Professional Preparation

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Dissertation Committee

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• Dissertation Committee Chair – Dr. Carol Glen, Professor, Department of Political Science, Valdosta State University
• Dissertation Committee Member – Dr. Daniel Baracskay, Professor, Department of Political Science, Valdosta State University
• Dissertation Committee Member – Dr. Naim Kapucu, Pegasus Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida

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Valdosta State University – Doctoral Coursework

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• Administration and Government
• Logic of Inquiry in Public Administration (Research Methods Course)
• Research Methods in Public Administration (Research Methods Course)
• Financial Management for Public and Non-Governmental Organizations
• Democracy and Public Administration
• Public Administration and Community Based Organizations
• Program Evaluation (Research Methods Course)
• Culture of Formal Work Organization
• Managing Human Resources in Public and Non-Governmental Organizations
• Information and Data Management
• Innovation and Creative Problem Solving in the Public Sector
• Politics of Managing Urban Areas
• Planning and Implementing Electronic Government
• Comparative Public Policy
• Street Level Bureaucracy
• Capstone Seminar

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University of Central Florida – Master Coursework

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• Introduction to Research Administration
• Grant and Contract Management
• Human Resource Management
• Contracting for Sponsored Programs
• Audits for Research Administration
• Research Integrity for Research Administrators
• Legal and Regulatory Framework
• Financial Management in Research Administration
• Leadership and Organization Models in Research Administration
• Strategic Planning and Management
• Public Program Evaluation Techniques
• Intellectual Property, Transfer, and Commercialization

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Honors and Awards

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• Riley Institute Diversity Fellow, Furman University, June 2017
• Inaugural Outstanding Research Administration Alumna of the Year, University of Central Florida, May 2014
• Financial Management Committee Service Recognition, NCURA (National Council of University Research Administrators), December 2013
• Certificate in Research Administration, University of South Carolina, February 2011
• Richland 101 Award, Richland County Government, 2004
• Dean’s List Academic Year 2000-2001
• Honors Merit Award February 2000
• Delta Mu Delta Honor Society, Beta Gamma Chapter, Benedict College, 2000
• Dean’s List Academic Year 1998-1999
• Deans’ List Academic Year 1997-1998
• Academic Excellence Award February 1997
• Honors Student Association February 1997
• Dean’s List Academic Year 1996-1997
• Environmental Health Science Association, Benedict College, 1997

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CITI Training

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• CITI Institutional Review Board (IRB) Basic – November 2019 – present
• CITI Responsible Conduct of Research in Social and Behavioral Science – April 2012 – present
• CITI Human Subjects Research in Social and Behavioral Science – January 2012 – present

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Professional Development

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Elsevier Researcher Academy

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Funding

• How to Secure Funding – Early Career Researcher (ECR) Edition
• Funding Hacks for Researchers
• Successful Research Grant Applications – Getting It Right
• Discover How Metrics Can Boost Funding and Networking Opportunities

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Research Data Management

• How to Conduct Evidence-Based Research
• How to Manage and Publish Your Research Data
• How Researchers Store, Share, and Use Data
• Creating a Good Research Data Management Plan
• How Researchers Benefit From Citing Data

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Fundamentals of Publishing

• 10 Reasons to Get and Use an ORCID ID
• The Journal Publishing Cycle
• Making Sense of Science Stories
• The Origins of Scientific Publishing
• Gender Bias in Academic Publishing

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Finding the Right Journal

• A Guide to Journal Citation Metrics
• How to Identify the Right Journal to Publish In

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Open Science

• How to Leverage Open Hardware to Improve Your Research
• Publishing Open Access

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Ethics

• Plagiarism – Decision Making and Dealing with Grey-Zones Across Academic Fields

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Fundamentals of Peer Review

• Diversity of Peer Review

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HRSA Division of Independent Review (DIR)

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• HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (June 2017) 
• HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (March 2018)
• HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (June 2018)
• HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (September 2018)
• HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (January 2019)
• HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (June 2019)
• HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (February 2020)   
• HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (October 2020)   

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LinkedIn Learning

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• SPSS for Academic Research
• SPSS Statistics Essential Training
• Designing Big Data Healthcare Studies Part I
• Designing Big Data Healthcare Studies Part II
• R Statistics Essential Training
• Statistics Foundations: 2
• Learning Data Science: Understanding the Basics          
• Data Science of Healthcare, Medicine, and Public Health
• Statistics Foundations: 3
• R Programming in Data Science: Setup and Start
• Learning R
• Data Science of Government and Political Science
• Big Data Foundations: Techniques and Concepts
• Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals
• Data Science Foundations: Data Mining
• Data Visualization in R with ggplot2
• Data Wrangling in R
• Learning the R Tidyverse
• Cleaning Bad Data in R
• Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Thinking Machines
• Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Neural Networks
• Big Data in the Age of AI
• Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Decision Trees
• Machine Learning and AI: Advanced Decision Trees
• Processing Text With R Essential Training
• Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Classification Modeling

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SC Department of Health and Environmental Control

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• Introduction to Supervision
• Personnel Practices (18 Contact Hours)
• The Practical Coach
• Coaching: Interacting with Employees and Peers

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University of South Carolina

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• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Overview      
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Peer Review   
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Overview
• Human Subjects and Animal Care