The CIE (Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship) Research Awards fund faculty and graduate student research proposals from across campus, coordinated by Dr. Josh Bendickson, Brauns-Oudenhoven-Boustany Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. The program connects UL Lafayette's creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship researchers, provides seed money for their research, and showcases the results at an annual on-campus conference.
Proposals can cover topics 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 (K-12, university, community); Law and Entrepreneurship; Minority & Women Entrepreneurship; Rural Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Technology Transfer; Venture Financing.
Inaugural Award Recipients
In its first year, the program awarded $36,000 to 18 projects from faculty and graduate students across campus:
- 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, and 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, and 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, and Maxwell L. Gontarek — PhD Candidate, English — Development of an International Publishing Project Focused on the Translation of French and American Poetry
- 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, and 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, and John Miller — PhD Candidate, Physics — Disaster Mobile Unit
This program — its design, implementation, and funding — is a cross-campus collaboration between Mary Farmer-Kaiser and 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.
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