The AI-Driven Healthcare Applications team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2025 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. The team focuses on developing AI technology that can perform a range of basic tasks, from detection and recognition of medical conditions to more intricate challenges such as segmentation. The team specializes in developing deep learning systems specifically tailored for embedded computer vision and various healthcare applications. The project team’s research drive is …

The Tree-Rings, Forests, and the Climate Crisis team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2025 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. In this VIP, we aim to better quantify and predict the feedback between forests and climate. Forests are affected by climate variability and change. At the same time, forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle and have been slowing global warming by removing the greenhouse gas carbon …

The Water Whys team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2025 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. The Water Whys team seeks to develop scientifically accurate and easy-to-understand graphical answers to water questions. We are focused on developing succinct visual explanations of scientific processes that can help the public better understand current events. For example, why is flooding more likely after a fire? Or, how is the snowpack in Colorado connected …

The Tucson Bee Collaborative team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2025 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. Bees are crucial to ensuring health and resilience in both natural ecosystems and agricultural systems, and in recent years scientists and the general public have become aware that bees are under threat due to climate change and human impacts. But most people don’t realize there are species of bees other than the honeybee, …

The Medical Sociology Shop is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2025 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. Surgical robotics technology promises more precise, automated, flexible medical care that does not require physical co-presence. Yet this exact promise also produces new dependencies between the medical device industry, physicians, and institutions, and entails challenges to doctors’ professional expertise and to doctor-patient relationships. Therefore, the adoption and use of surgical robotics has the potential …

The StellarScape team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2025 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. StellarScape is an immersive multimedia project synthesizing music, science, visual art, and technology. StellarScape is dedicated to continuing research and development using sensor technologies in the performing arts and sciences. This cutting edge, transdisciplinary application of sensors will turn audience members into active participants and engaged collaborators– providing thousands of students and members of the …

The Redox Flow Batteries team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2025 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. After so many decades of intensive use of coal and oil as major sources of energy, humanity must now face the pollution and global warming problems that they have induced. Massively embracing solar, wind, and tidal renewable energy for electricity production is a relevant response to the global energy needs. However, due to …

The AI for Medical Interviewing team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2025 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. In this hands-on research and design team, students will collaborate to discover methods of improving patient-provider interactions with artificial intelligence (AI). Students will learn and apply how AI can mediate conversations in healthcare settings to personalize services, improve the timeliness and effectiveness of provider feedback, and improve providers’ metacognitive skills. Project work …

The AI and XR Studio VIP team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2025 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Extended reality (XR) present new possibilities to create novel solutions to unique problems. Approaching these problems, ethically and humanistically is key to the advance of any technologies. Together, we will: Understand how AI and XR can enhance education and research. Investigate how AI and XR can strengthen …