Michigan Experts is a searchable database of research expertise across disciplines from several schools/colleges developed by the University. It has been developed to foster intramural and extramural collaborations, and interdisciplinary research to expand knowledge. The database is not comprehensive of all faculty members, nor exhaustive of individual productivity or expertise but it is anticipated that all LSA faculty will be included in the near future.
Teaching and Technology (TeachTech) Collaborative offers a wide range of workshops to faculty and students teams throughout the academic year, including sessions focused on achieving clarity and control through effective management of collaborative projects.
U-M Library ScholarSpace is a place for collaborating and connecting with faculty and students on digital and technology-enabled projects. It provides consultation and workshops on a range of processes and products of research collaboration, including, but not limited to, text mining, web publishing, infographic design, and multimedia creation.
Enriching Scholarship is a week of free workshops, discussions, and seminars for faculty and staff, addressing the role of technology in fostering engaging, collaborative, and effective teaching, learning, and research. The workshop takes place in May each year.
U-M Library Accessibility provides resources and guidance to collaborative groups on scholarship and publishing deliverables that can be accessible to a range of audiences using a broad range of technologies. Learn more about how to make your projects accessible with Stephanie Rosen (U-M accessibility specialist and our guest blogger).
Collaborative Labs and Research Spaces
CAEN Computer Labs and the Duderstadt Center provide collaborative stations built around a computer with a large LED display for students and faculty to come together for collaborative research and project development work. Visit the collaborative station reservation website to reserve a place from the web.
Located on the first floor of North Quad, the Language Resource Center (LRC) is a computer lab, study and meeting space, as well as a library for foreign language materials that supports faculty, staff, and students involved in the study of languages, literatures, and cultures at the University of Michigan.
The University of Michigan Academic Innovation Initiative fosters curricular and research innovation among faculty and students in departments and units from across campus.
The Digital Media Commons (DMC) provides students, faculty and staff access to a state-of-the-art multimedia facility with visualization and virtual reality technologies. Located in the Duderstadt Center on North Campus, the DMC serves as a development and training center for collaborative approaches to “rich media.”
Groups working in Public Engagement
Wallace House: Wallace House is “…home to programs that recognize, sustain and elevate the careers of journalists to address the challenges of journalism today, foster civic engagement and uphold the role of a free press in a democratic society.”
Michigan Radio: public radio source for NPR and Michigan news, events, politics, arts/culture, environment. Serving Ann Arbor and beyond.
Engaged Michigan and Connecting Michigan: programs which seek “to explore the feasibility of developing a coordinated, broadly accessible, technology-enabled infrastructure for community and civic engagement…”
Public Engagement and Impact: Training and resources for faculty looking to communicate “opinions, observations and research findings to the world outside of academia.”
Rackham Program in Public Scholarship: Supports graduate students in developing the professional experience necessary to impact the public good through their scholarship and careers. Four core programs are offered annually.
Resources for Data Management
U-M Library Deep Blue Data serves as a permanent and accessible home for publishing and preserving research done at the University. It supports a variety of collaborative formats and in-process work, including data, images, audio, and video files. It also offers teams the option of making their work visible in the larger context of the university environment, both within and across disciplines.
For large collaborative projects, shared Dropbox at U-M Team Folders provide unlimited storage that can be shared with collaborators both inside and outside U-M.
Campus ITS MiStorage provides faculty, staff and students the ability to store and access large amounts of data to support their specific projects in a secure and cost-effective environment. Campus ITS also offers a Sensitive Data Guide with instructions on how to share data securely. Please consult their Data Storage Finder for a comparative overview of storage options.
The Metadata and Data Documentation Research Guide provides a basic introduction to tools, resources, standards, and support for describing research data and make the data discoverable in repositories, understandable in context, and reusable by other researchers. For additional information, or to schedule a consultation on metadata and data documentation for your research, contact Matt Carruthers.
The Stephen S. Clark Library for maps, government information, and data services offers open workshops in mapping, data visualization, course instruction, and individual consultations on managing diverse types of data. Please visit their blog for tutorials on visualization work or contact Justin Joque for further information.
Consulting for Statistics Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR) provides free consulting in data analysis and statistical methods to all U-M researchers. CSCAR provides assistance with the design, analysis, interpretation, and communication of research studies involving data. CSCAR also presents workshops on statistical methods and software for data management and analysis. Fall, Winter and Spring workshop offerings include Statistics Review, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Analysis with R. Information, appointments and workshop registration (734)764-7828 or visit the CSCAR web page cscar.research.umich.edu for additional information.
Finding Funding and Completing Applications
The LSA Humanities Business Office is available to assist LSA Humanities faculty with putting together the Collaboratory application as well as any other grant application. Contact them at mlbbo-grants@umich.edu.
The LSA Research Office (LSAResearchOffice@umich.edu) offers valuable assistance helping faculty develop a plan to move their research project forward for funding, both external and internal. Staff are available to work with professorial faculty and your departmental research administration structure to: help to find Sponsors external to U-M; use eGIF for internal funding; come up with a realistic budget; read your project proposal against sponsor information for suggestions; provide access to successful examples of funded projects; get you connected with departmental Research Administrators.
Media Resources
MiVideo is U-M’s cloud-based media streaming and content management service, where faculty, students, and staff can organize, catalog, share, search, and publish collaborative, multimedia content in coordination with U-M learning management system, Canvas.
The Research Guide for Images helps campus members find and use images and other visual resources from the University Library.
Trying to navigate the world of U-M acronyms? The Acronyms Decoder can assist you.
U-M Library Copyright Office provides the university community information about copyright through consultations, public workshops, and customized copyright education sessions.
