Announcements – Undergraduate Research

Workshops: Spring 2023 Schedule

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Welcome to the Spring 2023 Workshop Series! New participating undergraduate researchers must attend four workshops. Returning researchers must complete four workshops. If you have already completed all workshops and do not wish to participate in them again, please contact Prof. Hamid Norouzi, undergraduateresearch@citytech.cuny.edu —
SUBJECT Line: workshop alternatives, to discuss alternate activities to fulfill this requirement.

Workshop	Leads	Date/Time
Presenting Yourself Online Focuses on how students can create and maintain a professional and/or academic online presence. The OpenLab team supports students developing a presence on their OpenLab sites during their academic career at City Tech and even into their job search post-graduation. Online Registration	Prof. Rosen + OpenLab Team	T March 7, 1:00-2:00 PM
Being a Professional Students will learn about professionalism and strategies to develop from varied perspectives. Online Registration	Profs. Davide and Walljasper	Th March 9, 1:00-2:00 PM
Using OpenLab for Your Research Project The OpenLab team supports student researchers by showing how to communicate about and display research via OpenLab. Online Registration	Prof. Reitz + OpenLab Team	Th March 16, 1:00-2:00 PM
Research Types and Methods Panel Before beginning your research project, you need to decide how to design a study. This workshop will give you a brief overview of various types of research using field surveys, secondary data analysis, and laboratory experiments. Online Registration	Profs. Rahman and Kim	W March 22, 1:00-2:00 PM
CUNY CATS Time Management Students will learn strategies for time management. Location: P501 (Pearl)	BMI CUNY CAT	Th March 23, 1:00-2:00 PM
Advancing Library Research Techniques Learn how to use the library and Google Scholar to find sources for your poster and general strategies for the literature review. Location: L540 (Library Eclassroom)	Prof. Prince	W March 29, 1:00-2:00 PM
Advancing Library Research Techniques Learn how to use the library and Google Scholar to find sources for your poster and general strategies for the literature review. Online Registration	Prof. Berger	W March 29, 4:00-5:00 PM
Writing Abstracts for Research Projects Students will learn about abstracts: what they are and how they are used. They will also learn the necessary elements to writing an abstract and go through a series of exercises in small groups to distinguish between successful and unsuccessful abstracts. Online Registration	Profs. ElHitti and Garcia	Th March 30, 1:00-2:00 PM
Writing Abstracts for Research Projects Students will learn about abstracts: what they are and how they are used. They will also learn the necessary elements to writing an abstract and go through a series of exercises in small groups to distinguish between successful and unsuccessful abstracts. Online Registration	Profs. ElHitti and Garcia	Th March 30, 4:00-5:00 PM
ePortfolios for Academic and Career Advancement Create dynamic, professional websites using WordPress featuring your outstanding academic work. Online Registration	iTEC	T April 4, 1:00-2:00 PM
ePortfolios for Academic and Career Advancement Create dynamic, professional websites using WordPress featuring your outstanding academic work. Online Registration	iTEC	T April 4, 4:00-5:00 PM
Designing a Research Poster Presentation Understand the purpose of a scientific research poster; learn important layout principles and components to create and present effective research posters. Location: P501 (Pearl)	Profs. Alcendor and Xiao	Th April 20, 1:00-2:00 PM
Designing a Research Poster Presentation Understand the purpose of a scientific research poster; learn important layout principles and components to create and present effective research posters. Location: P501 (Pearl)	Profs. Alcendor and Xiao	Th April 20, 4:00-5:00 PM
Academic Works for Student Posters Adding your poster to CUNY Academic Works creates a unique, permanent link for your resume, CV, and graduate school application. Online Registration	Prof. Berger	Th April 27, 1:00-2:00 PM

Workshops Schedule, Fall 2022

Undergraduate researchers must attend four workshops. Returning researchers must complete four workshops. If you have already completed all workshops and do not wish to participate in them again, please contact Prof. Hamid Norouzi, undergraduateresearch@citytech.cuny.edu —
SUBJECT Line: workshop alternatives, to discuss alternate activities to fulfill this requirement.

Workshop	Leads	Date/Time
Presenting Yourself Online Registration	Prof. Rosen+OL Team	Oct. 11, 3:30-4:30 PM
Being a Professional Registration	Profs. Davide and Walljasper	Oct. 12, 1-2 PM
CUNY CATS time management Workshop Link	BMI CUNY CAT	Oct. 13, 1-2 PM
Using OpenLab for your Research Project Registration	Profs. Reitz and Rosen+OL Team	Oct. 18, 3:30-4:30 PM
Research Types and Methods Panel Registration	Profs. Kim and Rahman	Oct. 20, 1-2 PM
Advancing Library Research Techniques Registration	Prof. Prince	Oct. 26, 1-2 PM
Advancing Library Research Techniques Registration	Prof. Berger	Oct. 26, 4-5 PM
Writing Abstracts for Research Projects Registration	Profs. ElHitti and Garcia + WAC Fellows	Oct. 27, 1-2 PM
Writing Abstracts for Research Projects Registration	Profs. ElHitti and Garcia + WAC Fellows	Oct. 27, 4-5 PM
ePortfolios for Academic and Career Advancement Registration	iTEC	Nov. 3, 1-2 PM
ePortfolios for Academic and Career Advancement Registration	iTEC	Nov. 3, 4-5 PM
Designing a Research Poster Presentation Registration	Profs. Davide, Alcendor, and Xiao	Nov. 10, 1-2 PM
Designing a Research Poster Presentation Registration	Profs. Davide, Alcendor, and Xiao	Nov. 10, 4-5 PM
Academic Works for Student posters Registration	Prof. Berger	Nov. 17, 1-2 PM
Journal Club 1: Is the association between adverse childhood experiences and later depression buffered by the trait of psychological flexibility? Students are required to read an article (see link) in advance of the meeting. Registration	Prof. Gurung	Nov. 2, 1-2 PM
Journal Club 2: Use of dried blood spots biosampling technology in predicting future viral breakthrough. Students are required to read an article (see link) in advance of the meeting. Registration	Prof. Gurung	Nov. 10, 11 AM-12 PM
Journal Club 3: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the care continuum of youth living with HIV. Students are required to read an article (see link) in advance of the meeting. Registration	Prof. Gurung	Nov. 16, 1-2 PM

Research Mixer 2/24

From Associate Provost Reginald Blake:

Students, would you like to meet faculty mentors, learn about their research projects, and work with a faculty mentor on a research project?

Members of the faculty, would you like to engage City Tech students in your research projects as research mentees? Would you like to meet a cohort of our best, our brightest, and our most promising students ?

Are you interested in learning more about funded research opportunities at City Tech ?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then please join us virtually on Thursday, February 24, 2022 from 12:45 – 2:00 PM for the 24th semi-annual Research Mixer Event (via Zoom), hosted by City Tech’s Undergraduate Research Committee and the Black Male Initiative Program. You will not leave the session disappointed! Please share this invitation with faculty and students, and please encourage them to join in exploring the tremendous research resources that City Tech offers.

See you on Thursday, 2/24 !!

Workshops Schedule, Spring 2022

Undergraduate researchers must attend four workshops. Returning researchers must complete four workshops. If you have already completed all workshops and do not wish to participate in them again please contact Prof. Hamid Norouzi, undergraduateresearch@citytech.cuny.edu — SUBJECT Line: workshop alternatives, to discuss alternate activities to fulfill this requirement.

All workshops are online for Spring 2022

Time Management (Zoom link–no registration)	CUNY Creative Arts Team (CAT)	March 10, 1-2 PM
Being a Professional (Registration)	Profs. Gregory and Walljasper	March 14, 12-1 PM
Presenting Yourself Online (Registration)	The OpenLab Team	March 17, 1-2 PM
Research Types and Methods Panel (Registration)	Profs. Gregory, Kim, and Rahman	March 24, 1-2 PM
Advancing Library Research Techniques (Registration for 1-2pm) (Registration 4-5pm)	Profs. Berger and Leonard	March 30, 1-2 PM March 30, 4-5 PM
Writing Abstracts for Research Projects (Registration for 1-2pm) (Registration for 4-5pm)	Profs. ElHitti and Bannett	March 31, 1-2 PM March 31, 4-5 PM
ePortfolios for Academic and Career Advancement (Registration for 1-2pm) (Registration for 4-5pm)	iTEC	April 6, 1-2 PM April 6, 4-5 PM
Designing a Research Poster Presentation (Registration for 1-2pm) (Registration for 4-5pm)	Profs. Davide, Alcendor, and Xiao	April 14 1-2 PM April 14 4-5 PM
Academic Works for Student Posters (Registration)	Prof. Berger	April 26, 1-2 PM

May 28 Event: CRSP Town Hall on COVID and Global Equity

CUNY Research Scholars Program is offering an exciting program on May 28!
Register Here

COVID-19 Outbreak World Map per Capita — Raphaël Dunant, Gajmar (maintainer), CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

This town hall event, featuring speakers from Brazil, Egypt, Guatemala, Peru, South Africa, and the United States, will be of interest to undergraduate researchers and their mentors, particularly those interested in how the pandemic has affected people in less affluent countries as well as disadvantaged groups in the United States (for example, the incarcerated).

As rich countries vaccinate their populations and prepare to reopen, many poorer countries and vulnerable populations in the US are struggling for vaccine access. On Friday, May 28th, the CUNY Research Scholars Program (CRSP) will host a Town Hall event to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and global equity issues.

This forum will consist of three panels and include speakers from Brazil, Egypt, Guatemala, Peru, South Africa, and the United States. The US speakers will address vaccine access issues among migrants at the US borders, people in US prisons and jails, and vulnerable populations in US cities. Speakers will also address the gendered impacts of COVID-19, especially in Venezuela and Colombia.

Please click here for an updated version of the flyer, which contains the schedule of panels, speaker bios, and a registration link.

An abbreviated version of the flyer is attached.

This event is free and open to everyone. Please circulate widely within your networks. All faculty, administrators, students, and members of the community are encouraged to attend.

We hope to see you on May 28th!

Today: Research Mixer!

Student Researchers! Faculty Mentors! Join us today:

Date: February 20, 2020
Time: 12:45-2:15
Location: A105.

Download poster PDF

Apply for the Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2019

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS
Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2019
Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research

http://www.cccsir.com/

The Carl Couch Center issues an international call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that apply symbolic interactionist approaches to internet studies.

According to basic symbolic interactionist premises, what we understand as self, identity, relationship, and cultural formations are constructed dialogically and interactively. While the works of George H. Mead, Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman and other leading symbolic interactionists have been integral to the study of social interaction, Carl Couch was among the first from this tradition to suggest the importance of engaging in the study of mediated interaction. It is critical that symbolic interactionists move boldly forward, beyond Couch’s initial suggestion, to study what has become for many a dominant form of communication in their everyday life.

Whether we research identities, emotion, memory, family, work, career, presentations of self, deception, love, loss or other areas, the impact of mediated communication is felt by those interacting within it. As internet-related media continue to influence our everyday interactions–not only with other people but also with technologies, devices, algorithms, platform parameters, and so forth–it becomes crucial for symbolic interactionists to attend to the role of these mediating factors in the interaction process.

We encourage any paper that uses a symbolic interactionist approach in internet studies. We also encourage papers that explore the interface between deliberate social interaction and structured (or automated) interactions sponsored or enacted by various technological features, exploring not only how identities, relations, and social formations are negotiated through social interactions, but also how these interactions are mediated further through the use or capacities of various technologies.

Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of symbolic interactionist approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Those contemplating entering should note that an interactionist approach demands thoughtful analysis, and not mere description, of social interactions. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of:

Dr. Camille Johnson-Yale, Lake Forest College, Illinois

Dr. Lois Scheidt, Indiana University, Bloomington

Dr. Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, University of Northern Iowa

Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should be in English and not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year.

*Winner of the award will receive a monetary prize of $300.00*.

Candidates should send a copy of their paper electronically, along with information concerning the location and level of their studies, to Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, sarina.chen@uni.edu. Application deadline is April
15, 2019.

Notification of award will be sent by November 1, 2019.

Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please

contact:

Shing-Ling Sarina Chen
Lang Hall 326
Dept. of Communication Studies
Univ. of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614
USA

sarina.chen@uni.edu

Guide and Handout for Library Workshop, Oct. 11, 2018

Students: Don’t forget that the library created a special guide for you that supports and enhances the workshop we did on Oct. 11, 2018. We also made a concise handout that you can print out.

Student Undergraduate Researchers: make a home for your poster in Academic Works!

Students participating in City Tech’s various undergraduate research, honors, and emerging scholars initiatives are invited and encouraged to submit their posters to CUNY Academic Works. Academic Works preserves your poster and, more importantly, provides you a stable link to your work that you can add to your resume, CV, or portfolio!

What is CUNY Academic Works? CUNY Academic Works is an online repository of research, scholarship, and creative works produced by the CUNY community. All content in CUNY Academic Works is freely available to everyone, and if
someone searches your name or research topic using Google, there’s a good chance your work will be in the search results! step-by-step guide to submitting to Academic Works for student posters

This poster won 1^st place for outstanding group research project in the spring 2018 Honors and Undergraduate Research Scholars Poster Presentation. Academic Works provides a permanent virtual home for the poster and makes it easy to find the poster via Google.

Group research team poster winner, Spring 2018

Winning poster for group research as it appears in Academic Works

Questions? Contact me! Prof. Monica Berger mberger@citytech.cuny.edu. More information available at http://cityte.ch/poster

Undergraduate Research on Display

Many members of the City Tech community haven’t been on campus since the end of the Spring 2018 semester. If that includes you, that means you have yet to see the Undergraduate Research exhibit at the library. Be sure to stop and learn more about undergraduate research at City Tech at the exhibit on the 4th floor of the Library building (formerly the Atrium building).

The exhibit is the work of several inspiring City Tech students, as well as faculty and staff from the Library, the Honors and Undergraduate Research Scholars Poster Presentation Session, the Faculty Commons, the Office of the Provost, the Director of Undergraduate Research, and the Undergraduate Research Committee.

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