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2022 Mizzou Faculty Alumni Awards – Notable Presence from MUIDSI
The 67th Annual Faculty Alumni Awardees were announced on July 20, 2022. Dr. Chi-Ren Shyu, MU IDSI Director; Dr. Lori Popejoy, MU IDSI Core Faculty and Interim Dean of Sinclair School of Nursing; and Dr. Dr. Stevan Whitt, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs of Medicine and MU IDSI’s long term physician collaborator, were among the
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Dr. Blake Meyers Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Dr. Blake Meyers, MUIDSI Informatics PhD program Core Faculty and Professor in the Division of Plant Science and Technology, and jointly appointed as a Principal Investigator and Member of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, has been elected as a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. https://www.danforthcenter.org/news/blake-meyers-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences/
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MUIDSI Comprehensive Exam — Measuring Geodiversity in Remotely-Sensed Imagery: Deep Spatial Change Detection Methods for Dataset Bias Mitigation and Visual Landscape Characterization
Presenter:Aaron Wesley
Date:07-26-2022
Time:7:00pm-8:00pm
Location:Zoom
Amid explosive growth in availability of multimodal remotely sensed imagery (RSI) data from a constellation of overhead sensors, a lack of understanding persists concerning the actual content of these data sources, in particular the nature of spatial variation in the visual and contextual features in the landscape being imaged. Whether described as spatial domain shift,
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GIScience as an Interdisciplinary Bridge in Indigenous Health Equity
Presenter:Daniel Beene
Date:05-20-2022
Time:8:25AM-9:35AM
Location:Zoom
GIS and geographic theories can help bridge a crucial gap in interdisciplinary research projects. Geography is uniquely poised to offer critical and practical analytical support, wrangle spatial data and relate them to other datasets, and ground community-based science within the communities it aims to serve. In the context of the Navajo Nation, a key concern
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Impact of diabetes status and other factors on risk for thrombotic and thromboembolic events: A multicenter, retrospective analysis using the Cerner Real-World DataTM de-identified COVID-19 cohort
Presenter:Erin Tallon
Date:05-05-2022
Time:3:30PM-4:00PM
Location:Zoom
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a proinflammatory condition that can impact the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems, thereby increasing risk for thrombotic and thromboembolic events (TTE). However, little is known about the impact of diabetes status on risk for TTEs during SARS-CoV-2 infection. In this US-based, multicenter
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