Faculty Profiles

Dr. Jana Roberta Minifie

Director, Service-Learning Excellence Program, Fall 2015-2022
Director, FIAP/I-Corps: Innovation Accelerator Program, Fall 2018 - Present

Mandal, Sujata (Principal), Sen, Keya (Co-Principal), Minifie, Jana Roberta (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %0.01. I-Corps: Translation potential of an economically friendly water purifier using biobased nanocomposites, National Science Foundation, Federal, $50000. (Submitted: May 30, 2024, Funded: December 1, 2024 - November 30, 2025). Grant.
Hwang, Sangchul Scott (Principal), Gurav, Ranjit (Co-Principal), Minifie, Jana Roberta (Co-Principal). Biologically Active Pervious Structure for Stormwater Management, NSF, Federal, $50000. (Submitted: October 2023, Funded: February 2024 - January 2025). Grant.
Wang, Feng (Principal), Luo, Xiaohua (Co-Principal), Minifie, Jana Roberta (Co-Principal), Gong, Haitao (Supporting), Tao, Jueqiang (Supporting). StarImage: cost-effectiveness improved automated pavement condition survey system, NSF, Federal, $50000. (Submitted: August 27, 2020, Funded: January 2021 - March 2023). Grant.
Minifie, Jana Roberta (Principal), Percent Contribution: %0.04, Zhao, Jeffrey Yefeng (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %3. Women's Entrepreneurship Boot Camps, Texas Workforce Commission, State, $55306. (Funded: July 2019 - December 31, 2020). Grant.
Minifie, Jana Roberta. Faculty Innovation Accelerator Program (FIAP), Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $150000. (Funded: October 2024 - August 2025). Grant.

West, V., & Minifie, J. (1997). Who Should Pay for Healthcare? - The Fortune 500 on Health Care. Marketing Health Services, 17(3), 4–11.
Rayburn, S. W., & Minifie, J. R. (2025). Service-Learning: Pedagogy for Student Growth and Success. In The Emerald Handbook of Active Learning For Authentic Assessment (pp. 223–248). Leeds, EN: Emerald Publishing.
Luo, X., Gong, H., Tao, J., Wang, F., & Minifie, J. R. (2025). Improving Data Quality of Automated Pavement Condition Data Collection: Summary of State of the Practices of Transportation Agencies and Views of Professionals. Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements, 148(3).
Minifie, J. R., & Bauld, S. L. (2025). Innovation Ecosystem Dynamics: A Multi-Regional Case Study Analysis Of Entrepreneurial Environments. International Journal of Business & Management Studies, 6(7). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.56734/ijbms.v6n7a2
Luo, X., Gong, H., Tao, J., Wang, F., Minifie, J. R., & Qiu, X. (2022). Improving Data Quality of Automated Pavement Condition Data Collection: Summary of State of the Practices of Transportation Agencies and Views of Professionals. Journal of Transportation Engineeirng Part B: Pavements, 148(3).

Award / Honor Recipient: Barshop Excellence Professor In Entrepreneurship, McCoy Foundation. January 2016 - December 2018
Award / Honor Recipient: Best Paper, SBDC Track, Small Business Institute. February 2018
Award / Honor Recipient: President's Excellence in Service, McCoy College of Business. August 27, 2015
Award / Honor Recipient: Best Practice SBDC Award Presentation, Small Business Institute. February 13, 2015
Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. March 24, 2014