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01/28/2025
profile-icon Danielle Maurici-Pollock

Love Data Week is a week-long international celebration of data, taking place this year from February 10-14, 2025. The 2025 theme is “Whose Data is it Anyway?” From Love Data Week host site ICPSR: "This year's theme challenges us to examine where data comes from and who owns it before we use it in our work."

The UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center is offering three data-related online workshops to celebrate Love Data Week this year. Find more information and register below:

The All of Us Research Program at the University of New Mexico

Date: Monday, February 10
Time: 12:00 -12:30 p.m.
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In 2023, the University Libraries and the Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center (HSLIC) at the University of New Mexico joined the NIH’s All of Us Research Program (AoU). AoU is a landmark study aimed at advancing precision medicine by partnering with over one million diverse participants, with a special focus on historically underrepresented populations. The AoU program provides researchers with access to a vast database of protected health information to drive breakthroughs in human health. This workshop will explore the All of Use Research Program in greater detail and discuss the University of New Mexico’s activities regarding All of Us. In addition, the workshop will provide information to researchers on how they can join the program to access the large amounts of health data for their own research projects.

Writing a Data Management Plan with DMPTool

Date: Wednesday, February 12
Time: 12:00 -1:00 p.m.
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This hands-on workshop is for researchers looking to create a data management plan. It will cover data management plan elements, suggested verbiage, and what is expected in a data management and sharing plan for an NIH grant submission. Presenters will demo of DMPTool, a free online resource for helping you create funder-compliant DMPs.

Understanding the NIH Data Management and Sharing and Public Access Policies

Date: Friday, February 14
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Applying for an NIH grant? This workshop, held as part of Love Data Week, will cover recent changes to National Institutes of Health (NIH) policies that could impact your research and publications. We will briefly review the 2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy already in place as well as the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy that will apply to all manuscripts from NIH-funded research starting December 31, 2025.

 

Check out all the other activities happening around the world for Love Data Week. Many of these are open to the public and can be attended online.

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01/14/2025
profile-icon Melissa Rethlefsen

David Hansen, MBA, joined HSLIC in December 2024 as our Manager of Administrative Operations. David has a long history at UNM, including receiving both his bachelor's and master's degrees from UNM. He started at UNM as an employee in 2011, working at the RWJF Center for Health Policy, followed by work as a Clinical Education Coordinator and Program Manager in the Division of Physical Therapy in the School of Medicine. Most recently, he worked at Amazon's Albuquerque fulfillment center, where he ensured smooth operation of the facility and directed up to 500 employees on any given day. He brings his many years of experience to HSLIC, and is already making a huge impact with his leadership, organizational, and budget skills. 

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David says that he's really excited to be "returning to UNM with an organization (HSLIC) that has such a wide reach and impact. Previously my efforts focused on the PT Program, the SOM and the HSC. Now my efforts affect a much larger user base: students, staff, faculty and affiliates of HSC and ALL of its HSC graduate programs; community providers and patients; et cetera. I’m so grateful to get the opportunity to help drive both this type of, and scope of, impact in New Mexico and for New Mexicans. Finally, in comparison to Amazon, I like the return to a work/life balance that is second to none." 

David's no stranger to making a big impact. When he was at Amazon, he helped to launch ABQ1, the first Gen 11 medium Amazon Robotics Customer Fulfillment Center in North America. First opening in September 2021, with five floors of production and encompassing 3 million square feet, ABQ1 has more than 3,000 associates and brought thousands of jobs to the New Mexico economy. Before that, his work in the Division of Physical Therapy directly led to the division's ability to get students back safely while learning in person during the first year of the COVID pandemic. He helped to break classrooms into smaller, safe sections and created cohorts of learners in small groups to maximize safety. The division's students' education was only delayed a short time due to the pandemic thanks to his efforts. 

We are delighted to have David in HSLIC! 

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01/10/2025
profile-icon Danielle Maurici-Pollock

This spring, HSLIC faculty members are offering two one-hour BIOM 505 special topics courses focusing on knowledge and skills for conducting reproducible, rigorous, and transparent scientific research. 

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BIOM 505: Introduction to Research Data Management, taught by Prof. Danielle Maurici-Pollock will focus on managing scientific research data throughout the data lifecycle. Students will gain knowledge and hands-on experience in areas including data ethics, data sharing, and scientific data description, organization, preservation, and reuse, and will learn skills needed to successfully create and execute an effective research data management and sharing plan (DMSP), such as those now required by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for all funded research. 

BIOM 505: Rigor and Reproducibility Journal Club, taught by Profs. Melissa Rethlefsen and Leah Everitt is designed to increase students’ familiarity with current discussions on rigor and reproducibility in the biomedical and social sciences, build and improve oral presentation skills, and actively engage with the concepts of rigor, reproducibility, transparency, and open science through interactions with peers and robust and critical discussions. The course will introduce students to new and emerging ideas in scholarly communication that will prepare them for future careers in research Both courses are open to all interested graduate learners. 

For more information, contact Prof. Maurici-Pollock at dmauricipollock@salud.unm.edu or Prof. Rethlefsen at mrethlefsen@salud.unm.edu. 

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