Upcoming Events

Drawing on the rich holdings of the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections and the rare book collections of Bernard Becker Medical Library, the Secret Sciences exhibition examines the numerous facets of alchemy, ranging from its scientific applications to its complicated symbolic language to its influence on the visual and literary arts.

Join us for Science Communication to Enhance Health Decisions, a half-day symposium featuring Dr. Ellen Peters, an academic expert in decision making and the science of science communication.

The Washington University Libraries virtual book club is an opportunity to read and discuss a book with others. Themes and related materials are also highlighted from special and unique collections. The virtual book club is open to all.

Join us for a guided workshop on how to scope, develop, and proceed with an open pedagogy project.

REDCap in a Flash is a series of webinars that take a deep dive into specific REDCap topics and tools. Sessions include live demonstrations with additional time for Q&A.

Join Timothy Holy, PhD, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, for a workshop session covering the structure of open-source projects on GitHub to help you understand how to evaluate, create and sustain open-source tools. Learn to evaluate project quality, health and vibrancy; request and contribute changes; and aim for sustainability with continuous integration. 

University Libraries will explore impactful initiatives and valuable resources created for students and communities.

Join us for the Open October keynote to hear from NIH, NSF, and NASA representatives about the forthcoming public access initiatives to make federally funded publications and research data openly available. Speakers will share an overview of policy guidance and discuss plans for advancing open science, followed by a Q&A session.

This session will provide a background on ORCID and how it can help ease a researcher’s administrative burden.

Join us for the inaugural meeting of the SciComm Journal Club, an opportunity to learn about and discuss the latest advances in science communication research, current trends in scientific output, and challenges scientists encounter when disseminating their work

This virtual workshop is offered in collaboration with WUIT's Research Infrastructure Services (RIS) and will introduce Open On Demand (OOD), which is a web-based interface for remote computing. OOD provides a web browser interface for users to connect to and interact with RIS compute resources, and access a variety of software for running jobs on RIS Scientific compute platform. Attendees will learn how to run jobs using OOD on RIS scientific compute.

REDCap in a Flash is a series of webinars that take a deep dive into specific REDCap topics and tools. Sessions include live demonstrations with additional time for Q&A.

Our annual rare books open house is a unique opportunity to see a rare selection of spectacular medical works dating from the Renaissance to the 20th century up close.

This virtual workshop is offered in collaboration with WUIT's Research Infrastructure Services (RIS) and will introduce the Unix command line interface, the Unix file system, and basic Unix commands. Attendees will learn to create, explore and manage Unix files and folders.

This virtual workshop will provide an introduction to using the R programming language for Single Cell RNA Sequencing (scRNA-seq) data analysis. Attendees will learn via live demonstrations how to analyze and interpret scRNA-Seq data using the R package Seurat.

To tell stories, we must know what our story is first. Join us for "The Story Within", a primer for uncovering and sharing your personal narrative.

This virtual workshop is offered in collaboration with WUIT's Research Infrastructure Services (RIS) and will introduce text editors, shell and batch scripts, Docker container technology, and the ssh protocol. Attendees will learn how to write, edit and run shell scripts, how to create a simple Docker container, and how to connect to the RIS compute platform.

This virtual workshop is offered in collaboration with WUIT's Research Infrastructure Services (RIS) and will introduce basic commands for submitting jobs to the queue on RIS compute platform via the command line. Attendees will learn how to submit and run jobs/tasks using Docker and queuing system commands.

REDCap in a Flash is a series of webinars that take a deep dive into specific REDCap topics and tools. Sessions include live demonstrations with additional time for Q&A.

This virtual R workshop will introduce R objects and functions and demonstrate basic data exploration and manipulation using R base.

This virtual R workshop will introduce data visualization in R and demonstrate how to create and customize basic plots using R base.