STIMHR Faculty Research Awards |
UTSA faculty who are involved in mental-health research or are planning to pursue this type of research are annually invited to participate in the summer research awards program. The primary purpose of this award program is to help faculty develop competitive grant proposals to advance their program of research. Three research awards are made each summer. The awards provide summer salary for one month and one course release in the fall semester. At the end of the fall semester, each award recipient is expected to submit a grant proposal (minimum level of $50,000 a year). The Advisory Committee will review applications for the awards and determine the recipients, with preference to junior faculty, although associate professors will also be given consideration. At the end of the summer, award recipients will submit progress reports and the Advisory Committee and the Program Director will provide feedback. At the end of the fall semester, the Advisory Committee and Director will review the grant proposals and provide feedback. Recipients will then be expected to submit their proposals to extramural granting agencies. |
2005 STIMHR Faculty Research Award Recipients |
Michael R. Baumann, Ph.D. "ACUTE STRESS RESPONSES IN HIGH RELIABILITY OCCUPATIONS" Dr. Michael Baumann joined the UTSA faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in 2001, the same year he completed his Ph.D. in Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests encompass decision making in groups and teams; performance (decision making in particular) under acute stress; and affect and cognition. Dr. Baumann has substantive applied research experience, having been involved with, among others, the Office of Naval Research project on training for crisis management and the Illinois Fire Service Institute, the latter in which he designed, conducted, and analyzed quasi-experiments to explore the relationships among training, uncertainty, and anxiety in acute stress situations. Similarly, he designed and submitted a grant proposal for studies to address the relationships between personality and genetics to neurological, immunological, and psychological responses to acute stress.
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K. Jill Fleuriet, Ph.D. "THE PRENATAL PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AMONG MEXICAN AND MEXICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN IN SOUTH TEXAS" Dr. Jill Fleuriet received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University in 2003 and is currently an Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor of Record in the UTSA Department of Anthropology. Originally trained in biological anthropology with an emphasis on evolutionary ecology, she became interested in medical anthropology early in her graduate career. Since joining UTSA in 2003, Dr. Fleuriet's research has centered on medically underserved populations along the U.S.-Mexico border and on issues of women's health and chronic illness. Broadly, she considers health and illness from a political-economic perspective while considering effects of transnationalism, biomedical hegemony, and identity on health and illness among minorities, with an emphasis on praxis-oriented research. She has conducted research among the Kumiai and Paipai of northern Baja California, Mexico, as well as research and consulting among diverse Latino populations in San Diego, North Carolina, and South Texas. Dr. Fleuriet grew up in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and later returned to the Valley for her current research, which considers pregnancy and birth experiences of immigrant Latinas from Mexico from political, economic, and feminist perspectives.
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Melinda Morris Villagran, Ph.D. "COMMUNICATING TO IMPROVE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF LATINO CANCER PATIENTS IN SOUTH TEXAS" In addition to serving as an Assistant Professor of Communication at UTSA, Dr. Villagran is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas Heath Science Center in San Antonio. She received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Oklahoma in 2001. Prior to coming to UTSA, she taught at Texas State University-San Marcos, the University of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma City University. At the University of Oklahoma, she was the Academic Coordinator for the Department of Defense Joint Course in Communication. Dr. Villagran's research program investigates messages in organizational and health care interactions. In particular, she explores the intersections among organizational communication, health issues, and cognition in order to better understand the processes affecting patients and health care consumers. Currently, she is conducting research on communicating about cancer among cancer patients, health care provider organizations, family members, and survivors. Having authored or co-authored of over 25 journal articles, books, and book chapters, she also continues to pursue her interest in the area of innovative methods for teaching and researching communication.
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