2023 Grant Awardees

October 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023 | $40,000 awarded: $20,000 per researcher x 2 new projects

The GREAT program provides seed grants to support new areas of research for faculty at UTSA, to assemble preliminary data that can be used to seek extramural funding and advance UTSA’s goal of reaching Tier One status.

Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design

Hugo Giambini, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Computational framework for estimations of spine loads

Carlos Alvarez College of Business

Elias Bou-Harb, Ph.D., Department of Information Systems
Securing Water Quality’s Health from Cyber and Physical Attacks by Instrumenting Physics-Aware Honeypot

October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023 | $125,000 awarded ($50,000 UTSA; $75,000 SwRI)

The CONNECT Program is a joint effort between The UTSA and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). The program encourages interaction between investigators in support of the acquisitions of established extramural, peer-reviewed research funding. This agreement provides unprecedented opportunities for researchers to work together in addressing issues of mutual interest and need.

College of Science

Kathryn Mayer, Ph.D, UTSA and Josh Mangum, PhD.,SwRI
High-Surface Area Carbon Microparticles for Hydrogen Storage

October 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023 | $30,000 awarded: $15,000 per researcher x 2 new projects

The Brain Health Consortium (BHC) Collaborative Seed Grant (CSG) program, sponsored by the Office of Research at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), is offering seed grants to support collaborative research at UTSA. These grants support a broad range of trans-disciplinary research that may yield fundamental insights into the mechanisms underlying brain disorders.

College of Sciences

Nichole Wicha, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology
Effect of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury on Predictive Processing in Language Comprehension

College for Health, Community, and Policy

Chantal Fahmy, Ph.D., Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
The Long-Term Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Reentry after Incarceration: A Vulnerability Assessment

October 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023, | $45,000 awarded: $5,000 per researcher x 9 new research projects

The Internal Research Awards (INTRA) program is part of the UTSA Office of Research's coordinated efforts to promote research and scholarship of the highest quality. This program offers experience in identifying and submitting applications to potential funding sources, provides preliminary data to support applications for extramural funding, and enhances scholarly and creative activities.

Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design

Bastian Wibranek, Ph.D., School of Architecture and Planning
Deconstructing Deconstruction: A case study exploring stakeholder perceptions of a San Antonio-based circular economy initiative

Carlos Alvarez College of Business

Samson Alva, Ph.D., Department of Economics
The Limits to Learning from Big Data

Yuanxiong Guo, Ph.D., Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security
Democratizing Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare with Federated Learning

Min Wang, Ph.D., Department of Management Science and Statistics
A generative Bayesian procedure to modeling high-dimensional data with mixed-type outcomes

College of Education and Human Development

Priscilla Rose Prasath, Ph.D., Department of Counseling
El HERO que lleva dentro - Validation of the Spanish version of the revised Compound PsyCap Scale (CPC-12R)

College of Liberal and Fine Arts

Valeria Meiller, Ph.D., Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Ruge el Bosque: Southern Cone Ecopoetry Anthology (Part II)

Robert Tokunaga, Ph.D., Department of Communications
Intergroup Differences in Cyberbullying Perpetration

College of Health, Community, and Policy

Kelly Cheever, Ph.D., Department of Kinesiology
Factors influencing musculoskeletal injury reporting behavior among adolescent student-athletes

Denver Brown, Ph.D., Department of Psychology
Investigating the influence of 24-hour movement behaviors on indicators of mental health among youth with epilepsy

October 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023 | 30,000 awarded; $15,000 per researcher x 2 new research projects

The Brain Health Consortium (BHC) Collaborative Seed Grant (CSG) program, sponsored by the Office of Research at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), is offering seed grants to support collaborative research at UTSA. These grants support a broad range of trans-disciplinary research that may yield fundamental insights into the mechanisms underlying brain disorders.

Team

• Nicole Wicha, Ph.D., College of Science, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
• Alicia Swan, Ph.D., College of Health, Community and Policy, Department of Psychology, Effect of mild traumatic brain injury on predictive processing in language comprehension

Team

• Chantal Fahmy, Ph.D., College of Health, Community and Policy, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Alicia Swan, Ph.D., College of Health Community and Policy, Department of Psychology, The Long-Term Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Reentry after Incarceration: A Vulnerability Assessment