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Dr. Aimee Kendall Roundtree

  • Asst VP, Rsch & Fed Relations - Asst VP for Research
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Biography and education

Dr. Aimee Kendall Roundtree is an Assistant Vice President for Research in the Division of Research and a full professor in the technical communication program. She has also served as a Faculty Fellow for the Division of Research and an Associate Dean of Research in the College of Liberal Arts, as well as a director of the master's degree programs in technical communication at Texas State University and the University of Houston-Downtown. She has experience as a coordinator, medical writer, researcher, communication specialist, and public affairs specialist for organizations such as the Texas Medical Foundation, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, and Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base. She investigates research and STEM communication, rhetoric, and ethics, including science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. In particular, her work interrogates points of translation and transaction between experts, policymakers, organizations, and the public, as well as human and non-human agents. She has expertise in qualitative and mixed methods research, including usability and user experience research, heuristic evaluation, text mining, systematic and integrative reviews, meta-analyses, survey studies, focus groups, and interviews. She is the editor of the Research Management Review and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. She is also an editorial and review board member of the Journal of Research Administration, Technical Communication Quarterly, Programmatic Perspectives, and Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse. She serves on the board of the Association of the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Knowbility, and ACCEYSS. She serves on review panels evaluating grants for NSF, NIH, NEH, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, among others.

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Principal), Royal, Cindy L (Co-Principal), Hewitt, Barbara A (Co-Principal), Dolezel, Diane M (Supporting), Omana Sudhakaran, Pratheesh O (Supporting), Lollar, Jonathan Ernest (Supporting), Booth, Chad (Co-Principal), Roundtree, Aimee Kendall (Supporting), Ekin, Tahir (Supporting), Cordero, Rafael A (Supporting), Lopez, Omar S (Supporting), Ashford-Hanserd, Shetay Nicole (Co-Principal), Sriraman, Vedaraman (Co-Principal), Forsythe, Michelle Elizabeth (Co-Principal), Mendez, Francis A (Supporting). STEM-CLEAR: Creating Contextualized Learning Pathways across Academic and Cultural Boundaries, National Science Foundation, Federal, $2646529. (Submitted: August 8, 2023, Funded: June 1, 2024 - June 2029). Grant.
  • Ashford-Hanserd, Shetay Nicole (Principal), Percent Contribution: %100, Roundtree, Aimee Kendall (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %25, Sorto, Maria Alejandra (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %25, Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %25, Evans, Anthony (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %25. NSF INCLUDES collaborative change consortia: association of collaborative communities addressing equity for youth STEM+C cuccess (ACCEYSS) consortium, National Science Foundation, Federal, $4912236.76. (Submitted: March 22, 2022, Funded: August 1, 2023 - July 31, 2028). Grant.
  • Roundtree, Aimee Kendall. User Experience and Usability of Public Health Digital Products, Texas Department of State Health Services, State, $125000. (Funded: May 2021 - 2022). Grant.
  • Roundtree, Aimee Kendall (Principal), Hanks, James C (Co-Principal). Setting Industry Standards for Ethical, Person-Centered Design in Facial Recognition and Biometric Applications, NEC Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $58000. (Submitted: May 2019, Funded: November 2019 - December 2021). Grant.
  • Roundtree, Aimee Kendall. Incident Reporting to Improve Fire Services, State Farm, Insurance Community Grant, $85000. (Funded: 2016 - 2023). Grant.
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  • Roundtree, A. K. (2023). User Expectations of Facial Recognition in Schools and Universities: Mixed Methods Analysis. In AHFE Open Access. (Vol. 110). AHFE International. https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003959
  • Hastings, C. K., Boden, C. J., Thorne, D. M., Roundtree, A. K., May, M., & Pomeroy, K. (2023). Looking Back, Looking Forward: How the Pandemic Influenced Faculty Values. International Journal of Adult Education and Technology (IJAET), 14(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.4018/IJAET.332877
  • Ashford-Hanserd, S. N., Sarmiento, E. R., Myles, C. C., Roundtree, A. K., Hayton, M.-P. E., Ybarra, E., … Maleki, S. (2020). African American experiences in the historic Dunbar neighborhood in San Marcos, Texas: A case study of counter-life stories. Social Sciences, 9(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9100177
  • Dorpenyo, I., Das, M., Dayley, C., Roundtree, A. K., & Williams, M. F. (2024). Are you committed to diversity? Evaluating immigrants’ perceptions of diversity and inclusion claims/initiatives by U.S banks. Technical Communication, 71(1).
  • Roundtree, A. K. (2023). AI Explainability, Interpretability, Fairness, and Privacy: An Integrative Review of Reviews. In Artificial Intelligence in HCI (pp. 305–317). Springer, Cham. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35891-3_19
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: 2022 Nell Ann Pickett Award, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. June 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Emerging Leaders Program Cohort, AASCU. April 2021 - May 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Mariel M. Muir Excellence in Mentoring Awards. 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Excellence in Research Funding and Sponsored Programs Significant Achievement Award in the Humanities, College of Liberal Arts. 2021
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Federation of Business Disciplines Distinguished Paper Award, Association for Business Communication Southwestern United States. 2019 - 2020
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  1. Board of Directors

    Texas Association of Charitable Clinics

  2. Board of Directors

    Knowbility

  3. Member

    Presidential Commission on the Run to R1

  4. Reviewer / Referee

    NSF

  5. Editorial Review Board Member

    Journal of Research Administration

  6. Member

    Graduate College 3MT Judging Committee

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