The Office of Research announced the winners of the 43rd annual Research Awards at a banquet on April 21, 2022, part of UGA’s Honors Week activities. Given annually, the awards recognize faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students for excellence and innovation in research, scholarly creativity, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. The Research Awards program is sponsored by the University of Georgia Research Foundation.
The full list of winners:
Robert C. Anderson Memorial Awards
Hoang Luong
Grace Cushman
James L. Carmon Award
Jason Terry
Benjamin Taylor (Honorable Mention)
Postdoctoral Research Award
Alexandre Marand
Team Impact Award
Team RISE: Brian Bledsoe, Jon Calabria, Shana Jone, Don Nelson, J. Scott Pippin, Mark Risse
Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Kevin McCully
Inventor of the Year Award
Naola Ferguson-Noel
Early Career Scholar: Michael F. Adams Award
Emily Koh
Early Career Scholar: Fred C. Davison Award
Sheng Li
Caterina Villari
Early Career Scholar: Charles B. Knapp Award
Man Kit “Karlo” Lei
Creative Research Medals
Douda Bensasson
Jamie Kreiner
Douglas Menke
Gregory Strauss
Susanne Ullrich
Albert Christ-Janer Creative Research Award
David Starkweather
Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award
James E. “Jeb” Byers
Y. George Zheng
William A. Owens Creative Research Award
Shane Singh
Distinguished Research Professors
Lillian Eby
Amy Rosemond
Victor Thompson
Esther van der Knaap
Lance Wells