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Projects

PAID RESEARCH ASSISANT POSITIONS AVAILABLE - JUNTOS School

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Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. For the JUNTOS…

PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS AVAILABLE - JUNTOS PODEMOS

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Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. For the JUNTOS Familia Study…

The Texas PRIDE in Health Collaborative

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The Texas PRIDE in Health Collaborative is looking for undergraduate and graduate students interested in supporting various projects related to LGBTQ+ Health. Our current projects include:

  1. TIME…

Thriving Together: Corpus Christi

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Children do best when parents and teachers work together to support their development and learning, yet many school systems struggle to effectively engage with parents as valued partners. ParentCorps, a scalable…

Thriving Together: Corpus Christi

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Children do best when parents and teachers work together to support their development and learning, yet many school systems struggle to effectively engage with parents as valued partners. ParentCorps, a scalable…

Pediatric Coping and Language Lab

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The Pediatric Coping and Language Lab studies family, linguistic, and sociocultural influences on children’s adaptation to stress. Our research focuses on families faced with chronic stressors, such as a child’s…

Baby Connect project: Using wearable sensors to study everyday infant interactions at home

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Our interdisciplinary lab bridges developmental science, clinical psychology, computer science, human-computer interaction, and electrical engineering. We use wearable sensors to study how daily activities of mothers…

Faculty

Anton Avanceña

Affiliated Departments:
College of Pharmacy, Health Outcomes and Pharmacy Practice, Dell Medical School, Internal Medicine
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I am a decision scientist and health policy researcher who studies how efficiency and equity in health can be improved globally. My main area of research involves (1) understanding the health, economic, and social…

Justin Benzer

Affiliated Departments:
Dell Medical School
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My research focuses on how to develop and implement organizational structures, processes, and policies that support process improvement, teamwork, and coordination of care. In the department of psychiatry, I focus…

Esther Calzada

Affiliated Departments:
College of Education, School of Social Work
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Ethnic-racial identity in preschool and elementary school children; prevention of behavior problems and promotion of socioemotional and academic functioning in young children from minoritized communities; role of…

Namkee Choi

Affiliated Departments:
School of Social Work
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Mental health and mental health service access and utilization among older adults; Tele-delivered depression treatment and evaluation for low-income homebound older adults; Suicide in late life; Older adults’…

Deborah Cohen

Affiliated Departments:
Dell Medical School, School of Social Work
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I am a mental health services researcher who is specifically interested in how mental health policy and evidenced-based programming is diffused throughout agencies and to individuals served. I focus on community…

Kaya de Barbaro

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology
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My research is in the emerging field of computational behavioral science, bridging insights from developmental science, clinical psychology, computer science, and electrical engineering. Across all my work I…

F Gonzalez-Lima

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Psychology, College of Natural Sciences, Neurobiology, College of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dell Medical School
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Human brain research in neuroscience, psychobiology, neurocognitive enhancement, learning and memory, brain stimulation, photobiomodulation, cognitive aging, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, bipolar disorder, ADHD,…

Lauren Gulbas

Affiliated Departments:
Anthropology, School of Social Work
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Adolescent development, culture, health disparities, family well-being, Latino populations, mental health, self-harmful behaviors, suicide