Expanding on years of collaboration, Alicia Swan was named Director of Polytrauma Research for the South Texas Veterans Health Care System.

In partnership with collaborators with the South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) at the Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center (PRC), Alicia presented a talk titled: “Post-Deployment Accelerated Comprehensive Evaluation and Rehabilitation (PACER) Program: Early Evidence for Effective and Comprehensive Rehabilitation After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Among Late-Career Special Operators” in the session on Novel Therapeutic in mild traumatic brain injury in September 2022.

As Co-PI on the The Long-Term Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Reentry after Incarceration: A Vulnerability Assessment project (PI” Chantal Fahmy, Criminology) and co-I on the Effect of mild traumatic brain injury on predictive processing in language comprehension project (PI: Nicole Wicha, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology) this upcoming academic year.

In June 2022, Alicia Swan and Liz Sanford (PhD student) presented on work from an ongoing collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center (PRC).

Amber Lyle (MS student) presented a poster showcasing the ongoing collaboration with Serife Tekin (UTSA) and her Multitudinous Self Model and long-time collaborator Mary Jo Pugh from the University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA.

Philosopher Serife Tekin (UTSA) led the effort in applying her Multitudinous Self Model to survey data among Post-9/11 Veterans in partnership with Alicia Swan and frequent collaborators Willie Hale (UTSA) and Mary Jo Pugh (VA Salt Lake City).

Corrin Stines (MS, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) and Joseph Torres (MS, UTSA) both join the Swan lab as a PhD students in Fall 2022.

Gabrielle Early (BS, 2021) accepts an offer at Boston University to work on her PhD in Neuroscience.

Former Swan Lab advisee Eden Crowsey (MS, 2021) accepts position as Research Director and Data Scientist at Optimotion Implants.

Liz Sandford (PhD student) and Amber Lyle (MS student) won $750 each from the Graduate Student Development Award at UTSA. Liz was additionally awarded the college for Health, Community and Policy Graduate Student Travel Award for an additional $500.

Former graduate student (Anthony Longoria, now ay UT-Southwestern working on a PhD in Neuropsychology) and undergraduate student (Avery Horton, now work on an MS in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University) teamed up with PI Alicia Swan and Mary Jo Pugh (Salt Lake City VA) to publish a peer-reviewed paper in Rehabilitation Psychology on the association between multimorbidity and psychosocial support on post-traumatic stress symptoms among Post-9/11 Veterans with and without mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)

Alicia Swan led the manuscript “Disruptive Dizziness Among Post-9/11 Veterans With Deployment-Related Traumatic Brain Injury” in an upcoming edition of one of the leading Rehabilitation journals as a part of a funded Department of Defense effort with partners at the Mountain Home VA and University of Utah Medicine.

The senior undergraduate research assistant was featured in a July 2021 piece from the College of Health, Community and Policy at UTSA.

Avery Horton is now a graduate student at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Criminology and Criminal Justice Master of Science (M.S.) program.

Gabrielle Earley is a post-baccalaureate researcher with the Burgos lab at UTSA.

Morgan Demaree is Master's student in the University of Arizona's Educational Psychology program.

Jayla Hatcher is now a graduate student in the department of Sociology at UTSA.

Amber Lyle is now a graduate student in the Swan Lab in the Department of Psychology at UTSA.