October 7, 2024, through March 31, 2026 | $80,000 awarded: $5,000 per researcher x 16 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.
Alvarez College of Business
Binay Adhikari, Ph.D., Department of Finance
Globally Diverse Boards: Do foreign directors enhance global expansion?
David Beheshti, Ph.D., Department of Economics
The Population-Level Casual Impact of PrEP on HIV – Why Aren’t HIV Diagnoses Declining Faster?
Yuanxiong Guo, Ph.D., Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security
Towards Efficient and Trustworthy Orbital Edge Intelligence, Isil Koyuncu Kilci, Ph.D., Department of Management Science and Statistics, Casual Inference for Post-Transport Patient Acuity Using the National Emergency Medical Services Dataset
Yeonjoo Park, Ph.D., Department of Management Science and Statistics
Deep learning approaches to functional data analysis: Applications from data reconstruction to predictive modeling
Hilal Pataci, Ph.D., Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security
Deciphering Cybersecurity Risks in Annual Statements: A Benchmark for Assessment and Removal of Boilerplate
Nishant Vishwamitra, Ph.D., Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security
Enhancing Collaborative Sensemaking in Digital Sleuthing Through Social Medica Analysis and Automated Image Triage
Min Wang, Ph.D., Department of Management Science and Statistics
A novel Bayesian Kriging approach for quality design: to test or not to test?
Kai Xu, Ph.D., Department of Management Science and Statistics
The Impact of Geopolitical Conflict on Foreign Direct Investment
Anastasia Zervou, Ph.D., Department of Economics
Monetary policy, financing frictions, and the response of the labor market
College of Health, Community, and Policy
Chien-Jen Chiang, Ph.D., Department of Social Work
Navigating the Child Welfare Maze: Assessing Service Needs, Referrals, Receipts, and Outcomes for Latino Families
Itamar Lerner, Ph.D., Department of Psychology
The relationships between real-life stress and physiological measurements of sleep and physical activity
Se-Woong Park, Ph.D., Department of Kinesiology
Identifying perception-action couplings in practice-induced timing
Mastaka Umeda, Ph.D., Department of Kinesiology
Biopsychological mechanism of the adverse effect of racial discrimination on pain sensitivity and buffering effect of physical activity in Asian American adults
College of Education and Human Development
College of Liberal and Fine Arts
Jamon Halvaksz, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology
Unraveling Urban Resilience: Investigating Interconnections in Pacific Island States
College of Education and Human Development
Devon Romero, Ph.D., Department of Counseling
Counselors Fight Against Modern-Day Slavery: A Sex Trafficking Project