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  • 一般

  • 1. 09月 8日 - 09月 14日

    Course Introduction & A Navigator's Chart for a Master's Program

    Introduction to course objectives and grading. Explanation of graduation requirements, academic ethics, lab safety, and culture.

    • 2. 09月 15日 - 09月 21日

      Literature Management with Zotero

      Hands-on tutorial: installation and setup, collecting references, inserting citations, creating bibliographies.

      • 3. 09月 22日 - 09月 28日

        Your AI Assistant for Research

        How to use AI (e.g., Gemini,  Perplexity) for brainstorming, literature summarization, grammar polishing, and code generation. How to verify AI-generated content to uphold academic ethics?

        • 4. 09月 29日 - 10月 5日

          Holiday

          • 5. 10月 6日 - 10月 12日

            Holiday

            • 6. 10月 13日 - 10月 19日

              Scientific Data & Visualization

              Tidy Data principles, types of data (continuous vs. categorical), practice in data organization. The meaning and calculation of mean, median, standard deviation (SD). Introduction to box plots and bar charts.

              • 7. 10月 20日 - 10月 26日

                Correlation, Causation, and the Ask a Good Question

                Scatter plots, correlation does not imply causation, using the FINER criteria to evaluate research questions.

                • 8. 10月 27日 - 11月 2日

                  Seminar Presentation Skills

                  Narrative structure, visual design, oral presentation skills, and techniques for handling Q&A sessions.

                  • 9. 11月 3日 - 11月 9日

                    Experimental Design: Controls and Variables

                    Positive and negative controls, independent variables, dependent variables, confounding variables. Introduction to sample size and statistical power analysis.

                    • 10. 11月 10日 - 11月 16日

                      Hypothesis Testing and an Intuitive Understanding of P-values

                      The null hypothesis (H0) and alternative hypothesis (H1), the meaning and interpretation of P-values.

                      • 11. 11月 17日 - 11月 23日

                        Research Ethics and Guidelines for IACUC / IRB Applications

                        Academic integrity, authorship principles. Animal experiment ethics, the 3Rs principle, application procedures and document preparation for IACUC or IRB.

                        • 12. 11月 24日 - 11月 30日

                          Dissecting a Paper and Efficient Literature Search

                          The IMRAD structure, applying Boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT) to literature searches.

                          • 13. 12月 1日 - 12月 7日

                            Writing a Research Proposal (I): Introduction & Hypothesis

                            How to state the research background, motivation, and significance, and review key literature.

                            • 14. 12月 8日 - 12月 14日

                              Writing a Research Proposal (II): Materials and Methods

                              Writing a reproducible experimental protocol.
                              • 本週

                                15. 12月 15日 - 12月 21日

                                Writing a Research Proposal (III): Preliminary or Anticipated Results

                                What kind of data is sufficient? What preliminary data can build reviewers' confidence in your ability to execute the project?

                                • 16. 12月 22日 - 12月 28日

                                  Research Question Clinic

                                  Group discussions to strengthen each person's research concept (research question, hypothesis, IV/DV).

                                   

                                  • 17. 12月 29日 - 01月 4日

                                    Final Presentation (I): Oral Report on Research Proposal

                                    Students present their research proposals.

                                    • 18. 01月 5日 - 01月 11日