Grant awards

Project summaries for funded research and grants

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Grant awards

ºÚÁÏÍø¹ÙÍø has a Carnegie R1 Research classification and is one of only two universities in the country with all four public designations — Land, Sea, Space, and Sun Grant. Year over year, the College of Business humbly contributes to the global prestige and significance of OSU funded research as part of the university's research and extension mission. College of Business funded grants support the research excellence and publishing outcomes of our faculty into the leading publications of their disciplines.

Projects range from comprehensive hemp industry research and planning, to research on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, to word-of-mouth consumer impact research, to summer business-learning camps for minority communities.

Highlights

Center for Excellence part of next $10 million USDA/Hemp center grant

Working with with several Native American tribal partners, and strengthening work initiated in USDA and OSU Global Hemp Innovation Center initial grants, Anne Sinkey, Ph.D., director of Center for Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Business continues to focus on Native American economic development opportunities related to hemp agriculture, processing and manufacturing. The aim of this project to enable the development of a Native American-led hemp economic infrastructure that centers tribal sovereignty and empowers tribes to grow, process, and manufacture hemp-based products that draw on Indigenous knowledge and values, build skills in hemp industry, expand economic development for tribes and provide products that meet urgent tribal needs, such as housing.

Community tax service boosted by million-plus grant

The College of Business accounting program is rolling out an ambitious $1.61 million project to bring free tax accounting services to communities across ºÚÁÏÍø¹ÙÍø.

The project is VITA, the IRS’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, which offers free tax preparation to low-income households and individuals in communities nationwide. With the oversight of Logan Steele, the Mary Ellen Phillips Professor in Financial Accounting, a successful VITA partner program is now poised for more exponential growth.

With an additional $1.46 million grant from the State of ºÚÁÏÍø¹ÙÍø Department of Human Services, OSU VITA eyes counties and communities across the state with the goal of expanding their client number to 4,000 in total across the next two years.

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The role of curiosity in organizational life

Dr. Jay Hardy, associate professor of management, is conducting curiosity research for the Army Research Institute with a grant to develop a novel theory on the curiosity drive in organizational life.

The study, "Learning in Formal and Informal Environments - Examining the Role of the Curiosity Drive as a Facilitator of Formal and Informal Learning and Adaptability during Newcomer Socialization," aims to help the Army better understand the structure, function, and expression of the curiosity drive. This is expected to aid in the creation of socialization interventions leveraging curiosity’s unique power to facilitate learning and adaptability in new recruits. ($200,000 with U.S. Army).

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Global Hemp Innovation Center

Three College of Business centers for excellence are studying a comprehensive, sustainable business model for industrial hemp in their work on the $10 million OSU Global Hemp Innovation Center and U.S. Department of Agriculture project.

Wrapping up the first year into the five-year, $10 million project, the Center for Marketing and Consumer Insights, the Center for Supply Chain Management and the Center for Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Business have been hitting benchmarks for their contributions to the industrial hemp research grant, respectively, comprehensive consumer and producer market research and financial modeling across products, a sustainable supply chain strategy and culturally inclusive guidelines for business relationships.

The goal is to build a roadmap for the emerging multibillion-dollar hemp industry, and find opportunities for regional businesses.

Summaries

Hemp for a sustainable future

Our Centers for Supply Chain Management(Professor Ping-Hung Hsieh, Professor Zhaohui Wu, Associate Professor Karthik Murali) and Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Business (Anne Sinkey, Ph.D.) are part of the next USDA $10 million grant to the OSU Global Hemp Innovation Center. This project outlines a vision for an intertribal consortium that partners with rural businesses, technology providers, universities, and federal labs to develop sustainable supply chains linking regional hemp production to the manufacturing of natural fiber-based products. By leveraging their sovereignty over tribal lands, Native communities can help lay the foundation for a new bio-based economy that reduces reliance on fossil fuels and generates jobs, income, and wealth.

Expanding VITA services across ºÚÁÏÍø¹ÙÍø

Multi-year grants totaling $1.61 million from the State of ºÚÁÏÍø¹ÙÍø Department of Human Services funded the expansion of the IRS' Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program to communities across ºÚÁÏÍø¹ÙÍø. The project is managed by the accounting program with the School of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems. VITA provides tax services to individuals or households with income less than $60,000, and they offer language services for English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean. An initial $10,000 grant from the IRS kick-started this expansive program.

USDA grant drives top year of funding

In fiscal year 2022, the College of Business received $1.39 million in research funding from public and private sources, including the college's largest-ever grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and through the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences’ Global Hemp Innovation Center. Additional research projects range from creating international learning environments to large government grants to research into the international education environment to establishing with the IRS a program to support the community in tax preparation.

American Councils for International Education, $10,000

Dr. Violetta Gerasymenko, associate professor of entrepreneurship & strategy, has a grant with the American Councils for International Education's U.S.-Russia University Virtual Partner Program (UniVIP) in contributing to a network for U.S. and Russian universities to navigate the challenging global international education environment, share innovative methods for virtual exchanges, and advance strategic internationalization goals.

U.S. Army Research Institute, $58,828

Dr. Jay Hardy, associate professor of management, is conducting research for the Army Research Institute with a multi-year grant to develop theories on mulitple topics involving Learning in Formal and Informal Environments.

Mid-Valley STEM-CTE Hub, $4,500

InnovationX — OSU’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is working with OSU partners to expand access to entrepreneurship to historically excluded students with funding provided by the Mid-Valley STEM-CTE Hub.

UCOB TeachEngineering, University of Colorado Boulder, $37,739

Dr. Rene Reitsma, professor of business information systems, is working on a multi-year project with the National Science Foundation and University of Colorado Boulder to enhance and improve searches and recommendations of TeachEngineering.org, a digital library of free K-12 engineering curriculum.