Implementation of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan
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An Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures team is leading the charge to analyze metadata from police body-worn cameras – a project that could shed new light on when, where, and why officers activate these devices.
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| The newly hired director of public scholarship talks about finding new audiences, forging connections, and becoming an expert on airports.
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Research supported by the Center for Quantum Leaps advances the field of quantum simulation using an atomic-level quantum system.
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Political science professor Matt Gabel received a two-year, $325,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study ways in which minority representation in local government can be achieved in the context of ongoing suburbanization and gentrification. This grant will support Gabel's work with the St. Louis Policy Initiative, an Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures-funded cluster.
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The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures' Mindfulness Science & Practice cluster hosted WashU Mindfulness Day on Oct. 4.
Activities included meditation sessions, a panel featuring the latest findings in mindfulness research, and a community partners resource fair that included nine local organizations. Capping off the day was a keynote speech from Dr. Richard Davidson (pictured above), one of the world's leading experts on mindfulness and health. Nearly 200 people registered to attend the day's events.
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Organized in conjunction with the Kemper Art Museum's exhibit, Adam Pendleton: To Divide By, poet Simone White will deliver a reading and take part in a conversation on creative practice in relation to the role of language and poetry in Pendleton’s work.
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This lecture will address "deep uncertainties" and how their presence should influence prudent decisions, bringing ideas from robust control theory into statistical decision theory. A complimentary reception will follow the talk. Co-sponsored by TRIADS.
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Moving Stories brings together participants from scholarship, the art field, and advocacy to discuss the challenges of incorporating and honoring the dignity of immigrant narratives in different practices. Includes dinner and a panel discussion.
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This Program in Public Scholarship workshop will explore the concept of risk as it relates to public scholarship, inviting participants to play out scenarios as they pertain to their research fields and interests. The workshop will conclude with a low-stakes, low-pressure writing activity around the idea of risk.
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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Heng Ji presents on large neural models, which excel in many tasks but exhibit surprising deficiencies in certain types of knowledge. In this talk, Ji proposes a two-way knowledge acquisition framework to make symbolic and neural learning approaches mutually enhance each other.
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Learn more about the Center for the Literary Arts' Creative Practice Workshop from initiative co-director Ignacio Infante, including how to apply. This interdisciplinary workshop provides a semester leave and dedicated workspace for WashU creative practice faculty to collaborate, produce, and share work.
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Emanuel Ben-David is a research mathematical statistician in the Center for Statistical Research and Methodology at the U.S. Census Bureau. Ben-David will present "Improving Applications of Modern Predictive Modeling Techniques to Linked Data Sets Subject to Mismatch Error." Sponsored by Improving Data Integration Techniques, a programmatic grant of the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures.
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• Liz Wolfson has joined the Program in Public Scholarship as its Media Specialist.
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