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The News and People Profile System (profile.yale.edu) allows you to manage various types of information associated with a person’s profile.

The following instructions will explain how to manage and edit the Research information of a person.

To begin managing the Research focus and history on a profile:

1. Visit https://profile.yale.edu

2. Log in with your NetID and password

3. Click Profiles in the navigation at the top of the page.

4. Find and select the profile you want to edit (see Edit a Profile for more information).

5. Click the Research button in the navigation on the left side of the page.

Table of Contents

Brief Research Summary

The first section of the Research page is a brief Summary of the person’s research background, interests, and achievements:

• This area should be 10 sentences or fewer.

• You have the opportunity to elaborate on the research in the next section.

There are many options for formatting the text you enter, and if you hover your mouse over the icons at the top of the field, you will see what each option is for.

Extensive Research Description

This field is for a more detailed description and history of a person’s research. You can cover the entire trajectory of the research, current and past.

In the example below, you can see the same formatting options from the Brief Summary in use:

Both the Brief Summary and Extensive Description of Research populate in the Research & Publications page of the website for a profile, shown below:

Both the Brief Summary and Extensive Description of Research in a profile website.

To see the Research in action, use the middle navigation to go to Research & Publications (highlighted in yellow above).

The Brief Research Summary (highlighted in green above) and Extensive Research Description (highlighted in red above) populate in this section of a profile website.

The formatting options show up in the profile (highlighted in blue above).

Research Interests - Medicine

This section allows you to tag the profile with Research keywords.

• The keywords are based on the NIH’s MeSH keyword list.

• They display on the profile and are used to sort profiles based on medical research interests.

To add a new medical Research Interests keyword, click Add New... and the following section will pop up:

Adding a new medical Research Interests keyword.

You can add a medical Research Interests in 2 ways:

1. Enter the interest in the search bar and choose from the suggested options.

   • Click Add to add the keyword to the profile, and it will populate to the list above.

2. Using the category-based keyword tree:

   • A sideways arrow (highlighted in yellow above) indicates a category that you can click on to expand and show the sub categories.

   • Once expanded, the arrow will change to downward facing and reveal the sub-categories (highlighted in blue above).

   • Use the + icon (highlighted in green above) to add the keyword, and it will populate to the list above.

Click on the X icon in the top right corner (highlighted in red above) when you are done adding keywords.

You can also click on the X next to the added keywords to remove them from the profile.

Like the Brief Summary and Extensive Description of Research, these Research Interests populate in the Research & Publications page of the website for a profile, shown below:

Research Interests in the profile on a website (yellow).

Research Interests - Public Health

This section allows you to tag the profile with Research keywords that are specifically related to public health.

• As well as displaying on the profile, these keywords are used to sort profiles based on Public Health research interests.

To add Public Health Research Interests, click the Add New... button.

• Begin typing your interest into the search bar

• Select the interest from the suggested list that appears.

Research Images

This section allows you to upload an image that illustrates your research, such as microscopy, image scans, or photographs.

• Jpg, jpeg, gif, and png files are acceptable.

• The recommended size is at least 1,200 pixels.

• The max file size is 3MB.

To add a Research Image, drag and drop an image into the provided window.

Once you have uploaded an image, which will be resized for display, add a Title and Description to the image with the provided fields.

• If you have multiple images, you can sort them by dragging them with the hamburger icon (highlighted in yellow above).

• To delete an image, click on the trash can icon (highlighted in red above).

When you are done managing Research interests and information, click Save this Section at the top right or bottom left of the page.

The image you upload will populate in the Research & Publications section, shown below:

The Research Image in the website of a profile (yellow).