One Idea, One Slide Summit
The second annual One Idea, One Slide Summit was hosted on May 17, 2024. The Summit featured 70 faculty and staff presenting their ideas to a University audience using one slide and a two-minute fast pitch to address challenges and identify opportunities for change.
The result was incredible, with many interesting and creative ideas. Now, each idea has a pathway to move their idea forward, matching the right resources and support to their goals.
The audience and presenters were also able to network, identifying partnerships and synergies.
One Idea, One Slide Pathways
Ideas presented at the Summit have been advanced via one of the following pathways:
- Academic Programs
- Coordination with Existing Groups and Efforts
- Research Opportunities
- Coordinated University Request for External Funding
Academic Programs
Several ideas contemplated creation of new undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs. Other ideas contemplated the development of coursework or experiential learning opportunities that would benefit the development of academic programs. Each of these ideas has been advanced along the academic programs pathway. The Office of the Provost is developing a suite of resources and support for creating new academic programs, which will offer support to these submitters contemplating something similar.
- Re-materializing History: Activism Through Collaborative and Embodied Creativity
- Positioning UD as a Leader of Reading and Writing Pedagogy at Access-Oriented Institutions
- Evening Program: English Proficiency as an Economic Driver
- AI for Humans
- Bridging the Gap: Transforming Mental Health Care and Research with the Institute for Community Mental Health
- Nation’s First Graduate Program in Composites
- Sustainability in Conservation: Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities for STEAM Students
- Writing Enriched Curriculum
- Career Long Learning Collaborative
Coordination with Existing Groups and Efforts
Several ideas were connected in interesting ways to ongoing efforts within other units across the university. To maximize the ability to utilize these existing resources, and to understand where the synergies lie, each of these ideas has been advanced along the pathway of coordination with existing programs and efforts. Each presenter has been connected with individuals from units and programs to discuss their idea and see how it could be advanced.
- Diving into Diversity with Advances in SCUBA and Robotics
- Beyond Education
- More Than a Garden: A UD Interdisciplinary Sustainability Community Engagement Collaboration
- Transforming Higher Education in Music (and Beyond) through Community Engaged Learning
- David Roselle Endowed Chair in Theatre and Dance
- Expanding Inside-Out in the First State
- Involving Undergraduates in Graduate Student Research
- Center for Environmental Humanities
- A UD Center for Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration
- Delaware Black Community Research Initiative
- UD Center for Translational Synthetic Biology
- Center for Energy and Climate Governance
- MERCI: Materials Education and Research Consortium of Instruments
- Memorial and Survivor Tree Seed Bank
- An Annual UD DataFest Event
- Lerner Professional Success Initiative
- Anchors Aweigh – Establishing a Naval ROTC Program at UD
- Defining and Tracking Community Engagement
- VIC, an Innovative Approach to Second Language Teaching
- Building an Intentional Learning Community with a Focus on Arts and Culture: Addressing Retention, Graduation and Well-Being Through Community
- Creating a Graduate Student and Faculty Fellows Program for Sustainability Course Development
- Blue Hens Take Flight
- Level Up Academics: A Pre-College Program for Multilingual International High School Students
- Leadership Hub
- Transfer Peer Mentors
- Enhance 4+1 Master Students’ Learning Experiences and Expand Enrollment
- Teach Forward Initiative
- Delaware IEP’s
- Employee/Parent Experience and Feedback Group
- Creating a World Class Media and Production Operation for UD Students
- Glo-Calizing Pre-Service Secondary STEM Teacher Preparation
Research Opportunities
Several ideas were connected with opportunities that were focused on research efforts, such as the creation of core facilities, new centers and institutes, and faculty research projects. These ideas were advanced by the research opportunities pathway.
- Super-Semiconductors with Ultrahigh Electrical Conductivity for Energy-Efficient Electronic Devices
- Click Chemistry Magic for Osteoarthritis Drug Screening
- Center for Proactive Digital Twins
- Acquire an Agilent Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry System
- A Core Facility X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer with Further Upgrading Capabilities
- Advancing our Earth Science Research Mission by Addressing Critical Laboratory Needs
- Satellite Small Animal Facility for STAR Campus
Coordinated University Request for External Funding
Several projects were identified as ready for coordination and development for submission to external foundations. Facilitators have been assigned to project teams to craft these proposals for this fall.
- Debiasing Content Generated by Large Language Models
- Generative AI (GenAI) Community Hub for Business and Society
- UD Study AiDE: Empowering Education in the New Era of AI
- Unidel Center for Artificial Intelligence for Visually Impaired (AviSAI)
- Funding the Future: Pilot Grants for Generative AI Projects in Teaching and Learning
- AI-Enabled Scaffolding Tools for Individualized Learning
- CHART2AI: Center for Human-Robot Trustworthy Teaming in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
- Boost UD Discovery and Learning through Free AI Platform
- Faculty Support for AI in Teaching and Learning
- FinTech Policy Innovation: Using Customer Sensitive Data to Improve Fair Lending
- FinTech Innovation: Privacy-Preserving Credit Risk Prediction with Alternative Data
- Enabling Mobility and Independence for Persons with Disabilities
- Establishment of the Delaware Center for Neurological Health
- Upgrade the Engines on the RV JOANNE DAIBER
- Re-Power Delaware’s Flagship Research Vessel: R/V Hugh R. Sharp
- 2D-THz Instrument Development for Enhancing Quantum Science Research and Educational Initiatives
- BUD (Be at the University of Delaware)
- Refurbish Hartshorn Theatre Back Into a Performance Space
- University of Delaware Big Ideas Challenge
- Enhancing Health and Medical Science Education: Creating a Center for Anatomy and Physiology Education (CAPE)
One Idea, One Slide Summit 2024 Presentations
Recordings of all presentations can be found below.
- One Idea, One Slide Summit – Welcome & Opening Remarks
- One Idea, One Slide Summit – Group 1
- One Idea, One Slide Summit – Group 2
- One Idea, One Slide Summit – Group 3
- One Idea, One Slide Summit – Group 4
- One Idea, One Slide Summit – Group 5
- One Idea, One Slide Summit – Group 6
- One Idea, One Slide Summit – Group 7
- One Idea, One Slide Summit – Group 8
- One Idea, One Slide Summit – Group 9 & Closing Remarks
One Idea, One Slide Summit 2023
The first One Idea/One Slide Summit was held May 2023. More than 280 contributors were a part of over 70 ideas presented to a University audience using one slide and a two-minute fast pitch. The result was incredible, with so many interesting and creative ideas.
The Summit became the perfect opportunity for the audience and presenters to network, identify partnerships and synergies. Each idea presented had a pathway to move forward, matching the right resources and support to their goals.
The 2023 ideas and their assigned pathways can be found using the link below.
