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New ADAMS Center – Launching in Fall 2024

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Launching a Tool to Improve Data Access – A transformative collaboration will build a unified data repository to provide faster access to data and propel advancements in healthcare delivery, research, and operational efficiency at the University of Chicago and UChicago Medicine health system. The Biological Sciences Division and UChicago Medicine, in partnership with the health system Chief Medical Officer’s team, the Center for Research Informatics, and Information Services teams, are at the forefront of this initiative, which will leverage self-service tools and personalized support to dramatically expand access to data. Read press release and read more here.

PRFS Storage System Retired

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Storage users, today at 9am, access to the old storage system (PRFS) was disabled. It was kept up to ease the migration to the new storage system (RSS), which is now complete.

If you have trouble connecting to a lab share, you need to ensure that you connect to the new storage system (see instructions below). If you are still unable to connect, please contact your local IT support. Read More

SET Center Pilot Grant – Request for Proposals

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The Center for the Science of Early Trajectories (SET) Center Pilot Grant will support new research endeavors into the biology of human development throughout the life course, at the cellular and molecular levels. $50,000 seed funding for early-stage pilot projects is available to University of Chicago PIs, prioritizing early-stage investigators. Read More

REDCap Outage

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January 18, 2024, 10:00am – If you are unable to access REDCap because of a 403 error message, please try the following: clear your browser’s cache, restart your browser, and log into vpn https://vpn.uchicago.edu, and then log into REDCap at  https://redcap.uchicago.edu/. If you are still unable to access the page, please reach out to us at redcap@uchicago.edu. Thank you for your patience and apologies again for any inconvenience. Please continue to follow this page for any further updates.

January 17, 2024, 12:00pm – We are currently experiencing a REDCap outage. The team is working to identify the cause and is working on restoring service. At this time, we do not have an estimate on when service will be restored. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please follow this page for all updates. Email redcap@uchicago.edu with any further questions.

 

Migration of CRI CRDW Feasibility Consultations to myCRI

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We are excited to inform you that on January 2nd, 2024, we migrated the CRI’s CRDW consultation request website to our new application, myCRI.  Services affected by this application migration include: CRDW data requests and datamarts, CRDW feasibility consultations, CRDW grant preparation consultations, and CRDW Honest Broker Requests. Read More

REDCap Support Email Address Change

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Details: This is to inform our UChicago REDCap user community of a change to our REDCap Support email address. On December 1st, the new email address will change to redcap@uchicago.edu. Please use the new email address for your support requests or inquiries. Support requests generated within REDCap (production moves, project changes, etc.) will automatically use the new email address. The ‘Contact REDCap Administrator’ blue button in the lower left corner of your projects will also use the new address. Please kindly refrain from directly emailing our REDCap Administrator’s Outlook email address, as our goal is to offer a single point of contact with redcap@uchicago.edu allowing us to improve service delivery, streamline workflows, and measure metrics.

Who Is Affected: All University of Chicago REDCap users (including external collaborators)

A note on password help: Passwords are not managed by REDCap Support. For BSDAD or UCHAD password help, please visit the UCMIT Service Now Portal or for external collaborator account password help, please email BSDIS at bsdis@bsd.uchicago.edu.

Questions, comments, feedback? Please contact us via our REDCap Inbox.

Thank you for your support and continued use of REDCap!

(Post Date: 11/9/23)

Do you have expertise in data management? Experience with REDCap? Looking for a leadership role?

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If so, please consider applying for a new Director of Data management role at UChicago available for a new aging, Alzheimer’s and related dementia research center led by Dr. Rogalski.  The best candidate for this position would have extensive experience with research data management including building databases, extracting and cleaning data, gathering datasets, harmonizing data between disparate datasets or databases and organizing internal and external data requests. The center will be utilizing REDCap databases, so REDCap expertise and database experience is highly recommended.

Please consider applying here: https://uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Data-Science–Sr-Specialist_JR22663

*Please note, this is not a CRI job posting. It is a courtesy posting for a new UChicago research center.

New Survey Feature: Google reCAPTCHA

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The new Google reCAPTCHA feature can be enabled to help protect your Public Survey Links from abuse from ‘bots’, which are automated software programs that might enter trash data into your survey. A ‘captcha’ is a turing test to tell humans and bots apart. It is easy for humans to solve, but hard for bots and other malicious software to figure out. By enabling Google reCAPTCHA on your public survey, you can block automated software while helping welcome your survey participants to begin your survey with ease. The Google reCAPTCHA functionality can be enabled on the Public Survey Link page of your project, after which the Public Survey Link will display the reCAPTCHA checkbox and “I’m not a robot” text on a survey page prior to allowing the participant to view the public survey. Note: A survey participant will never have to pass the reCAPTCHA test more than once per day on a given device/computer. The new feature only works for Public Survey Links and not for custom survey links. Please contact REDCap Support with any questions.