Interdisciplinary Innovation Forum
Interdisciplinary research is a key to unlocking the future. The world's biggest problems will be solved through the collaboration of faculty, staff, and students in a variety of academic fields. The College is dedicated to developing and supporting these efforts.
The Interdisciplinary Innovation Forums provide opportunities for faculty members across the UAB campus to network with each and with external entities to promote innovation, transformation, and excellence in our research programs. Participating faculty come from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Education, Business, Engineering, Health Professions, Medicine, Optometry, Dentistry, and Public Health. Other participants come from the UAB Research Foundation (UABRF) and Birmingham Business Alliance (BBA).
Be a Part of the Future
The College is now soliciting Interdisciplinary Team Proposals. Available awards will be valued at up to $30,000 for a maximum duration of up to one year.
Participation is a key ingredient to the future success of the forums. Presentations and other materials from past forums are available on this site. Researchers are invited to propose future topics for discussion and research.
Interdisciplinary Innovation Team Proposals
The College of Arts and Sciences organizes monthly innovation forums to focus on some of the world's biggest problems where interdisciplinary innovations could have a significant impact and where UAB has existing strengths/interests. These interdisciplinary innovation forums are held in collaboration with faculty from the Schools of Business, Dentistry, Engineering, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, Optometry, and Public Health, as well as representatives of the UAB Research Foundation and the Birmingham Business Alliance.
Phase I of this initiative are the monthly innovation forums, which will continue into the future.
As part of Phase II, the College is now issuing a call for interdisciplinary team proposals. Available awards will be valued at up to $30,000 for a maximum duration of up to one year. An application guideline is available for download.
Submission Deadlines and Questions
The deadline for this year’s competition is Tuesday, November 1, 2023. Please e-mail completed applications to Yogesh Vohra, CAS Associate Dean for Research
Contact
Yogesh K. Vohra
Professor & University Scholar; Associate Dean
(205) 934-6662
Past Innovation Forums
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2015
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2014
Mathematical Biology
April 8, 2014
April 2014 Interdisciplinary Innovation Forum
- Dr. Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Centennial Professor of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
Visual Transduction: A Paradigm for Signaling - Dr. Hassan Fathallah-Shaykh, Associate Professor of Neurology and Mathematics, UAB
Next Frontier and a Mine of Opportunities in Math and Biology - Dr. James Keener, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Utah
Mathematical Biology: What Have You Done for Me Lately? - Dr. Philip Maini, Professor of Mathematical Biology (by Recognition of Distinction), Oxford University, England
What Has Mathematics Done for Biology?
- Dr. Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Centennial Professor of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
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2013
Middle-Infrared Laser Technologies for Environment, Health, and Medicine
May 14, 2013
- Dr. Frank Tittel, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Mid-Infrared Semiconductor Laser Based Trace Gas Sensor Technologies: Recent Advances and Applications - Dr. Sergey Mirov, UAB Department of Physics
Recent Progress and Applications of Mid-Infrared Lasers Based on Transition Metal Doped II-VI Semiconductors - Dr. Victor John Thannickal, UAB Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Emerging Concepts in Mechanobiology of Lung Disease - Dr. Veena Antony, UAB Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Sensing Lung Injury via Exhaled Breath Condensate
Interdisciplinary Team Presentations
April 26, 2013
- Dr. Ragib Hasan, UAB Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Protecting Health Care Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Securing Biomedical Devices - Dr. Rajesh Kana, UAB Department of Psychology
An MR Spectroscopy Examination of Brain Metabolites in Autism - Dr. Vinoy Thomas, UAB Materials Science and Engineering
Developing an Orientation-graded Nanomatrix to Induce Axonal Growth in Spinal Cord Injury - Dr. Trygve Tollefsbol, UAB Department of Biology
The New Epigenetic Diet Can Overcome Ovarian Cancer Chemoresistance
Quantum Computers
January 16, 2013
- Dr. Marko Lončar, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University
Diamond Nanophotonics and Quantum Optics - Dr. Gopi Samudrala, UAB Department of Physics
Synthesis of Single Crystal Diamond and its Applications - Dr. Murat Tanik, UAB Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Third Original Idea: Communication and Clocks
- Dr. Frank Tittel, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Haddin Arts & Sciences Forum
The College of Arts and Sciences requests proposals to present a Haddin Forum during the 2023-2024 academic year. The Haddin Forum is an interdisciplinary forum where UAB College of Arts and Sciences faculty present their ongoing research and scholarship to an audience of faculty, staff and student colleagues from across the College. The goal is to offer scholarship that is interdisciplinary and translatable to a broad audience, celebrating and elevating the intellectual vibrancy present in the academic atmosphere of a College of Arts and Sciences.
Speakers generally share their research for about 40 minutes and allow 20 minutes for interdisciplinary intellectual exchange and questions and answers.
Faculty interested in proposing to deliver a lecture during the 2023-2024 academic year should submit an abstract of their proposed presentation (300-600 words) by 5 pm on Thursday, August 31, 2023. Proposals should be submitted to Associate Dean John K. Moore, Jr. at
The Dean’s Office will review all submissions and select proposals that best reflect the diversity of the College. Priority will be given to junior faculty members, to faculty members from departments that have not offered presentations in the past two years, to topics of broad and timely interest, and to proposals that might appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of individuals. Presentations that cover more than one field of inquiry, inspire novel or renewed dialogue between disciplines, and/or address content that impact our daily experience, our intellectual lives, and our varied communities are hallmarks of the Haddin Forum.