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ACTIVE PROJECT · FACULTY FELLOW YUFAN LIN
Scaling AI literacy across the business school
Grant awarded

Extending a validated AI literacy framework — built through a California Learning Lab AI FAST Grant — into agribusiness and technology management, pairing classroom outcomes with hackathon performance data to build toward a statewide grand challenge bid.

3
disciplines
400+
student sample
2027
grand challenge bid
PUBLISHED · FACULTY FELLOW L. LIN ONG
What does empowerment mean for a life in limbo?

A year-long embedded study of Afghan refugee women entrepreneurs in Malaysia proposes a new framework for measuring impact when displacement, not income, is the defining condition of daily life.

8
entrepreneurs studied
10
benefits identified
3P
new framework
Sustainable Business Practices and Social Entrepreneurship · Springer, 2026
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FORTHCOMING · DIRECTOR ANTHONY W. ORLANDO
Does affordable housing actually raise nearby rents?

A seven-author study of LIHTC developments across Florida metro areas tests a common homeowner fear — and finds the opposite. New affordable rental housing shows no statistically significant link to higher market-rate rents nearby.

rents in some markets
0
markets with a significant rent increase
nearby home prices
Forthcoming, Housing Policy Debate · available now on SSRN
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