John Burke

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John Lynch

Creative Research Medal 2012 John Lynch, professor of music and UGA director of bands, is a leader in the field of new music for wind ensemble, a relatively new medium that began in earnest when serious composers started writing for the genre in 1950. Lynch is a...

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Michael Hahn

Creative Research Medal 2012 Michael Hahn, professor of plant biology, is a pioneer in research on plant cell walls. His laboratory has generated more than 150 new antibodies that recognize specific carbohydrate structures within plant cell walls, thereby quadrupling the number of such antibodies that exist worldwide....

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William Kazez and Gordana Matic

Creative Research Medal 2012 William Kazez and Gordana Matic, professors of mathematics, are recognized as experts in a branch of mathematics called three-dimensional contact topology. They are particularly interested in three-dimensional manifolds, which are the possible global shapes of the three-dimensional space in which we live. The...

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Adam Goodie

Creative Research Medal 2012 Adam Goodie, associate professor of psychology, studies pathological gambling and the cognitive processes, decision-making and personality characteristics associated with this dangerous condition that affects millions of Americans. Goodie discovered that the likelihood for one to gamble does not depend entirely on objective probabilities...

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Joshua Miller

William A. Owens Creative Research Award 2018 Joshua D. Miller, professor and director of clinical training in the Department of Psychology, has played a leading role in developing, testing and advocating a new model of understanding personality disorders. Mental health professionals have struggled to treat patients...

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Joseph Fu

Creative Research Medal 2011 Joseph Fu, professor of mathematics, is a leading authority on integral geometry, the mathematical structure behind the transforms used in CAT scans, MRIs, and crystal diffraction that reconstruct three dimensional images from multi-perspective two dimensional data. His research seeks to develop relationships between...

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Scott Merkle

Creative Research Medal 2011 Scott Merkle, professor of forest biotechnology, has been studying chestnut trees for more than 20 years. Over the past five years, his lab has made significant progress in efforts to restore the American chestnut to Eastern forests. Its loss to chestnut blight in...

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Prashant Doshi

Creative Research Medal 2011 Prashant Doshi, associate professor of computer science, is recognized as an expert on a novel computational framework for decision-making in situations with multiple other unknown agents. Called the interactive partially observable Markov decision process (or I-POMDP), the framework combines aspects of game and...

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Brian Bride

Creative Research Medal 2011 Brian Bride, associate professor of social work, is a leading authority on secondary traumatic stress, a phenomenon in which those close to victims of post-traumatic stress experience the same negative images, thoughts, and physical and mental symptoms.  The syndrome occurs among a significant...

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