The Institute for Community and Society Transformation has awarded $138,000 in funding to six project teams across various disciplines and departments. The funding covers a wide range of topics and prioritizes proposals that focus on the ICAST strategic areas of emphasis: Opportunity & Access, Technology & Society, and Native Nations Sovereignty and Cultures.
Enhancing Smoking Cessation through the X-Hale Breath Analyzer Integration with the Insight mHealth Mobile Intervention Platform
Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance Art Education
Data-Informed Load Flexibility Management in Smart Building Systems
Bridging Edges: Reconnecting Maple Ridge and Gathering Place in Tulsa
Investigations into the Correlates of Rural Violence in Oklahoma
Center for the Ethics of Indigenous Genomic Research
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The University of Oklahoma Honors College will host its 38th annual Undergraduate Research Day on April 16, offering the community an opportunity to see the research, creative projects and scholarly work produced by OU students across disciplines.
When people cannot hear their own voices, their tongue movements become less precise when they speak, according to a study from the University of Oklahoma. This finding, the first direct evidence of its kind, could help guide therapies designed to restore speech control in people with hearing loss or those whose tongues have been affected by cancer.
With funding from NASA, Steven Cavallo is leading a global study of how small disturbances in the polar tropopause, a region roughly 30,000 feet above Earth’s surface, eventually grow into massive winter storms impacting millions.
