Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grants
2019 funded projects
Seven faculty teams at the University of Georgia were selected to receive research awards through the second Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant Program in 2019. More than 70 faculty teams submitted research proposals to this competitive program in response to the 2019 call for proposals.
Winning proposals are below.
Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
Kyle Johnsen School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Catherine O’Neal Department of Human Development and Family Science, College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Dawn Robinson Department of Sociology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Alison Berg Department of Foods and Nutrition, College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Ellen Evans Department of Kinesiology, College of Education
Joan Koonce Department of Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics, College of Family and Consumer Sciences
| Brian Bledsoe | Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, College of Engineering |
| Jon Calabria | College of Environment + Design |
| Susana Ferreira | Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences |
| C. Rhett Jackson | Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources |
| Shana Jones | Carl Vinson Institute of Government |
| Craig Landry | Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences |
| Nathan Nibbelink | Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources |
| Don Nelson | Department of Anthropology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| Brian Orland | College of Environment + Design |
| J. Scott Pippin | Carl Vinson Institute of Government |
| Mark Risse | Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant |
| Amy Rosemond | Odum School of Ecology |
| J. Marshall Shepherd | Department of Geography, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| Meredith Welch-Devine | Graduate School |
| James Byers | Odum School of Ecology |
| Marc E. Frischer | Department of Marine Sciences, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography |
| Richard Hall | Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine and Odum School of Ecology |
| Thomas Bliss | Shellfish Research Laboratory, Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant |
| Al Camus | College of Veterinary Medicine |
| Brian Irwin | Fisheries, Georgia Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit and Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources |
| Erin Lipp | Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health |
| Craig W. Osenberg | Odum School of Ecology |
| Pej Rohani | Odum School of Ecology and College of Veterinary Medicine |
| John Wares | Department of Genetics, Franklin College of Arts Sciences and Odum School of Ecology |
| Fred Quinn | Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine |
| Ted Ross | Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine |
| Christopher Whalen | Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health |
| Kaori Sakamoto | Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine |
| Steve Divers | Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine |
| Russ Karls | Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine |
| Tuhina Gupta | Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine |
| Shannon Quinn | Department of Computer Science and Department of Cellular Biology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| Steve Harvey | University Research Animal Resources |
| Balazs Rada | Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine |
| Ankita Garg | Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine |
| James Posey | Mycobacteriology Laboratory Branch, CDC |
| Thomas Rowe | Influenza Branch, CDC |
| William Jacobs | School of Medicine, Albert Einstein University, The Bronx, NY |
| Cecilia Lo | School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Cheryl Day | School of Medicine, Emory University |
| Rawad Saleh | College of Engineering |
| Amanda Frossard | Department of Chemistry, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| Gabriel Kooperman | Department of Geography, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| Brandon Rotavera | College of Engineering |
| Geoffrey Smith | Department of Chemistry, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| Janani Thapa | Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health |
| Donglan “Stacy” Zhang | Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health |
| Lan Mu | Department of Geography, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| Jennifer Gay | Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, College of Public Health |
| Michael Schmidt | Department of Kinesiology, College of Education |
| Justin Ingles | Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health |
| Chen Zhen | Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences |
| Marsha Davis | Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, College of Public Health |
| Rudy Nayga | Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR |
| Brian Elbel | Department of Population Health, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY |
| Audrey Iddaikadar | Georgia Department of Public Health |