2022 College Report

’ ’ 50 51 C3 RESEARCH CENTER The Center for Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity, also known as C3, serves the research and creative needs of faculty in the College of Fine Arts and Communication. C3 aims to leverage external funding for interdisciplinary research and creative ideas to make a positive impact in the way people live, learn, and work. The college’s C3 Research Center offers support to enhance the entire continuum of faculty research and scholarly creative activities, from the initial spark of an idea to the delivery of a successful project. REP GRANTS: • Barry Stone , (Art and Design) – Magnolia Fire: A Story of Family, Loss, and Memory • Molly Sherman , (Art and Design) – People s Homes: Investigating Intergenerational Living with San Antonio s Longtime Residents • Kristen Farris , (Comm Studies) and Shailen Singh (CoED) – Developing Communicative Resilience in Parent-Caregivers of Children with Medically Complex Conditions • Manu Pokharel (Comm Studies) – Normative Perceptions and Prevention Behaviors Across Time: Studying COVID-19 Across 36 Weeks • Ames Asbell (Music) and Karla Hamelin (Music) – Expanding the Viola/Cello Repertoire by Female Composers from Underrepresented Populations • Michael Devlin (SJMC) – Harnessing Personality and Identification to Cultivate Creativity • Amber Hinsley (SJMC) – How to reach the skeptics: Finding the ‘right’ messaging and sources to produce credible information about COVID-19 vaccines on social media • Vanessa Higgins-Joyce (SJMC) – Identifying News Elements that Aid Consensus in Polarized Brazil • Kim Youjeong (SJMC) – Mindset Matters: Developing Virtual Reality to Rejuvenate Older Adults • Cindy Royal (SJMC) – These Products Aren’t Going to Manage Themselves: The Pivot to Product in Media • Ana Martinez (Theatre and Dance) – Bodies of Corn, Maguey, and Water: Performing Latin American / Latinx Environmentalisms KELLY KAUFHOLD FUTURE RESEARCH: • Kelly Kaufhold (SJMC) plans to apply to the National Endowment for Democracy for funding to build on the concept of political tribal identity. • Kristen Farris and Tricia Burke (Comm Studies) are planning on applying for a National Institute of Health (NIH) AREA R15 in the coming academic year. INTERNAL FUNDING VIA RESEARCH ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (REP): MAT THEW WINN C3 Team Grant Specialst In FY 2021, the College of Fine Arts and Communication submitted 15 proposals and four were awarded totaling $45,446 . In FY 2022, the College of Fine Arts and Communication submitted 28 proposals and eleven were awarded totaling $101,615 . EXTERNAL FUNDING AWARDED: • Sean Justice (Art and Design) – Exploring Early Childhood Teachers’ Abilities to Identify Computational Thinking Precursors to Strengthen Computer Science in Classrooms. Total Award: $449,100 (2020-2023). Sponsor: National Science Foundation • Jessica Mallios (Art and Design) – NASA Summer Internship. Total Award: $28,128 (2021-2022). Sponsor: Jacobs Technology • Elizabeth Eger (Comm Studies) – Engaged Humanities Research Accelerator. Total Award: $6,000 (2022). Sponsor: The American Council of Learned Societies. • Eugene Lee (Theatre and Dance) – Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration. Total Award: $7,500 (2022). Sponsors: Humanities Texas MEREDITH WILLIAMS C3 Team Grant Specialst Grant Awards MELINDA VILLAGRAN Translational Health Research Center Grants FOUR GRANT AWARDS , TOTAL ING $1 1 .6 MI LL ION DOLL ARS . 1. COMMUNITY HEALTH AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCY RESEARCH (CHERR) Executive Director $5.1M over two years from Texas Legislature Sharing evidence-based resources to help Texans prepare, adapt, and recover from public health emergencies, CHERR partners Texas State with other big health research centers in Texas to help them translate their work by creating training programs, blogs, visuals, news stories, videos, and other forms of communication that share their research findings outside academic journals and conferences. CHERR.txstate.edu 2. ACCELERATING CREDENTIALS FOR THE TEXAS WORKFORCE Co-PI, with Larry Fulton as Principal Investigator (THRC Faculty Fellow from Health Administration) $1.5M from Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board This project helps health care practitioners have dashboards for everything they need to know in real time. We are developing a platform that will provide new pathways to certifications for working-age Texans and students at TSUS schools. At Texas State, this program will also be a direct pathway to credit in a data science minor that is being developed. With our partners from SHSU and other TSUS schools, this research project seeks to develop and evaluate new data science credentials platform that will provide working-age Texans with data science knowledge and skills needed in the workforce. 3. CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE Principal Investigator $2M from United States Congress, with support from Congressman Lloyd Doggett This grant allows Texas State researchers to identify key data sources that can help mental health practitioners, hospitals, and policymakers understand mental health issues and trends in Central Texas. We will then create a mental health dashboard, a resource and policy guide, and a GIS map that brings all this information together to demonstrate changing needs for mental health services in our area, and available resources to address those needs. 4. NUEVA - NUTRITION FOR UNDERSERVED ELDERLY VIA APPLICATION Co-PI with Larry Fulton as Principal Investigator $3M from U.S. Administration for Community Living This grant develops a program in mobile application to bring on-demand food to home bound seniors to help address food insecurity among seniors in Central Texas.