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Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• Grant Writing Academy: Competitive proposal development for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

  Sept. 30, 2026 at 10 a.m. until noon
  Research 1

  An overview of the DOE proposal review process, pros and cons of communicating with agency program manager before proposal submission, developing the project summary/initial abstract and its importance, discussion of budget, developing the evaluation plan, and common mistakes to avoid will be discussed. Several strong proposal writing examples will be discussed to demonstrate best practices. Speaker: Kristopher Davis, Associate Professor, …

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• Data Cleaning and Preprocessing using R

  Sept. 30, 2026 at 2 p.m. until 4 p.m.
  R1:101: Research 1, Room 101

  Learn basic programming in R through practical data pre-processing tasks. Participants will learn how to use R to import, inspect, clean, transform, summarize, reshape, and export messy datasets. The session will include guided demonstrations and hands-on exercises where attendees practice writing R code using common tools and packages.  Learning outcomes: - Introduction to R - Importing and inspecting data - Cleaning column …

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