About the Labs

• This lab has five private rooms, four with capacities for 1 participant, one conference room with capacity for 6, and a central computer station accommodating 4 individuals. This secure facility provides eight computers equipped with research software. Reserving this facility also gives you access to a small waiting room across the hall (room 3-113) with a capacity for 12 participants.
• Behavioral Lab I Layout
• 3-113 Waiting Room Layout

• This lab has two separate rooms for research, both equipped with video cameras and monitoring capability. The Group Research room seats 8-10 participants. The Individual Research room seats 6 participants at private carrels with desktops. It has a separate observation room with a private entrance that offers multiple observation options.
• Behavioral Lab II Layout

• This lab has seven desktops with internet access and limited research software. Space for up to seven subjects in private carrels. The walls separating each carrel are moveable should you need to reconfigure the room. This secure facility is easy to access in Carlson's lower level.
• Behavioral Lab III Layout

• This lab has six desktop computers equipped with internet access and limited research software; one wireless laptop for the researcher. Space for up to 6 subjects, with dividers for privacy. This secure facility offers easy access on the ground level of the Carlson School.
• Behavioral Lab IV Layout

• This lab has six laptop computers equipped with internet access and limited research and security software all locked in a mobile storage cabinet.  There are also cardboard dividers available to separate participants if necessary.
• The Mobile Lab may be reserved and checked out through the reservation request form.
• Carlson Room reservations should be arranged separately through the appropriate departmental staff.
• Mobile Lab Layout

CLA Research Support Services provides consultative services to researchers in the College of Liberal Arts and the Carlson School of Management. With a high level of expertise in research methodology, our staff can assist with nearly every step of the research process. We provide support from initial grant proposals and human subject protocols through instrument design, experiment programming, participant recruitment strategies, technologically-assisted data collection and management, analysis, and consultation on dissemination and long-term preservation.  We are able to assist researchers at any time in the research project process. Researchers anticipating substantial need for research support should contact us early to discuss any costs that should be integrated into grant proposals. 

Suite #25 Blegen Hall
269 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-2064
Email: [email protected]

***Online Service Request Form***

SERVICES

Research Planning

• Research Design and methods consulting
• Technical details for IRB or Grant applications
• Data Management Plan Consultation
• Survey sampling and participant pools
• Data and file storage
• Research computing

Data Collection

• Consultation on survey and experimental design
• Survey development
• Experimental task programming
• OVPR-funded support for precision timing research
• Consultation on secure storage of research data
• Social and Behavioral Science Laboratory
• Several small mixed-use research spaces

Data Management

• Consult on Data Management Plans
• Consult on IRB proposals that allow for data sharing and archival
• Consult on best practices in research workflow
• Data wrangling, preprocessing, reshaping
• Codebooks, data dictionaries

Analysis

• Consult on experimental design, basic and advanced data analysis
• Preprocess data for analysis
• Research computing

Sharing

• Shared data storage options
• Consultation on meeting data sharing requirements
• Facilitate deposit of data in the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM) or in other archives

Preserving

• Consultation on data preservation and archival in partnership with the University Libraries
   

Research Computing Resources (z.umn.edu/claresearchcomputing)

• Windows Environment - Windows Terminal Services (aka Windows Remote Desktop) is used to allow remote access to many specialized (and some common) applications including: Anaconda, ArcGIS, Atlas.ti, IBM SPSS Statistics, MATLAB, NoMachine NX Client, NVivo Plus, R, SAS, Stata SE, UCINET, and Wolfram Mathematica.  In addition it has standard web browsers and Microsoft Office and can be used for remote access to files stored on files.umn.edu or other file servers.
• Linux Environment - LATIS's Linux Environment allows access to statistical and fMRI analysis applications as well as providing the powerful and flexible capabilities of Linux-based servers.  Some of the more commonly used applications include Mathematica, R, RStudio, Anaconda, Matlab, Stata SE, SAS, AFNI, and FreeSurfer.  For a list of available servers and software or to request an account please see the links in the sidebar.
• Storage Space - We utilize the University's Enterprise Network Attached Storage (eNAS) service to provide a secure place to store your research files.
   

Social and Behavioral Sciences Laboratory in Anderson Hall
Carlson School Researchers may also use the CLA behavioral lab. 

• 36-station controlled environment computer lab
• Custom-designed privacy carrels
• Support for precision timing/display tasks and real-time group interactions
• Support for software including Inquisit, z-Tree, MatLab, PsychoPy, E-Prime
• Separate waiting and instruction rooms