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Research snapshot: Discover how Spears Business is impacting the world

Research begins with a question, and Spears Business faculty are finding answers to improve industries and lives. Find out how Spears Business researchers are helping workplace groups identify experts, measuring long-term outcomes of healthcare
Research snapshot: Discover how Spears Business is impacting the world
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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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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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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OSU joins research studying robotic nurse assistants

Mon, Sep 28, 2020

Oklahoma State University researchers will share a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant with engineering faculty from the University of Louisville to study using robots to help nurses care for hospital patients. Dr. Bryan Edwards,

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OSU researchers model COVID-19 mortality risk

Wed, Sep 2, 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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Spears professor recognized

Mon, Jun 15, 2020

Oklahoma State University professor Dr. Alexis Smith Washington, with co-authors, has been awarded the 2020 Saroj Parasuraman Award for the best peer-reviewed journal article in the field of gender and diversity by the Academy of Management.

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Pandemic and oil glut could cost Oklahoma 10,000 energy sector jobs

Mon, Apr 20, 2020

Oklahomans are feeling widespread pain because of the nation's economic shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic and a resulting glut in the demand for oil. Economic recovery in the state will be slow through this summer and into the winter,

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Corporate governance in the age of shareholder activism

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

Since joining the faculty at Oklahoma State University in 2001, much of Dr. Ramesh Rao's research has examined the workings of corporate managers and boards of directors, and the organizations that invest in those companies. Sometimes the interests

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Race, gender and rising above stereotypes

Mon, Mar 9, 2020

No person is just a teacher or just a mother or just an African American or just any other descriptor. We are all a combination of identities that collectively make up how we see ourselves and how society perceives us. And it only gets more

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