Back by popular demand! The Research Impact Challenge is a professional development opportunity to help researchers better understand and manage their online scholarly presence, as well as consider ways to describe the impact and reach of their work. Each day for five days during Maine IMPACT Week, participants will receive an email with a suggested task designed […]
Fogler Library and the Office of Research Development are sponsoring two "Grants 101: Seeking, Analyzing, and Writing Basics" workshops during the 2020-2021 academic year. These workshops will be held online via Zoom. At this workshop, participants will: search for grants in PIVOT analyze an agency's Request for Proposals learn Grant Writing Basics Upcoming workshop dates: […]
Designed for graduate students, the monthly Journal Club helps you keep up on current literature and engage in discussion in an interdisciplinary environment. Join the Graduate School and Fogler Library Subject Librarians via Zoom with monthly journal club discussions on a rotating variety of topics and interests. To participate in the Journal Club, please sign up […]
This quick and easy workshop will show you how to use Canva, an online graphic design website, to create interesting and engaging Zoom backgrounds for all of your online meeting needs. Please sign up for a free account on Canva prior to the workshop. This workshop will be provided in person and via Zoom. In-person attendance is […]
Join UMaine's Fogler Library and the Department of Communication and Journalism for Friend, Enemy, or Frenemy? A News Literacy Challenge. Each day, for five days, participants will receive brief tasks designed to build their news literacy, while having fun and learning something new. Activities include discerning fact from fiction in popular news stories, de/constructing the […]
High Performance Computing (HPC) is essential for projects involving large data sets, complex simulations, and rapid calculations. This workshop will introduce HPC and describe its applications in the University of Maine System (UMS) and at UMaine. Learn how to use HPC efficiently to accelerate your research. This workshop is presented in collaboration with the UMS […]
Join Fogler Library in early November for the Literature Review Challenge! Each day, for five days, you will receive an email with brief tasks designed to help you make the most of your literature searching, including how to strategically search for literature in the library, Google Scholar, and beyond, how to stay on top of […]
This workshop will provide an introductory overview of supervised machine learning as a general approach to building classification and regression models from a set of example observations. We will begin with an overview of the topic, highlighting a few common algorithms. We will subsequently dive into some hands-on examples using the Python programming language and […]
This short hands-on workshop will provide an introduction to QGIS and cover topics such as adding and creating geospatial data, building maps, and editing and sharing geospatial data. The workshop is designed for new and beginner GIS users. Basic computer skills are required. To attend this workshop, please RSVP online. About the Presenter Tony Guay […]
Designed for graduate students, the monthly Journal Club helps you keep up on current literature and engage in discussion in an interdisciplinary environment. Join the Graduate School and Fogler Library Subject Librarians via Zoom with monthly journal club discussions on a rotating variety of topics and interests. To participate in the Journal Club, please sign up […]
