SRA Summer Workshops
This June there will be a series of workshops geared for Summer Research Assistants. These workshops will focus on a variety of topics, including basic research skills, using the citation manager Zotero, data analysis with R, and coding with Python. Lunch will be provided. Details and registration information below:
How to Conduct a Literature Review
- Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025
- Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Registration
- This workshop will explain what faculty mean when they say “conduct a literature review.”
- Participants will learn:
- What a literature review is and why researchers need to complete them along with some differences across disciplines.
- How to select the best search tools including a brief discussion of AI tools.
- How to build an effective search strategy.
- Methods for organizing and synthesizing search results.
- Participants will learn:
Introduction to Zotero
- Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
- Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Registration
- Zotero is an open-source citation management tool (like RefWorks or EndNote) which is free to use anywhere in the world. It is especially useful for anyone managing many sources, of various types, for multiple research projects. In this session, participants will learn how to:
- Populate their Zotero library by importing or creating metadata from sources like books, articles, websites, etc.
- Organize these citations and accompanying research materials such as notes and annotations
- Produce bibliographies in various citation styles while using word-processing software (MS Word or Google Docs)
Intro to Data Analysis in RStudio (2 days)
- Dates:
- Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
- Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
- Register for Part 1
- Register for Part 2
- In this carpentries-style workshop led by data librarians Sarika Sharma and Julia Deen, we will learn the basics of the R programming language using Rstudio. Designed for beginners, there is no coding background required. In this workshop participants will learn:
- The basics of the R programming language and how to use Rstudio
- How to import and export datasets in Rstudio
- How to clean, manipulate, and wrangle messy data
- How to visualize data using ggplot2
Introduction to Data Analysis With Python (2 days)
- Dates:
- Monday, June 23, 2025 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
- Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
- Register for Part 1
- Register for Part 2
- In this carpentries-style workshop we will learn the basics of the Python programming language using Jupyter Notebooks. This is designed for beginners and does not require coding background or experience. In this workshop participants will:
- Learn the basics of coding in Python & Jupyter notebooks
- Import datasets and calculate basic summary statistics and create basic data visualizations
- How to sort, clean, and manipulate dataframes using the Python Pandas library