University of Georgia

Joshua Miller

Posted on Mar 2, 2016 in Creative Research Medal, William A. Owens Award
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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

Posted on Mar 2, 2016 in Creative Research Medal
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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

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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

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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

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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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David Starkweather

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Creative Research Medal 2010 David Starkweather, professor of music, produced one of the most comprehensive explorations of the Six Suites for Violoncello by J.S. Bach ever published. He combined his scholarship and technical exper- tise to produce a print edition as well as a three-DVD set. Starkweather...

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Doug Peterson

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Creative Research Medal 2010 Doug Peterson, associate professor of fisheries, is an internationally recognized expert on sturgeon, an ancient family of bony fish native to rivers, lakes, and coastlines of Eurasia and North America. He has conducted research on the life history and population dynamics of sturgeon...

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Kanzo Nakayama

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Creative Research Medal 2010 Kanzo Nakayama, associate professor of physics and astronomy, is a world leader in theoretical nuclear physics, especially hadron structure and reactions. In particle physics, a hadron is a particle made of quarks held together by the strong force. He is involved in a...

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Keith Campbell

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William A. Owens Award 2015 Keith Campbell, department head and professor of psychology, is a nationally recognized expert on narcissism, society and generational change. Narcissism—an inflated and grandiose sense of self—is associated with a range of social problems. Campbell’s research focuses on the role of narcissism in close...

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Dorothy Fragaszy

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Creative Research Medal 2009 Dorothy Fragaszy, professor of psychology, studies adaptive behavior in primates, specifically manipulation and problem-solving, including using tools. Her objective is to understand the genesis of adaptive behavior within the framework of evolution. In 2003, Fragaszy and her team documented capuchin monkeys’ routine use...

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