Research Awards | Distinguished Research Professor

Claudio Saunt

Posted on Mar 2, 2016 in Creative Research Medal, Distinguished Research Professor

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Boris Striepen

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2015 Boris Striepen, Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator and professor of cellular biology, has made tremendous contributions towards our understanding of the cell and molecular biology of human parasites. His work has focused particularly on Toxoplasma, an opportunistic pathogen that causes severe disease in...

Susan Mattern

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2015 Susan Mattern, professor of history, has established an outstanding national and international reputation as an expert on the history of Rome. Her first book, Rome and the Enemy, is widely regarded as one of the most important contributions to the topic of Roman...

Nancy Manley

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Creative Research Medal, Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2015 Nancy Manley, professor of genetics and director of UGA’s Developmental Biology Alliance, is internationally recognized as an expert on the development, function and aging of the thymus and parathyroid organs. These areas are highly relevant to the function of the immune and endocrine...

Peter Brosius

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2015 Peter Brosius, professor of anthropology, has been at the forefront of efforts to transform the field of environmental anthropology. He is widely recognized as an authority on the Penan hunter-gather peoples in Malaysian Borneo, and he is also a leading scholar on the...

Allen Moore

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor, Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award 2017 Allen Moore, Distinguished Research Professor of Genetics, is an evolutionary behavior geneticist who conducts research on the genetics of sociality using insects, which have often played key roles in elucidating the evolution of social behavior. His work combines theoretical and...

Kelley Moremen

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2014 Kelley Moremen, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, is one of the leading figures in the field of glycobiology research. Glycans are tiny chains of sugar molecules that cover the surface of every living cell in the human body—providing the necessary surface coating...

Dorothy Figueira

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2014 Dorothy Figueira, professor of comparative literature, is one of the most prominent scholars in the field of Indian-Western literary and cultural relations, having made major contributions to discussions of the issues surrounding cultural studies, minority studies, multiculturalism and postcolonialism. Figueria has authored four...

Lisa Donovan

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Creative Research Medal, Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2014 Lisa Donovan, professor of plant biology, has a clear record of outstanding and creative research that harnesses a unique fusion of ecology and evolution with genomics. Much of her early work focused on the evolution of water use efficiency in desert plants. In...

John Stickney

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2013 John Stickney, professor of chemistry, has received worldwide recognition for his contributions to the field of electrochemistry. He singlehandedly invented a method of producing extraordinarily thin semiconductors created one atomic layer at a time through a process he called electrochemical atomic layer epitaxy,...