THEME OF THE MONTH
RESEARCH MENTORSHIP
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Research is a conversation that continually pushes understanding about our world. Undergraduate research could not happen without research mentors!
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IDEA GRANT WRITING WORKSHOPS
IDEA Grant writing workshops will be in the Honors, Scholars, and Fellows House
In room 3008
Wednesday, January 8, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Thursday, January 9, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Wednesday, January 15, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Tuesday, January 21, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Friday, January 24, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
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IDEA Grants offer up to $4,000 (or up to $6,000 for groups) in summer funding for undergraduate students' self-designed work on a topic, project, problem, artistic product or performance, or other entrepreneurial or creative idea, under the guidance of their faculty research mentor. Though students may conduct their research at FSU or domestically within the U.S., they can also use the grant to conduct research abroad!
These writing workshops will give students a better understanding of how to approach, prepare for, and write an IDEA Grant proposal. The IDEA Grant deadline is
February 1st, 2020, though it is never too early to begin your application! More information about
IDEA Grants
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Note: all disciplines are welcome to any information session.
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Application Deadline: Friday, January 17, 2020
This year, Meeting of the Minds will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from March 20-22, 2020
(please note this is the final weekend of Spring Break!)
. All majors are eligible to apply. Selected participants will have all travel expenses covered, including plane, hotel, and food. Students can present their original, student-directed and faculty-mentored research or creative project as an oral presentation (15 minutes) or poster presentation. This application requires one letter of recommendation from the student's faculty mentor.
Applications to present at Meeting of the Minds are due January 17th, 2020 by 11:59 pm.
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Honors in the Major Roundtable
Thursday, January 30, 2020
The Honors Program and the Student Council for Undergraduate Research & Creativity (SCURC) are hosting a panel of FSU students, staff, and faculty will discuss recommendations for getting the most out of Honors in the Major. Topics include HITM funding, publication, and fellowship opportunities as well as best practices. Open to all levels, from students who know little about HITM to students who are currently working on an HITM thesis. Come listen, learn, share, and ask questions! Lunch provided to all who attend.
RSVP to save your seat! The Roundtable will take place at 11:45 am and end at 1:00 pm in the Nancy H. Marcus Great Hall at the Honors, Scholas, and Fellows House.
For questions contact Honors in the Major via Dr. Michael Franklin, mdfranklin@fsu.edu
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Apply for
Johns Hopkins University’s first annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium
Application Deadline: Friday, January 24, 2020
The annual two-day event will take place at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It will offer students across the country the chance to disseminate their humanities research on a national scale. The event will be this spring, April 3 and 4, 2020. You can read more about the symposium
here
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This symposium is open to undergraduate students from any two-year or four-year college or university who would like to present their original scholarship in the humanities. The Symposium hopes to have 400 participants this year and will also be offering a select number of travel grants to help students afford participation. In addition to the multiple panels of student papers and presentations (including original creative works), the event will also have a keynote delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr and multiple professional development panels featuring graduate students and faculty in our humanities departments and centers. Students studying all areas of the humanities are welcome to apply to present.
If you are accepted to present you may apply for conference travel funding through the Student Council on Undergraduate Research and Creativity (SCURC) and the CRE.
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FACULTY & RESEARCH MENTORS
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Paul Conway
UROP Faculty Research Mentor Award Winner, 2019
"Over the past three years, I have mentored six honors students, two UROP students, and fourteen directed independent studies students. My style of mentorship tends to involve not only regular laboratory meetings where the whole lab discusses relevant research, but also working one-on-one with each student to develop a novel empirical hypothesis, design measures to operationalize and manipulate the constructs in question, obtain ethics clearance, make the actual questionnaire, obtain participants, and analyze the results together, before crafting posters and manuscripts together. In other words, I treat undergraduates collaborators in generating, testing, and communicating cutting-edge science."
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Kate Hill
UROP Graduate Student Research Mentor Award Winner, 2019
"My relationship with each mentee begins when they read a paper from the primary literature in
preparation for interviewing for a position in the lab. Reading the paper gives us a shared experience, and I open the interview by asking them what interested them and what challenged them about reading the paper. I listen for what interests them, as this may point to a future direction for their research project. Discussing the scientific paper sets the tone that I value their input and that I believe that they are capable scholars. As students begin working in the lab, I encourage them to ask questions and make observations to promote their curiosity, independence, and critical thinking skills. By helping students design projects inspired by their observations, students are more invested in the research project. As a result, they tackle more ambitious data analysis and are eager to engage with the primary literature for answers to their questions."
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James S. Brown
FGLSAMP graduate mentor
James S. Brown is a second-year doctoral student at Florida State University in the Program in Neuroscience. James studies the neurobiology of social behavior and reward. When he graduates, he hopes to continue mentoring undergraduate students, while conducting really cool research.
"I am an FGLSAMP mentor and second-year Ph.D. student in Neuroscience. My current research, under Dr. Zuoxin Wang, investigates how social animals form preferences for various social stimuli and how the oxytocin and dopamine systems both play a role in potentially socially rewarding experiences."
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We have made it easier than ever to request a presentation from a CRE representative. What's more, you can use this portal to request a presentation from any undergraduate office (CRE, Office of National Fellowships, or the Honors Program) in the Honors, Scholars, and Fellows House!
Simply fill out this form and an HSF staff member will respond to schedule your presentation.
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The CRE has many resources for faculty to increase undergraduate involvement in your research. The
faculty resource page details many ways you can become and stay involved with the CRE!
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The HSF Research Series co-sponsored by CRE and University Libraries
Tools & Strategies for Avoiding Plagiarism
February 11, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
HSF 3008
This workshop will explain the rules of when you do and don’t need to cite sources and will help you understand how to properly quote and paraphrase so that you have the confidence to write with integrity.
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What Do I Need to Know about Patent Searching?
February 13, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
HSF 3008
Patents are a valuable, complicated, and often underutilized public resource. This workshop is intended to help first-time patent researchers understand what patents are and how to read them. It will cover formal patent searching techniques, open access for patent searching, and patent search searching through FSU Libraries.
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Correlation Does Not Equal Causality: An Introduction to Data Literacy
February 18, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
HSF 2009
With the vast amount of statistics and infographics now available at the touch of a finger or click of a mouse, it is often difficult to determine which ones offer an accurate representation of a topic. This interactive workshop will provide an overview of data literacy and reproducibility concepts, aimed at giving attendees the knowledge needed to determine the purpose for which statistical and pictorial data is being used and whether conclusions using the data are sound.
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Introduction to Surveys Using Qualtrics
February 20, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
HSF 2009
This workshop will introduce participants to Qualtrics, an online survey software that is available to Florida State University faculty, staff and students. Qualtrics enables users to create and distribute complex surveys and analyze responses from a single online platform.
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Demystify Your Syllabi
30-minute sessions
January 8 — 14, 2020, various times.
Strozier 107A
During the first two weeks of the semester, students can bring in their syllabi and library staff will help them find textbooks/course materials and other relevant resources, such as tutoring info, workshops, and research guides, that can empower students to plan for a successful semester.
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Copyright Information Sessions
1:00 - 4:00 pm
January 23 — Feburary 20, 2020
Strozier and Dirac Libraries
This semester the FSU Libraries will host copyright hours for students to ask copyright questions.
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Locations and Times:
January 23,
Strozier Library (lower level), R&D Commons
January 30
, Dirac Library, Dirac Conference room (rm 216)
Feburary 13
, Strozier Library (lower level), R&D Commons
February 20
, Dirac Library, Dirac Conference room (rm 216)
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MENTORSHIP
THROUGH THE CRE
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Many of the CRE programs rely on student staff to act as research mentors to new classes and cohorts including the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), IDEA Grants, Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Mintority Participation (FGLSAMP), and Global Scholars.
UROP has two tiers of mentorship to help guide students through their research experience with their faculty mentors. UROP Leaders teach UROP students the aspects of quality research and prepare them to present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. UROP Leader Mentors prepare UROP Leaders to teach their students, as well as support them in their teaching techniques. Each UROP student chooses a faculty, graduate student, or campus partner research mentor and works on their project.
IDEA Grants are student-driven research projects that are open to all disciplines. The student proposes a research project and chooses a faculty member to serve as their research mentor. IDEA Grant faculty mentors bring their experience and research background to student projects and can help them secure materials and experiences to enhance their research.
The Global Scholars program relies on the support of the Global Scholars Ambassadors, who are alumni of the Global Scholars who help prepare the next cohort of students in the program and who aid in helping students reflect on their experiences and connect them to similar local social issues upon their return from the summer.
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Morgan Pleasants
Global Scholars Ambassador
My name is Morgan Pleasants and I am currently a junior majoring in Athletic Training, but pursuing a career in Occupational Therapy. Freshman year, I was a student in the Global Scholars program, and I had the opportunity to travel to Ghana and work in a hospital and a school. In the hospital, I gained experience working in a patient setting and within the school I was able to aid children with disabilities in the classroom. In my free time I conducted research on hand washing within four different schools. Following my time as a Global Scholars student I had the opportunity to be a Global Scholars Ambassador. I was so thankful to be able to guide these students in having their own unique opportunity.
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Zoë White
UROP Student and Leader
As a freshman, White joined a psychology Freshman Interest Group (FIG) where she learned about undergraduate research opportunities on campus. The next year, she tested the research waters through FSU’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). As an undergraduate researcher working with Jon Maner and Stacey Makhanova, she looked at the effects of negative social interactions and how they correlate with human biological processes related to stress and the immune system.
“I want to make research important to them because it’s been so valuable to me,” White said. “It’s a really rewarding experience as an undergraduate. You can directly give back to the information that is going to get put into your textbooks one day.”
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REMEMBERING
DR. LISA SCOTT
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The CRE is incredibly sad to share this news. Dr. Lisa Scott was a longstanding member of the CRE's Faculty Advisory Committee, contributing to the selection of our summer research award winners across more than a decade. Her gracious guidance supported many students through their undergraduate research experiences, and she was awarded the Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year Award in 2007 (along with countless other awards recognizing her teaching and mentorship).
Her presence will be deeply missed across campus and certainly within the Honors, Scholars, & Fellows House. Her remarkable generosity carries on in her continued support of undergraduate researchers at Florida State University. In lieu of flowers, a scholarship has been set up in Lisa’s honor. To make a contribution to the Lisa Scott Endowed Undergraduate Research Award, please visit
this link. This scholarship is designed for 1st generation/1st time in college women interested in pursuing an undergraduate research project.
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CRE DROP-IN HOURS
SPRING 2020
January 6 — May 1
Monday, 10 - 12
Wednesday, 1-3
Morgan Hamilton, mjhamilton@fsu.edu
Tuesday, 1 - 3
David Advent, madvent@fsu.edu
Thursday, 10 - 12
Alex Oldham, aoldham@fsu.edu
Contact us
cre@fsu.edu
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