Research News Roundup - March 2023

Highlights of this month’s newsletter include a brief bio of our newest OOR team member, a reminder of the call for proposals for our internal grant funding opportunity (the Faculty Grant for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities), additional OOR announcements, updates, and tips, and news from Leatherby Libraries. 

Please join us in welcoming the newest member to our OOR team!

Due Soon! Faculty Grant for Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities

The Faculty Grant for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities (FGRSC) provides competitive, merit-based support for research, scholarly, and creative activities in all disciplines and fields. The FGRSC will support projects that will lead to the development of new and innovative scholarship and creative activity or the production of publications, attract external funding, increase competitiveness for external awards, and enhance the national visibility and reputation of Chapman faculty.

Applications are due March 17, 2023 @ 5 PM.

Guidelines and application materials for the 2023 submission are available HERE.

Statistical Consulting Resource Available for Chapman Researchers

The Office of Research is continuing to support a collaborative agreement between Chapman University and the University of California-Irvine providing full access to the UCI’s Center for Statistical Consulting.

Through a special agreement between UCI’s Center for Statistical Consulting (CSC) and the Institute for Clinical and Translations Science Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Unit, Chapman researchers have full access to both CSC and BERD statistical consulting resources at the same rate as UCI researchers! 

Please visit our website for the full details of the services available to you at: Statistical Consulting | Research | Chapman University

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) - Virtual Public Listening Sessions

OSTP is seeking input from all interested parties, including students, educators, administrators, parents, researchers, employers, and others. Each listening session will focus on one aspect of the STEM ecosystem. The last session aims to include speakers unable to attend any of the earlier sessions and as such, will cover each of the five areas covered in the previous sessions. 

STEM Education: Support learners and educators in and across all science and technology disciplines - Wednesday, March 15, 2023 from 3pm-5pm ET Register at:  https://idaorg.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJIsceGqrjgjGNrFGmA3UrJz-XyEDItVXbA

STEM Workforce Development: Prepare and recruit our Nation’s future STEM workforce - Friday, March 17, 2023 from 2pm-4pm ET Register at:  https://idaorg.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJIsduGrqjwuHYhvjoro9itcpDyMX91kvPY

STEM Workforce: Foster inclusive STEM learning and working spaces to retain STEM learners and workers - Monday, March 20, 2023 from 3pm-5pm ET Register at:  https://idaorg.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItdeugpzMuHAySQQNgawSNMJOHLX2iiao

STEM Engagement: Foster meaningful community and public engagement in science and technology- Wednesday, March 22, 2023 from 4pm-6pm ET Register at:  https://idaorg.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItcOuvqT8tGytFhXGPtQ9cukAhdagCAcQ

STEM Research and Innovation Capacity: Build and drive capacity and cutting-edge STEM (and STEM education) research and development - Friday, March 24, 2023 from 2pm-4pm ET Register at:  https://idaorg.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJIsfqvpjooE3je94jU9nosqi4Vjyy-vCk

The National STEM Ecosystem - Monday, March 27, 2023 from 6pm-8pm ET Register at: https://idaorg.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJIscOysrTwtGY64BQqMATzWSBdMBU-H810

Credit to Chapman’s Faculty

Chapman's research and development have been on the rise since 2019. Your achievements in receiving external funds for your activities across the disciplines are reflected in Chapman’s increased expenditures in research and development over the years.

Kudos to Chapman Faculty Award Recipients 

Please join us in congratulating the following faculty who have already received an award in 2023. Keep up the amazing work!

• Ajay Sharma received an award from the National Eye Institute for the project titled “Role of Macrophages in ocular GVHD”
• Miao Zhang received an award from the American Heart Association for the project titled “KCa2.3 activators for cilia defect in ADPKD hypertension”
• Sherry Wang received an award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy for the project titled “A Real-World Study Assessing Utilization of Buprenorphine Treatments”
• Julie Bidmead and Nam Lee received an award from the Korea Foundation for the “Motherhood Conference”
• Joshua Fisher received an award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration – NASA for the project titled “I.C.E. C.R.E.A.M.: Integrating Communication of ECOSTRESS into Community Research, Education, Applications, and Media”
• Audri Gomez received an award from the California Department of Development Services for the project titled “ CA DDS Employment Grant OC Business Partner Intermediary Project”
• Hsu, Jeremy received 2 awards from the National Science Foundation for the projects titled “BCSER: Student noticing of quantitative data in introductory biology labs” and “Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Impact of the Promoting Active Learning and Mentoring (PALM) Network on Vision & Change Awareness and Implementation”

Successful Grant Collaboration

Some helpful thoughts to keep in mind when collaborating with others or working as part of a grant funded team. Faculty members can develop fair and equitable collaborations by doing the following:

1. Have clear conversations about expectations, roles, and responsibilities. Teams must articulate a fair and equitable distribution of resources, workload, and credit. Senior team members should ensure that junior scholars’ work is recognized, based on their expertise or the collaboration’s structure.

2. Collaborators should discuss whose skills are needed at different stages of the project, who from the team might be the PI or co-PI on any grant proposals, and strategies for authorship on the papers that emanate from the project. While these conversations can be awkward, aligning expectations early in the collaboration ensures that there are no misunderstandings.

3. One of the key challenges to collaborations is time; every member of the team may have different priorities and time constraints at different points in the collaboration. Therefore, discussing timelines for the research, even if those timelines may need to be adjusted later, is important

4. Some collaborators develop Memorandums of Understanding, written documents laying out expectations for contributions to writing proposals or papers, carrying out research, access to instruments, and other details. These MOUs should be updated as the project evolves. MOUs developed before submitting a grant proposal almost always need to be adjusted once the research is funded.

Joya Misra. 2020. Research Collaboration: Best Practices. University of Massachusetts Amherst ADVANCE Program.

Free Open Access Publishing Opportunities for Chapman Authors:
https://libguides.chapman.edu/free_OA_publishing

Data Sets and Resources at the Leatherby Libraries:
https://blogs.chapman.edu/library/2022/04/14/connect-to-knowledge-data-sets-and-resources-guide/

Leatherby Libraries Research and Data Services Workshop:
Organizing and Citing Your Sources with Zotero: A Leatherby Libraries Workshop
Friday, March 17, 2023
12:10 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. PST
https://events.chapman.edu/90811

What else would you like to see in the newsletter? What are we missing? Send your feedback to officeofresearch@chapman.edu

Thank you for reading this far in our newsletter! Please email  officeofresearch@chapman.edu and include this month's research pun in the body of the email to be included in a raffle for some Office of Research swag! 

"Did you hear the new research on earthquakes? It's ground breaking!"