Research News Roundup - August 2023

Highlights of this month’s newsletter include OOR announcements, updates, events, and news from Leatherby Libraries. Be sure to read the entire newsletter to be entered into our August raffle!

New Federal Prohibition of TikTok & ByteDance in Federally-Funded Research

The federal government announced a new contract term that would ban the TikTok app from devices used in the performance of federal government contracts (TikTok Rule). Many states have also prohibited TikTok use related to state activities, and some universities have followed suit.

Chapman plans to deal with implementing the new federal contract term prohibitions on a project-by-project basis. Note, the TikTok prohibition is not applicable to grants or cooperative agreements, most of our awards. Have questions? Contact your SPS representative.

New Protected Health Information Guidance

You can now access, use, and store protected health information (PHI) for your research. See the IRB guidance documents for more information.

New Chapman University AI Hub

Chapman’s new AI hub is a unified website for easy access to newly established intelligence guidelines and a growing repository of resources and up-to-date standards in the AI field to support responsible innovation in Chapman’s usage of AI.

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Open Forum

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program has an Open Forum on August 23, 2:00 PM EST to answer questions for its 2024-25 application cycle. Check out the Fulbright website and come prepared with your questions or simply listen along to learn from the conversation.

2023 Sony Research Award Program

The Sony Research Award Program is calling for research proposals under two awards: Focused Research Award ($150,000) and Faculty Innovation Award ($100,000). The internal submission deadline is September 8, 2023.

Please contact Lawrence Lau, Director of Industry Alliances & Commercialization at lalau@chapman.edu for more information.

Sign Up For a Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID ID)

ORCID is a use-for-free 16-digit identifier to help distinguish users from other contributors who share their name. Key functions of ORCID:

connects individuals and their professional contributions across disciplines, organizations, and time.
enables recognition of all types of research contributions and innovation.
helps research institutions, funders, publishers, and other organizations better track and support research work.

Visit our SPS resources page for e.g., ORCID 101, how to registerer for an ORCID, building your record. Also see the Leatherby Libraries Researcher IDs and Profiles page.

Student Worker Needed

The Office of Research is looking for a student worker to assist our compliance department. Undergraduate or graduate students are welcome to apply. For more information please visit our job posting.

Office of Research Summer 2023 Open House for Staff and Administrators

Mark your calendars, the Office of Research is holding our first open house of 2023 for staff and administrators! Come see our building, meet our staff, pop-in to some info sessions, and win some fun prizes! Email officeofresearch@chapman.edu to RSVP. A second open house for faculty will be scheduled in fall 2023.

OOR Sponsored Webinar - Unpacking the New Federal Funding Environment

Our office is hosting a webinar on August 14, from 12:30 to 2 PM on Unpacking the New Federal Funding Environment. This webinar will be hosted by Jon Barnhart from EAB.

Jon will discuss how federal agency funding priorities are changing to emphasize multidisciplinary research, greater economic and social development, and cross-university collaboration, and outline how researchers can best position themselves to secure funding in this ever-changing environment followed by a question-and-answer period.

Join the Zoom here: https://eab.zoom.us/j/92944896677

IS&T Research Updates

Workshops! IS&T’s Research Computing department offers monthly hands-on workshops. Topics may include connecting to the Keck Cluster for the first time (and associated software installations), use of the various queues available, how to tell if your job is running, and more. Bring your laptop for one-on-one support or feel free to drop in to discuss topics of your choice. The next workshop is scheduled for Monday, August 21, 2023 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM in Demille Hall 150. For more information please contact researchcomputing@chapman.edu.

Additionally, a cloud-based, secure research environment meant for compliance with NIST 800-171 requirements is now available. If your research requires such compliance, contact researchcomputing@chapman.edufor a consultation and additional details.

Kudos to this Years FGRSC Winners

Please join us in congratulating the following faculty who have received this years Faculty Grant for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity!

Miao Zhang for "Structure-function studies of KCa2.2 channels"
Cecilia Lopez for "Investigating the Arginine-Phosphoserine Interaction in Histone Proteins"
Nora Riveria for "Indigenous Interpreters and Translators as Technical Communicators"
Patrick Hunnicutt for "Can informal political elites support post-conflict development? Experimental evidence from Liberia"
Susan Paterno "The Civic News Initiative: New Directions for Democracy and the Fourth Estate"
Maliheh Ghajargar for "Posthuman Sustainable Interaction Design and Human-AI Creativity: Fieldwork, Design Patterns, Artifacts "
Julia Boehm for "Childhood Prosociality and the Promotion of Healthy Behavioral Outcomes in Adolescence "
Stephany Cuevas for "Understanding How Educators Work with Central American Unaccompanied Youth in California Public Schools: An Exploratory Investigation"
Monique Charles for "Roots, Routes & Routers: A Sonic Methodology of Black Praxis"
Marc Callahan for "New Works on the Poems of Fernando Pessoa"
Rosalee Hellberg for "Single-Laboratory Validation for the Detection of Salmonella enterica in Meat Analog Products"
Alexander Bay for "From Cholera to COVID-19: A History of Hygiene in Modern Japan "
Tara Gruenewald for "Identification of Risk and Resilience Factors that Promote the Health of Parents of Gender Minority Children"

IRB Cayuse Module Update

Cayuse released an updated version of the IRB module on August 1, 2023. Though updates are seen automatically, we recommend clearing your cache or refreshing your browser. Updates include:

Inactive/deleted users will no longer appear in People search, nor will receive IRB notifications
Accessibility improvements (e.g., content remain easily readable when zoomed in, keyboard can be used to select dates for some fields)
SmartLogic added to verify organization during certification

For any issues with Cayuse, please inform the IRB team via JIRA.

Citation Sleuthing with Web of Science and ProQuest: Unraveling the Research Connection Web - A Leatherby Libraries Workshop
Friday, August 11, 2023, from 11:00 am - 11:45 am PST https://events.chapman.edu/91404

AIP Complete: Connect to Knowledge: AIP Complete - Reap the Rewards with these Resources - Leatherby Libraries (chapman.edu)

Elgar Online Essentials in DEI and Accessibility: Connect to Knowledge: Elgar Online Essentials in DEI and Accessibility - Reap the Rewards with these Resources - Leatherby Libraries (chapman.edu)

Bloomsbury Food Library: Connect to Knowledge: Bloomsbury Food Library - Reap the Rewards with these Resources - Leatherby Libraries (chapman.edu)

Congratulations to our July giveaway winner, Wilkinson Administrative Assistant, Julia Ainley!

Thank you for reading this far in our newsletter!

To be entered into next months drawing, visit our open house on August 9th from 2-4pm in Von Neumann Hall.

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