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Elements Faculty Activity System: Overview Workshop and Drop-In Q&A In-Person
Virginia Tech Elements, a faculty activity repository, is used for a variety of purposes, including data for department, college, or broader institutional analytics and reports, the Virginia Tech...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location:
- Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 50 seats left
Introduction to LaTeX with Overleaf Online
Come learn how to get started with this popular coding tool for writing technical papers! LaTeX (pronounced Lay-tech or Lah-tech) is a free typesetting system designed for technical publications that...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Graduate Students Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 66 seats left
Intro to Python and JupyterLab Online
This hands-on workshop for novices will cover basic programming skills in Python using the JupyterLab interface.
The workshop is open to anyone. You do not need any experience to participate, but you...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Time:
- 9:00am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- Online
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 42 seats left
Craft & Chat: Polymer Clay and Procrastination In-Person
Make your own designs with polymer clay and learn techniques for tackling procrastination.
Craft & Chats provide informal arts instruction for all levels with gentle community building. Explore a...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Location:
- Project Design Studio (Newman 419) (Map ), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registrations are fully booked!
Archival Adventures: More from the Black History Pamphlet Collection Online
It's time for an adventure! This week we dive into our extensive Black history pamphlet collection to uncover rich and powerful narratives. From the connections between the Black liberation movement...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, February 19, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
VTSCOM Library Lunch & Learn In-Person
Please join us at the VTCSOM library to learn more about resources available to you as a VTC student.
On the first and third Thursday of every month, VTCSOM Library staff will host Lunch & Learn...
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- Date:
- Thursday, February 20, 2025
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- Time:
- 12:15pm - 12:45pm
- Location:
- Health Sciences & Technology Campus
- Audience:
- Graduate Students
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 25 seats left
Intro to R and RStudio Online
Learn how to work with data in R and RStudio, whether or not you have any experience with coding or data analysis.
This hands-on workshop is open to anyone who wants to work with data in R. You do...
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- Date:
- Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Time:
- 5:00pm - 8:00pm
- Location:
- Online
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 31 seats left
Game Jam In-Person
The Game Development Club and the Gaming Studio at Newman Library invite you to participate in a weekend-long Game Jam! The event starts at 6:00 p.m. on Friday the 21st and ends at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday...
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- From:
- 6:00pm, Friday, February 21, 2025
- To:
- 6:00pm, Sunday, February 23, 2025
- Location:
- Gaming Studio (Map ), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Undergraduates Graduate Students
- Categories:
- Event
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 32 seats left
Elements Faculty Activity System: Overview Workshop and Drop-In Q&A In-Person
Virginia Tech Elements, a faculty activity repository, is used for a variety of purposes, including data for department, college, or broader institutional analytics and reports, the Virginia Tech...
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- Date:
- Monday, February 24, 2025
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 50 seats left
Josie's Office Hours In-Person
Join Josie the Therapy Dog from Cook Counseling for her weekly office hours located on the 2nd floor of Newman Library near the Popular Reading Collection. If you are an individual with a disability...
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- Date:
- Monday, February 24, 2025
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- Time:
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Location:
- 2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library)
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...
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- Date:
- Monday, February 24, 2025
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- 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! - 20 seats left
Getting the Most Out of Your Citation Manager Online
Citation managers like EndNote, Mendeley, and Zotero are powerful tools that can help you save, organize, and cite your references. Their use can also help improve your workflow and make the research...
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- Date:
- Monday, February 24, 2025
- Time:
- 4:00pm - 5:15pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Graduate Students Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 84 seats left
Craft & Chat: Hand-sewing, Quilting, and Unlearning Perfectionism In-Person
Learn hand sewing techniques and take home your own small quilted block. Along the way, we'll talk about recognizing the stress of perfectionism and how to make peace with mistakes
Craft & Chats...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Time:
- 3:30pm - 4:30pm
- Location:
- Project Design Studio (Newman 419) (Map ), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 5 seats left
What You Need to Know: Academic Publishing & Online Profiles Online
As an early-career academic, graduate students have many expectations and pressures, such as publishing and developing a professional presence in academia. In this workshop, participants will discover...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Time:
- 3:30pm - 4:45pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Graduate Students Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 74 seats left
Programming with Python Online
This hands-on workshop is designed for those with basic Python programming experience. It will train learners to use three key tools for simplifying, clarifying, and scaling programs for real-world...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Time:
- 9:00am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- Online
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 42 seats left
Archival Adventures: Succubus by K.F. Ziska Online
It's time for an adventure! This week we return to author and sci-fi historian Sam Moskowitz's 1940 letter to the editor of Comet, where he listed the classics of the genre. Today's tale: Succubus by...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
Data wrangling and visualization with R Online
This hands-on workshop is designed for those with basic R programming experience. It will focus on data wrangling and visualization using the tidyverse set of packages.
The workshop is open to...
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- Date:
- Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Time:
- 5:00pm - 8:00pm
- Location:
- Online
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop Workshop > Data Science
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 41 seats left
Design Challenge In-Person
The Design Challenge will take place on February 27th in the Newman Library 4th Floor Prototyping Studio from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. This event is open to all majors! You can compete solo or as part...
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- Date:
- Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Time:
- 5:00pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- Prototyping Studio (Newman 430), Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 30 seats left
Josie's Office Hours In-Person
Join Josie the Therapy Dog from Cook Counseling for her weekly office hours located on the 2nd floor of Newman Library near the Popular Reading Collection. If you are an individual with a disability...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 3, 2025
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- Time:
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Location:
- 2nd Floor Commons (Newman Library)
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...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 3, 2025
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- 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! - 20 seats left
Advanced LaTeX for ETDs and More Online
Looking for a different platform besides Word or Google for your thesis or dissertation? Or do you want to go beyond the basics in LaTeX? Come learn more about working with LaTeX in Overleaf for...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 3, 2025
- Time:
- 2:30pm - 4:00pm
- Audience:
- Graduate Students Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 82 seats left
Connecting the Opens: Open Education Week 2025 In-Person / Online
Join the University Libraries and invited guests for a discussion for future professors regarding open access, open educational resources, and open data. University Libraries’ faculty will provide...
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- Date:
- Monday, March 3, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Location:
- Newman 207A, Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Beginners Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 135 seats left
Building Digital Exhibits and Adding Maps to Omeka In-Person / Online
In the first part of the workshop, we will explore plug-ins and tools for creating custom pages, building exhibits, and incorporating audio and video. We will also review the Omeka Toolkit available...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location:
- Torgersen 3310, Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Advanced Undergraduates Public Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Alumni Postdoc
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration / Online Registration
- Register! - 72 seats left
Elements Faculty Activity System: Overview Workshop and Drop-In Q&A In-Person
Virginia Tech Elements, a faculty activity repository, is used for a variety of purposes, including data for department, college, or broader institutional analytics and reports, the Virginia Tech...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Location:
- Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Faculty/Staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 48 seats left
How to take advantage of Virginia Tech’s open access policy In-Person
Since March 2021, all Virginia Tech researchers can provide immediate open access to the accepted version of scholarly articles through the university’s repository, VTechWorks, regardless of their...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Location:
- Online
- Audience:
- Graduate Students Faculty/Staff Postdoc Researchers
- Categories:
- Event