The Big Idea Challenge supports research projects with significant potential for future extramural funding and that address global grand challenges. You are invited to join the five teams who received internal funding as they present the progress of their research to date. Each presentation will be followed by a Q & A.

Attendees are encouraged to stay for lunch and share best practices for team building and project execution.

Opening remarks: Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, Vice President for Research and Partnerships

Presentations:

Well-Being Across the Lifespan: Early Childhood Experience and Opportunities in Oklahoma—Lead PIs: Sherri Castle, Constance Chapple, Erin Maher

Achieving Sustainability and Negative Carbon Emissions in an Agro-Energy Producing Region—Lead PI: Kyle Murray

Carbon-free H2 Energy Production and Storage (CHEPS)—Lead PI: Dimitrios Papavassiliou

X-GEM: Enhancing Future Community Sustainability via Greenhouse Gas Emission Monitoring—Lead PI: Binbin Weng

Social Media and the Visual Politics of Policing Communities of Color—Lead PI: Sherri Irvin

Questions? Contact Ann West at awest@ou.edu.

The university expects community members to mask indoors.