Welcome to Academics
- U-M NCFDD (UM Membership to National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity: resources to support the professional development and successful transitions of faculty, post-doctoral scholars, and doctoral students throughout their academic careers)
Branding
- U-M BME Brand (access to logos, templates, letter head)
- Department PowerPoint template and a simple guide on how to best use it.
- U-M Style Guide (access to color palette and block M information)
- U-M Altmetric Explorer (access you Altmetric Score)
- Research Metrics Toolkits (helps you understand research metrics for your impact)
So You Have to Start Teaching
- GSI Handbook (totally worth it for anyone starting to teach GSI or Faculty)
- CATME (need to make teams or gather feedback from peers on teammates — great resource — just add your student list)
- Chronicles of Higher Education Guidance on how to create a Syllabus
- Chronicles of Higher Education Article on How to Teach a Good First Day of Class
So you are Working with Students
- Student Mental Health Resources Plus (if your student needs any type of mental health support and other services around the university- great list)
- Campus Involvement Advisor Resources (things you definitely need to know if you are advising student orgs)
- Office of Institution Equity (resources for reporting harassment and discrimination)
- Responsible Employee pdf (printable sign to put on your door to demonstrate transparency)
- Roles and Responsibilities of Responsible Employees (text version)
- Our Community Matters Brochure (Brochure for Addressing Sexual Assault, Violence and Stalking)
- Student Confidential Resources
- Faculty Confidential Resources
Finding Funding for Your Research
- UM Library Grants and Funding (general link to many resources)
- PIVOT Database (most comprehensive searchable funding database – SET UP WEEKLY EMAILS on funding opportunities)
- Foundation Directory On-Line (external foundations database)
- U-M Foundations Funding for Faculty (Central Campus internally managed foundations portal)
- UMHS Corporate and Foundations Portal (UM Health System portal for connecting with corporation/foundation opportunities)
- U-M Medical School Competition Space (online platform that streamlines the process of finding, and applying for internal funding opportunities at the U-Medical School)
- U-M OSRP Sponsored Awards on the Web Database – SAW (how to locate others at U-M that were funded)
- U-M OSRP Research Administration Post Newsletter (RAP and RAPid newsletters signup)
- U-M Support for Travel Support for National Service Engagement (Need funding to go speak to policy makers or serve on a national board of a professional society?)
- Research Priorities and Opportunities at Federal Government Agencies
Finding Funding for Your Students (Research and Travel)
- Rackham Graduate School Funding Opportunities (Rackham offers many different awards for graduate students and post docs for travel and research)
- UMich COE Undergraduate Funding (the College has travel funds for undergraduates and student orgs)
So how do you actually write a grant?
- U-M Grant Writing Support (Free Grant Consultations and Free Grant Editing)
- NIH Grantwriter’s Workbook (costs $85 dollars — but a resources none-the-less)
- NSF Grantwriter’s Workbook (also $85 dollars)
- Plain Language Dictionary (if you need to find “easier” ways to communicate your scientific terms for it to be more consumable by the non expert reader)
- List of UMMS faculty that have sat on study sections
- Editorial Resources
- Research Development Team in Grant Services & Analysis in the UMMS Office of Research (link sends e-mail) – Provides editing services, as time permits, for grammar and grantsmanship-related issues.
- MICHR Research Development Core (RDC) (link is external) – Provides no-cost services and consultation to assist investigators in designing, writing, and submitting external grant proposals.
- Reference List of Freelance Editors – This list of freelance editors, which includes their CV/resumes and contact information, was developed in response to faculty interest in the availability of editing services. The editors on this list have expertise in various types of writing (e.g., manuscripts, grant proposals, IRB protocol).
- Reference List of Freelance Graphics Specialists – This is a list of freelance experts in graphic design and medical illustration who may be available to help prepare various documents, e.g., grant proposals, manuscripts, dissertations.
Looking for a collaborator @Umich?
- Michigan Experts (searchable database of research expertise @UMich)
Education Specific Funding Opportunities
- Vanderbilt Grant Funding Resources for Teaching (great list of education research funders)
- Pearson Higher Education Foundations and Corporation Funding List
Proposal Management
- Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP)
- OSRP Proposal Submission Deadlines
- e-Research (clinical/PAF proposal management/animal management)
Designing Experiments @ U-M
- U-M Institutional Review Board
- If you are incentivizing subject participation, you will need to go through the Human Subject Incentives Program
- U-M Med IRB Online Education
- U-M PEERRS Orientation to Animal Care and Use Training Modules
- Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR) (Consultative support for statistical studies)
- Educational Research Literature Search (Note: ERIC is the main education research index)
- SCOPUS (you can sort by number of citations)
- U-M Interlibrary Loan
- Protecting Data @ U-M
- mBox+ (U-M cloud data storage)
- Virtual Sites (access to specialty software through UM)
- U-M Library Research Guides
Working with Student Data @ U-M
- Family Education Rights and Privacy Act information for U-M (FERPA @ UM)
Data Analysis
- Statsoft TextBook (great resource for understanding statistics for research)
- Learning Stata (statistical package used by sociologists, UCLA site)
- What Statistical Test should I use? (in Stata)
- How do I interpret my statistical data? (Laerd Statistics)
- Can you explain factor analysis? The “little green book.”
- Social Research Methods Resources
- DIRT Digital Research Tools
- NVivo (qualitative research software package, Intro to NVivo 10)
- NVivo for Mac Online Tutorials
- NVivo 10 for Mac Help from QSR
- CSCAR NVivo Tutorials (note: CSCAR does NOT have NVIVO office hours anymore)
- NVivo Execution Videos on line that have been helpful
- Applying mixed methods to data (here)
Transcription Services
- Paid transcription services by the hour: rev.com
- Free Live Transcription: freelivetranscript.com
U-M Student Data (Data Warehouse, UMAY etc.)
- Datasets in the U-M Data Warehouse
- Student Records Data Dictionary
- U-M Undergraduate Survey (UMAY)
- U-M Enrollment Data from the Registrar
Data Sharing
- Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Sharing
- U-M Data Repository – Deep Blue Data
Patent Resources
- Innovation QPlus is a powerful intellectual property analytics tool that helps you understand and optimize your company’s intellectual property
Conflict of Interest Policies
- OSRP Link to Conflict of Interest Policies and Guidances
Sexual Misconduct Resources
- U-Mich Cultivating a Culture of Respect Webpage
Other U-M Higher Education STEM Educational Research Groups
- The REBUILD Project: STEM Education Under Construction at U-M (good book club)
- CSIE|UM: Chemical Sciences at the Interface of Education (journal club)
- Digital Education and Innovation @ UM (DEI)
- Center for Research in Learning and Teaching (CRLT)
- Center for Research in Learning and Teaching – Engineering (CRLT-ENGIN)