By Kellie Britch, College of Arts and Sciences
Two College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) faculty are recipients of this year’s , awarded by Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app’s (WLP) program.
WLP focuses on engaging, educating and supporting women and their initiatives throughout
Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app and in the community.
The Faculty Excellence Award Program recognizes faculty research excellence across
six categories:
- Three Campus-Based Faculty Excellence Awards
- One Junior Faculty Excellence Award
- One Instructional Faculty Award
- One Valerie D. Riddle, MD, Award in Health
This year’s CAS recipients are:
Diana Rancourt – Tampa Faculty Award
Diana Rancourt, PhD, is an associate professor and Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program in the Department of Psychology. She received her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completed her pre-doctoral internship at the joint University of California, San Diego and the San Diego Veteran Affairs training program, and completed a National Institutes of Mental Health-supported post-doctoral fellowship in childhood obesity at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Rancourt’s program of research investigates interoceptive (i.e., the extent to which individuals appropriately identify and respond to physiological cues) and sociocultural influences on adolescents’ and young adults’ weight-related behaviors (e.g., dieting, uncontrolled eating, muscle-gaining behaviors) across healthy and pediatric populations. Her work is interdisciplinary and draws from theory and methods from clinical, health, social and developmental psychology.
Christa L. Remington – Junior Faculty Award
Christa L. Remington, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app. Her research explores the intersection of nonprofit organizations, NGOs, grassroots groups and emergency response agencies, with a focus on enhancing post-disaster recovery efforts and mitigating the challenges faced by responders. Her work has been published in journals such as Public Administration Review, Natural Hazards and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction and has been supported by organizations including the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine's Gulf Research Program and the Natural Hazards Center.
In addition to her academic work, Dr. Remington is a nonprofit consultant and serves
as the Emergency Management Research Coordinator at the Center for Leadership Research
and Action. She is also the founder of a program in Haiti dedicated to promoting education,
leadership and community building, empowering local communities to drive sustainable
change.