Trying to figure out how to have a productive summer? Looking for training? Exploring new skills? From R to archives, the Penn Libraries is offering a variety of workshops and series to help you make the most of Summer 2020.
Check out their calendar as well as their online guide which contains links to register for workshops in seven tracks, plus recordings and materials from completed workshops.
The workshops will cover the following topics:
Do you have data you want to share with the world, but get stuck whenever you leave Powerpoint? Lexi Voss, Visualizationist for the Penn Biomedical Library, will walk you through the basics of Illustrator and get you on the path to professional diagrams and figures.
Registration is required to receive workshop materials.
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Registration: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/6785818
This workshop will introduce you to a few key visual design principles and elements for designing a flyer, poster, or any other visual image. We’ll help train your eye to identify these things and understand how they impact your creative work to help you make better choices that lead to more polished and eye-catching designs.
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Registration: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/6779960
Don’t miss these upcoming Systematic Review workshops from Penn Libraries!
For details and to register, go to: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/wicshops
Start your summer off by getting organized with mind mapping! The Mind Mapping Workshop demonstrates how the use of visual concept maps can help creatively organize:
This workshop will be fun, informative, and hands-on. Please register to learn more about how mind mapping can change your chaos to composed designs.
Register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/6777244
Wrapping up a research paper, thesis, or dissertation? Penn Libraries is offering a final round of online workshops for citation management. Register here.
Weds 5/13: Zotero
Thurs 5/14: Mendeley
Fri 5/15: Advanced Tools & Techniques
F & K Award (Virtual) Workshop Series with Dr. Beth Schachter
Friday, April 24, 2020, 10 AM— 11 AM (F Award Session ONLY)
Monday, April 27, 2020, 10 AM— 11 AM (K Award Session ONLY)
Online via BlueJeans
As originally scheduled, we are happy to offer our annual F & K Award workshop series to you online via BlueJeans.
Registration links and details are provided below!
Dr. Beth Schachter continues her Grantsmanship Workshops that covers NIH F32 fellowships, the K99/R00 Pathway-to-Independence awards for postdoctoral fellows and the other NIH K-type Career Development awards for junior clinical or translational faculty members.
We’re offering two separate sessions for F Award only and K Award only. Dr. Schachter will make separate videos for each group, covering the research, mentoring and training plans (more details to follow). F Award session on BlueJeans will take place on Friday, April 24th, 10 AM-11 AM (REGISTER HERE) and K Award session on BlueJeans will take place on Monday, April 27th, 10 AM-11 AM (REGISTER HERE).
One-on-one sessions: After all of the virtual sessions have been completed, Dr. Schachter will offer (20) 45-minute one-on-one sessions to individuals that joined the virtual sessions. An email will be sent to all participants which will allow the first 20 to sign-up and request the time. During those individual sessions, Dr. Schachter could read and critique your Aims Page, your Biosketch and/or discuss your mentoring team and training plan with you. This offer stands for one year after the second video conference.
Many of you have already registered for these events; therefore, no further action is required. Feel free to reach Donna Crawley, BPP Academic Programs Coordinator, at dcrawley@pennmedicine.upenn.edu , if you have any questions about these events.
Upcoming research paper, thesis, or dissertation?
By popular demand, Penn Libraries are hosting another round of Citation Management Workshops! See details and registration links below:
In lieu of the CVI Seminar Series this Spring, the Penn Cardiovascular Institute will host a Core Workshop Series. This will be a 3 part series in which the Metabolomics Core, iPSC Core, and Mouse Cardiac Phenotyping Core will each present to you their core offerings and examples of how they can provide service to you. The schedule and BlueJeans information is below. All seminars will be during the lunch hour, beginning at noon. Upcoming seminars include:
Tuesday, April 14, C-TRIPS: Terren Niethamer and Ashwin Nathan
Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/154337264
Meeting ID
154337264
Thursday, April 23, Metabolomics Core: Chris Petucci
Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/492476728
Meeting ID
492476728
Tuesday, April 28, iPSC Core: Wenli Yang
Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/222470128
Meeting ID
222470128
Tuesday, May 5, Mouse Cardiac Phenotyping Core: Swapnil Shewale and Kendra McDaid
Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/400407949
Meeting ID
400407949
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Please note that this event has been postponed and will be rescheduled in May 2020.
