Research Skills

Thesis and Dissertation Writing with Latex/Lyx part I: The Basics

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Event Date:January 28, 2020 – 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM Location:Center for Graduate Life-Cone 268 Facilitated by Dr. Andrew Willis, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Are you spending hours formatting your thesis, dissertation, or other writing project? If so, please join us for this advanced LaTeX/LyX workshop. LaTeX is one of […]

#SciComm: Talking about your research with the media and public audiences

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Event Date:March 22, 2019 – 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM Location:Cone 268 Facilitated by Dr. Elise Demeter and Dr. Anita Blanchard, UNC Charlotte, with Buffie Stephens, Director of Issues Management & External Media Relations, and Jason Vaughan, Media Relations Manager Many researchers are interested in sharing their work and expertise outside of the scientific community, […]

#SciComm: Crafting your elevator pitch on your scientific research for non-expert audiences

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Event Date:February 26, 2019 – 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Location:Cone 268 Facilitated by Dr. Elise Demeter, UNC Charlotte “What do you do?” This common question can turn even the most brilliant and creative of researchers into boring, jargon-filled babblers. How do you explain that five-years-and-counting dissertation thesis project to a new colleague, to an […]