Posted on June 11, 2024 by Amanda Cerreto
Six researchers in the College for Health, Community and Policy (HCAP) have earned Internal Research Awards from UTSA, each worth $5,000. Each project reflects HCAP’s mission to improve the well-being of communities from local to global.
“These seed grants are pivotal to starting important lines of research that will help answer complex societal issues,” said Erica Sosa, associate dean for research success and professor of public health. “The six HCAP scholars are contributing to important work in their areas of research. The finding demonstrates the university values their work.”
The awardees are as follows:
Chien-jen Chiang
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Project: “Navigating the Child Welfare Maze: Assessing Service Needs, Referrals, Receipts, and Outcomes for Latino Families.”
Itamar Lerner
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Alan Meca
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Denver Brown
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Project: “The relationships between real-life stress and physiological measurements of sleep and physical activity.”
Masataka Umeda
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Project: “Biopsychological mechanism of the adverse effect of racial discrimination on pain sensitivity and buffering effect of physical activity in Asian American adults.”
Se-Woong Park
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Project: "Identifying perception-action couplings in practice-induced timing."
— Amanda Cerreto
