ARIA members have had 37 funded grant submissions totaling over $11,000,000 related to aging research.
22 funded internal grants ($209,650) and 18 funded external grants/contracts ($10,223,541)
Funding agencies/partners include:
Central Texas Cancer Screening Program
City of Kyle
Economics and Sociology Fellowship, University of Lodz, Poland
Hays County Emergency Service District No. 5
Humanities Texas
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
NeuroTrax, Inc.
McKnight Foundation for Neuroscience
Texas Department of Health and Human Services
Texas Physical Therapy Foundation
The Institute for Translational Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston
Little Tokyo Service Center (Admin. for Community Living)
United States Department of Energy
Recent Journal Publications:
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
International Journal of Nursing Health Care
Journal of Sleep Research
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
International Journal of Rehabilitation Research
Environment International
Journal of Sports Science
Journal of Neural Engineering
Science Innovation in Aging
Journal of Gerontology Aging & Mental Health
Psychological Science Neuropsychologia
Cortex Journal of Health Psychology
Neuropsychology Journal of Adult Development
Clinical Nursing Research Neurobiology of Aging
Alamgeer, S., Souissi, Y., & Ngu, AHH. (2025). AI-Generated Fall Data: Assessing LLMs and Diffusion Model for Wearable Fall Detection. Sensors, 25(16), 5144.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s25165144
Albright, B., Green, L. E., McAllister, D. R., Lee, S.-J., Cantrell, R., Steinman, B., & Carswell, A. (2025). Longitudinal Effects of Housing Adequacy on Home Modification Implementation among Households with Older Adults Living in Them. Housing and Society, 52(3), 293–309. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2025.2535197
Barrio C, Liang J, Cordero YI, Aranda MP. (2025). Participant perspectives on online interventions for diverse caregivers of persons living with dementia. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2025; 21:e70324. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70324
Han, N., Sweet, T., Harvey, C., Knapp, C., Krusienski, D., & Thompson, D. E. (2025). EEG Data Segmentation Inducing Performance Overestimation. https://doi.org/10.3217/978-3-99161-050-2-228
Kim, S., Halvorsen, C., Potter, C., & Faul, J. (2025). Does volunteering reduce epigenetic age acceleration among retired and working older adults? Results from the Health and Retirement Study. Social Science & Medicine, 364, 117501. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117501
Kim, S., Shiba, K., Halvorsen, C. (2025). Reducing hypertension through volunteering: Investigating the causal link between volunteering frequency and blood pressure by gender, race, and cohort. Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine.
Kipp, L. E., Pigg, Q., Kim, J., Fisher, A., & Mettler, J. A. (2025). Resistance training and sarcopenia-related quality of life in younger and older adults. Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine, 10(1), e000280.
Liang, J., Aranda, M.P., Jang, Y., Wilber, K. (2025). The Longitudinal Impacts of Secondary Caregiver Networks on Primary Caregiver's Social Isolation and Depression, Innovation in Aging, 2025; igaf073, https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaf073
Liang, J., & Aranda, M.P. (2025). Unhealthy Coping: Smoking and Drinking Behaviors and Related Risk Factors Among Dementia Caregivers. Int J Nurs Health Care Res 8:1640. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29011/2688-9501.101640
Myers, D. L., & Larrotta, C. (2025). HIM Students Learning the Language of Medicine Through a Staged Self-Directed Learning Model. Radiologic Science and Education Journal.
Pradhan, R., Davlyatov, G., Chisholm, L., Williams, C., Sen, K., Manning, A. D. J., & Weech-Maldonado, R. (2025). Agency Nursing Staff Utilization and Turnover in Nursing Homes: A Longitudinal Analysis. Healthcare, 13(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13040379
Westerberg, C. E., Fickle, S. E., Troupe, C. E., Madden-Rusnak, A., & Deason, R. G. (2025). An afternoon nap facilitates analogical transfer in creative problem solving. Journal of Sleep Research, 34, e14419.
Yasmin, A., Mahmud, T., Haque, S. T., Alamgeer, S., & Ngu, AHH. (2025). Enhancing Real-World Fall Detection Using Commodity Devices: A Systematic Study. Sensors, 25(17), 5249.
Zhang, Y., Kolam, I., & Tumin, D. (2025). Preinjury functional status is associated with functional status after hip fracture in older adults without preinjury perceived social support. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 48(2), 100-105. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/mrr.0000000000000662
Zeng, L. L., Benatallah, B., Dumas, M., Ngu, AHH., & Kalagnanam, J. (2025). QoS-Aware Service Composition: A Retrospective (Most Influential Paper). IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 51(3), 838–841. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2025.3533423
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ARIA members regularly attend and present research at conferences held by organizations such as:
Alzheimer's Association International Conference
Aging in Texas
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Psychonomic Society
Gerontological Society of America
American Speech Language Hearing Association
Memory Disorders Research Society
Sealy Center on Aging
Texas Department of Health and Human Services
ARIA Member Research Labs
Dr. Rebecca Deason: Memory and Cognition Lab
Dr. Joni Mettler: Translational Neuromuscular Physiology Laboratory
Dr. Ranjini Mohan: NEUral Systems Research in Aging Lab (NEURAL)
Dr. Ann Hee Hiong Ngu: Personalized Watch-based Fall Risk Analysis and Detection with Cross Modal Learning
Dr. Carmen Westerberg: Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory