Innovation & Entrepreneurship Research

CREATIVITY, INNOVATION, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
FACULTY & GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS

Congratulations to the Inaugural Group
of 18 CIE Award Recipients

In Spring 2024, Professor Josh Bendickson, Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, held an open call across the UL Lafayette campus for research proposals related to Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship. The goals were to both recognize the research being created at UL Lafayette and to create a community of scholars interested in advancing creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship across campus and in Louisiana.

We awarded $36,000 to these 18 projects. These faculty and graduate students will present their work at the Inn-eaux-vate Louisiana Conference during the 2024-2025 academic year.

• Redeemer Buatsi - Master Candidate, Communication
  Mapping the Gender Differences in Tech Entrepreneurship in the United States
   
• Keith Credo - Associate Professor, Management
  Bridging the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Intent and Efficacy: Longitudinal Effects of the Reflected Best Self Exercise in Undergraduate Curricula
   
• Dionne Davis  - Instructor, Management
  Tamla Springer - Instructor, Engineering
  EmpowerHer: Fostering Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship among Minority Female Students in STEM and Business at UL Lafayette
   
• Michael Davis - PhD Candidate, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  Development of an Ultra Power-Dense Cascaded Wind Turbine
   
• Chase Edwards - Associate Professor, Economics & Finance
  Big Roadblocks for Small Business - The Unintended Consequences of Big Business Regulation on Entrepreneurs

• Tori Flint - Associate Professor, Educational Curriculum and Instruction
  Marietta Adams - Assistant Professor, Educational Curriculum and Instruction
  Of Ladles and Laptops: Exploring Preschool Children’s Digital Play
   
• Léa Fougerolle - PhD Candidate, Modern Languages, Francophone Studies 
  Maxwell L. Gontarek - PhD Candidate, English
  Development of an International Publishing Project Focused on the Translation of French and American Poetry
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• Jeremy Foreman - Associate Professor, Kinesiology
  Tori Flint - Associate Professor, Educational Curriculum and Instruction
  K-Lynn McKey - Senior Instructor, Kinesiology  
  Marietta Adams - Assistant Professor, Educational Curriculum and Instruction
  Incorporating Play in the Physical Space of Schools
   
• Joseph Goodman - Assistant Professor, Management
  Role Models, Cognitive Learning Theory, and Personality Traits: Implications and Gender Differences for Entrepreneurial Education
   
• William Hollerman - Professor, Physics
  John Miller - PhD Candidate, Physics
  Developing a UL Lafayette Approved Company for Phosphor-Based Sensors
   
• S M Shamsul Hoque - PhD Candidate, School of Geosciences
  Automated Seismic Data Registration by Deep Learning: A New Paradigm for Multicomponent Seismic Data Processing
   
• Hua-Lun Huang - Associate Professor, Sociology
  Alternative Light Source: Portable Paper Lantern
   
• Marjan Pahlevani - Graduate Student, School of Computing & Informatics
  Virtual Reality (VR) Empathy Training for Healthcare Students
   
• Yasmeen Qudsi - Senior Instructor, Mechanical Engineering
  Smart Crawfish Farming
   
• Emily Sandoz - Professor, Psychology
  Considering Interlocking Functional Relations between Machine and Human Learners for Creativity, Innovation, and Safety
   
• Araf Mim Ahmed Smrity - PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering
  Commercially Viable Heat Transfer Solutions: Exploring the Stability and Efficiency of Hybrid Nanofluids through Molecular Dynamics Simulation
   
• Yi-Hong Wang - Associate Professor, Biology
  Genetic increase of Sugarcane Sugar Yield
   
• James Williams - Visiting Instructor, Informatics Research Institute
  John Miller - PhD Candidate, Physics
  Disaster Mobile Unit

Call for Research Propposals - March 2024

THE CALL:  We are seeking faculty and/or graduate student research proposals related to creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

THE PURPOSE:

• To connect UL Lafayette creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship researchers.
• To showcase UL Lafayette faculty and graduate student research projects.
• To provide seed-money for faculty and graduate student research projects.

REQUIREMENTS: Submit complete (or near-complete) project by November 15, 2024 and agree to attend and present your work at an on-campus conference during the Spring of 2025.

TOPICS IDEAS: (Including but not limited to) Agriculture Entrepreneurship; Commercialization; Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation; Creative, Design, and Arts Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Mindset; Entrepreneurship Ecosystems and Economic Geography; Family Business; Intellectual Property; International Entrepreneurship; Pedagogy Initiatives in Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (e.g., K-12, university, community); Law and Entrepreneurship; Minority & Women Entrepreneurship; Rural Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Technology Transfer; Venture Financing.

This program – its design, implementation, and funding – is a cross-campus collaboration between Mary Farmer-Kaiser & Philip de Mahy (The Graduate School), Dianne Olivier (Faculty Affairs), Kiwana McClung (Office for Campus Diversity), Noah Bergeron (Office of Innovation Management) and Josh Bendickson, Brauns-Oudenhoven-Boustany Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Innovation & Entrepreneurship