s IRB […]
Paywall Film Virtual Panel Discussion
Event Date:April 28, 2020 – 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Location:WebEx As part of the series, “Film Screen with a Dean,” Anne Cooper Moore, dean of J. Murrey Atkins Library, invites you to a virtual panel discussion about academic and open access publishing in response to the documentary, Paywall: The Business of Scholarship. This panel […]
THESIS & DISSERTATION WRITING WITH LaTeX/LyX PART II: WRITING BOOTCAMP
Event Date:January 30, 2020 – 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM Location:Center for Graduate Life-Cone 268 For those who attended Dr. Willis’s workshop earlier this week or have already begun learning Latex or Lyx. Are you spending hours formatting your thesis, dissertation, or other writing project? If so, please join us for this advanced LaTeX/LyX workshop. […]