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External Public Sector Funded Projects:

• 2023–2027: SMU Guildhall Director of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, 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 SMU Dedman College of Humanities and Science Department of Psychology and the SMU 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: SMU Guildhall Director of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, 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 SMU Simmons School of Education and Human Development Department of Teaching & Learning and the SMU 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: SMU 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 SMU Guildhall Graduate Game Development Education Program, the SMU Lyle School of Engineering Department of Computer Science, and the SMU 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: SMU Guildhall Director of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, 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 SMU Simmons School of Education and Human Development Department of Teaching & Learning and the SMU 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: SMU 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 SMU Guildhall Graduate Game Development Education Program and the SMU 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: SMU 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”.
  
  

SMU Funded Projects:

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