Planet Texas 2050 Podcast Launch Party
Oct. 5, 2022, 5 to 7 p.m.
Celebrate the launch of The Drag’s new podcast, “Planet Texas”
Detecting the “Fake News” Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic
Oct. 3, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.
Given the recent proliferation of disinformation online, there has been growing research interest in automatically debunking rumors, false claims, and "fake news." A number of fact-checking initiatives have been launched so far, both manual and automatic, but the whole enterprise remains in a state of crisis: by the time a claim is finally fact-checked, it could have reached millions of users, and the harm caused could hardly be undone.
Promoting & Empowering Youth as Leaders in Climate Justice Struggles
Sept. 14, 2022, All Day
Please join us for the kick-off event of Planet Texas 2050's Fall 2022 Resilience Roundtable Series!
Provost’s Cluster and Interdisciplinary Hiring Initiative Lightning Talk Series - Whole Communities–Whole Health
July 30, 2022, 10 to 11:30 a.m.
We hope you will join us throughout the spring semester for this lightning talk series where you will have the opportunity to meet our new faculty and learn about their exciting research endeavors.
Nike: History of Disability Inclusion and Innovation
June 30, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.
Part of the Good Systems Speaker Series. Nike has a long history of disability inclusion including supporting disabled athletes, hiring people with disabilities, and inventing cutting-edge adaptive clothing.
Good System Speaker Series: Ethics and Responsible Innovation in Data-Intensive Smart Cities and Urban Mobility Management
June 30, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.
Data and information technology have transformed our daily lives and have reshaped the ways in which cities and transportation systems are governed and operated. But too often, urban and mobility analytics is couched narrowly in terms of resource optimization and management on the one hand, and privacy and surveillance on the other.
Provost’s Cluster and Interdisciplinary Hiring Initiative Lightning Talk Series - Planet Texas 2050: Bridging the Gaps in Resilience Research
June 30, 2022, 10 to 11 a.m.
Presentations from faculty in the Maya Archaeology, Environment, and Religion & Planet Texas 2050: Bridging the Gaps in Resilience Research clusters.
AI, MR, and Inclusion: Challenges and Innovations in Assistive Technologies
June 7, 2022, 3 to 4 p.m.
New digital technologies in areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Mixed Reality (MR) are opening new opportunities for people with disabilities.
Analyzing social media from a user-eye view with PIEGraph
June 1, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.
Quantitative social media research has traditionally been conducted from what might be called a platform-centric view, wherein researchers sample, collect, and analyzed data based on one or more topic- or user-specific keywords.