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Fall 2023 Speaker Series: High School Data Science Controversy: California and Beyond (Zoom)

Friday, October 20, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Dr. Jelani Nelson, Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Title: High School Data Science Controversy: California and Beyond

Dr. Jelani Nelson

Bio

Dr. Jelani Nelson is a professor of Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2014 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Nelson is interested in big data and the development of efficient algorithms.

Nelson is the creator of AddisCoder, a computer science summer program for Ethiopian high school students in Addis Ababa. After his doctorate, Nelson worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, then Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study.[3] He specializes in sketching and streaming algorithms.

 

Learn more about Dr. Nelson by visiting his UC Berkeley page, as well as his Twitter page.

Registration for Dr. Nelson’s talk  is now open! Click the link here to register!

Fall 2023 By the Numbers Discussion Series: School Segregation By the Numbers (Zoom)

Friday, October 6, 2023, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Jacqueline Nowicki, Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Title: School Segregation By the Numbers

Please join Ms. Jacqueline Nowicki, the Director of  Education, Workforce, and Income Security at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), for a discussion on recent reports regarding school segregation among US K-12 schools.

Please read the following report written by Dr. Nowicki before attending the event:

K-12 Education: Student Population Has Significantly Diversified, but Many Schools Remain Divided Along Racial, Ethnic, and Economic Lines

Jacqueline Nowicki

Bio

Ms. Nowicki is a Director in the Education, Workforce, and Income Security Team at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. She is responsible for leading GAO’s work on a wide range of pre K-12 issues, including special education, school facilities, K12 COVID spending, equitable access, school climate and safety, and Head Start.  A nationally recognized expert in K-12 education, she regularly testifies before Congress and has made dozens of recommendations to Congress and federal agencies to improve federal oversight and educational outcomes for kids. She also has 25+ years of experience with federal budgeting and grants management issues. Additionally, she teaches a wide range of leadership and writing courses in GAO’s Learning Center, and is a certified diversity and inclusion facilitator.

Ms. Nowicki joined GAO in 1998 and has received numerous awards during her GAO career, including GAO’s Client Services award for exemplary commitment to providing expert and timely service to Congressional clients; two Chief Learning Officers Awards for exceptional commitment to and outstanding performance in redesigning and teaching writing and leadership courses; and both Distinguished and Meritorious Service awards for her dedication to staff development and motivating staff to achieve high levels of performance.

Prior to joining GAO, Ms. Nowicki worked in private sector consulting and led projects on education, job training and social policy issues for state and local government clients, and served as a Senior Fiscal Analyst at the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. She earned a Master’s degree in public policy from the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs and a Bachelor’s degree in finance from Lehigh University. She and her family live in New England.

 

Event Registration

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IPR Special Topics Seminar I: Data Management Tips to Improve Research Efficiency and Quality (In-person or virtual)

In nearly every research project, your most important collaborator (you from 5 months ago) does not reply to emails.  Fortunately, there are several strategies for handling these types of problems.  In this seminar we will focus on best practices and tools for managing your data and improving your research efficiency. Using modular batch scripts, GitHub, markdown, etc. will make resubmitting your R&R a breeze, while also facilitating your collaborations with students advisors, and colleagues.  These tips and tricks are portable across stat packages (e.g., Stata, R, SAS) and can be employed with either Windows or macOS.

This session is led by Research Scientist Jason Thomas.

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QualLab Lunch: The Question of Blackness in Qualitative Inquiry (Zoom)

QualLab Lunches are back for Fall 2023! Join us for our first QualLab Lunch of the 2023-2024 academic year – Dr. Wilson Kwamogi Okello, Assistant Professor at Penn State University will discuss “The Question of Blackness in Qualitative Inquiry.” This event will be held on Thursday, September 28th, 2023 from 12 PM to 1 PM.  

In this talk, Dr. Okello discusses how theorizing Blacknessprovides the conditions of possibility for upsettingepistemic, ontological, and axiological foundations thatstructure Western knowledge production and Blackexistence. This talk invites participants to consider thecentral question:
what does it mean to center Blacknessin educational research?

If interested in attending, you may register here: go.osu.edu/okellolunch.  

More information about QualLab Lunches can be found on our website. 

Introduction to the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy (Virtual Event)

Do you have an upcoming NIH proposal due? Join us to learn about the newly implemented NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) policy, including the requirement to submit a DMS plan with all new applications and renewals. Compliance with the submitted and accepted plan will be assessed, and non-compliance can impact future funding.

This informational session will provide an introduction to the policy, as well as the tools and resources provided by Ohio State to help you. The final 30 minutes will be reserved for questions.

Topics to be covered include:

  • How the DMPTool can help you address the required elements of a DMS plan
  • Tips for identifying a suitable repository
  • Guidance on how to budget for data-related costs
  • Who on campus can help with questions

This workshop is ideal for researchers who currently receive NIH funding or may apply in the future, as well as staff who support NIH-funded researchers.

Can’t make the workshop?  Check out the NIH DMS Policy Guide for the latest updates, including the slides from this session.

For questions, or additional information, please contact us at datamanagement@osu.edu.

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Buck-IRB Initial Submissions (Zoom)

The Office of Responsible Research Practices is offering a session on the Buck-IRB initial submission application. At the end of the offering, attendees will be able to:

  • Navigate through the Ohio State IRB initial application (not external or exempt)
  • Identify documents that typically accompany a complete application
  • Anticipate common pitfalls and create strategies for a successful submission

 

The session will be tailored to medical researchers; however, anyone preparing IRB submissions is welcome to attend. The workshop will be held on Tuesday, September 19th from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. via Zoom.

Registration requested at: https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t3JKCrNASNKpQpVKudPEQQ

For questions, contact: 614-688-8641 or meadows.8@osu.edu

Fall 2023 Speaker Series: Choosing to Learn: The Value of Autonomy in Post-Secondary Education (Zoom)

Friday, September 22, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Daniel Oppenheimer, Professor of Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Title: Choosing to Learn: The Value of Autonomy in Post-Secondary Education

Please join us for an invited talk by Dr. Danny Oppenheimer, professor at Carnegie Mellon University, for an invited talk on Friday, September 22 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm.

Dr. Danny Oppenheimer

Dr. Danny Oppenheimer

Abstract

Despite a large literature demonstrating the importance of agency/autonomy in student motivation and achievement, there has been little focus on developing specific, practical, and implementable interventions that promote autonomy in educational settings. If anything, many practices endorsed by university teaching and learning centers, such as mandatory attendance, mandatory drafts, and syllabus quizzes, serve to undermine feelings of autonomy. Here, we briefly review the literature on the benefits of promoting agency, provide several concrete teaching strategies for doing so, and provide evidence of their efficacy. Agency-promoting teaching practices have the potential to improve student outcomes both in the classroom (i.e. more motivated students who consequently learn more) and beyond.

Bio

Danny Oppenheimer is a professor at Carnegie Mellon jointly appointed in Psychology and Decision Sciences who studies judgment, decision making, metacognition, learning and causal reasoning, and applies his findings to a diverse array of domains, such as charitable giving, consumer behavior, education, electoral outcomes, and how to trick students into buying him ice cream.

He is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed articles and books including “Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System that shouldn’t work at all works so well” and “Psychology: The Comic Book Introduction”.

He has won awards for research, teaching, and humor, the latter of which is particularly inexplicable given his penchant for truly terrible puns.

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Fall 2023 Speaker Series: Incentivizing Equity? The Effects of Performance-Based Funding on Reducing Racial Disparities in College Completion (Zoom)

Friday, September 8, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Dr. Monnica Chan, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, University of Massachusetts-Boston (UMass-Boston)

Title: Incentivizing Equity? The Effects of Performance-Based Funding on Reducing Racial Disparities in College Completion

Dr. Monnica Chan

Bio

Monnica is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Her research examines how higher education policies and practice provide (and limit) students’ opportunities to earn a credential. Of particular interest is how students pay for college – through traditional financial aid, employment, and other resources – and the implications for students’ academic and long-term success.

Prior to joining UMB, Monnica was the director of policy and research at the New England Board of Higher Education.

Monnica earned her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Program Evaluation from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Publishing Grants for Open Access Monographs (Virtual Information Session)

Are you a faculty member publishing a monograph with a university press? Faculty members publishing a scholarly monograph with a university press may be eligible for an award of up to $15,000 to publish their work Open Access. Join us to learn more about our new Ohio State Open Access Monograph Initiative launching this Fall. The Ohio State University Libraries is funding Open Access scholarly monographs authored by Ohio State faculty and published by university presses. To learn more about this initiative and how to submit an expression of interest, please attend this information session.

Presenter:

Maureen Walsh, Associate Professor, Scholarly Sharing Strategist, University Libraries

More information: https://library.osu.edu/transforming-publishing/open-monograph-initiative

Contact: TransformPublishing@osu.edu

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