Rewards & Other  Activities

Awards

Community Code Bonus Prize 2025

PREPARE Challenge - Phase 2, DrivenData

VCoBE Faculty Teaching Excellent Award     2024

Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Selected Services

Grant Reviewer (R series)     2024

National Institutes of Health

Session Chair           2021-2025

Western Economic Association International

Session Chair           2023 

Eastern Economic Association

Ph.D. Committee Services

Chaitali Bonke (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

Zixing Shen, Ph.D. (The University of Waterloo, ON, Canada)

Deepak More, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor at Le Moyne College, NY)

Thesis Advisors and Committees

Advisor: Juan Moreno-Cruz, Ph.D.  

Co-Advisor: Tibor Besedeš, Ph.D. 

Committee: Laura Taylor, Ph.D.

Committee:  Olga Shemyakina, Ph.D. 

Committee:  Willie Belton, Ph.D.

Mentors

Mentor: Gladys Maestre, MD, Ph.D.

Mentor: Eron Manusov, MD

Mentor: Jerry Gurwitz, MD

Mentor: Rebeca Wong, Ph.D.

Mentor: Fernando Riosmena, Ph.D.

Mentor: Levent Kutlu, Ph.D.

Mentor: Danny Hughes, Ph.D.

Selected Affiliations 

Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research - Rio Grande Valley (RGV RCMAR)

Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)

Gerontology Society of American (GSA)

San Antonio Center for AD/ADRD Population Aging and Social Studies (San Antonio CAPAS)