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In addition to the scholarly program, this year's INGRoup conference will offer 2 exciting hands-on workshops on Thursday, July 12:
 "Federal Funding of Research" with Jay Goodwin, and
 "Multilevel Modeling with R for Beginners" with Bertolt Meyers.
Workshop fees include materials needed for the workshop and an afternoon break service. Register for either workshop at www.ingroup.net . Workshop registration closes June 12^th. Register early; workshop space is limited.

Workshop 1: Federal Funding of Research

Facilitator: Jay Goodwin, US Army Research Institute

Time and location: Thursday, July 12, 2012; 1 to 5 pm; Northwestern University Downtown Chicago campus (a few blocks from INGRoup hotel)

Workshop fee:  $50 INGRoup members; $100 non-members

The workshop will cover the process of securing funding for research from US federal research agencies.  Emphasis will be placed on research idea formulation and specific areas of writing contract and grant proposals.  Additional topics to be covered: types of research agencies and the federal R&D philosophy, types of funding (grants vs. contracts), tips for learning about research focus areas of different agencies, tips for writing good proposals.

At the conclusion of the workshop, participants should: have an understanding of which federal agencies might fund research in their area of interest; have an improved ability to articulate their research ideas to those agencies through the proposal process; and have an improved ability to write successful research proposals.

The workshop is targeted toward junior faculty (less than 10 years since doctoral degree) and senior graduate students (past comprehensive exams) who are headed into academic careers. Participants should bring their research ideas (in 1 or 2 pages clearly articulating an idea for a specific research project) for which funding is sought. Participants are encouraged (but not required) to bring a laptop with digital copies of their research ideas document(s). Read-ahead materials will be available to registered participants for review and download prior to the workshop.

Workshop 2: Multilevel Modeling with R for Beginners

Facilitator: Bertolt Meyer, University of Zurich
Time and location: Thursday, July 12, 2012; 12:30 to 5 pm; Northwestern University Downtown Chicago campus (a few blocks from INGRoup hotel)

Workshop fee:  $75 INGRoup members; $150 non-members

Learn about multi-level modeling and how to do it using the free, open-source statistical environment R.  Dr. Bertolt Meyer will provide a brief introduction of R and multilevel modeling, but most of the workshop is spent getting hands-on experience with R and with multilevel modeling using examples from Dr. Meyer. R's capabilities are beyond those of commercially available programs such as SPSS, STATA, SAS, and HLM. R can be downloaded for free for all mayor operating systems (Windows, MacOS, and Linux) from www.r-project.org.

Participants will work through examples on their own laptops and learn how easy it is to run and interpret multilevel models with R. Participants are required to bring their own laptops. Read-ahead materials (syntax and examples, including instructions for installing R) will be available to registered participants for review and download prior to the workshop.