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Recent Grants
(† denotes student collaborators)
National Science Foundation. Project title: FW-HTF-P: Augmenting Healthcare Professionals’ Training, Expertise Development, and Diagnostic Reasoning with AI-based Immersive Technologies in Telehealth. Role: Co-PI (PI: Roger Azevedo). Funded 2022. $150,000.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Sunshine Education and Research Center. Project title: Concerns about Change. Role: Co-PI, Faculty Supervisor (PI: Michael DiStaso†). Funded 2021. $9,284.
National Science Foundation. Award #2029749. Project title: RAPID: Collaborative Proposal: Effects of COVID-19 Outbreak and Institution Responses on Undergraduate Faculty and Students Across Disciplines. Role: Co-PI (PI: Kristin Horan^). Funded 2020-2022. $113,316. https://sciences.ucf.edu/psychology/covidandhighered/
National Science Foundation. Award #2030845. Project title: RAPID: Exploring the Cyber Behaviors of Temporary Work-from-home (TWFH) Employees. Role: Co-PI (PI: Clay Posey). Funded 2020-2021. $170,249.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Contract #9278082. Project title: COVID-19 Outbreak, Precarious Work, and Employee Health and Safety. Role: PI. (Co-PIs: Haylee Min^, Kristin Horan^). Funded 2020. $3,495.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Award #T42OH008438. Project title: Targeted Research Training in Occupational Safety and Health (as part of USF’s Sunshine Education & Research Center). Role: PI. (Co-PIs: Steve Jex, Cynthia Mejia, Kristin Horan^). Funded 2019-2024. $998,876 (Total center amount: $9 million).
- Supplement to study the impact of COVID-19 in the hospitality industry (April 2020, Role: PI). $14,000
- Supplement for research collaborations with UniteHere! Workers Union and Rosen College of Hospitality (February 2021, Role: PI). $18,519
- Supplement to support M. DiStaso & W. Nakahara’s dissertations (2022): $2,214
Department of Defense U.S. Army Contracting Command. Award #W911NF1910442. Project title: Building Laboratories Without Limits: Bringing Behavioral and Neurophysiological Measurement to Real and Virtual Environments. Role: Co-PI (PI: Dr. Mark Neider, other Co-PIs: Amie Newins^, Florian Jentsch, Corey Bohil, Melissa Dagley, Joseph Schmidt^). Funded 2019-2021. $596,430.
Army Research Institute. Award #W911NF1910453. Project title: Variability in Repeated Adaptive Performance (VARI): Examining Personality Predictors. Role: PI. Funded 2019-2022. $372,556.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Sunshine Education and Research Center. Award #6402109503E. Project title: Evoking Job Insecurity to Experimentally Test its Impact on Stress and Generosity. Role: Co-PI, Faculty Supervisor (PI: Jamie Striler †). Funded 2018-2019. $4,040.
Society for Human Resource Management Foundation. Grant #175. Project title: Fostering Employee Adaptation, Well-Being, and Commitment in Turbulent Times. Role: PI. Funded 2016-2018. $77,266.
Recent Awards
Best Paper Award, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, for DiStaso & Shoss (2020). Awarded at the Work, Stress, and Health Conference.
Gwendolyn Puryear Keita Award for Social Justice and the Welfare of Working People. Presented at the Work, Stress, and Health Conference. This award honors outstanding contributions by researchers and practitioners in psychology, occupational health, and allied fields to social justice and the welfare of working people. It is awarded jointly by the American Psychological Association and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Research Incentive Award, University of Central Florida. The Research Incentive award recognizes in-unit employee contributions to UCF’s key goal of achieving international prominence in research and creative activities.