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Adriana Uruena-Agnes

Associate Professor of Instruction and Coordinator of Undergraduate Affairs

CONTACT

Office: PCD 4133
Phone: 813/974-3187
Email

LINKS

• Curriculum Vitae
• Cognition, Neuroscience, and Social Concentration

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ Tampa
• M.A., Indiana University Bloomington B.A., »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ Tampa

TEACHING

Drugs and Behavior, Physiological Psychology, Graduate Instructional Methods, Introduction to Psychological Science

RESEARCH

Current research interests include utilizing the neuropsychopharmacology approach to elucidate the neural mechanisms and risk factors associated with the development, expression, and persistence of substance and polysubstance abuse.

SPECIALTY AREA

CNS (Neuroscience)

Selected JOURNAL ARTICLES

Bernstein, D. A., Cameron, E. L., Khanna, M. M., McGee, J., Smith, E. I., Bihun, J. T., McBride, E., Uruena-Agnes, A. R., Stanley, C. M., & Lamana-Finn, K. (2023). Misconceptions about psychology after taking introductory psychology. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000374

Badanich, K.A., Fakih, M.E., Gurina, T.S., Roy, E.K., Hoffman, J.L., Uruena-Agnes, A.R., Kirstein, CL. (2016). Reversal learning and experimenter-administered chronic intermittent ethanol exposure in male rats. Psychopharmacology, 233(19), 3615-3626. doi:10.1007/s00213-016-4395-6 PMID: 27518574

HONORS AND AWARDs

Social and Behavioral Sciences and Human Services Featured Faculty

Eve Levine Graduate Student Teaching Award

Dean's Teaching Award

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kimble, M., Flack, W., Yan, L., Bennion, K., Brenneman, M., Gohar, D., Grant, N., Herold, D.,
Koide, J., Marquis, S., Stasik-O’Brien, S., Salem, E., and Uruena-Agnes, A. (2025). Fair warning: Student responses to potentially triggering material and trigger warnings: Data from ten sites [Under Review]. Research in Higher Education.

Bernstein, D., McGee, J., Cameron, E., Gohar, D., Khanna, M., LaCaille, R., Redifer, J., Smith,
E., Stanley, C., and Uruena-Agnes, A. (2025). Exposure to psychology courses and misconceptions about psychology: A multi-site student survey [Under Review].

Bernstein, D. A., Uttl, B., Cameron, E. L., Herold, D., Khanna, M. M., LaCaille, R., Lamana-Finn, K., Redifer, J., McBride, E., Stanley, C. M., Uruena-Agnes, A., and McGee, J. (2025). Harnessing the power of introductory psychology to combat misconceptions about psychology. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 24(2).

Uruena-Agnes, A. R., Badanich, K., and Kirstein, C. L (in prep). Ethanol attenuation of cocaine place preference in adult but not adolescent rats: The role of NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801. Psychopharmacology.

Uruena-Agnes, A. R (2017). SPC-USF Partner for Internship Program. Blue and White: St. Petersburg College.

Uruena-Agnes, A. R (2014). Developing an Animal Model of Polysubstance Abuse in Adolescence: The Role of NMDA Receptors in Alcohol/Cocaine Reward. Graduate Theses and Dissertations. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5440