Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation

Advancing model-based research & Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration

The Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation (IMCI) at the University of Idaho advances model-based research and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration. It serves as a hub where faculty, postdocs, staff and students from a broad range of disciplines work together to solve complex-systems problems. IMCI’s Modeling Core supports research across the university by generating new approaches and seeding interdisciplinary teams and its mission emphasizes creating a cultural and physical environment that bridges disciplines and encourages grassroots collaboration. Through pilot grants, modeling access and collaborative structures, IMCI enables early-career investigators and multi-disciplinary teams to pursue novel research directions and build institutional capacity.

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Community / Grassrooting
Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC)
Brown Bag Lunch (BBL)
Writing Working Group (Writing WG)

Collaboration
IDAC
The Modeling Core

News and Events

New Seed Grant Program! Call for Proposals!

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IMCI invites proposals for a new Seed Grant Program. IMCI Seed Grants provide between $2000 and $20,000 of funding to stimulate innovative and adventurous model-based and/or interdisciplinary research at the University of Idaho. We envision these seed grants could be used for a wide range of purposes, such as generating preliminary data, building new collaborative teams, building a novel high risk, high reward model, or going on a team retreat to write a large interdisciplinary grant proposal. We will focus on funding smaller applications but will fund up to $20,000 for an exceptional project with significant impact.  Find out more: https://imci.uidaho.edu/research-projects/seed-grants/
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BYOC: Brainstorming Continental Breakfast

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Come join us for a special Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC) session: Brainstorming Breakfast, happening Wednesday, April 15, from 9:30-11 AM in the IRIC Atrium. A FREE continental breakfast, coffee, and tea will be provided. Join us for the same great social hour IMCI is known for, but with a chance to contribute ideas for research, operations, and future endeavors.
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Brown Bag Lunch Sketch Your Proposal: Detecting Mathematical Reasoning Through Gesture and Movement: Toward a Multimodal Assessment Platform.

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Our next Brown Bag Lunch, Sketch Your Proposal session is happening Monday, April 13, from 12:30-1:30 PM in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352). How do students communicate mathematical reasoning they can’t yet put into words? Join the conversation as Angela Crawford, an Assistant Research Professor of STEM Education, investigates behavioral signals, such as gesture and student-generated inscriptions, of proportional reasoning sophistication in middle school students during her Sketch Your Proposal, Detecting Mathematical Reasoning Through Gesture and Movement: Toward a Multimodal Assessment Platform.The long-term goal is a technology-mediated assessment platform capable of automatically detecting reasoning quality through multimodal behavior — moving beyond written products to…
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IMCI & COBRE Co Sponsored Workshop Event: A Practical Guide to Unlocking Nutrition & Health Databases for Research

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Please come join us for a special workshop happening Wednesday, April 29, from 12:30-1:30 PM, in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352) when IMCI will host a co-sponsored event with COBRE in Nutrition & Women’s Health. Titled: A Practical Guide to Unlocking Nutrition & Health Databases for Research,Léa Dussurget & Dr. Janet Williams will provide an introductory workshop on data access and extraction from public nutrition and health databases such as NHANES, All of Us and more. All are welcome to join us, online and in-person. Zoom Link: https://uidaho.zoom.us/j/81951581577Meeting ID: 81951581577Password: 4321 We are very excited to host our COBRE friends in this exciting co-sponsored workshop event. We have…
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