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Teaching AI Literacy and Fluency Across Disciplines
No full textAre your students ready for the AI-powered future? This session showcases a practical, two-stage approach to teaching with AI, blending exploration and ethics with adaptability and problem-solving. Learn how to foster a classroom where students confidently experiment with AI tools, developing an understanding of their potential and limitations. Then, take the next step: guide students in mastering AI fluency, applying it to creative, professional, and discipline-specific challenges. Featuring cross-disciplinary educators, this session will inspire fresh ideas, spark collaboration, and empower you to turn AI into a transformative force in your teaching
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Creation: Artistic Citizenship in the Age of AI
No full textThe arts represent the pinnacle of human creativity and are central to many endeavors to rectify injustices in the world. Come learn how students can develop artistic citizenship, using art to make the world a better place, and critical consciousness through the use of AI and the arts including music, visual arts, and dance among others. Applications to multiple disciplines are available
AI-Powered Support for Enhancing Independent Research Studies in Doctoral Education
No full textThis presentation explores the innovative use of AI to support doctoral students in developing independent research studies aligned with their dissertation topics. By leveraging AI tools to design a structured course shell in Canvas, this approach streamlines the process for both students and faculty. The framework allows students to generate pilot study material, providing a foundation for their dissertation research. While findings are still emerging, this session will detail the implementation process, its benefits for doctoral programs, and its potential to reduce faculty workload. Attendees will gain practical insights into replicating this model in their own teaching and research contexts
Jumpstart Your Classes with AI Generated Case Studies
No full textDiscover how generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, can help instructors create case studies that act as powerful hooks to engage students. This session will demonstrate how AI can assist in crafting realistic, thought-provoking scenarios that spark curiosity and critical thinking, while also saving instructors valuable time. Learn practical techniques for designing effective prompts, refining AIgenerated content, and tailoring case studies to fit your teaching goals
Be a TRAIILblazer! Learn About the AI-Repository for All
No full textJoin us to learn more about the Teaching Repository for AI-Infused Learning (TRAIIL), the AI collection for higher ed professionals built by you. Discover how TRAIIL aims to enhance educational experiences by serving as a resource of collective strategies, case studies, assignments, etc. This session will include an overview of the TRAIIL submission process, current entries in the repository, and address any inquiries. Dont miss this opportunity to be a TRAIILblazer and share your strategies and expertise with the community
Shaping the Future of Higher Education with AI: How Pearson is Transforming Teaching, Learning, and Study
No full textAt Pearson, leveraging technology to improve teaching and learning is in our DNA. We’re harnessing the power of AI to drive transformative outcomes for learners by integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities with our trusted content. Our tools are designed to simplify the study experience, delivering on-demand, personalized support—anytime, anywhere—so students can learn more efficiently and effectively. Join us for a dynamic session with Chris Hess, Director of AI Product Strategy from Pearson, to learn how we are using generative AI to transform the entire teaching and learning space—from instruction to homework to study
The Scoop, Vol. 11 Issue 11, February 2025
No full textLatest news and updates from the Health Sciences Library in our monthly newsletter for February 2025. Please see page 2 for a text-only version of this issue!https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scoop-vol11/1009/thumbnail.jp
Fundamental Breakup Mechanisms of Micron-Scale Fuel Droplets Behind Hypersonic Shock Waves
No full textThe enhanced efficiency of pressure-gain combustion through detonation has fueled renewed research towards how liquid droplets atomize within a hypersonic shock-driven flow field. The heightened energy of post-hypersonic-shock flow compared to post-supersonic-shock flow leads to increased heating of the droplet, and faster phase change rate, which could potentially alter dominant breakup modes from mass loss via aerodynamic drag towards evaporation. As such, the displacement, deformation, and breakup timescales of various micron-scale liquid fuel droplets (RP-2, Jet A-1, and dodecane) behind hypersonic shocks were observed via high-speed 5 MHz shadowgraph imaging. The role of aerodynamic drag was quantified by modulating the shock Mach number (Mach 5.2-6.2), droplet size (42-206 µm), and initial pressure (0.138-1.013 Bar), whereas the deformation geometry was characterized via a surface tension sweep of various liquids (0.023-0.072 N/m). From the Mach and droplet size sweep experiments, breakup times were found to collapse to a linear dimensionless time trend, allowing the use of linear approximation to accurately predict breakup times across a range of hypersonic shock regimes. Furthermore, a breakup predictive model was developed from momentum conservation principles to estimate mass loss of the droplet through time, showing good agreement with experimental breakup time data for droplets over 200 µm in diameter, and across literature. Lastly, the derived breakup trends were compared to evaporation times for single droplets and droplet clouds, with Mie scatter analysis showing considerable lag in the measured evaporation time for an 8 µm cloud of dodecane droplets, when compared to single droplets of equivalent diameter
Shadows from the Double-Wide: A Reflection on Home
No full textMy studio practice acts as a personal anthropological investigation into my upbringing in the rural South. I utilize photographic, textile, print, and virtual mediums that have a unique historical and/or modern connection with the South. Almost a decade after deciding to leave my Southern Baptist religion behind and even longer after covering up my Southern accent, I find myself in a place of tension-ridden nostalgia for the place I grew up.
The community of artists in the Southeast region of the United States continues to grow and create a more cohesive picture of the South and Southern identity through their work and writing, but there is still a noticeable lack of visibility outside of the South compared to exposure within it.
These various approaches to artmaking lean on each other to convey notions regarding family history, degradation of memory, escape from isolation, and dissonance in nostalgic experiences. By repurposing relics of my past as autobiographical sources, I display my experience of Southernness and aspects of it which I support embracing or combating. My goal with this work is to engage with cultural representation that helps individuals from backgrounds like mine feel seen, enabled, and heard. I’ve also created these artworks to serve as a starting point of understanding and relatability for an audience beyond communities like the one that raised me
Terahertz Spin Pumping In Antiferromagnetic Crystals And Films
No full textAntiferromagnetic spintronics is a budding field, promising applications for next generation computing and telecommunication, due to the inherent stability and terahertz frequency magnetic dynamics which antiferromagnets (AFMs) possess. However, due to the infancy and uniqueness of the field, AFM spin dynamics have yet to be studied to their full extent in the terahertz range. To this end, we describe a custom magnetometry system with continuous frequency operation from 60 GHz to 1.5 THz, complete quasi-optical polarization control, peak magnetic field of 9 T, temperature control from 5-300 K, and three-axis sample rotation. We provide initial results from uniaxial AFM MnF2 single crystals and show that the system is uniquely poised to answer open questions in the field of spintronics from fundamental theory to advanced application. Hematite (α-Fe2O3) is an insulating easy-plane antiferromagnet which exhibits a room temperature canted magnetic phase induced by the super-exchange Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) and possesses enhanced spin pumping and spin transport over uniaxial AFMs. We present a thorough study of spin-to-charge current interconversion in bulk and thin films of (0001) α-Fe2O3/Pt heterostructures. A complete picture of the polarization dependence is offered, and the results demonstrate that coherent spin pumping is generated through excitations of both the acoustic and optical modes, provided that the corresponding selection rules are met for the relative orientation between the microwave magnetic field and the magnetic moment. We show the intricate and novel behavior of coherent spin pumping signals generated from the purely antiferromagnetic, high-frequency optical mode for the first time and our results support the current understanding of spin mixing conductance in antiferromagnetic/non-magnetic interfaces, contrary to recent reports. Furthermore, we discuss the implications of layer thickness on spin-to-charge interconversion, providing a deeper understanding of canted antiferromagnets and their potential use in next generation nanoscale spintronics