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The McDowell Research Center for Global IT Management
MRC Funds First Group of Research Proposals
The McDowell Research Center is pleased to announce the first group of recipients to receive McDowell Research Grants. Four external grant proposals from outside UNCG were funded for $5000.00 each along with two internal grant proposals from UNCG. The grant proposals were chosen from a pool of 39 applicants from Untied States and abroad.
Preference was given to proposals in the two focus areas of MRC which are “IT in Healthcare” and “Global Information Technology.”
“We are very proud to provide this funding for these innovative grant proposals,” states MRC Director Prashant Palvia. “Our committee was surprised and overwhelmed with a larger number of proposals than expected and were pleased with the quality and scope of many of them.”
Titles and recipients of the 2008 MRC Research Proposals funding are:
“Information and Process Quality Issues in IT-supported Health Care” – Dr. Janis Gogan, Bentley College.
“The Impact of Web-Based Health Risk Communication on Information Processing and Risk Perception” – Christopher Harle, Carnegie Mellon University.
“The Influence of Subgroup Dynamics on Knowledge Coordination in Dispersed Software Development Teams” – Dr. Mike Gallivan, Georgia State University.
“Creating a Culture of Use in ICT for Education and Development Projects: the Case of Macedonia Connects” – Dr. Laura Hosman, University of California – Berkley.
“Processing and Mechanisms of Institutional Changes in the Offshoring Sector of Emerging Economies” – Dr. Nir Kshetri, UNCG.
“Social Engineering Self-effacy: Gateway to Empowerment in Information Security” –
Dr. Hamid Nemati, UNCG.