research

October 11, 2024

R Fundamentals: Part 3 of 4

This interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming in R for people with little or no previous programming experience. It covers the basics of using RStudio, creating variables, working with data frames, and starting to analyse your data using summary statistics and data visualization. After completing…

October 11, 2024

Stata Fundamentals: Part 2 of 3

This workshop is a three-part introductory series that will teach you Stata from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the Stata software, understand data and basic manipulations, import and subset data, explore and visualize data, and understand the…

October 4, 2024

Python Fundamentals: Part 1 of 3

This three-part interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data manipulation to a real-world social science application. The…

October 4, 2024

R Geospatial Fundamentals: Part 1 of 3

Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The R programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research. This workshop focuses on fundamental operations for reading, writing, manipulating and mapping vector data,…

October 3, 2024

R Machine Learning with tidymodels: Part 1 of 2

This two-part workshop provides an introduction to machine learning algorithms using the tidymodels package. It covers what machine learning is, which problems it is most and least equipped to address, and explores the tidymodels framework to fit supervised machine learning models in R. Addressing machine learning problems requires a deep conceptual understanding of the…

October 3, 2024

Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas

Pandas is a Python package that provides fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with ‘relational’ or ‘labeled’ data both easy and intuitive. It enables doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. In this workshop, we’ll work with example data and go through the various…

September 30, 2024

Excel Data Analysis: Introduction

This is a three-hour introductory workshop that will provide an overview of Excel, with no prior experience assumed. Attendees will learn how to use functions for handling data and making calculations, how to build charts and pivot tables, and more. The workshop includes a lecture-style walkthrough of each concept, combined…

September 16, 2024

Python Machine Learning Fundamentals: Part 1 of 2

This workshop introduces students to scikit-learn, the popular machine learning library in Python, as well as the auto-ML library built on top of scikit-learn, TPOT. The focus will be on scikit-learn syntax and available tools to apply machine learning algorithms to datasets. No theory instruction will be provided.

September 16, 2024

Peer Exchange and Feedback on Statements of Teaching Philosophy

The GSI Center’s Workshops on Teaching for GSIs cover a wide variety of topics related to university teaching and the GSI experience. The purpose of the series is to offer GSIs, and other graduate students interested in teaching, opportunities for hands-on learning and practical discussion about pedagogy. Register for…

September 16, 2024

CRB Nexus: Utilities and Energy

CRB Nexus is a community of California researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and organizations committed to public policy solutions informed by data-driven research. We come together to connect, build professional relationships, and share information. Together we translate evidence into action and foster the next generation of public scholarship aimed at identifying…

September 16, 2024

Python Deep Learning: Part 1 of 2

The goal of this workshop is to build intuition for deep learning by building, training, and testing models in Python. Rather than a theory-centered approach, we will evaluate deep learning models through empirical results. Register for this Python Deep Learning workshop to learn more!

September 16, 2024

R Copilot Assisted Coding Workshop

This workshop provides a beginner-friendly introduction to coding with GitHub Copilot, a popular AI coding assistant. We will start from the basics so you can take advantage of AI assistants to improve your coding and avoid common pitfalls. First, we’ll cover how to install and set-up Visual Studio Code, a…

September 4, 2024

Coding and Data Management Workshop Series: SQL

The Carpentries project comprises the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry communities of Instructors, Trainers, Maintainers, helpers, and supporters who share a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers. Register for this online workshop series.

August 1, 2024

Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-3

This three-part interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data manipulation to a real-world social science application. To…

May 22, 2021

Baxter Young Investigator Awards — 6/30/2021

Baxter’s Young Investigator Awards reward research applicable to the development of therapies and medical products that save and sustain patients’ lives. They invite current graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to submit descriptions of ongoing research. The Baxter Young Investigator Awards program consists of two tiers: first-tier awards include a…

May 13, 2021

JSMF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-Scale Systems — 6/11/2021

The James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems is intended to provide students in the final stages of completing a Ph.D. degree more freedom in identifying and securing postdoctoral training opportunities. Following a multi-phase review of applications, selected pre-doctoral students are granted…

March 14, 2021

DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program — 5/5/2021

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is now accepting applications for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. The goal of the Office of Science Graduate Student Research program is to prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (careers critically important to the…

March 10, 2021

Ph.D. Student Kathy Shield’s Groundbreaking Research on Radioactivity

Ph.D. student Kathy Shields working in a campus lab.Photographer: Marilyn Sargent   “I kind of joke that nuclear engineering is like any other type of engineering plus radiation,” quipped Kathy Shield, a fifth-year PhD student in nuclear engineering. Planning on graduating this summer from…

October 1, 2020

Horowitz Foundation Dissertation Research Grants — 12/1/2021

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy was established in 1997 to support the advancement of research and understanding in the major fields of the social sciences, which include psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, urban affairs, area studies, and political science. Grants are based solely on merit. Each is worth a total of $7,500;…