Research Awards | Distinguished Research Professor

University of Georgia

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,...

Ron Butchart

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2013 Ron Butchart, professor and head of elementary and social studies education, is recognized nationally and internationally for his body of work on freedmen’s teachers in the South after the Civil War and on the history of black education in the United States. His...

Susan Fagan

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2013 Susan Fagan, Albert W. Jowdy Professor and associate department head of clinical and administrative pharmacy, is an outstanding leader in basic stroke research and an expert in stroke therapeutics. She was one of the investigators in a landmark clinical trial that led to...

Christopher Whalen

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2012 Christopher Whalen, the Earnest Corn Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, is widely recognized as a leading expert on the epidemiology of tuberculosis and its interaction with HIV infection. For over 20 years, he has conducted his field research in Uganda, where both tuberculosis...

Edward Halper

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2012 Edward Halper, professor of philosophy, has contributed significantly to ancient philosophy and to other areas of philosophy. He is highly regarded as a specialist in Aristotle, especially the Metaphysics. Although this Aristotelian work has been widely and intensely studied for more than two...

Michael Terns

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2012 Michael Terns, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and genetics, is a leading authority in the field of RNA biology. Among his many accomplishments, Terns’ work has revealed the pathways that regulate the activity of telomerase, an enzyme that is essential to the...