Research Resources Week
The Saint Louis University Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) hosts Research Resources Week in preparation for the start of each semester. This week includes workshops, informational sessions, and discussions highlighting SLU's diverse resources, and aims to aid research practices, collaborations and outcomes among faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.
Offerings differ based on applicability and interest; we are hopeful that there will be something for researchers of any discipline and level of experience. Please note that each session has specific target audiences. If you have any questions about the week in general, please reach out to Joe Lampe, Program Coordinator, at joseph.lampe@slu.edu.
OVPR Research Resources Week: Jan. 6-14, 2025
Complete Research Resources Week Program - Spring 2025
This session is intended to give an overview of searching PubMed. Tips and tricks for effective searching will also be a key component of this session.
Facilitator: Angela Spencer, Health Sciences reference librarian (angela.spencer@slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty, staff
Location: Virtual - Teams Link
This informational session will cover various internal funding opportunities and mechanisms at SLU through the Office of the Vice President for Research. Learn how to discover new opportunities, take advantage of existing funding and more. There will also be information and time for Q&A for tips and strategies to help faculty prepare successful proposals.
Facilitator: Chris Luebbert, Project Manager (christine.luebbert@slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty and staff
Location: Virtual – Teams link here
The Clinical Trials Office will share a presentation regarding changes in the CTO and who does what to assist researchers. Come learn about the CTO!
Facilitators: W. Matthew Alday, clinical research operating officer, matt.alday@health.slu.edu; Katya Hill, director, katya.hill@health.slu.edu; and Amy Reeves, clinical research systems manager, amy.reeves.1@health.slu.edu.
Audience: Faculty, staff, OVPR, students, residents, fellows
Location: Virtual – Teams Link
We will describe the quality assurance review's mission and purpose. Additionally, we will cover expectations of visit conduct and preparation, and identify common deviations, such as protocol noncompliance and inadequate documentation.
Facilitator: Purnima Modi, quality assurance specialist, Office of Research Integrity (Purnima.modi.1@slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty and staff
Location: Virtual – Teams Link
Learn how your grant application moves through SLU, from proposal submissions to post-award processes.
Facilitator: Terri Borowiak, grants manager and research strategist, Office of the Vice President for Research, (terri.borowiak@slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty and staff
Location: Virtual – Teams Link
Private funding sources provide excellent options for bridge funding, early investigators, riskier projects not ready for federal funding, and project and programmatic funding. Learn how the application strategy and process differs from government funding and what options are available to you. The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations provides a wealth of support services to help you meet your funding goals. This session is excellent for new grant writers and anyone unfamiliar with private grants.
Facilitator: Kat Dortsch, development officer, Corporate and Foundation Relations (kathryn.dortsch@slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Location: Virtual – Teams Link
The Research Computing Group (RCG) builds on Saint Louis University's ambition to develop and improve computing infrastructure, technology, services and support for research. It is the result of a collaboration between the Office of the Vice President for Research and Information Technology Services. The group offers an array of research computing services to SLU's faculty and students. Find out how Research Computing can assist with your research ambitions and needs.
Facilitator: Shruthi Sreenivasa Murthy, assistant director, Research Computing, (shruthi.sreenivasamurthy@health.slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty
Location: Virtual – Teams Link
Need help navigating the world of primary sources? This session is for you! Join us for a session that will demystify the process of locating and using materials from archives, rare books and special collections at SLU and beyond.
Facilitator: Katie Mascari, (katie.mascari@slu.edu); Stephanie Geller, (stephanie.geller@slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty, staff, graduate students
Location: Virtual – Teams Link
To learn where and how to find grant opportunities, use SPIN. InfoEd Global’s funding opportunities database helps faculty, students and staff quickly find relevant programs to fund all types of research. Tracking about 40,000 funding opportunities across thousands of governments, foundations and commercial entities around the world, SPIN makes it easy to locate potential funding sources.
Facilitator: Bill DeCocco, account manager, infoEd Global, (WDeCocco@infoedglobal.com)
Audience: Faculty and staff
Location: Virtual – Teams Link
This hour-long informational session will tell faculty about the pre- and post-award services provided by the Grant Operation Center, which serves all SLU departments outside of the School of Medicine. Representatives from the School of Medicine’s GO Center will be present, as well, so faculty and staff from all parts of campus are encouraged to attend. Faculty will gain an understanding of the GO Center’s role in the research enterprise at SLU and know who to contact for assistance with grant applications, grant-project expenses and much more.
Facilitator: Matt Renaud, director, GO Center (matt.renaud@slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty and staff
Location: DuBourg 450, Hybrid (Teams Link)
Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT are the classic means of creating an advanced search string in the library databases. However, for some deeper research questions, nested searches utilizing AND and OR can result in too many irrelevant results while NOT can unintentionally remove relevant ones. Learn how to use proximity searching to increase search effectiveness and efficiency.
Facilitator: Katy Smith, Health Sciences librarian/assistant professor, Medical Center Library (katy.smith@slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty and graduate students
Location: Virtual – Teams Link
The Research Contracts Office (RCO) provides centralized contract management and processing services for research-related agreements and those tied to other sponsored programs administered at SLU. The RCO also oversees SLU’s subrecipient monitoring program and certain reporting requirements related to outgoing federal subawards. Two primary aims of the RCO are: (1) to relieve administrative burdens on departmental administrators and researchers by providing contract management support to both the North and South campuses; and (2) to ensure that research-related agreements comply with SLU’s uniform contract management standards and other relevant SLU policies, sponsor requirements, and applicable local and federal laws. Join us to learn how the RCO can assist you in your research endeavors.
Facilitator: Zerina Albrecht, director, Research Contracts (zerina.albrecht@slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty, OVPR
Location: Virtual – Teams Link
The session will describe a menu of faculty resources from the Division for Diversity and Innovative Community Engagement (DICE) to support early- and mid-career faculty to advance in their scholarship and careers. DICE will offer monthly mentoring workshops, one-on-one mentoring/consultation services, and connections to large networks of faculty who share similar racial/ethnic groups and backgrounds during the 2024-2025 academic year. The workshops are open to all faculty and are designed to meet the needs of women and faculty from underrepresented racial/ethnic backgrounds.
Facilitator: Katie Heiden-Rootes, assistant vice president for faculty equity, associate professor, Family and Community Medicine (katie.heidenrootes@health.slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty, deans, department chairs
Location: Virtual – Teams Link
Workday for Researchers will cover essential topics that a principal investigator needs to know to effectively administer a grant. Topics covered will include how to use Workday to start the proposal process, how to review key components of your award in Workday, how to manage Workday inbox tasks and discuss key HR components of Workday.
Facilitators: Matt Renaud, director, GO Center (matt.renaud@slu.edu); Kellisa Fiala, post-award specialist, GO Center (kellisa.fiala@slu.edu)
Audience: Faculty
Location: DuBourg 450, Hybrid (Teams Link)
An introduction to SLU’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). We’ll describe the IRB mission and purpose, summarize the IRB submission timelines and expectations of protocol submissions, and define successful pre- and post-approval practices in human subject research.
Facilitator: Kathrine Bendtsen, Ph.D., CIP, IRB analyst, Office of Research Integrity (kathrine.bendtsen@slu.edu)
When: Available anytime; please sign up below, and the recording will be shared with you.
Audience: Faculty and staff
Location: Recording