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External Public Sector Funded Projects:

• 2023–2027: Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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 Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ Dedman College of Humanities and Science Department of Psychology and the Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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: Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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 Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ Simmons School of Education and Human Development Department of Teaching & Learning and the Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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 Mobile App for Creating Math Walks”.
  
  
• 2020-2024: Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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 Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ Guildhall Graduate Game Development Education Program, the Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ Lyle School of Engineering Department of Computer Science, and the Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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: Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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 Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ Simmons School of Education and Human Development Department of Teaching & Learning and the Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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: Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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 Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ Guildhall Graduate Game Development Education Program and the Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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: Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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”.
  
  

Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ Funded Projects:

• 2024-2025: Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ Guildhall Deputy Director of Research, Dr. Corey Clark is a Co-PI on a grant awarded by the Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ O’Donnell Data Science and Research Computing Institute for $50,000. The Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ Dedman College of Humanities and Science Department of Chemistry and the Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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: Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ Guildhall Deputy Director of Research, Dr. Corey Clark is a Co-PI on a grant awarded by Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ for $226,000. The Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ AT&T Center for Virtualization and the Ë®¶à¶àµ¼º½ 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”.