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October
14
2025

Creating or Refining Your Community-Engaged Learning Syllabus

Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Zoom (UOE)

This session will discuss elements of designing a syllabus to outline the community-engaged learning experience and requirements, highlight community partnership, and build in reflection opportunities. We will draw from sample syllabi, templates, and peer testimonials to assist instructors in shaping plans for future courses. Register to attend.

October
9
2025

NCFDD: SKILL #9: How to Engage in Healthy Conflict

Thursday, October 9, 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Zoom

Offered by the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) **Please join us on Zoom for this presentation** Join Zoom Meeting Do you often feel drained by departmental drama? Do feel unclear how to handle conflicts that arise in your department? Are you unsure when, where, and how to manage conflict with people who […]

October
9
2025

Writing an NIH Specific Aims Page

Thursday, October 9, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Zoom (VPRI)

TThe Specific Aims page is arguably the most important section of an NIH grant application. Almost all reviewers will carefully read this page, which provides a roadmap for the rest of your proposal. To be successful, reviewers must come away from reading your aims page with a clear understanding of what you plan to do, […]

October
2
2025

Introduction to NIH and Planning a Successful Proposal

Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Zoom (VPRI)

This webinar will provide an overview of the structure of the NIH and several funding mechanisms. Attendees will learn tips for planning a successful NIH proposal, including how to search the RePORTER website, identify an optimal institute and study section, and prepare to meet with a Program Officer. This webinar will be presented by Lauren Aerni-Flessner, […]

September
26
2025

Leadership Institute – Hiring, Retention, and Partner Hires

Friday, September 26, 2025, 9:00am - 10:30am
Zoom

Each year, the Leadership Institute series offers academic administrators the opportunity to interact with their peers around key topics. This series of 90-minute sessions are designed to expand upon themes introduced at New Administrator Orientation. These sessions are required for department chairpersons, school directors, and associate deans of non-departmentally organized colleges within the first two […]

September
18
2025

Applying for Foundation Funding: Learn from Success Stories

Thursday, September 18, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Join your colleagues for a panel discussion about how to secure private foundation funding. The discussion will focus on how private foundations work, what they fund, and best practices for securing funding. MSU faculty will share their successful experiences applying for foundation funding and discuss how the process differs from applying for federal grants. Participants […]

September
16
2025

Lightning Talks – Research Support Services at MSU

Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Zoom (VPRI)

Join your colleagues for insightful talks about research support services available at MSU. This session will highlight units assisting researchers throughout their life cycle. This event is brought to you by the Research Facilitation Network. The RFN is an alliance of research service providers and facilitators who are conducting research or supporting research computing and […]

September
16
2025

Mapping Your Research Impacts: Articulating your Research Impact Identity and Pathways to Research Impacts

Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Zoom (VPRI)

Researchers are more effective in accomplishing the intended societal impacts of their research when they have taken the time to consider their impact identity, their impact goals, and their pathways to societal impacts. Come to this hands-on workshop to develop your impact identity, research impact goals, and pathways for achieving societal impacts for your next […]

September
16
2025

NCFDD Virtual Writing Session – 2

Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 10:00am - Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 11:00am

Offered by the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) **Please join us on Zoom for this presentation** Join Zoom Meeting Join us for your daily writing session! We will provide a brief introduction, we’ll write for 30 minutes, and we’ll close out with reflections. What counts as writing? Drafting a manuscript “counts,” but […]