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VT Therapy Dogs Finals Visit In-Person

Join members of the VT Therapy Dogs team from Cook Counseling for finals season. Stop by for pets and encouragement on the 2nd floor of Newman Library near the Popular Reading Collection. Dates and...  More
Date:
Monday, December 15, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
11:30am - 12:30pm
Location:
2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library), Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Undergraduates     Graduate Students  

Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour In-Person / Online

Join us for the weekly Digital Scholarship Collaboration Hour in the Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126) on the 1st floor of Newman Library. Bring your lunch or afternoon coffee and join us in...  More
Date:
Monday, December 15, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126), Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event > Data Science  
Registration Type:
In-Person Registration / Online Registration
Register! - 19 seats left

VT Therapy Dogs Finals Visit In-Person

Join members of the VT Therapy Dogs team from Cook Counseling for finals season. Stop by for pets and encouragement on the 2nd floor of Newman Library near the Popular Reading Collection. Dates and...  More
Date:
Monday, December 15, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:
2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library), Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Undergraduates     Graduate Students  

VT Therapy Dogs Finals Visit In-Person

Join members of the VT Therapy Dogs team from Cook Counseling for finals season. Stop by for pets and encouragement on the 2nd floor of Newman Library near the Popular Reading Collection. Dates and...  More
Date:
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Time:
8:00am - 9:00am
Location:
2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library), Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Undergraduates     Graduate Students  

Is Every Publisher a Predator? How to Find High Quality Journals to Publish In Online

The Open Access movement has many, many benefits to getting scholarship and research out to everyone, but it has also created an environment with less-than savory players. How can you determine if...  More
Date:
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Time:
12:15pm - 12:45pm
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 28 seats left

VT Therapy Dogs Finals Visit In-Person

Join members of the VT Therapy Dogs team from Cook Counseling for finals season. Stop by for pets and encouragement on the 2nd floor of Newman Library near the Popular Reading Collection. Dates and...  More
Date:
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:
2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library), Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Undergraduates     Graduate Students  

Is Every Publisher a Predator? How to Find High Quality Journals to Publish In Online

The Open Access movement has many, many benefits to getting scholarship and research out to everyone, but it has also created an environment with less-than savory players. How can you determine if...  More
Date:
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Time:
5:15pm - 5:45pm
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 30 seats left

VT Therapy Dogs Finals Visit In-Person

Join members of the VT Therapy Dogs team from Cook Counseling for finals season. Stop by for pets and encouragement on the 2nd floor of Newman Library near the Popular Reading Collection. Dates and...  More
Date:
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
11:30am - 12:30pm
Location:
2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library), Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Undergraduates     Graduate Students  

Archival Adventures: A Universe of Sky and Snow! Online

It's Winter Wonderland time! This week archival materials will blanket us in fresh snowfall as we explore snow-related items from our collections. See the list of items:...  More
Date:
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Advanced     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Postdoc  
Categories:
  Event > Livestream  

VT Therapy Dogs Finals Visit In-Person

Join members of the VT Therapy Dogs team from Cook Counseling for finals season. Stop by for pets and encouragement on the 2nd floor of Newman Library near the Popular Reading Collection. Dates and...  More
Date:
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:
2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library), Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Undergraduates     Graduate Students  

Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online

PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...  More
Date:
Thursday, December 18, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
All Day Event
Location:
Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture Series Online

Mining Scholarly Big Data in the Large Language Model Era A PRESENTATION BY Dr. Jian Wu Online Event via Zoom Abstract: Since 2023, there has been a surge of public and research interest in large...  More
Date:
Friday, December 19, 2025
Time:
10:00am - 11:00am
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event > Center for Digital Research and Scholarship     Event > Livestream  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 87 seats left

Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online

PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...  More
Date:
Thursday, December 25, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
All Day Event
Location:
Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online

PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...  More
Date:
Thursday, January 1, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
All Day Event
Location:
Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online

PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...  More
Date:
Thursday, January 8, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
All Day Event
Location:
Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

Intro to R and RStudio - Data Carpentry In-Person / Online

This hands-on, participatory workshop provides an introduction to using the R programming language for reproducible data analysis and scientific computing. Learn how to work with data in R and...  More
Date:
Monday, January 12, 2026
Time:
9:00am - 4:30pm
Location:
UMALL 2104, Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Workshop     Workshop > Data Science  
Registration Type:
In-Person Registration / Online Registration
Register! - 33 seats left

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Deep Dive Online

Join us on January 12-15, 10am - 3pm ET for the activity-based Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Deep Dive! During this 4-day workshop participants will become familiar with the major required...  More
From:
10:00am, Monday, January 12, 2026
To:
3:00pm, Thursday, January 15, 2026
Audience:
  Beginners     Advanced     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register!

Intro to Python and JupyterLab - Software Carpentry In-Person / Online

This workshop provides an introduction to using the Python programming language for reproducible data analysis and scientific computing. Learn how to work with data in Python using the JupyterLab...  More
Date:
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Time:
9:00am - 4:30pm
Location:
UMALL 2104, Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Public     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Workshop     Workshop > Data Science  
Registration Type:
In-Person Registration / Online Registration
Register! - 40 seats left

Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online

PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...  More
Date:
Thursday, January 15, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
All Day Event
Location:
Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

Survey Research Jump Start with Qualtrics In-Person / Online

Whether you're getting started with survey research, moving from another platform to Qualtrics, or just looking to improve your skills in collecting survey data, this workshop has something for...  More
Date:
Friday, January 16, 2026
Time:
9:00am - 4:30pm
Location:
UMALL 2104, Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Beginners     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Alumni     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Workshop     Workshop > Data Science  
Registration Type:
In-Person Registration / Online Registration
Register! - 42 seats left

Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online

PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...  More
Date:
Thursday, January 22, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
All Day Event
Location:
Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

Finding Resources for Literature Reviews in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Online

You’ve been assigned to write a literature review in the social sciences...but how do you get started? What kinds of literature reviews are there? Where should you search? How do you know what search...  More
Date:
Monday, January 26, 2026
Time:
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff  
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 48 seats left

Tips & Tricks for Literature Reviews in Engineering Online

You need to write a literature review for your research or project... but how do you get started? What type of review do you need? What about AI tools to save time? We will go through the answers to...  More
Date:
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Time:
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff  
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 50 seats left

Self-Paced Scholarly Identity Challenge Course Online

PLEASE NOTE: This is a self-paced, asynchronous course offered through the Professional Development Network (PDN). Please register for the course and complete the modules on your own through this...  More
Date:
Thursday, January 29, 2026 Show more dates
Time:
All Day Event
Location:
Blacksburg Campus
Audience:
  Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff     Postdoc     Researchers  
Categories:
  Event  

Getting Started with Zotero Online

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use citation manager that can help researchers save time and frustration. In this interactive workshop, you will learn the basics of Zotero, including adding references to...  More
Date:
Monday, February 2, 2026
Time:
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Audience:
  Beginners     Undergraduates     Graduate Students     Faculty/Staff  
Categories:
  Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 48 seats left

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