Ongoing Research Awards

Updated Fall 2024 

External Public Sector Funded Projects:

  • 2023–2027: 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Director of Academics, Dr. Elizabeth Storz Stringer, is a contributor on a four-year grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse for $2,586,115. The 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Dedman College of Humanities and Science Department of Psychology and the 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Graduate Game Development Education Program partnered with the University of Washington to create the virtual reality (VR) simulation for the technology-enhanced learner initiative project “Effects of Direct and Vicarious Discrimination on Alcohol and Cannabis Cravings: Virtual Reality Experiment”.

  • 2021-2026: 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Director of Academics, Dr. Elizabeth Storz Stringer, is a Co-PI on a five-year grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $2,500,000. The 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Simmons School of Education and Human Development Department of Teaching & Learning and the 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Graduate Game Development Education Program partnered with the non-profit talkStem to create the tablet-based augmented reality (AR) game MathFinders for the community walkStem technology-enhanced learner initiative project “Seeing the World through a Mathematical Lens: A Place-Based mobiles App for Creating Math Walks”.

  • 2020-2024: 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Deputy Director of Research, Dr. Corey Clark is the Principal Investigator on a four-year grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $1,521,615.  The 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Graduate Game Development Education Program, the 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Lyle School of Engineering Department of Computer Science, and the 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Simmons School of Education and Human Development Department of Education Policy & Leadership partnered with local ISDs in Dallas area to integrate Minecraft education game mods for the STEM+C technology-enhanced learner initiative project “Teaching Computer Science and Computational Thinking with Community Gaming”. 

  • 2020-2024: 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Director of Academics, Dr. Elizabeth Storz Stringer, is a Co-PI on a four-year grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education Institute for Education Sciences (IES) for $1,398,245. The 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Simmons School of Education and Human Development Department of Teaching & Learning and the 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Graduate Game Development Education Program partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create the augmented reality (AR) game Flatlands AR for the Microsoft Holo-Lens 2 collaborative geometric reasoning embodied learner initiative project “Exploring Collaborative Embodiment for Learning (EXCEL): Understanding Geometry through Multiple Modalities".

External Private/Nonprofit Sector Funded Projects:

  • 2023-2025: 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Deputy Director of Research, Dr. Corey Clark is the Principal Investigator on a grant awarded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation for $400,00. The 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Graduate Game Development Education Program and the 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Simmons School of Education and Human Development Department of Teaching & Learning partnered on the gamification learner initiative project “Utilizing Knowledge Graphs for Personalized Adult Literacy Game Based Learning”.

  • 2021-2024: 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Deputy Director of Research, Dr. Corey Clark is the Principal Investigator on a grant awarded by BALANCED Media | Technology for $224,816 on the machine learning initiative project “Privacy Preserving Machine Learning Using Homomorphic and Distributed Computing”.

色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Funded Projects:

  • 2024-2025: 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Deputy Director of Research, Dr. Corey Clark is a Co-PI on a grant awarded by the 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 O’Donnell Data Science and Research Computing Institute for $50,000. The 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Dedman College of Humanities and Science Department of Chemistry and the 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Graduate Game Development Education Program partnered for the computer-aided drug design machine learning initiative project “SmartCADD: AI-QM Empowered Drug Discovery Platform with Explainability in a Secure, Web-Based SaaS Platform”.

  • 2023-2025: 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Deputy Director of Research, Dr. Corey Clark is a Co-PI on a grant awarded by 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 for $226,000. The 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 AT&T Center for Virtualization and the 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 Guildhall Graduate Game Development Education Program partnered for the efficacy of synthetic data machine learning initiative project “Bias Identification and Emulation of Facial Recognition Algorithms”.