University of Utah Asia Campus

Ansuk Jeong

Psychology (community and clinical) Areas of Expertise: Family environment, cultural environment, acculturation, stress and coping, cancer patients and their family caregivers, UAC courses: Psy 2010, psy 3000, psy 3270

Dr. Ansuk Jeong is a Professor in the Department of Psychology. She conducts two tracks of research: one is acculturation and the other is cancer patients and family caregivers. For acculturation study, she works with immigrants, North Korean defectors, and returnees, to understand how the change of their cultural environment affects their lives, adaptation, and well-being. For cancer research, she works with families who have a cancer patient, to investigate their stress and coping, communication both within the family and with the medical professionals, and their well-being that will affect and be affected by their meaning-making in the process.

As a community psychologist, Dr. Jeong’s research interest lies in the contexts in which individuals are nested: local and relational communities, including family, school, neighborhood, social class, public policy, and culture.

Kimberly Bowen

Psychology Areas of Expertise: Social psychology, health psychology, cultural psychology UAC courses: general psychology (psy 1010), introduction to social psychology (psy 3410)

Dr. Kimberly Bowen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her primary areas of research focus on the mechanisms and pathways by which social relationships, social support, and marriage affect psychological and physical health, such as ambulatory blood pressure or inflammation. Dr. Bowen is also studying how culture influences these pathways.

Carina Pals

Dr. Carina Pals is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her scientific field of interest is ‘Auditory Cognition’: a fairly new, interdisciplinary field of research in which cognitive and experimental psychology, neuroscience, audiology, linguistics, and more, come together to study hearing, hearing impairment, and speech comprehension, and their interaction with cognition. Her research has mainly centered on cochlear-implant hearing, but also included side projects on second-language speech perception and verbal response-time.