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Author: slquinlan

Team Impact Award 2023

slquinlan on April 14, 2023

Team Impact Award 2023

Photograph of CARE Team

The UGA Cognitive Aging Research and Education (CARE) Team is tackling one of the most debilitating public health problems faced by Georgians: Alzheimer’s disease. CARE is a clinical, research and outreach program delivering brain health education, improving access to diagnosis, conducting cutting-edge research and providing support for families affected by dementia. Inside the CARE hub, the team has already provided diagnosis and post-diagnosis support to more than 100 local families and counting. Outside the hub, the CARE team serves 11 geographically, racially, ethnically and economically diverse rural communities. CARE begins by learning about community needs from local stakeholders affected by dementias. Then, the team translates what it learns into a tailored action plan that guides CARE’s work in creating a dementia-informed community, removing barriers to accessing a diagnosis and providing support to caregivers. Finally, the CARE team works with each community to achieve the goals in its unique action plan and studies the impact.

James C. Beasley

slquinlan on April 5, 2023

Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award

Photograph of James E. Beasley

James C. Beasley, Terrell Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources in the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and Terrell Professor in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, has developed an acclaimed research program in wildlife ecology and conservation. His innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of radioactive contamination in the environment and its effects as an ecological stressor have challenged fundamental assumptions about the status and health of wildlife in radiologically contaminated landscapes, leading to the discovery of abundant and diverse wildlife communities. Since 2014, he has served as the International Atomic Energy Agency’s wildlife adviser to the Fukushima Prefecture government in Japan in response to the 2011 tsunami and nuclear accident. He is recognized as one of the world’s experts on invasive wild pigs, building one of the most important academic research programs studying invasive wild pigs in the US. And he is engaged in high-impact carnivore conservation research projects to reduce human-wildlife conflicts globally.