Colleagues,
The Research IT Reading Group will meet next week, on Thursday, December
5, from noon to 1:00 in Warren Hall Room 200C.
We'll discuss the results of a recent focus group held with UCB graduate
students on the topic of research computing needs. The focus group was
convened as part of the Research & Academic Engagement (RAE) Portfolio
Planning project, a joint effort between Academic Engagement/ETS,
Research IT/IST, and The Library. The summary for the focus group is
written up at:
November Graduate Focus Group Findings
<https://docs.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/document/d/1R23xNiiuXZz_W1L0VmL_0r9D5ngmnl4KwPrtW7TyUMs/edit>
Our goal for the reading group is to engage in discussion across broad
areas of the campus about the computing needs of students-as-researchers
at Berkeley (graduate students in particular though not exclusively). In
this vein, we hope you'll also review the home page of Princeton's
Graduate Certificate in Computational and Information Science as
background to our discussion:
http://www.princeton.edu/researchcomputing/education/graduate-certificate-CIS/
Finally, as supplemental reading, the RAE project also held a focus
group with undergraduates. That group focused much more on teaching and
learning. The summary is written up at:
2013-10-31 Focus Group Findings
<https://docs.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/document/d/1Wpu7ECI_noFrz-l0WI7kAREcmN7rKs1CbgfmYO9n5d0/edit#heading=h.dj7975vscqma>
Looking forward to seeing you at noon on Thursday, December 5th!
~Steve
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Steve Masover, IT Architect
IST - Research Information Technology
[email protected]
