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Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, the Kwame J. Granderson Undergraduate Writing Center and the Undergraduate Research Center – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Learn about citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, how to auto-generate your bibliography, keep track of your sources and more! Join us for this workshop with library instructors to learn about citing your sources. All fall quarter Cornerstone workshops will be held on Zoom.

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BYOB—bring your own ballot!—and learn how to research the issues at stake in this November’s election. We’ll discuss how to avoid misinformation and practice strategies for finding the information you need to make an informed voting decision. Led by Katherine Kapsidelis and Ashley Peterson

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Join curators from Library Special Collections as they offer the UCLA community an opportunity to see and engage with materials that document food and culinary history. This will include materials that represent food and culinary history locally, internationally and across time periods. Beyond providing nourishment, food serves as a connection across cultures and societies, with agriculture, foodways and cuisines offering insights into community history, traditions and social structures. Examine how materials that include cookbooks, recipes, photographs and menus offer insight into the ways food connect us to each other. RSVP encouraged.

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Join us for a special Story Time presented in conjunction with Paths of Memory, Paths of Healing: Shipibo-Konibo Kené Art. Our guest storyteller, Erick (Ronin) Arias Silvano, will bring to life the histories of mythical beings—from river serpents to forest spirits of Amazonian oral traditions—that move through Shipibo-Konibo cosmology and the wider Amazon.

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Over the past 60 years, sociolinguists have documented variation in African Americans’ speech. This work has resulted in a large body of literature detailing the complex relations among language, gender, sexuality, race, power, and class. The development language technologies, such as automated speech recognition (ASR) and large language models, has raised new questions about dialect fairness and accessibility, which sociolinguistics is apt to address. In this talk, Zion Mengesha presents three case studies for the application of sociolinguistics to artificial intelligence. Using the dialect density measure, the first study shows that all five major speech recognizers misunderstood African American speakers up to two times more than white speakers, revealing how speech technologies reproduce standard language ideologies. The second study examines the psychological and behavioral consequences of dialect discrimination using video data collected over a 2- week diary study of African Americans’ interactions with voice technology. The final study shows linguistic consequences of ASR misrecognition, examining how African Americans modify their prosody and morphosyntax in order to be better understood. She concludes with a discussion on how to apply sociolinguistic insights about African American English (AAE) to artificial intelligence to advance technological justice for speakers of African American English and other minoritized language varieties. Brought to you by the Data Justice Pillar.

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Stacks Xchange: Field Notes is a graduate student-centered series on tools, methods, practices, and creative data collaborations with researchers across all disciplines. Speakers are invited to spotlight a core technical idea, method or framework, from statistical and computational models to industrial or home-brew LLMs and cutting-edge VR technologies, while attendees can expect not only technical curiosity but also practical how-to field notes from peers. Talk description: This talk introduces attempts to author personal digital environments by splitting the interfaces of media software and platforms with AI. It also shares research and experiments on which connections to cut and which to create between a personal workspace and the wider platform ecosystem, with its information, functions, and people. Bio: Hyunseo Cho is an installation artist based in Seoul and Los Angeles. She is also an MFA student in Design Media Arts at UCLA. She creates devices and spaces that shift the conditions of vision, such as the body, perspective, cameras, and interfaces, to offer alternative ways of perceiving the world. Her projects have been supported by ARKO, Art Center Nabi, and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, and exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale and the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art. She has participated in residencies at Akademie Schloss Solitude and Glogau AIR.

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The UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies presents the inaugural Richard Yarborough Lecture in Black Literature, featuring a conversation between Dr. Richard Yarborough, Professor of English and African American Studies Emeritus at UCLA, and Dr. Valerie Smith, President of Swarthmore College, moderated by Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. Established as part of the Bunche Center Director Lecture Series, this inaugural program honors Dr. Yarborough’s distinguished contributions to Black literary scholarship, African American Studies, and the UCLA community. Reception: 6 PM. Program: 7 PM.

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Scholarly identity is about more than the articles you publish or the projects you share online with your research communities. Scholarly identity includes the many parts of your history and engagement as a researcher, including your education, employment, awards, collaborators and more – and it exists whether you are the one curating it or not. Taking control of your scholarly identity supports your visibility, credibility and transparency as a researcher and plays a crucial role in open scholarly communication. This workshop will cover the importance and impact of creating and managing your scholarly identity with tools like ORCID and Google Scholar, as well as how these tools connect with other network and profile platform. You will also also learn how to select repositories for hosting your scholarly outputs, such as research articles, datasets, working papers and more. Instructors: Hannah Sutherland, Open Science Librarian, and Stephen Gabrielson, Research Impact Librarian

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Ever been curious about what patents are? Or how to find them? In this workshop you'll gain an introductory overview to patents, as well as guidance on how to locate them. Instructor: Shelby Hallman, Research Initiatives and Technical Information Librarian

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Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, the Kwame J. Granderson Undergraduate Writing Center and the Undergraduate Research Center – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Learn how to organize your research into a coherent and compelling literature review. All fall quarter Cornerstone workshops will be held on Zoom.

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Learn how to write a research or creative proposal for scholarship and project applications. This workshop is a great way to prepare for your Mellon Mays, McNair, or URFP scholarship application!

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The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) is a two-year scholarship program ($17,000) designed for outstanding students in Mellon-designated humanities and humanistic social science fields who intend to pursue a PhD and a career in academia. Mellon Mays Fellows work closely with faculty advisors and graduate mentors to design and carry out an independent research project. The Undergraduate Research Fellows Program ($3,000) supports students doing a multi-quarter research or creative project under the mentorship of a UCLA faculty member during winter and spring quarters. At this info session, you will learn about eligibility, application steps, and resources to help you with your application for these scholarships.

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Part of the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences Speaker: Takao Sasaki, associate professor in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester Social animals—from insect colonies to human groups—often make decisions without centralized control, relying on local interactions to produce coordinated collective outcomes. However, we still know little about the circumstances under which groups make better (or worse) decisions than individuals. To address this question, Takao Sasaki's research applies concepts and methods from psychology to both individuals and groups, allowing him to directly compare their cognitive abilities. Using ants and homing pigeons as model systems, Sasaki will discuss (1) how rock ant colonies avoid making irrational decisions, (2) how fire ants collectively build self-assembled pontoon bridges, and (3) how homing pigeons improve their homing routes through the accumulation of knowledge. He will also briefly introduce a new research direction that his lab has recently started investigating: collective animal learning.

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Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, the Kwame J. Granderson Undergraduate Writing Center and the Undergraduate Research Center – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Keep your stress levels down while pursuing your research interest! Learn how to create a timeline for your project and manage challenges while staying on track toward your goal. All fall quarter Cornerstone workshops will be held on Zoom.

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Join the UCLA Arts Library for an introduction to the collections, methods, and people supporting research in a variety of Arts disciplines. Topics will include image and multimedia resources, unique treasures in the Arts Library and strategies for incorporating visual materials into the research process. Attendees from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome! Instructors: Ashley Peterson, Digital Scholarship Librarian for the Arts and Humanities; Lane Goldszer, Teaching and Learning Librarian for the Arts; Diana King, Teaching and Learning Librarian for Arts and Social Sciences; Sylvia Page, Teaching and Learning Librarian for Humanities and Arts

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Learn about the world-class map collection at the UCLA Library and how to incorporate maps in your research. We will discuss how to find and access maps, and then move towards how to read maps critically and discuss the many ways they can be incorporated in research across all disciplines and majors. Researching primary sources like maps can be intimidating, but after this workshop you’ll leave with the skills you need for success. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you are registered, you will receive the Zoom invitation details the day before the workshop. Instructor: Maggie Tarmey, Humanities and Primary Research Librarian

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This workshop explores the cultural, religious, and intellectual legacy of Daisetz Teitaro (D. T.) Suzuki (1870-1966), the preeminent figure who introduced Zen and Mahayana Buddhism to the modern Western world. The invited scholars, curators, and practitioners reflect on Suzuki’s wide-ranging contributions and evaluate their enduring cross-cultural impact from various perspectives. The program features a keynote address by Dr. Richard M. Jaffe, professor of religious studies at Duke University; an exhibition of rare Buddhist archives related to D. T. Suzuki from UCLA Library Special Collections; and a roundtable bringing together academic research, lived practice and community engagement. Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies and UCLA Center for the Study of Religion

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Join the Music Library for an introduction to key industry databases supporting research for a variety of music research and performance disciplines. Topics will include music industry data and media resources. Attendees from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome! This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you are registered, you will receive the Zoom invitation details the day before the workshop. Instructors: Blair Black, Teaching and Learning Librarian for Arts and Humanities; and Matthew Vest, Open Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian for the Arts and Humanities

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Food studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that examines the cultural, economic, political and environmental dimensions of food. Research resources in food studies are equally broad, and can present a challenge for beginner researchers and experienced researchers alike. This workshop will provide an introductory overview of food studies related resources at UCLA Library and beyond. This workshop is intended for those just getting started in food studies research, as well as experienced researchers interested in exploring beyond their academic specialty. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you are registered, you will receive the Zoom invitation details the day before the workshop. Instructors: Alexandra Solodkaya, Rothman Family Food Studies Librarian; Teaching and Learning Librarian for Health Science, Lizeth Ramirez, Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures

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There’s more to the US Census than meets the eye. Want to learn how you can access and use census data in your research? Join UCLA Library to explore reports, data profiles and datasets on data.census.gov. This lecture-based workshop is designed for researchers of any experience level and will not be recorded. Instructors: Maggie Tarmey, Humanities and Primary Research Librarian; and Kelsey Brown, Interdisciplinary Research Librarian

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This workshop will introduce a variety of approaches to finding government information and data across agencies and departments. From tracking down technical information to monitoring legislation, we'll look at the range of resources available from both federal and non-governmental entities. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the workshop.

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