Grants

Several Spears Business faculty and staff members have been successful in securing industry and government grants. A list of current active grants includes: Betty Simkins Determinants of Liquefied Natural Gas Prices — Energy Information Administration GPA Midstream Association — Gas Processors Association Midstream Bruce Barringer and Richard Gajan I-Corps Site Programs — National Science Foundation Bryan Edwards Computer Assisted Human Interaction — National Science Foundation via University of Louisville Bryan Hammer Pharmaceutical Identification and Evaluation — Sumitovant Biopharma Chad Mills Veterans with Disabilities Entrepreneurship Program — U.S. Small Business Administration Dan Rickman Oklahoma Econometric Model — Oklahoma Tax Commission Deana Hildebrand and Mark Cochran Cooking for Kids — Culinary Training for School Nutrition Professionals — Oklahoma State Department of Education Goutam Chakraborty OKC Fallen Bottle Project — Niagara Bottling Healthcare Population Analytics — Infinedi Object Tracking using Machine Learning and/or Mathematical Models — Concat Systems Customer Information Control System Integration Analytics — HostBridge Attrition Modeling and Reporting — Heartland Equipment Analytics & Real-time Monitoring — Laredo Petroleum Natural Gas Appliance Disaggregation — One Gas Inc. Data Science and Analytics — Love’s Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Offshore Project — Department of Energy (Southern States Energy Board) Customer Information Control System Integration Analytics — HostBridge Love’s Internship — Love’s Infinedi Analytical — Infinedi Harounan Kazianga Enhancing Access to Index-Based Weather Agricultural Insurance in Burkina Faso — India Pale Ale India Grain Legume Cluster Development — Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation via University of California Davis Julie Weathers ITESM Visiting Scholar Program — Center for Executive Professional Development Miriam McGaugh Sexual Risk Avoidance Evaluation — Oklahoma State Department of Health Chickasaw Nation Indigenous Project LAUNCH — Chickasaw Nation Miriam McGaugh and Goutam Chakraborty Oklahoma Early Childhood Integrated Data System — Office of Management and Enterprise Services Ramesh Sharda and Andy Luse Analytics/Data Science Decision Support for Management of Oklahoma COVID Pandemic — Oklahoma State Department of Health Stacy Tomas Hospitality Training for Wineries — Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Creating an Effective Support System for Small and Medium-Sized Farm Operators to Succeed in Agritourism — Pennsylvania State University William Paiva Validating a Clinical Decision Support Algorithm Developed with Big Data to Diagnose, State, Prevent and Monitor a Patient’s Diabetic Retinopathy — Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology Curbing Obesity in Adair and Muskogee Counties — Department of Health and Human Services Quality Improvement Program — Pfizer Inc. Computer Assisted Human Interaction — University of Louisville (National Science Foundation) Willie Tao, Li Miao and Gemmy Moon Authentic Dining Experience in a Peer-To-Peer Meal-Sharing Context: Conceptualization and Scale Development — Foodservice Systems Management Education Council

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