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Dean of Faculties & Associate Provost
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Antonio Cepeda-Benito |
Antonio Cepeda-Benito graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has a Ph.D. in psychology from Purdue University. He moved to College Station, Texas in 1994, where he was offered a job as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University. He was tenured and promoted to associate professor in the year 2000 and to full professor in 2005. His research connects the disciplines of Behavioral Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology to investigate drug addiction and eating disorders. He has published extensively and his research has been supported by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Texas Department of Health, and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. Dr. Cepeda-Benito was licensed and has practiced psychology in Texas since 1996. Since then he has served almost exclusively Spanish speaking individuals and supervised students who also work with low-income, Spanish speaking clients. Dr. Cepeda-Benito has received various awards at Texas A&M University, including Psychology Teacher
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of the Year, the Academic Inspiration Award, and various Diversity service awards. He has received two National Awards of Excellence from the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse (NHSN), one for contributions in Public Service (2006) and the other for Mentoring (2008). He is a founding member of the steering committee of the RED LatinoAmerica (REDLA) on drug addictionand the founding Chair of the International Research Collaboration Subcommittee of the NHSN.
In February of 2006 Dr. Cepeda-Benito was appointed Associate Dean of Faculties, and in June of 2009 he was named Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost. Texas A&M University is home to almost 3000 faculty and more than 48,000 students. This land grant, sea grant, space grant university has a main campus (College Station), two branch campuses (Galveston, and Doha-Qatar), and three, international, academic centers (Italy, Mexico, and Costa Rica). The main campus alone is home to 10 colleges and 66 departments. The role of the Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost is to work with multiple constituencies to facilitate communication, improve the university climate, and observe and protect academic freedom and the participation of the faculty in university governance. His office provides leadership and service in many forms, including professional development, and a firm commitment to quality in observing the diligence, fairness and equity of tenure, promotion, and merit evaluation-processes. |
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