Professional Development

Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Seminar Series

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Dr. Ian Howat, BPCRC Director Candidate, will give a Byrd Center seminar on Wed. Feb. 21, 2018, at 1 p.m. in Rm. 240 Scott Hall.

Howat Seminar Flyer

Zoom Information:
Topic: Ian’s Talk – Zoom Call
Time: Feb 21, 2018 1:00 PM America/Toronto
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Meeting ID: 838 574 624
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National Conference on Diversity, Race, and Learning

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Remaining Vigilant: Creating & Flourishing with Diversity & Inclusion in a New Era
Monday and Tuesday, May 7 and 8, 2018
featuring Candi Castleberry Singleton, VP of Intersectionality, Culture and Diversity, Twitter

MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 
9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Pre-Conference Diversity Training
The Ohio State University, Hale Hall, 154 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH
Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. returns as featured trainer along with other selected expert trainers

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Special Dinner w/Distinguished Keynote
Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Drive, Columbus, OH

TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2018
7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
The Ohio State University Fawcett Conference Center
2400 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH
Including: Morning Charge, Featured Keynote Address and 18 Dynamic Breakout Sessions

Click here for more information and to register.

Innovations & Conversations

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Join technology commercialization experts for the February Innovations & Conversations on Tuesday, Feb. 13 from 5 – 7 p.m. in the Faculty Club Colleagues Room to learn more about the Accelerator Awards program and how faculty can be awarded funding to help further develop your technology.

Innovations and Conversations Flyer

Come spend time with our experts to learn more about: the purpose of Accelerator Awards; continuum funding; applying for an Accelerator Award; Accelerator Award criteria; and award selection. The next round of applications for funding opens in less than a week.

Innovations & Conversations is a quarterly, informal gathering for faculty to network with business, technology commercialization and industry partnerships. Conversations focus on the cycle of innovation — from discovery to marketplace.

Appetizers and drinks are provided. Click here to RSVP.

Degree Audit Workshop

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The CFAES Office of Academic Affairs is offering a degree audit workshop for all advisors. This will be an active workshop where you will use the degree audit system to review a student’s progress toward her/his degree and run a Transfer Credit Report. Please bring a laptop computer.

Date: Friday, Feb. 23, 2018
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Speakers: Paul Heimberger and Ben Carignan, College Academic Counselors
Location: International Room (110) at the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center
Parking passes will be available to those that RSVP for the session

RSVP to Susie Sheller by Feb. 16, 2018

GDSU Educational Sessions

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The Grant Development Support Unit is hosting several educational sessions. Sessions are free and open to interested faculty, staff, and students.

Data Management Basics for Agricultural Data
February 13, 2018
Video-linked: Research Services 130 (Wooster), Agricultural Administration 250A (Columbus)
1 – 3 p.m.
Register

Working with agricultural data can lead to a variety of challenges including discipline specific issues such as: questions about ownership, difficulties in ‘matching’ or aggregating data, and data being linked to land value. This is all in addition to the normal issues of working with data including: creating a file naming system, tracking versions, and maintaining meaningful metadata for your research projects. Join Amanda Rinehart (Data Management Services Librarian) and Gwen Short (OARDC Librarian) for a workshop addressing these issues. Please bring a laptop or other productivity device in order to fully participate. There will be presenters in Wooster and Columbus.

Team Science
March 21, 2018
Video-linked: Research Services 130 (Wooster), Kottman Hall 200 (Columbus)
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Register

Federal agencies are increasingly allocating funding to address societal grand challenges. Universities understand that mounting successful efforts in response require team science approaches.  RA/RD professionals play an essential role in supporting these efforts.  This presentation will define types of team science, describe major award programs supported by several of the federal agencies, and discuss how RA/RD can facilitate the successful development and submission of these proposals. Our presenter, Kate Hayes-Ozello, will be located in Columbus.

Initial Submissions and Buck IRB
April 10, 2018
Video-linked: Research Services 130 (Wooster), Agricultural Administration 250A (Columbus)
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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The Office of Responsible Research Practices is offering a workshop on the Buck-IRB initial submission application. Joni Barnard will be presenting from Columbus. The workshop will:

  • Provide an overview of the Buck-IRB system and how to navigate through the Ohio State IRB initial application (not external or exempt)
  • Identify documents that typically accompany a complete application
  • Discuss common pitfalls and tips for successful submission
  • Focus on application sections specific to behavioral research

Introduction to Cayuse424
May 10, 2018
Video-linked: Research Services 130 (Wooster), Agricultural Administration 250A (Columbus)
1 – 2 p.m.
Register

The Cayuse SF424 system is a web-based product that facilitates electronic preparation and submission of proposals to federal agencies including NIH, NSF, and USDA. The product provides significant auto-filling of forms, extensive error checking, and the ability to see the entire proposal as it will look to reviewers before submission.  This session will give an overview on how to use the system including a live demo. Aimee Nielsen-Link will be presenting from Columbus, with personal assistance available in Wooster.

Click here for a full listing of upcoming events on the GDSU calendar.

Food Systems Seminars

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Food Systems Seminars
with Kate Clancy
Sponsored by Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation

Building Successful Interdisciplinary Systems Projects
Wed, Jan 31
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Smith Lab 3150

As the mandates and opportunities increase for researchers to participate in large, complex systems projects, it can be useful to learn more about the challenges these efforts pose, and how they’ve been handled by other collaborations. This interactive lecture will describe a dozen “ingredients of success” for interdisciplinary research teams, and illustrate each with examples from an extensive seven-year project on food security in the Northeast United States.

Building a Career in Food Systems Research and Practice
Wed, Jan 31
2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Smith Lab 3150

The science, expertise, and collaborations among scientists involved with sustainable agriculture and sustainable food systems have evolved over the past few decades, along with changes and challenges in the U.S. food system. Building an academic career in this arena offers both opportunity and challenges. This conversation will explore paths forward particularly for early career scholars like Discovery Theme hires, including social, cultural, and resource barriers, and how to maneuver through and around them.

Kate Clancy is a food systems consultant, visiting scholar at the Center for a Livable Future Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, adjunct professor at Tufts University, and senior fellow in the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Minnesota. She has published, taught, spoken and consulted widely on sustainable agriculture and food systems with government agencies, universities, and nonprofits around the country.

 

Grant Development Support Unit Offers Free Services

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The Grant Development Support Unit (GDSU) is a resource available to all CFAES faculty to assist with grant proposal development and submission. Some of you may remember when there was a proposal fee associated with this service, but GDSU’s services are now FREE. GDSU has three grant specialists: Lori Kaser (CFAES Grants and Contracts Administrator), Pam Schlegel, and Melissa Burant. The GDSU has locations on the Columbus and Wooster campuses. You can contact any of these individuals directly or through the general GDSU email address:

It is always best to contact GDSU early in the proposal process and notify them of your needs and timeline. Our services are on a first-come, first-serve basis, and we recommend trying to get on our schedule as soon as you know you will be pursuing a funding opportunity. Otherwise, the staff may be fully booked and will direct you to other resources. As part of the engagement process, your GDSU grant coordinator will start with a review that outlines roles, responsibilities, requirements, and limitations when working with the GDSU.  Once there is agreement to move forward, she will set up a Buckeye Box with forms and templates tailored specifically to your proposal needs. The templates will include a budget worksheet with Office of Sponsored Program’s (OSP) most current fringe and F&A (indirect cost) rates.  The team has worked with a wide range of granting agencies and have a great working relationship with OSP.

In addition to assisting with grant proposal development, GDSU offers a New Researcher Onboarding packet and hosts a variety of training opportunities. The GDSU staff is always available to answer general grant-related questions. The website offers a wealth of information and resources.  If you are not receiving the monthly newsletter, Research News, please email Kayla Arnold (Arnold.1065@osu.edu), Grants Office Associate, to be added to the listserv.

 

InFACT Guest Lecturer

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The Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation (InFACT) is hosting a guest lecture with A.G. Kawamura. His presentation, Envisioning an Agricultural Renaissance, will be Jan. 18 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Animal Sciences Building, Room AS0210.

InFACT Guest Lecturer

Global food systems are changing in dynamic and remarkable ways.  The nexus between food, water, energy and changing climate is forcing agriculturists to re-imagine how they will provide sustenance to a hungry world.  The challenges and opportunities that are emerging with the advent of expanding knowledge, technology and information systems are forcing us to re-think all aspects of agriculture.  In a complacent world of abundance, the urgency to adopt, adapt and transform the global food system may seem remote, more like an indulgence.  However, the very real threats to food security that confront our attempts to manage life systems and resources in a sustainable way are revealing themselves in concerning, even alarming pathways.  The global agricultural community must become united and aligned in both thinking and strategic intent.  The need for interactive and collaborative work is vital.  The capacity to share, learn and expand the general capability of farmers while enhancing the predictability of their agricultural activities on a planet with changing climate regimes has never been more exciting.  As we begin to envision new ways of approaching and accomplishing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a new age of agriculture is unfolding as a necessary compliment to how we achieve those transformational aspirations!

A.G. is a third generation fruit and vegetable grower and shipper from Orange County. He is the former Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (2003-2010). He is co-chair of Solutions from the Land, a non-profit organization that is currently working to organize and convene the North American Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture.

Patent Protecting in the Agricultural Space – Luncheon Presentation

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You are invited to Patent Protecting in the Agricultural Space featuring Margaux Nair of K&L Gates.

Wednesday, Jan. 10
11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Columbus: 139 Howlett Hall
Wooster (via webcast): 123 Williams Hall
Lunch will be served.
RSVP: By Jan. 3 to Tracy Preston at preston.325@osu.edu

At this session you will:

  • Learn about the different forms of intellectual property (IP) protection available for plant-related inventions in the United States and in large agricultural economies like Europe and Australia;
  • Discover why certain forms of protection are more appropriate than others for particular inventions;
  • Understand effective strategies for the development and commercialization of a global IP portfolio;
  • Hear about recent cases that highlight useful tips and tricks for obtaining broad and enforceable IP protection.

 

Advising Basics Workshop

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A workshop held by CFAES Academic Affairs for college advisors, faculty and staff.

Advising Basics – An overview of responsibilities, answers to common inquiries, and resources available to advisors and students within the college and on campus.

Friday, Jan. 26, 2018
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Location: 4H Center, International Room
RSVP: Julie Miller, Academic Program Coordinator, at miller.4325@osu.edu.

D.C. Days 2018 RFP

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The CFAES  Office of  Research and Graduate Education and the Grant Development Support Unit (GDSU) are once again offering CFAES faculty the opportunity to travel to Washington, DC. The Grant Development Support Unit will arrange a group visit (2 to 3 days) in May 2018.

This trip allows researchers to become more competitive by providing an opportunity to visit with federal program officers. This enables researchers to determine whether their basic concept is a good fit with the sponsor’s mission, to seek advice concerning project design and appropriate funding track, and to better understand the peer review process. Meetings with program officers will take place at federal agency offices in Washington, D.C.

Faculty from the College of Education and Human Ecology will also accompany the CFAES group, through the EHE program, to encourage collaborative grant seeking. We hope to provide this experience to six to eight CFAES faculty this year, determined through the competitive application process.  Applications will be accepted from any interested faculty member; however, priority will be given to those with the rank of Assistant Professor, especially those who have grant writing experience. Please contact Pam Schlegel or Lori Kaser with questions.

DC Days RFP 2018

The application deadline is December 15, 2018.

National Land-Grant Diversity Conference

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Intentional Connections: Education & Application in a World of Differences
February 14-16, 2018

Registration Cost:
$65    Pre-Conference  (Feb. 14)
$195    Conference  (Feb. 15-16)

About the Conference
The Conference is hosted by five land-grant universities from Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. It is designed for administrators, faculty, and staff from Cooperative Extension, research, and academic programs; private and public university representatives; K-12 educators; community outreach leaders; health and social services professionals; employers and supervisors; human resource staff; elected and appointed officials; and all others wanting to expand diversity efforts and increase cultural understanding in their communities and workplaces.
For additional information click here.

Seminar On Wheels
Brand NEW this Year – Travel by charter bus to sites throughout Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati that were important in the march to freedom during the time of underground railroad.  The tour features a visit to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati and includes a delicious four course meal at the famous Hofbräuhaus in Newport Kentucky.  Seminar limited to 45 participants.

Registration is open! (Early bird $195 special deadline is January 15.) Click here to register.

Pre-Conference: Join us a day early (Feb. 14) for a tour (transportation and lunch included) of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and other sites, plus a 4-course meal at the famous Hofbräuhaus. Only $65. Limited to 45 participants!

Keynote Address:  Karima Samadi and the Ohio State University Kirwan Institute. Hear Karima’s story (immigration, integration, and inclusion). Participate in a World Cafe discussion (personal reflection, storytelling), and civic engagement training.

Capnote Address: Jasmine Roberts, Ohio State University School of Communication, strategic communication lecturer and author of “Writing of Strategic Communication Industries,” an openly-licensed textbook and writing guide for those interested in the strategic communication field. Topic: Open Education: Accessible and Affordable, Unrestricted and Open for All.

International Banquet:  Thursday evening will feature unique dishes from four parts of the globe.  The hotel chef is a master at preparing a wide array of international dishes.

The goal of this diversity conference is to learn more about ourselves and others, to network, and to link resources to integrate diversity into programs, policies and practices for creating community well-being.

 

I-Corps@Ohio Program Request for Proposals

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Is your technology ready to assess its market potential?  The I-Corps@Ohio program is an outstanding opportunity for PIs, graduate students, and post-docs to learn if the real-world is ready for your technology.  Shauna Brummet will mentor individuals through the application process and the workshop series next summer.  The deadline for submission of the application is January 16, 2018.  There is time to prepare the brief application.  Just a few questions, submitted online regarding your technology, your product or service, and market information, which Shauna will help you obtain.

CFAES has been very successful in winning spots in these cohorts.  Our teams have included:

  • Swine Flu Vaccine – Aradhya Gourapura, Santosh Dhakal, Shauna Brummet – 2015 – resulted in technology licensing
  • Guayule Latex (EnergyEne) – Katrina Cornish, Zhenyu Li, Tom Fontana, Shauna Brummet – 2016 – resulted in follow-on funding
  • Encapsulation Nanotechnology – Jon Parquette, Bob Tabita, Sriram Satagopan, Yuan Sun, Bill Timmons, Shauna Brummet – 2016 – resulted in pivot in market and further research development, continued funding
  • Bioproducts – Teddy Ezeji, Chris Okonkwo, Rob Yenne, Shauna Brummet – 2016 – resulted in pivot in market and further research development

All of these teams found the experience very useful, leading them to a deeper understanding of their technology’s potential in the market – to solve problems. Please let Shauna know if you are interested in pursuing this opportunity. She can be reached at: brummet.1@osu.edu or 330-263-3716.

The I-Corps@Ohio program incorporates Lean Startup, Customer Discovery and Business Model Canvas methodologies to accelerate commercialization of technologies from Ohio universities and colleges while expanding the business acumen and networks of faculty and students across the state. The resulting companies will drive sustainable technology-based economic development in Ohio.

You have until January 16, 2018, to submit your application for funding provided by the Ohio Department of Higher Education to be selected to participate in the 2018 I-Corps@Ohio cohort. Form your team now and submit your university technology using the online questionnaire to begin the process of taking your technology from lab to market.

View a few of the 2017 teams and learn about their progress.

Click here to view the 2018 RFP.

Inclusive Excellence Trainings

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These one-hour trainings focus on best practices for ensuring all reasonable efforts to attract a diverse candidate pool for open staff or faculty positions. Participants will examine the role that implicit bias often plays in screening applicants.  Strategies for advertising and creating avenues for underrepresented applicants will be presented.

This trainings are available face to face in Columbus and via streaming in Wooster, as well as via Zoom. Click the links below to register for upcoming training sessions.

Click here to register for Staff Hire Trainings – January 12, February 8, March 8 and April 5

Click here to register for Faculty Hire Trainings – January 19, February 23, March 23 and April 19