BBL / BYOC Series: June 4th – Data Sources for Health Research
Yesol Sapozhnikov
Yesol Sapozhnikov
Aydin Mohseni, a mathematical philosopher at the University of California, Irvine, will be the featured speaker at the weekly CMCI Brown Bag Lunch on Monday, September 24. Talk title: “On the Emergence of Minority Disadvantage: Testing the Cultural Red King Hypothesis.” Abstract: The cultural red king effect predicts that differentials in group size may lead to…
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,…
Nearly 60 scientists from across campus came together to brainstorm possible interdisciplinary research topics on January 30 and February 6. We were excited by the lively discussion and thrilled that 12 different small groups formed. If you are interested in joining any of the following research groups, email imci@uidaho.edu or contact the group lead. You…
The primary objective of this discussion is to present findings on how residency, exposure history, and risk perception influence Idahoans’ protective behaviors toward wildfire smoke, as modeled using structural equation modeling (SEM) to link psychometric constructs with observed behaviors. We will also seek feedback on our proposed future study, which will employ threshold and regression models to…
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…
The IMCI Brown Bag Lunch (BBL) & Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC) Series returns for Summer 2025. When: Wednesdays from 12:30pm – 1:30pm Where: IRIC 352 (The Collaboratorium) Subscribe to our Listserv for news and updates.