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Spreading like wildfire: Spears Business researcher using analytics to combat misinformation

Online misinformation can have serious consequences, especially in an emergency situation. Now, Spears Business researcher Dr. Kayla Jiang is making sure communities have a plan to battle it.
Spreading like wildfire: Spears Business researcher using analytics to combat misinformation
Sponsored research on the rise

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

Sponsored research by Spears Business faculty is on the rise. Research paid for by outside organizations such as government agencies or private industry is an important and growing part of the school's research portfolio because it provides

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A global honor

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

Dr. Ramesh Sharda was named a 2019 Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) at its International Conference in Information Systems in Munich, Germany, in December. He was one of only two Americans honored by the international

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An early collaboration

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

Sierra Steelman was nervous when she signed up in 2019 to participate in Oklahoma State University's Freshman Research Scholar program. She didn't know what to expect and certainly wasn't planning to get a research paper published in a peer-reviewed

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Ties that bind

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

Dr. Bill Ryan of Oklahoma State University's School of Hospitality and Tourism Management has spent his entire academic life at OSU, from earning his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees here to spending a career as an administrator and

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Parsing COVID-19 data

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

An analysis of digital health records from thousands of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals around the country has led to the development of technology to predict the risk of death for those with COVID. Researchers at the Oklahoma State

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Tracking human traffickers

Fri, Oct 23, 2020

Oklahoma State University professor Dr. Miriam McGaugh is an expert in analyzing large amounts of data and recognizing patterns within it. While an epidemiologist for the Oklahoma State Department of Health, she used health care data to create

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Balancing health and education, analytics expertise helps determine how to teach in a pandemic

Mon, Jun 1, 2020

A week before fall classes resumed in August at Oklahoma State University, Dr. Rick Wilson had football on his mind, but not in anticipation of the coming season. The Big Ten Conference had announced the postponement of all fall sports for its

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