Past Events

COVID-19 Update: At this time, all prospective student information sessions, campus tours, and college programming previously scheduled for our Boston campus will be offered on a virtual platform. Check the Admissions website for more information. The College of Engineering holds Information Sessions with presentations and tours most weeks during the school year starting from the Visitor’s Center. This “mini” open house for prospective undergraduate engineering students and their families is an engineering-specific information session followed by a tour of the…

Want to learn R and RStudio but don’t know where to start? We’ll walk you through the steps of creating your first graph, beginning with opening RStudio for the first time and ending with tips on how to continue learning in order to pursue your own projects. Register

Feeling lost about how to choose where you should submit your research for publication? In this 20 minute workshop, we’ll cover a few strategies for how to find and vet journals where you may want to submit your work. We’ll also talk about a few key factors to keep in mind as you’re making your decision. This webinar will be presented by the Head of STEM&E, Alissa Link. Register

Not sure about what services interlibrary loan is offering during Snell Library’s shutdown? In this 20 minute workshop, we’ll cover which services are temporarily unavailable, what will continue unaffected, and options newly established for remote resource sharing. This webinar will be presented by the Global Campus Outreach and Online Learning Librarian, Dina Meky. Register

Text mining is a great research technique, but it’s usually neither simple nor free to text mine scholarly resources. This session will introduce the Digital Scholar Workbench, an easy-to-use platform that lets you search across more than 100 years' worth of scholarly content in JSTOR and Portico, and download custom JSON datasets for your own text analysis. This webinar will be presented by Head of Research Data Services, Jen Ferguson. Register

Designing a poster to present your research? Want to make it look better but not sure how? We’ll share 10 design tips you can use to take your poster from drab to fab! This webinar will be presented by Research Data Analyst, Kate Kryder. Register