Welcome back from
FINDINGS
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Digital Futures on the rise in Cincinnati Innovation District
Before we know it, UC's interdisciplinary research space, Digital Futures, will be humming away, solving today and tomorrow's digital problems with artificial intelligence, sensors, analytics, education, informatics, simulations, policy work, the creative arts and the humanities.
But it's also a place where UC will take participatory, public-engaged research to the next level AND show the University's commitment to a green future.
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New academic year, new newsletter
Hello,
We've been sending Findings to UC researchers and the research community each month now for a few years and thought it was about time for an upgrade!
Thanks to those who took the survey we sent last month. We appreciate the feedback and hope you will see your suggestions portrayed in our redesign.
Findings will have a series of new rotating features, such as a Researcher/Research Team Spotlight.
Plus, we think this new design is more streamlined, to help you find what you're interested in more quickly, including time-sensitive material. (See below.)
Please, add us to your address book, and send your story ideas to Findings editor Carrie Blackmore Smith at smit3cb@ucmail.uc.edu.
Thanks for all you do, and here's to a great year!
Sincerely,
Pat Limbach
Vice President for Research
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It's about more than money
Sure, the first-year UC faculty researchers pictured above earned $2,500-$3,500 with their Research Launch Award, but they received a lot more than that.
Here's what they reported back:
"The professional development training that I received this year has helped me be strategic in thinking about how to effectively start my research group and mentor new lab members, how to recruit and how to think about turning ideas into strong research proposals.”
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And ...
"I actually just finished my first NSF proposal and knowing all the ins and outs of the budget spreadsheet and process saved me a lot of time, which I spent instead on writing up the technical part of the proposal.”
And ...
"... after attending the first few, the value was clear and signing up for future courses became a priority.”
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Outside Activity Reports due soon
Heads up, College of Medicine and Hoxworth employees must complete their OAR between Aug. 17 and Sept. 18. The rest of the university must file between Oct. 12 and Nov. 13.
All faculty and staff who engage in research, creative and/or scholarly work at UC cannot submit their report until they have completed the 2020 Conflict of Interest Training, a seven-minute video, which will be available by Aug. 17.
UC employees over 50 percent full-time equivalent must disclose outside activities.
Researchers are required to report any activity outside of the scope of normal UC duties—even duties performed at UC and unpaid activities.
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Return to campus guides
Fall Semester will be different than any other year, that's for sure.
Nearly every aspect of our campus community has been affected by the pandemic, and that absolutely includes our research enterprise at UC.
As the Return to Campus Guide states, "these changes, no matter the size or scope, must never keep us from being Bearcats. Our family is over 365,000 strong, and we will persevere by the wisdom ingrained in our university’s seal: strength in unity."
Onward!
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COVID-19 research in the news
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Virtual Panel: Emerging Technologies in Literacy |
Join UC's Renee Seward, founder of See Word Design, Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft Education Mike Tholfsen and Vice President of Engineering at Learning A-Z Kent Kanipe for an hour-long discussion. part of the OoR's Digital Futures programming on August 20 from 11 a.m. to noon.
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