I am incredibly proud to celebrate a new publication in Vaccine co-authored by SCSRU graduate consultant and second-year Ph.D. student Xisi Zhang! In a wonderful interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers from the School of Public Health Sciences and the School of Pharmacy, Xisi provided vital statistical expertise to investigate how COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy shifts between mandatory primary doses and optional booster doses among university students.

I am incredibly proud to share that SCSRU graduate consultant and Ph.D. student Kyu Min Shim has recently published his exploratory research in the journal Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy!

I have been familiar with the phrase “journal impact factor” for a long time. So, when the librarians reached out to understand more about the impact of librarians’ involvement in research projects on journal impact factors, I jumped at the opportunity.

I have been eagerly awaiting the publication of this work for a very long time. The wait was so long that I even forgot to check the DOI link until recently.

Today, I attended several presentations by consultants-in-training. Their task was to introduce new concepts to an audience with only an introductory background in statistics. Each group had 20 minutes to present a topic of their choice.

As part of my job, I coach and guide student consultants to work on interdisciplinary projects. From experience, I have found most consultants have strong technical skills to perform an analysis but lack various soft skills.