External Funding

  • BlueCross BlueShield of Texas (2020-2024). Amount: $1,200,000. Title: Consumer Decision-Making in Healthcare. PIs: Kelli Frias and Deidre Popovich. Funded. Data collection in progress.
  • Covenant Health System (2019). Amount: $13,000. Title: Women’s and Children’s Healthcare. PI: Kelli Frias, Co-PI: Deidre Popovich. Funded. Data collection complete.

Fellowships, Honors, and Awards

  • SCP Best Competitive Paper: Positive Societal Impact, 2024
  • Rawls College of Business Competitive Summer Research Grant ($30,000), 2024
  • Faculty Development Leave, 2023
  • Jerry S. Rawls Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award Nominee, 2023
  • Carl and Linda Stem Distinguished Faculty Research Award, 2022
  • Professing Excellence Award Nominee, 2020
  • Rawls College of Business Competitive Summer Research Grant ($25,000), 2020
  • Rawls College of Business Competitive Summer Research Grant ($25,000), 2019
  • Texas Tech Institute for Inclusive Excellence Fellow, 2018-2019
  • Rawls College of Business Competitive Summer Research Grant ($25,000), 2018
  • Texas Tech Service Learning Scholar, 2017-2018
  • Rawls College of Business Research Grant ($3,750), 2017
  • Texas Tech Service Learning Faculty Fellow, 2016-2017
  • Texas Tech Women Faculty Writing Program Inaugural Fellow, 2015
  • Goizueta Fellow, 2015
  • SMA Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition Runner-Up Award, 2014
  • Sheth Fellowship, 2012
  • Goizueta Business School Doctoral Fellowship, 2010-2015
  • Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society, 2008