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Diana Downs

Posted on Mar 21, 2019 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Jason Colquitt

Posted on Mar 21, 2019 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Jon Amster

Posted on Mar 21, 2019 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Emilie Phillips Smith

Posted on Mar 21, 2019 in William A. Owens Award

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William A. Owens Creative Research Award 2019 Emilie Phillips Smith, professor and former department head of Human Development and Family Science, studies the role of sociocultural variables in child and family development. She engages children and families of diverse racial-ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds in rigorously tested...

Lance Wells

Posted on Mar 21, 2019 in Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award 2019 Lance Wells, professor in the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, conducts research that provides a foundation for understanding O-glycans, which play a critical role in determining protein structure, function and stability. Aberrations in these molecules are responsible for certain human diseases...

Kelly E. Happe

Posted on Mar 21, 2019 in Creative Research Medal

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Creative Research Medal 2019 Kelly E. Happe, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the Institute for Women’s Studies, blends the insights of rhetorical research and feminist science studies to address genomic science. She makes a strong case that it is improbable for any...

Mable Fok

Posted on Mar 21, 2019 in Creative Research Medal

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Creative Research Medal 2019 Mable Fok, associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, conducts interdisciplinary research that spans system design, hardware implementation and algorithms in an effort to overcome the future crunch in spectral bandwidth. She has identified some of the bandwidth limitations...

Nathan T. Carter

Posted on Mar 21, 2019 in Creative Research Medal

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Creative Research Medal 2019 Nathan T. Carter, associate professor of psychology, is a leading researcher in the fields of industrial-organizational psychology and personality assessment. His work challenges the traditional assumption that higher levels of personality traits—agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion and openness—are associated with improved work...

Justin A. Lavner

Posted on Mar 21, 2019 in Charles B. Knapp Early-Career Scholar Award

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Charles B. Knapp Early Career Scholar Award 2019 Justin A. Lavner, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, has advanced our understanding of how marriages change and why some relationships succeed and others struggle. He has focused on the newlywed years as a critical period of...

Hitesh Handa

Posted on Mar 21, 2019 in Fred C. Davison Early-Career Scholar Award

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Fred C. Davison Early Career Scholar Award 2019 Hitesh Handa, assistant professor in the School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, focuses on developing new biocompatible coating materials for medical implant applications. He strives to transform medical device research from a largely trial-and-error process to one...