Pizza + Research
Pizza + Research brings together undergraduate students and faculty from across the university for lunchtime presentations and discussions about current UTSA research that is "tackling the grand challenges of today's world." (Eighmy, 2017)
Pizza + Research offers undergraduate students an opportunity to:
- learn about the nature and practice of scholarly research across the disciplines
- understand the lens with which different disciplines view important topics
- appreciate the the process of conducting academic research
- network with faculty and students from other departments and colleges
- develop enthusiasm for the research endeavor
Pizza + Research is currently offered once a semester, in the fall and spring, at both UTSA Libraries locations, at the John Peace Library on Main Campus. Follow us on social media or visit our library home page for updates on upcoming events! :D
Presentations by Semester
Spring 2024
- Trust Across Divides: Working With Incarcerated ScholarsPresented by Dr. Mel Webb, Ph.D (they/them)
Program Director, The Philosophy & Literature Circle, Philosophy & Classics Department
Professor of Instruction, Honors College
Fall 2023
- Milpa CuisinePresented by Dr. Lilliana Saldaña, Ph.D
Mexican American Studies
Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies Dept. University of Texas at San Antonio
Spring 2020
- A Gut Feeling: investigating Chemosensory signaling from the tongue and gut to the brainPresented by Dr. Lindsey Macpherson
Department of Biology
Fall 2019
- Pan de Muertos for Day of the DeadPresented by Ellen Riojas Clark, Ph.D.
Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies - Syncretism, Symbolism, and the Pluricultral Nature of Dia de MuertosPresented by Martha Sidury Christiansen
Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
Spring 2019
- Political Incivity in the Digital AgePresented by Bryan Gervais, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science and Geography - Restorative Justice: A Relational Approach to Civic DiscoursePresented by Robert Rico, M.P.A.
Department of Criminal Justice
Fall 2018
- AfroLatinxs: Navigating Blackness and Identity in the Age of TrumpPresented by Claudia García-Louis, Ph. D.
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies - Flipping the Script: U.S.-Mexico Border in the News and Alternative VisionsPresented by K. Jill Fleuriet, Ph. D.
Department of Anthropology
Spring 2018
- From Slavery to the Sidelines: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Black AthletesPresented by Langston Clark, Ph.D.
Department of Kinesiology, Health, and Nutrition
Fall 2017
- Hearing Our Histories: Centering Chicana/o Stories in Education, Policy and LeadershipPresented by Enrique Aleman, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies - Towards a Neuroethics of Metabolic SyndromePresented by Abraham Graber, Ph.D. and Eithan Kotkowski, B.S.
Department of Philosophy and UT Health San Antonio
Spring 2017
- Great Sexpectations: How Extra-Legal Factors Impact Date Rape PerceptionsPresented by Kellie Lynch, Ph.D.
Department of Criminal Justice - Beyonce's Lemonade: at the Crossroads of Blues and ConjurePresented by Kinitra Brooks, Ph.D.
Department of English
Fall 2016
- Romantic Relationships in Adolescence: Communication, Conflict, and Teen Dating Violence PreventionPresented by Heidi Adams Rueda, Ph.D.
Department of Social Work - Pop Songs on Political PlatformsPresented by Stan Renard, Ph.D.
Department of Music
Spring 2016
- Using GIS to Examine the Geography of Inequality in HousingPresented by Rebecca Walter, Ph.D.
Formerly, Department of Urban and Regional Planning - Motivation, Drugs, and DopaminePresented by Matthew Wanat, Ph.D.
Department of Biology