CERES: The Center for Excellence in Research and Scholarship

OUR MISSION: CERES exists to foster and facilitate a culture of research and scholarship in a complete lifecycle from senior faculty to first-year student at IUSB, and to demonstrate the benefits of diverse research and scholarship to the IUSB region. To ancient Romans, Ceres was a goddess of fertility whose gift was the harvest. Today, CERES grows and shares research and scholarly activities for the IUSB community.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

• IUSB Research Resources - https://academics.iusb.edu/research-office/funding-opportunities.html Links to an external site.
  • Links to internal IUSB opportunities as well as IU system and external opportunities.
• IU Research Resources - https://research.iu.edu/funding-proposals/funding/index.html Links to an external site.
  • Links to IU system and external opportunities, including the Pivot search engine.

GRANT DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE

• IUSB Contracts and Grants Coordination - https://academics.iusb.edu/research-office/index.html Links to an external site.
  • Important first and long-term stop for budgeting and planning with campus management staff.
• New IU Researcher Guidance - https://research.iu.edu/new-researchers/index.html Links to an external site.
• IU Research Proposal Development Services - guidance resources and tailored one-on-one consultation and assistance for IU researchers
  
  • Homepage - https://research.iu.edu/funding-proposals/proposals/proposal-development-services.html Links to an external site.
  • PDS Resource Portal - https://one.iu.edu/launch-task/iu/iub-proposal-development-services-resource-portal?terms=pds Links to an external site.
• Open Scholarship at IU - https://openscholarship.indiana.edu/od-dmp Links to an external site.
  • Data management plan support and other open access strategy information to meet regulatory requirements.

PUBLIC EDUCATION & OUTREACH

• IUSB Pop-Up University - https://www.iusb.edu/community-engagement/pop-up-univ.html Links to an external site.
• CERES and the IUSB Office of Community Engagement present several TED-style events each semester, open to the public, either virtually or at LangLab South Bend. Supported with assistance from Indiana Humanities.
• Science Alive @ Saint Joseph County Public Library - https://sjcpl.org/science-alive Links to an external site.
  • CERES advocates and supports IUSB faculty and programs to participate in this and other public education activities.
• IU Research Communication Resources - https://research.iu.edu/communications Links to an external site.
  • Information and templates for public communication and media interviews.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AT IU SOUTH BEND

• IU Experts Database - https://news.iu.edu/iu-experts/index.html Links to an external site.
  • Create faculty profiles, and browse or search for topical experts throughout the IU system.
• IU Research Security - https://cacr.iu.edu/projects/SecureMyResearch/index.html Links to an external site.

WORKSHOPS

• Fall 2020 Schedule (all activities will take place in CERES Zoom faculty lounge unless otherwise specified)
  
  • October 28 repeats October 29, 11am to 1pm - Twitter and IU Experts Database professional online presence development
  • November 13, 10am - Pivot funding database training
  • December 4 - IU Proposal Development Services workshop
• Previous Workshop Materials
  • Twitter for researchers Download Twitter for researchers
  • Zotero citation management for researchers Download Zotero citation management for researchers

ABOUT US: Contact the director with any questions or for assistance, or reach out to any member of the advisory board regarding a specific subject area.

Director - Josh Wells Links to an external site.
Business - Mohammad Merhi Links to an external site.
Education - Joseph Campbell Links to an external site.
Engineering (Purdue) - Megan Prygoski Links to an external site.
Fine Arts - Brett Labbe Links to an external site.
Health Sciences - Ian Clift Links to an external site.
Humanities - Kyoko Takanashi Links to an external site.
Library - Scott Shoger Links to an external site.
Physical Sciences - Henry Scott Links to an external site.
Social Sciences - Dé Bryant Links to an external site.
Social Work - Tarek Zidan Links to an external site.

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This Canvas page and and linked resources may also be found through the following short URLs - http://tinyurl.com/iusbceres Links to an external site.or http://tiny.cc/iusbceres Links to an external site.