Events

Interested in applying? Attend one of our upcoming information sessions to learn more about the seed funding application process for 2024-2026. Multiple date options and modalities are offered for participant convenience.

Information Session	Time	Modality
Friday, Nov. 17, 2023	10-11 am	Zoom
Friday, Dec. 1, 2023	10-11 am	Zoom
Wed, Jan. 17, 2024	10 am - 1 pm	Panel & lunch, 7800 York Rd, rm 459

The School of Emerging Technologies invites faculty and staff who are interested in applying for seed funding this year and those who have received SET funding to attend our upcoming Seed Funding Panel session and lunch.  To RSVP, please complete this sign-up form.

The panel will provide a supportive setting for faculty who are interested in applying to communicate and learn from faculty who have successfully implemented SET supported projects. This event will be very helpful in learning the funding priorities and developing a strong proposal.

Questions may be directed to SET Program Coordinator, Michelle Bowman (mbowman AT_TOWSON, 410-704-4309). She will send an Outlook invitation with event details to those who RSVP.

Interested faculty can also set up a one on one meeting with the Director, Suranjan Chakraborty, for information about the seed fund. Office hours are Thurs/Fri at 9-11 a.m. (Zoom or in-person at YR459, 7800 York Road). Please send an email to schakraborty AT_TOWSON to set up a meeting.

Applications Due by April 28, 2023

Proposal Development Workshop Application

The goal of this workshop (organized jointly by the Faculty Academic Center of Excellence at Towson, the Office of Sponsored Programs & Research, and the School of Emerging Technologies) is to help faculty members develop grant proposals. The program is intended for faculty who are interested in developing a new proposal. Projects may be in an early stage of development or be further along. The projects could be either interdisciplinary or within a particular discipline.

Participants will receive a summer stipend to develop a proposal over the course of the summer. Depending upon the specific nature of the project, the workshop will allow them to fine-tune the project idea, develop a team, identify appropriate funding sources, and develop a competitive proposal. This will be done through a program of peer mentoring for the participants and focused programming on grant planning, writing and submission. For projects that have a team already in place, we encourage any one member or the lead investigator to apply. The program will begin in June 2023 and will culminate in a single-day event in September 2023 (see tentative schedule below).

During June, participants will attend seven bi-weekly one-to-two-hour sessions, some in-person and some remote. At the end of the period, faculty will submit a complete grant narrative that is ready to submit for funding.

PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP SCHEDULE (PDF)

dates	program event	description	format
June 1	Kick-Off Meeting	This will be the inaugural event that will include a program overview, project sharing, and mentor assignment.	Virtual 10:00 am-12:00 pm
June 6	Funding Searches	This will be an OSPR-led session and the first focused time for workshop participants to start working on the proposal.	In Person 12:00 pm-3:00 pm lunch included
June 8	Working with Foundations/Corporations	Alternative Funding Resources: Session with Geannine Callaghan and Melanie Kelleher.	Virtual 10:00 am-12:00 pm
June 13	Planning Project/First Writing Day	Following a session on project planning, participants will participate in a writing day and progress update.	In Person 12:00 pm-3:00 pm lunch included
June 15	Grant Writing Overview-Process and Resources	Programmed event organized by OSPR.	Virtual 10:00 am-12:00 pm
June 20	Grant Writing: Challenges/Success-Invited Talk and Panel/Second Writing Day	Panel with mentors. A research talk that highlights pursuit of funding for interdisciplinary projects and outcomes.	In Person 12:00 pm-3:00 pm lunch included
June 22	Critical Pieces to the Proposal and TU Resources for Assistance	Panel with TU speakers on campus resources to support specific parts of a proposal.	In Person 12:00 pm-3:00 pm lunch included
July 1-August 10	Individual Writing Time	During this period the participants will be working on their proposals with help from their mentors. The participants will also hold one scheduled virtual meeting with SET/OSPR/FACET Director.	Virtual 10:00 am-12:00 pm
August 11	Drafts Due	Provide Drafts for Peer Review	N/A
Sep 4 - Sep 22	Debrief - Interviews	The SET Director will meet with each participant for a short debrief about the workshop.	Virtual
September 29	Final Event	Culminating Event	In Person 12:00 pm-3:00 pm lunch included

 

Week of March 27-31

The TU Sustainability Community of Practice encourages all faculty to participate in the upcoming 2023 Worldwide Climate Justice Teach-In by committing to #MakeClimateAClass during the week of March 27-31.  

Faculty and staff do not need to be climate experts to incorporate some discussion of climate or sustainability into a few minutes of a single class meeting. All you need to do is: (1) Devote 15 minutes to talking about how YOUR discipline is helping develop climate solutions, or (2) Invite a specialist colleague, alumnus working in the field, or local expert working in climate to join and discuss their work.

Helpful resources for incorporating climate into lessons in a wide variety of disciplines are available from OSUN’s collection (https://www.bard.edu/cep/solardominance/resources/) and Subject to Climate (https://subjecttoclimate.org/) 

Friday, 10/7/2022-The School of Emerging Technologies invites faculty and staff who are interested in applying for seed funding this year and those who have received SET funding to attend the SET Seed Funding Panel on October 7, 2022.  The panel will provide a supportive setting for faculty who are interested in applying to communicate and learn from faculty who have successfully implemented SET supported projects. The panel will be very helpful in learning the funding priorities and developing a strong proposal.

Organized by SET and OSPR

Proposals due May 16, 2022-The School of Emerging Technologies and the Office of Sponsored Programs and Research are soliciting applications for a summer-long program for proposal development. This program is intended for faculty engaged in inter-disciplinary research and exploring mechanisms to fund their research. Participating faculty will be given a summer stipend with an aim to develop proposals to fund their research. They will receive a summer stipend and will be explicitly supported by SET and OSPR in fine-tuning the research idea, developing inter-disciplinary teams, and identifying aligned funding outlets (external and internal). This will be done through a program of peer-mentoring of the faculty participants, focused workshops aimed at grant planning, writing and submission and panels. We welcome both nascent and more mature projects. For projects that have a team already in place, we encourage any one member or the lead investigator (when appropriate) to apply. The program will run from mid-June to mid-August. The expected outcome of this program is the draft-text of a complete proposal for each participant.

February 4, 2022

The School of Emerging Technologies invites faculty and staff who are interested in applying for seed funding this year and those who have received SET funding to attend the virtual SET Seed Funding Panel on February 4, 2022.  The panel will provide a supportive setting for faculty who are interested in applying to communicate and learn from faculty who have successfully implemented SET supported projects. The panel will be very helpful in learning the funding priorities and developing a strong proposal.

The School of Emerging Technologies and the Big Data Special Interest Group hosted the May meeting of the Data Works MD Meetup Group on Wednesday, May 29, 2019 from 6:30-8:45 pm at the University Union (registration on the 3rd floor upper lobby, event in Chesapeake Room 1).

The Data Works MD Meetup heard from the next generation of data science superstars. Several talks by students from Towson University on a range of topics were featured. 

April 4, 2018 - The Public Health and Healthcare Informatics Showcase was an excellent opportunity for community healthcare partners to identify and form collaborative partnerships with Towson University to improve clinical care and public health for Maryland's citizens. Faculty and graduate students provided product demonstrations that highlight the clinical research, medical device development, and health informatics projects being developed at Towson University. Remarks were provided by Dr. Timothy J. L. Chandler, Dr. Kim Schatzel from Towson University and Dr. Thomas B. Smyth from University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center.

• Applied Information Technology M.S.
  Suranjan Chakraborty, PhD, Cheryl Brown, Andrea Chenowith

• ARMStrokes
  Sonia Lawson, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Ziying Katherine Tang, PhD, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, PhD

• Bridging the Gap: Research Collaboration between Speech Pathology and Kinesiology
  Paul M. Evitts, PhD, CCC-SLP, Devon A. Dobrosielski, PhD, Dalton Nichols, BS, Kailyn Asbury, MS, CCC-SLP, Taylor Westhoff MS, CCC-SLP

• Computer Forensics Graduate Certificate
  Suranjan Chakraborty, PhD, Cheryl Brown, Andrea Chenowith

• Health Information Technology Graduate Certificate
  Suranjan Chakraborty, PhD, Cheryl Brown, Andrea Chenowith

• Integrating an Evidence-Based Intervention in a Smartphone App to Enhance Surgical Safety
  Cyrus Engineer, DrPH, Subrata Acharya, PhD

• The Impact of Learning Environment on Knowledge Outcomes and Student Satisfaction in Sleep Medicine Education
  Tamara Douglass-Burton, Ed.D., RRT, RPSGT

• Longitudinal Aging Study at Towson [LAST]
  Nicolas D. Knuth, PhD

• Mobile Health Application for Clinicians to Enhance Clinical Decision-Making at the Point of Care
  Kyungsook Gartrell, RN, PhD

• Project yCAT:Young Children’s Assistive Technology
  Amanda C Jozkowski, PhD, OTR/L, Ziying Katherine Tang, PhD, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, PhD

• Sleep Apnea, cardioVascular and Exercise (SAVE) Study
  Devon Dobrosielski, PhD, Susheel Patil, MD, PhD

• Standard-based Connected Personal Healthcare Framework
  Yeong-Tae Song, PhD

• Understanding University Students’ Exercise FIT Values with Wearable Mobile Health Application for Clinicians to Enhance Clinical Decision-Making at the Point of Care
  Carrie McFadden

• Use of a Markerless Motion-Capture System to Assess Lower Extremity Biomechanics in Collegiate Athletes
  Peter Lisman, Ph.D., ATC, Nathan Wilder, MS, ATC

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Baltimore has a wealth of data describing its socialeconomic and environmental conditions. Online interactive maps and infographics allow citizens access to this data now more than ever before. 

This event will allow attendees to work with university and industry mentors to collaboratively analyze the problems that face our city. Participants will brainstorm a list of themes for our story maps. They will then collect, process, and analyze all of the required data for their project. Data will come from Baltimore Open Data (https://data.baltimorecity.gov), the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance (http://bniajfi.org), and other publically available datasets. Visualizations will be developed using ArcGIS Online Story Maps (https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/) and Tableau (https://public.tableau.com/s/).

All who are intereseted in data visualization and Baltimore are welcome!

Emerging technologies are rapidly transforming how we interact with geospatial data. From new data collection techniques, like new low cost aerial mapping platforms, to improved data management applications that allow us to draw better inferences from existing data sets, emerging technologies is changing what we can learn about our environment.

Come listen as the School of Emerging Technologies presents the results of two ongoing faculty projects:

HydroCloud: An Online Integrative Tool for Hydrologic Data (M. McGuire, M. Roberge)
Developing an Aerial Mapping Platform (J. Morgan, P. Reese)
HydroCloud: An Online Integrative Tool for Hydrologic Data
HydroCloud  is a web-based framework for hydrologic data integration, visualization, and analysis.  The system uses light-weight but sophisticated Javascript libraries to create responsive visualizations that operate in a web browser. Behind the scenes, the system uses a scaleable, distributed document-oriented database, making it possible to quickly add new data types or provide efficient access to continental-scale stream gauge and rain fall data. This presentation will discuss the technology behind the HydroCloud system, as well as its potential for application in other disciplines. New developments such as social coding and HTML 5 have made it easier than ever before to learn how to code for mobile phones, while scaleable databases and hosted cloud computing have lowered the barriers to entry for new developers.

Developing an Aerial Mapping Platform
Aerial photographs are one important source of data for geographic information systems (GIS). In addition to their use for developing planimetric or topographic maps, aerial photographs are used to provide contextual information not provided on traditional maps; they also provide stakeholders with ways to visually identify areas where recent changes have occurred in the physical or human landscape. Using funds provided by the School of Emerging Technologies, Dr. Morgan and Phil Reese have developed an aerial mapping platform based on a remote quadcopter. They will describe the platform and its capabilities, and discuss its application and use on projects both on campus and off campus.

Dr. Clare Muhoro (Department of Chemistry) and her undergraduate and graduate students are working with Jeremy Monn (Center for Geographical Information Systems) on the environmental fate of a popular family of pesticides, the N-methylcarbamates (NMCs), used globally as potent insecticides. The ultimate goal of this study is to design suitable remediation technologies for contaminated surface water in tropical environments.

This summer, Dr. Clare Muhoro and her students Bao Ha and Leili Zamini went to the Ruiru River in Kenya to collect data for their analysis. The students will be giving a photo presentation that documents their experience.

Jenn Figg and Matt McCormack discuss their collaborative research with electromechanical kinetic light sculptures. Their light instruments leverage the potential energy of musical performance, analog technology, and human-generated power to visualize sound. With bangs, hits, taps, and shakes, users generate enough power to light up multiple LEDs. The instrument’s simple mechanics and immediate, responsive light reveals complex energy relationships.

Jenn Figg is an Assistant Professor of Art at Towson University in Maryland, and pursuing her Ph.D. in Media, Art, and Text at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Matthew McCormack graduated with a BFA in Glass from The Ohio State University and is now pursuing an Interdisciplinary MFA at Towson University.

Selected exhibitions include: The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, The Art House at the Jones Center in Austin, TX, MOCA Cleveland, OH, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach, VA, the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, OH, the National Museum of Glass in Eskisehir, Turkey and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency, NY, NY.

Are you interested in the teaching of ethics? Join your colleagues for a conversation about how technology has impacted ethics and society! We will be talking about how ethics cuts across disciplines and approaches we have all taken to teaching these issues in our classes. We are looking to craft one or more modules that can be used across multiple disciplines, as well as thinking more broadly about developing an interdisciplinary case study event around an ethics technology issue.

Do you have a project that involves spatial data? Are you having trouble identifying data sets or getting the data into a form you can analyze? Come to our workshop on Geospatial Data!

In this workshop, we will show you how to find the right geospatial data for your research project. We will walk step-by-step through sample projects to highlight available campus and internet resources, and introduce you to the tools you can use to perform your analysis. We will provide access to geospatial data resources at the local, state, and national levels, and will show how you can link non-spatial data to such data sets.

This workshop was be led by Tom Earp and Jeremy Monn from the Towson University Center for Geographic Information Systems.