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Workshop R Graphics with ggplot2 The ggplot2 package from the tidyverse provides extensive and flexible graphical capabilities within a consistent framework. This session introduces the main features of ggplot2. Some prior familiarity with R is assumed (packages, structure, syntax), but the presentation can be followed without thi... Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online
Workshop Running with the Jersey Devil Just in time for spooky season! Learn all about the infamous Jersey Devil that stands over six feet tall with the face of a horse, the body of a kangaroo, and expansive leathery wings. The Jersey Devil has struck fear in the hearts of many a South Jerseyan since 1735. Registration link: https://go.r... Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 10:00 - 11:00 AM - Online
Workshop Introduction to ArcGIS Pro A Geographic Information System (GIS) can be a very useful tool for your research by incorporating location when exploring questions. In this short, interactive workshop, we will focus on ArcGIS Pro basics, explore the interface, add and visualize data, and create a map layout that we can either exp... Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 12:00 - 1:15 PM - Online
Workshop Who Owns Our Teaching? Adopting and Creating Open Educational Resources This event is presented as a part of Open Access Week 2025. The Libraries' Open and Affordable Textbooks (OAT) Team's presentation will emphasize the impact of using and creating open educational resources (OER) and other affordable learning materials. Participants will learn how the benefits of OER... Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 1:30 - 2:30 PM - Online
Workshop Data Publication 1 (creating reproducible research, literate programming documents, and using knitr, Sweave, blogdown, and bookdown) The RStudio environment enables the easy creation of documents in various formats (HTML, DOC, PDF) using Rmarkdown, while knitr allows the incorporation of executable R code to produce the tables and figures in those documents. Sweave provides more advanced LaTeX typesetting, while blogdown and book... Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 3:30 - 5:00 PM - Online
Speaker Series Finding My Way with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai You are invited to join us online and be one of the first to hear from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai about her astonishing memoir, Finding My Way. Malala reintroduces herself to the world, sharing how she navigated life as someone whose darkest moments threatened to define her narrativ... Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 7:00 - 8:00 PM - Online
Workshop Literature Reviews for the Humanities and Social Sciences Join us for an overview of the basics of creating a literature review for the humanities and social sciences. Registration link: https://go.rutgers.edu/litreview2025 Thursday, October 23, 2025, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Online
Stressbusters Stitching the Heart: Crochet Anatomy Workshop Join us for a unique and collaborative event hosted by the Crochet Club and the George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences! We're bringing together art and anatomy in a creative initiative to crochet educational plushies representing human organ systems. These handcrafted pieces will serve as fu... Thursday, October 23, 2025, 12:00 - 1:00 PM - Health Sciences (Newark)
Workshop Introduction to ProQuest's TDM Studio ProQuest TDM Studio is a web platform that allows us to collect and analyze large amounts of textual data from across Rutgers ProQuest holdings. Given that these holdings include a wide swath of current and historical newspapers, dissertations, scholarly journals, government documents, and primary s... Thursday, October 23, 2025, 1:00 - 2:30 PM - Online
Workshop Your Research Publication, Your Intellectual Property: Author Agreements and Negotiation This event is presented as a part of Open Access Week 2025. It can be exciting to get an article accepted, and you might be tempted to rush through signing the publication agreement or author contract without reading all the fine print. However, signing a contract without understanding it can mean g... Thursday, October 23, 2025, 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Online