College of Science Student Research Day

Please mark your calendars for the 12th College of Science Student Research Day for Friday, May 6 from 10:00am – 1:00pm in the Duncan Hall breezeway. This event is an annual showcase of posters presented by students working with COS faculty and based on original research projects. Typically, 60+ posters are displayed and over 100 of our students proudly present their results.

COS will announce a call for titles soon (all that is needed is a title and author list). New faculty are encouraged to submit a poster!

Event flyer (PDF)

Call for Nominations: SJSU Research Foundation’s 2016 Early Career Investigator Award

Posted on behalf of the SJSU Research Foundation

We are pleased to send out a Call for Nominations for the SJSU Research Foundation’s 2016 Early Career Investigator Award (ECIA). Nominations are due on May 4, 2016.

The purpose of the award is to recognize tenure-track faculty who have excelled in the areas of research, scholarship or creative activity as evidenced by their success in securing external funds for their research, publishing in peer reviewed publications, and demonstrating other scholarly and creative activities, at an early or beginning point in their career.

Two award categories have been created to ensure the broadest participation possible from all academic units. Category 1 awards a faculty member in the Colleges of Science and Engineering, and Category 2 awards a faculty member in all other colleges.

Click here to download the nomination guidelines and the nomination form (PDF). Please contact Marilyn Dion with any questions.

37th Annual SJSU Student Research Forum

Please join the SJSU community to congratulate outstanding SJSU students and their faculty mentors being honored for excellence in research from the following colleges:

  • Applied Sciences and Arts
  • Engineering
  • Science
  • Social Sciences

The event will include Student Poster Presentations and an Awards Ceremony and Reception.

Please RSVP to foundation-osp-infoservices@sjsu.edu

Event Details

April 7, 2016
12:00pm – 2:00pm
ENG 285/287

Event flyer (PDF)

More on Optimal Questionnaire Design for Surveys and Experiments

Workshop to help researchers interested in the creation of surveys

Researchers setting out to conduct a questionnaire-based study often assume that the process of designing a questionnaire is simple and intuitive, and that reusing items from questionnaires that have been used in past research is a wise way to efficiently design a new questionnaire. In this workshop, Dr. Jon A. Krosnick will continue demonstrating how much more challenging questionnaire design is, and how to overcome these challenges when guided by the right empirically-grounded principles for producing reliable and valid data. Dr. Krosnick will continue to summarize guidance from 100-years-worth of studies on optimizing questionnaire design.

Dr. Krosnick is the 2014 winner of the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding research, a Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science, and (by courtesy) Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, director of the Political Psychology Research Group at Stanford, and director of the Summer Institute in Political Psychology at Stanford, as well as Research Psychologist at the U.S. Census Bureau.

For more information about this event and to RSVP, please visit the event website.