<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2024/1204-dunn-nsf-grant.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Researchers seek to democratize AI tools for freelancers</title><author>Angela Valden</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>12/06/2024 01:12:29 PM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>A Skidmore business professor, two alumni, and two current students – with colleagues from two other universities – receive a $1.2 million, three-year National Science Foundation grant for the project.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2024/images/1204-dunn-nsf-grant-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Associate Professor of Management and Business Mike Dunn, Heba Salman '25, and Robyn Karchere-Sun '26"/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2024/images/1204-dunn-nsf-grant-feature.jpg" alt="Associate Professor of Management and Business Mike Dunn, Heba Salman '25, and Robyn Karchere-Sun '26"/></image><caption>Associate Professor of Management and Business Mike Dunn, Heba Salman '25, and Robyn Karchere-Sun '26 are part of a team that has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to create AI-enabled tools to support online freelancers pursuing work through digital platforms.</caption></item>