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A Day At Lillie Valley Farm Using Ai To Develop A Children's Picture Book's Visual World, Lisa Nicholas

AI Day 2026

Early-stage picture book development often requires extensive manual visual iteration to establish tone, style, and character cohesion. This project explores how AI-assisted illustration tools can streamline that exploratory phase while preserving artistic authorship. Lillie Valley Farm serves as a case study in blending human storytelling with AI-generated visual prototyping, following Bonnie and Farmer Sid in a warm farm setting. The human characters are intentionally illustrated only from behind, creating an immersive "reader-as-character" experience for young audiences.

Ai-Driven Burnout Detection In Nursing A Comprehensive System Integrating Biometric Wearables, Geographic-Environmental Mood Tracking, And Real-Time Chatbot Interventions, Sicheng Wang

AI Day 2026

No abstract provided.

An Ai-Powered Mobile Application Development For Assessing Timber Piles, Mehdi Shahzamanian, Paul Ziehl

AI Day 2026

No abstract provided.

Towards Contactless Pediatric Anthropometry Using Millimeter-Wave Radardar, Reza Tavasoli, Sanjib Sur, Srihari Nelakuditi

AI Day 2026

Objective

Design a contactless, privacy-preserving system for pediatric anthropometry, estimating body circumferences and BMI using millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar instead of tape measures or cameras

Motivation

•    Anthropometric measurements are essential for pediatric growth monitoring and health-risk screening (e.g., obesity, malnourishment)

•    Contact-based tape measurements cause discomfort in children, leading to movement, repeated attempts, and operator-dependent errors

•    3D camera/depth solutions are sensitive to clothing, lighting, and occlusions, and raise privacy concerns for pediatric populations

Why mmWave Radar?

•    Contactless sensing that penetrates clothing, works in any lighting, and preserves privacy, overcoming key limitations of cameras and contact-based approaches

•    Radar …

Meaningful Ways To Incorporate Ai In Higher Education: Purpose Driven Opportunities, Jung-Hwan Kim Ph.D.

AI Day 2026

• Artificial intelligence (AI) presents both significant challenges and important opportunities in higher education.

• There is little doubt that AI offers meaningful benefits by supporting learning and helping students develop practical knowledge and skills. However, the rapidly expanding capabilities of AI, along with concerns about its use in academic work, have made many faculty members hesitant to integrate it into their courses. As a result, some instructors have adopted restrictive classroom policies.

• Rather than focusing primarily on prohibition or reluctance, educators should explore meaningful ways to integrate AI into teaching and learning. This approach can:

º Allow faculty …

Ai And Academic Integrity: An Institutional Analysis Of University Policies, Mathieu Deflem, Madeline Lieberman

AI Day 2026

No abstract provided.

Coping With Climate Change: A Mixed-Methods Approach To Understanding Irrigation Technology Outcomes In Gujarat, India, Jamie M. Sommer, Trupti Jain, Biplabketan Paul, Karina Yager, Eliza White, Andrew Hargrove, Peggy Ann Spitzer

Montclair State University Scholarship & Creative Works

Previous research on climate change interventions highlights that adaptation and mitigation strategies must be tailored to local contexts to effectively benefit both people and the environment. However, there remains a gap in analyzing the effectiveness of locally specific climate-related technologies in enhancing food security, improving livelihoods, and addressing social dimensions such as women’s autonomy. The authors address that gap by drawing on two data sources, one quantitative and one qualitative, to evaluate the impact of an irrigation technology. Specifically, the authors assess its effectiveness in improving crop yields and addressing issues related to migration, women’s autonomy, and economic conditions. The …

From Tab To Standard Notation, Abigail J. Ferrell

SPARK Symposium Presentations

This poster will be over my Ed TPA portfolio.

Finding "Do", Emaleigh Marshburn

SPARK Symposium Presentations

The central focus surrounding the content in this learning segment is to have students learn the key signatures that use four or less sharps or flats to identify do in a given piece or segment of music. Students will do so through gaining knowledge of the notes on the staff, identifying both sharps and flats, utilizing the circle of fifths, and understanding the relationship between a key signature and the note that is labeled “do”. Each of these musical concepts have scattered and varied understandings within the class, so this central focus ties together each of them for the tangible …

Cougar Insider Vol. 1 Iss. 4, University Of Minnesota Morris. Chancellor's Office

Cougar Insider

A Message from Jessica Porwoll, Director of Student Success Center -- Recent Faculty Award Recipients -- Medicine Ball Student Involvement -- National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) -- Increased Traffic to UMN Morris Website -- Upcoming Events

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2026 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Bemerge Pop Ups: Social Media Meets Sustainable Fashion, Owen Mehring, Kyla Echols, Avery Edelbrock

SPARK Symposium Presentations

Our research into the online clothing shopping industry has revealed an opportunity to mobilize the strengths of online shopping to build an in-person community. One company we researched, Poshmark, a social, peer-to-peer resale app, uses the strengths of social media to create an online community-based secondhand clothing market. However, one of the largest problems facing society today is the ease of replacing human connection with screen time in today’s world. Online shopping provides convenience, variety, and a larger reach than traditional stores do. However, the human element is often lost. Our company seeks to take the goal of Poshmark to …

Full Circle: 60 Years Later, Law School Reflects On Defining Moment, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi's Tad Smith Coliseum hosted its last crowd Wednesday (March 18), exactly 60 years to the date when its historic first crowd gathered in 1966 to hear U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speak at the invitation of the School of Law Speakers Bureau.

Toward Fingerprinting Encrypted C2 Traffic In The Data Plane, Ali Mazloum, Elie Kfoury, Jorge Crichigno, Ali Alsabeh

AI Day 2026

• Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the dominant protocol that enables users to securely interact with the Internet.

• Threat actors are using TLS to bypass traditional cybersecurity defenses like firewalls and intrusion detection systems.

• Modern malware attacks are hiding behind TLS secure channels. • Many malware families that infect users receive malicious instructions from the command and control (C2) server.

• As the communication between malware and the C2 server is encrypted, it can easily bypass modern security appliances that rely on deep packet inspection (DPI).

• In response to this threat, this project aims at utilizing ML …

Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Immersive Virtual Reality For K-12 Stem Classrooms, Andrew Heuer, Hengtao Tang Ph.D.

AI Day 2026

•Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) both hold significant promise in K-12 STEM classrooms

• When combined they can create an immersive, intelligent, learning environment that emphasizes collaboration and problem-solving

• We built AimVR: an agentic AI-enabled Multiplayer physics-based Virtual Reality puzzle game designed to support collaborative learning