Category: Announcement

Get up to $15,000 in research grants at MRweek™

Qualtrics Behavioral Research GrantQualtrics is offering students and faculty grants ranging from $5000 to $1500 as part of the MRWeek™. If you are not familiar with MRWeek, it’s touted as the “largest market research event in the world.” This free five-day conference connects you with industry leaders, peer review sessions, Q&A forums and content downloads – without leaving the comfort of your own home or office. You will be able to learn the secrets of these top-tier market researchers though online webinars.

From Qualtrics:

At Qualtrics, academic research is at our core. It’s how we got our start, and there’s nothing we love more than empowering researchers and seeing the insights they’re able to uncover.

As a part of MRweek™, we’ll be giving students and professors an opportunity to apply for a Qualtrics Research Grant.

MRweek takes place December 7-11. It’s completely free, online, and the perfect chance to both fund and spark the study you’ve been wanting to conduct.

Three winners will be chosen and awarded with grants ranging from $5,000 to $15,000.

Register & Apply

Cheers,
Qualtrics Team

 

Lynda.com’s New Course Page: What to Expect

Please Note: LyndaCampus has been replaced by LinkedIn Learning and can be accessed at smu.edu/linkedin.

lynda.comAs you may have heard, SMU recently began offering full Lynda.com access for all students faculty and staff. Already, hundreds of you have logged on and began learning new things! As Lynda.com continues to improve, they have recently announced that as of November 30, they will be gradually rolling out a new look for their courses. To keep you in the loop, here are a few of the differences you can expect once the new format hits your account.

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If you need to download exercise files, add a course to your playlist, or if you would like to share the course with someone, all of these options have been moved to the top right of the screen so they are more easily found. Don’t forget that there is now an option to download courses for offline viewing!

 

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Lynda.com has also added keyboard shortcuts to make navigating a course easier, which means you can focus more on learning! A detailed list of the shortcuts can be found by clicking on the icon next to the share button in the top right corner.

 

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Video transcripts have always been a great way to keep track of where you are in a course and can also help if you simply want to read the directions given. Now, Lynda.com allows you to type notes alongside the transcript totally within the course, so you don’t have to have a separate notepad.

 

With these new features, Lynda has made it even easier to work within their courses! Again, it’s all free for students, faculty and staff, so log in and learn.

Mathematica 10 in Education and Research

MathmaticaSMU Physics will be hosting a “Mathematica 10 in Education and Research” seminar on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 from 4:00-5:00 in Heroy, Room 153. This talk illustrates capabilities in Mathematica 10 and other Wolfram technologies that are directly applicable for use in teaching and research on campus. Topics of these technical talks include:

  • Enter calculations in everyday English, or using the flexible Wolfram Language
  • Visualize data, functions, surfaces, and more in 2D or 3D
  • Store and share documents locally or in the Wolfram Cloud
  • Use the Predictive Interface to get suggestions for the next useful calculation or function options
  • Access trillions of bits of on-demand data
  • Use semantic import to enrich your data using Wolfram curated data
  • Easily turn static examples into mouse-driven, dynamic applications
  • Access 10,000 free course-ready applications
  • Utilize the Wolfram Language’s wide scope of built-in functions, or create your own
  • Get deep support for specialized areas including machine learning, time series, image processing, parallelization, and control systems, with no add-ons required

Current users will benefit from seeing the many improvements and new features of Mathematica 10, but prior knowledge of Mathematica is not required.

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