How is a honeybee like a software developer?
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sandeep Kuttal has received a major grant from the U.S. Air Force’s Young Investigator Research Program to support her interdisciplinary explorations at the intersection of software engineering and human-computer interactions. Inspired by the collective intelligence of ants and honeybees, Kuttal will deploy “the synergistic information associated with individual developers’ foraging interactions to generate a global intelligent-foraging data model that represents optimal information sources within software development platforms ... and in unpredictable environments.”
Learn more about Kuttal's research
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A recipe for West African hospitality
Last spring, Haley (Liz) Williams was living and learning in Senegal. “My experience entirely changed my perception of academia and, honestly, the world,” remarked Williams, a junior majoring in political science and sociology. “I was taught about positionality and privilege within a global context and discovered the importance and necessity of decolonial work.” This spring, she drew on the knowledge she gained abroad to deliver a talk on community, hospitality and Thiéboudienne, Senegal’s national dish, at Notre Dame’s Human Development Conference addressing innovative responses to global adversity.
Global learning, cuisine and community
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Decolonizing the Academy
The lack of representation of Indigenous people and cultures is a concern at universities across the country. TU creative writing major Alexandria Tafoya and English alumnus Mason Whitehorn Powell (BA ’17) recently published essays outlining their thoughts on the issue and advocating for the importance of decolonizing post-secondary curricula. For Powell, decolonization "means adding Indigenous literature, addressing the ways in which it is often overlooked or misunderstood, and exploring how it relates to a canon that at times overshadows but can even come across as purposely anti-Indian in its subject matter.”
Indigenous research and teaching
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SuperNOVA
The NOVA Fellowship at The University of Tulsa has awarded FuTUre Fund innovation prizes to two students and four faculty. This funding will support projects aimed at boosting the culture of innovation at TU. “My NOVA Fellowship has given me a community of innovators who support and encourage one another, a platform to dream big and a FuTUre Fund to make these dreams a reality,” said Ghulam Haider (MSE ’18), a mechanical engineering doctoral student whose research focuses on fluid mechanics, erosion modeling and erosion control.
Inaugural FuTUre Fund recipients
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Sovereignty, Slavery and the Road to Indian Territory
March 4, 7 p.m.
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The annual Cadenhead-Settle Memorial Lecture features Claudio Saunt, the Richard B. Rusell Professor in American History at the University of Georgia. This talk exposes the connections between slavery and indigenous dispossession and explores how the policies shaped the relationships between Native and African Americans. This free virtual event is open to the public.
Migration: A Faith-Based Humanitarian Vision
March 11, 7 p.m.
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The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities invites you to join the Rev. Daniel Groody, author of Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice: Navigating the Path to Peace, for a discussion about immigration, justice and courage. Groody will be joined in discussion by Matthew Drever, TU associate professor of Anglican and ecumenical studies. This free virtual event is open to the public.
Giving a voice to the missing
March 13, 2 p.m.
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Throughout the United States and Canada, a disproportionate number of Native women and girls go missing and/or are murdered. Join Gilcrease Museum for a panel discussion with missing and murdered Indigenous women experts, artists and policy-makers. This free virtual event is open to the public.
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