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Open Writing Sessions

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
The SERCC is introducing monthly open writing sessions to support CCOM graduate students and postdocs who are writing grant proposals and research articles as part of a course assignment or for submission.
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Ask the Editor

Wednesday, December 17, 2025
1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month. Have a question about a writing project? Stop by the SERCC virtual office hours to get your questions answered by a scientific editor.

Call for applications: SERCC Editing Internship (Spring 2026)

Monday, November 10, 2025
To meet the growing interest in training for careers in scientific editing among researchers, the SERCC is sponsoring an unpaid Scientific Editing Internship.
BioRender webinar announcement

Webinar: Getting Started with BioRender

Thursday, December 26, 2024
The SERCC and the CCOM Research Office are co-sponsoring a UI-exclusive webinar on getting started with BioRender with Van Thalavanh of BioRender. This presentation will provide an overview of the BioRender software and cover topics that are relevant for creating compelling science figures.
BioRender webinar announcement

Webinar: New & Advanced Features in BioRender

Thursday, December 26, 2024
The SERCC and the CCOM Research Office are co-sponsoring a UI-exclusive webinar by Van Thalavanh of BioRender. This presentation will review basic features in BioRender and take a deeper dive into new features including the Poster Builder Tool, graphing and analysis capabilities, and PowerPoint integration.

Upcoming Changes to NIH Applications and Peer Review

Monday, November 25, 2024
The NIH is implementing multiple changes in 2025 that will affect the submission and review of grant applications.
Information about webinar

Webinar: Top Design Tips for Better Graphical Abstracts

Friday, November 1, 2024
The SERCC and the CCOM Research Office are co-sponsoring a UI-exclusive webinar on designing graphical abstracts by Sydney Burniston of BioRender. This presentation will cover topics that are universal to creating good schematic figures and that can be applied using any graphics program.

Upcoming Changes to Submission and Review of NIH Grant Applications

Tuesday, May 14, 2024
The NIH is implementing multiple changes in 2025 that will affect the submission and review of grant applications.

A brief guide to NIH biosketch changes

Friday, August 6, 2021
A new biosketch format went into effect January 25, 2022. Here is a brief guide to help you get your biosketch ready for your next submission.

Events

Planning and Writing Successful NSF CAREER Grant Proposals Seminar promotional image

Planning and Writing Successful NSF CAREER Grant Proposals Seminar

Friday, February 27, 2026 8:30am to 4:30pm
MERGE

An NSF CAREER award application is more than an NSF Standard Grant with an education plan added in. Highly competitive awards integrate the research and education plan. In this seminar, we talk about why and how to create a plan that results in a competitive proposal.

Planning and Writing Successful NSF CAREER Grant Proposals

The Research Development Office, CLAS Grant Support Office, and College of Engineering are hosting an in person NSF CAREER Award grant writing seminar, Planning and Writing...

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CSD Professional Seminar Series

Friday, February 27, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Title: "Mapping the Hearing Phenome: From Comorbidity to Causality"

Speaker: Ishan Bhatt, PhD, CCC-A

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have reshaped biomedical research by enabling large-scale, data-driven discovery of genetic influences on complex traits. The integration of genomic data with electronic health records in large population biobanks has extended this framework to phenome-wide investigation, allowing systematic evaluation of how a condition relates across hundreds of medical...