Involved in research? Interested in receiving up to $50,000 per year to help repay your student loans? Join Matthew Lockhart, Acting Director of NIH Division of Loan Repayment and learn more about the Loan Repayment Programs (LRP), understand the application process, and get advice from colleagues who succesfully applied. The session will be followed by a Q&A with recent LRP recipients - Linda Herbert, PhD; Homa Ahmadzia, MD, MPH; and Beth Tarini, MD, MS

After your research collection, do you wish you had a way to keep all your citations and pdfs in one place? Come learn about Zotero, "a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite and share your research sources. Attendees will learn how the Zotero tool can be used to save citations and pdfs; how to create references and bibliographies; and how to access the enhanced features as GW affiliates.

Web scraping is a technique for extracting data from web pages using code, particularly when the data is not available to download or from an API. This hands-on intermediate Python workshop will guide participants through the use of the Python requests-html library for working with content on websites. Presenters will also cover ethical considerations, recommended practices, and other approaches for web scraping using Python. No Python installation is required: Google Colab notebooks will be used for coding during the workshop.

This workshop is designed to support researchers interested in working with historic maps in a GIS. This includes overlaying historic maps on top of contemporary maps using QGIS software, which should be downloaded in advance of this session.

This intermediate-level workshop will introduce methods and tools for processing text and transforming it into data that can be analyzed. Participants will be introduced to the spacy Python library and basic methods of quantitative textual analysis. Prior exposure to Python, such as through the "Introduction to Python" workshop or Python Camp, is helpful. No installation of Python is needed.

Building on a basic knowledge of R and introductory statistics, this workshop will walk you through the R functionality you'll need to use when conducting hypothesis tests on continuous variables. We will practice reading in data, conducting t-tests (both parametric and non-parametric), tests of equal variance, ANOVA, computing confidence intervals, and interpreting associated outputs. It is recommended that you have used R before (even if you consider yourself a beginner) and it is also recommended that you have taken an introductory statistics course.

The George Washington University (GW) is committed to fostering a research environment guided by the highest standards of research ethics and integrity. Conducting research responsibly is crucial in obtaining objective results and maintaining the public’s trust as stewards of research funds. GW encourages all of its faculty and students to be familiar with general professional and ethical standards of academic research as well as those in their disciplines. Continuous Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training is a critical part of these efforts. 

Have you ever borrowed code from a Medium blog post or a stack coverflow thread only to find that it doesn't work as advertised? Spent hours trying to figure out an error message? You might agree that debugging can be one of the most frustrating parts of programming. This intermediate-level workshop will introduce techniques for diagnosing errors in Python code and will cover some best practices that can make your code more robust, easier to maintain, and more reproducible.

In this workshop, participants will be able to access and use LAI's NVivo software; use basic functionalities of qualitative data analysis software for research; and find and access some of LAI's subscriptions for qualitative research.