Broadening Research Across UNT When the university was approved to access the first level of TUF funds in 2023, this provided more than $21 million in new state research funding. Reaching the second and highest level of funding required us to meet additional milestones that included sustained external support for research in two consecutive years. Those milestones had to be achieved by the end of fiscal year 2025. We met the mark in FY 2024, and needed to surpass $50 million in funded research expenditures this year. That would permanently double the amount of TUF funds for UNT. We were on track to do this until unexpected cuts in federal research funding were announced. Without your investments in our faculty, we could not have made up that loss. While we are still waiting for the final audit of expenditures, we are optimistic that we have met this milestone. The G. Brint Ryan College of Business received additional external philanthropic support and, in early May, we created an internal request for proposals (RFP) and encouraged all faculty to submit impactful research opportunities that aligned with their depth of expertise. We awarded 69 grants, varying in scope and range across research disciplines, with a cap of no more than $10,000. A number of awards were made to Ryan endowed faculty members. ACCOUNTING Drs. Richard Cazier, Jianren Xu & Jeff McMullin “Enterprise Risk Management and the Predictive Power of Risk Factor Disclosures.” Exploring the development and data work relat- ed to sophisticated AI-driven assessment of the ability of firms’ risk factor disclosures to predict adverse firm-specific events.
INFORMATION, TECHNOLOGY & DESICION SCIENCES Dr. Zhiling Guo
“Enhancing AI Safety and Trust in Clinical Decision Support Systems: A Collaborative Pilot with Mayo Clinic.” Research focused on evaluat- ing AI safety and creating actionable evaluation tools that identify and measure gaps in safety and trust between AI systems and their human users. “I Can See Clearly Now: The Role of Social Media, Traditional Media, and Reputation on Investor Support.” In reviewing close to five thousand negative events impacting S&P 1500 firms between 2014 to 2018, research was designed to delve deeper into the impact of social media approval positively impacting investor sup- port, independent of traditional media approval and reputation. “The Spotlight Effect: How Device Screen-Ambient Lighting Interactions Influence Healthy Choices.” Research focused on consumer spending choices using their smartphones or tablets to purchase food (e.g. groceries, online food orders, etc.) and expanding knowledge that demonstrates that when consumers use a device in a dimly lit space, their heightened attention focus leads to healthier food choices.
MANAGEMENT Dr. Rhonda Reger
MARKETING Dr. Blair Kidwell
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Drs. David Nowicki, Michael Bomba & Jolanda Prozzi
“Reshoring/Nearshoring Symposium.” Conducting a symposium with stakeholders within the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to discuss the current trends in moving or relocating production and its impact on the Texas-Mexico trade corridor.
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