Research Awards | Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Chi Zhang

Posted on Mar 24, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2016 Chi Zhang, a recent doctoral graduate in Bioinformatics, studies the mechanisms of cancer initiation, progression, metastasis and post-metastasis development using large-scale data analyses of cancer tissue samples and computer modeling. Much of his research focuses on cancer micro-environment alterations and the Warburg’s...

Asher Rosinger

Posted on Mar 24, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2016 Asher Rosinger, a recent doctoral graduate in anthropology, is recognized for his work on human water consumption and nutrition. During one year of fieldwork in lowland Bolivia, Rosinger combined ethnographic methods with objective biomarkers of nutrition and disease to test how...

Horry Parker

Posted on Mar 24, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2016 Horry Parker, a recent doctoral graduate in geology, has made several outstanding contributions in the fields of geology and geophysics. He applied geophysical methods, including seismology and magnetics, to study the structure and composition of the southern Appalachians and Atlantic Coastal...

Lindsey Harding

Posted on Mar 24, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2016 Lindsey Harding, a recent doctoral graduate in English, distinguished herself by producing a sophisticated dissertation that investigated multi-modal forms of writing, including photography and digital archives. A hybrid of creative non-fiction and faux documentary, personal family history and rhetorical criticism, photography...

Michael Baer

Posted on Mar 24, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2016 Michael Baer, a recent doctoral graduate in management, studies the concepts of trust and fairness in the workplace. His dissertation examines the motives that drive managers to engage in trusting behaviors toward their employees. Some of his other work demonstrates the...

Pauline Reid

Posted on Feb 19, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2015 Pauline Reid, a recent doctoral graduate in English, conducts highly original research that integrates and extends scholarship on early modern vision, book history and early modern rhetoric. Her dissertation argued that cultural crises of perception – the relationships between sight and knowledge...

Anriban Mukhopadhyay

Posted on Feb 19, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2015 Anriban Mukhopadhyay, a recent doctoral graduate in computer science, researches the use of 3D shape analysis, computer vision and machine learning in biomedical image analysis. He is particularly focused on theoretical development of geometric shape analysis and computer vision techniques and its...

Yuanyuan Ma

Posted on Feb 19, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2015 Yuanyuan Ma, a recent doctoral graduate in food science and technology, took on a challenging research project at UGA that focuses on fortifying peanut butters with antioxidant-rich peanut skins, which are generally regarded as an industrial byproduct. Ma developed product prototypes, which...

Colette Miller

Posted on Feb 19, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2015 Colette Miller, a recent doctoral graduate in foods and nutrition, studies obesity and how excessive weight may contribute to the development of liver diseases like fatty liver, fibrosis, cirrhosis and liver cancers. For her dissertation, Miller examined whether sex differences, estrogen, age...

Allison Howard

Posted on Feb 19, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2015 Allison Howard, a recent doctoral graduate in psychology, studies animal travel patterns in natural environments and the decision-making processes that animals use to decide where to go. She began her work in animal movement for her master’s thesis using an experimental psychological...