News Archive Dr. Deer Earns ITS Provost's Scholar Award Jan 19, 2021, 17:04 PM by SCOA Congratulations to Assistant Professor Rachel Deer, PhD, recipient of the Institute for Translational Sciences Provost’s Scholar Award for her proposal, "Feasibility Study of Multimodal Interventions to Accelerate Recovery and Improve Quality of Life in COVID-19 Survivors." Dr. Deer is a scholar in the UTMB Pepper Center.