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MARC Fest!
• December 4, 2025
IMCI is hosting two “parties” where we collaborate to make MARC puzzles – visual patterns (“stories”) that are easy for humans to see with the help of a metaphor, but are hard for AI (https://marc.nkn.uidaho.edu). There will be FREE PIZZA! But you must register in advance because seats are limited: -
Brown Bag Lunch series: Brainstorming Event and Luncheon – Mediterranean Buffett
• December 3, 2025
Our last Brown Bag Lunch series of the year! Come join the IMCI crew for our yearly Brainstorming Event and Luncheon happening Monday, December 8, from 11:30-2pm in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352).***Due to limited supplies, the first 55 people to RSVP will be counted and invited. This event will be a social gathering centered around… -
IHHE IMCI Synergistic Grant Support
• December 3, 2025
Animal, plant, human health, and complex ecosystem researchers! Are you planning on a grant submission to a federal agency in the next 4-6 months from mechanism to modeling? Do you need feedback on your premise and overarching hypothesis or text? Would you like assistance with paperwork, planning a budget, and or meeting deadlines for your unit, OSP, and… -
Spring 2026 Carpentries Workshops
• December 3, 2025
Sign up now! The Carpentries is an international community of learners and instructors dedicated to the importance of software and data in research. Learn more at www.carpentries.org Open to students and non-students. Registration required. All participants need to register with IMCI to attend. For more information and to register please email your name and affiliation… -
Call for Proposals – New February deadline for IMCI Pilot Project Program.
• December 2, 2025
Are you a biomedical researcher looking to generate preliminary data? IMCI is proud to announce a new deadline for our distinguished Pilot Project Program. We invite letters of intent for the 2026 Pilot Project Program funded by NIH P30GM159567. The objective of this program is to provide funding to stimulate model-based, biomedical research at the… -
Brown Bag Lunch series: Unraveling the rhythms of breastmilk bioactives, and their impact on infant behavior
• November 19, 2025
In this work-in-progress, Dr. Fehrenkamp will present an IMCI-funded pilot in which she is recruiting ~30 breastfeeding mother–infant dyads for an intensive 24-hour protocol to quantify cortisol and melatonin dynamics across the maternal–milk–infant triad. Each dyad completes up to 10 repeated collections of maternal saliva, breast milk, and infant saliva over two days, along with… -
Fall Break (11/24 – 11/28)
• November 19, 2025
Greetings IMCI crew,The University of Idaho will adjourn for the week of 11/24 for Fall Break. IMCI will continue to support our collaborators as usual—though all IMCI events will be postponed until the semester resumes. -
Brown Bag Lunch series: Who Are These Apollonians Anyway? Isotopes, Migration, and Health at Ancient Apollonia Pontica (7th-3rd centuries BC), Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
• November 12, 2025
Who are the Apollonians? Don’t ask us, but find out this coming Monday with our session leader, Katharine Kolpan, as she leads us through a discussion titled: Who Are These Apollonians Anyway? Isotopes, Migration, and Health at Ancient Apollonia Pontica (7th-3rd centuries BC), Bulgarian Black Sea Coast The ancient port city of Apollonia Pontica was an… -
Brown Bag Lunch Series: LLM Reasoning in Healthcare: Faithful Explanations or Plausible Rationalizations?
• November 5, 2025
Achieving trustworthy AI in healthcare remains a significant challenge, as existing eXplanation Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods like attention maps or LIME/SHAP are often dismissed by clinicians and patients as uninterpretable. While the reasoning LLMs initially seemed promising for generating natural-language explanations, they often create unfaithful rationalizations that obscure a model’s true logic. To solve this,…