Research News Roundup - January 2025

All of us in the Office of Research and Graduate Education extend our heartfelt sympathy to everyone impacted by the devastating fires in Southern California. We recognize the challenges this crisis may pose to your research and scholarly activities, and we want to assure you that we are here to support you during this crisis. Our team is available to assist you with grant extensions, provide guidance on research timelines and grant management, and address any concerns you may have. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us for assistance:

Submit a request through our Jira ticketing system.
Send an email to officeofresearch@chapman.edu.
Join our monthly office hours for live support – details, including times and Zoom links, are provided at the end of the newsletter.

Your resilience and dedication inspire us, and we remain committed to helping you navigate these challenges.

Our Newest OOR&GE Member

Steph Wenning, Post Award Financial Research Administrator, grew up in Del Norte County, a rural gem in the northwestern-most corner of California where the redwoods meet the sea. After high school, she was fortunate to be selected by Rotary International as an exchange student to Besançon, France. She then attended and graduated from Oregon State University. Her work background is varied, with a passion for the humanities and a proclivity for the nitty-gritty details. She began her journey with Chapman University at the Fowler School of Law in 2019, where she cut her teeth on complicated contracts. She is excited to apply this expertise to an expanded portfolio!

2025-2026 Faculty Grant for Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity Now Open!

Our office is now accepting proposals for the 2025-2026 Faculty Grant for Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity (FGRSC). This internal grant provides competitive, merit-based support for research, scholarly, and creative activities in all disciplines and fields. The call for proposals, guidelines, and supporting documents can be found on our resource page. RSVP for our FGRSC workshop on Thursday January 16th from 10am-11:30am, which will cover an overview of the grant, application, and review process.

Proposals are due Monday, February 17th, 2025 at 12pm (Noon).

Spring 2025 Faculty Research Development Fellow – Deadline Extended!

We are pleased to announce the leadership opportunity for a Faculty Fellow for Spring 2025 in the Office of Research and Graduate Education. This opportunity seeks tenure track and tenured faculty who seek to enhance their professional leadership through supporting each office’s strategic goals through a variety of activities.

Appointments can start as early as Spring 2025. Faculty Fellows will receive a stipend for their work. The application deadline has been extended to February 10th, 2025 at 12pm (noon)

Resources Provided by Sponsored Projects Services

Visit our SPS Resources webpage for helpful resources including webinar recordings, budget templates, request forms (for advance accounts, IDC waivers, ERCRs, etc.), and more!

New 2024 National Institute of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy

The new policy requires that any manuscript accepted for publication in a journal on or after December 31, 2025 that is the result of funding by NIH (in whole or in part) must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. Under the new Policy, there is no longer an allowable 12-month embargo period.

New National Academies Report

A free PDF of the National Academics Report Understanding and addressing misinformation about science is now available.

Department of Homeland Security Generative AI Public Sector Playbook

US. Department of Homeland Security unveils Playbook for the Development of Artificial Intelligence by the Public Sector, an innovative guide describing actions to be taken to advance the uses of GenAI.

Upcoming National Science Foundation Funding Opportunity

With this solicitation (NSF 24-529: Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE)). the IGE program will support proposals in two tracks: Track 1: Career Preparation and Student Success Pilots and Track 2: Systemic Interventions and Policies. Under Track 1, the IGE program will continue to invite proposals to pilot, test, and validate innovative approaches to graduate education with an emphasis on career preparation and student success. Track 2 is new with a primary goal to support research on how various systemic innovations in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate education impact graduate student outcomes (such as graduation rates, retention, employment, etc.). For more information, please check this website.

This is a limited submission – 2 proposals per organization – our limited submission guidelines apply. Proposals are due March 25, 2025, 5 pm.

Updates from the National Institutes of Health

Below are some updates that have recently been released from the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Chapman Alumni Awarded Western Association of Graduate Schools Thesis Award

We are proud to announce Tlotlo Tsamaase, MFA ‘24, of Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is the national winner of the 2024-25 WAGS/ProQuest Distinguished Master’s Thesis and/or Final Master’s Capstone Project Award in the Creative, Visual and Performing Arts category! The award is granted to the nominee who demonstrates peerless “originality, aesthetic merit, technical execution, and potential to reach beyond the original academic audience.” The WAGs review committee was particularly impressed with Tlotlo’s thesis, “Siren of Terror".

Many thanks to their faculty mentors, Dr. Anna Leahy, Director of MFA in Creative Writing, and Professor Emeritus James Blaylock, for nominating them and being such strong advocate for the value of their work.

Chapman Researchers Use AI to Create Disease-Fighting Medications

This method, which refines results from ChatGPT, can create drugs to fight cancer

Nature Masterclass Course: Publishing a Research Paper: 2nd Edition

Publishing a scientific paper is crucial in the research process. Submitting to a scholarly journal provides peer feedback that improves and validates your work, ensuring trust in your findings. However, a research project is already a monumental task, and many researchers struggle with the editorial and peer review processes, especially with implementing peer review feedback.

To help you overcome these challenges, our revamped course, Publishing a Research Paper: 2nd Edition, offers widely applicable best practices and strategies to progress towards a smooth and seamless publication.

Register for free for the webinar on Tuesday January 21st from 8-9am GMT, Thursday January 23rd from 5-6pm GMT, or on Tuesday January 28th from 4-5pm GMT.

Free Virtual Stata Courses hosted by University of California Irvine

Please join the UCI Center for Statistical Consulting and ICTS Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research and Design units for this FREE lunchtime webinar series. Anyone interested in learning about Stata is encouraged to attend. No experience necessary!

Introduction to Causal Inference and Treatment Effects (90 min) Wednesday, January 22nd at 12:00pm Register here!
Causal Inference for Complex Observational Data (120 min) Wednesday, February 19th at 12:00pm Register here!
Introduction to Causal Mediation Analysis (90 min) Wednesday, March 12th at 12:00pm Register here!
Introduction to Survey Statistics Using Stata (90 min) Wednesday, April 16th at 12:00pm Register here!
Structural Equation Modeling (150 min) Wednesday, May 7th at 12:00pm Register here!
Latent Class Analysis Using Stata (90 min) Wednesday, June 4th at 12:00pm Register here!

For any questions regarding these events Please email merel@uci.edu.

CHOC Research Conference

Sign up for the International Pediatric & Lifespan Data Science Conference on April 10-11, 2025, located in Anaheim, with Keynote Speaker Professor Aldo Feisal, PhD, Professor of AI & Neuroscience at Imperial College, London.

Early registration ends February 3rd, 2025.

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity’s Faculty Success Program

This 14-Day Challenge is an opportunity for you to experiment with daily writing, online community, and supportive accountability. It's very simple:

You commit to write every day for at least 30 minutes.
At the beginning of your writing time, you login to our online community, start the timer, complete your writing, and post your progress at the end.
You take 5 minutes to support other writers in your group by commenting on their progress.

Registration closes on February 14th, 2025.

Nature Masterclass On-Demand: Chapman University Only!

Register for the upcoming Chapman only training session hosted by Nature Masterclass editors and experts! This event will be hosted via Zoom on Friday, February 21st from 1:00pm - 2:00pm. This one hour presentation will cover an overview of nature masterclasses, course offerings, account creation and navigation, completing lessons and tracking progress, Q&A, and more! RSVP for the Zoom information!

Research Collaboration Opportunities Webinar

Please join Lawrence Lau, Director of Industry Alliances & Commercialization, for a webinar on how to effectively engage with industry for soliciting research collaborations. You will learn techniques shared from innovation professionals at companies whose mainly function is to seek impactful industry-sponsored research projects at universities and relevant university inventions for licensing. This webinar is suitable for faculty members, researchers, and graduate students who are participating in research and who are interested in collaborating with companies.

This webinar will be delivered via Zoom on Wednesday, 2/26/2025 at Noon.

We are here for you! Join us in our office hours to get answers to your questions; discuss trends and news from funding agencies and federal guidelines; get tips about proposal development for grants, IRB and IACUC protocols; or to find out what’s all the talk about inventions, patents, and industry partnerships.

SPS Pre Award & Non-Financial Post Award: The first Thursday of every month from 11:00-12:00pm. Zoom Link.

SPS Post Award: The last Tuesday of every month from 9:30-10:30am. Zoom Link

IRB: The first Tuesday of every month from 9:00-10:00am. Zoom Link.

IACUC/COI/Export/Import: The fourth Tuesday of every month from 9:00-10:00pm. Zoom Link.

Industry Alliance and Commercialization: The third Thursday of every month from 3:00-4:00pm. Zoom Link.

Graduate Education: The last Thursday of every month from 10:00-11:00am. Zoom Link.

For a full schedule including quarterly and semester specific dates for additional departments and for Zoom information visit our events page.

To be entered into the next monthly drawing be sure to complete your effort reporting certification forms by the due date!

Contact our office for inquiries using our Jira ticketing system.