Research Awards | Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Thomas Peters

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

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2014 Thomas Peters, a recent masters graduate in landscape architecture, has extensively researched three species of the genus Arundinaria, commonly known as rivercane. The only member of the bamboo family native to North America, rivercane once formed vast thickets, or canebrakes, across the...

Jay Agarwal

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2014 Jay Agarwal, a recent doctoral graduate in chemistry, is an extraodinary researcher. At UGA, he published 10 peer-reviewed articles in top scientific journals in his field, including the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie. Moreover, he earned his doctoral...

Katherine Verbist

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2013 Katherine Verbist, a recent doctoral graduate in cellular biology, made significant contributions to the field during her time at UGA, publishing a total of five papers during her graduate career. Much of her work focuses on questions related to immunology. For her...

William Thomas Okie

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2013 William Thomas Okie, a recent doctoral graduate in history, has already made significant contributions to the field. His dissertation, “Everything Is Peaches Down in Georgia: Culture and Agriculture in the American South,” is a history of the state’s peach industry. Having grown...

Lincoln Larson

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2013 Lincoln Larson, a recent doctoral graduate in forest resources, was an outstanding graduate student during his time at UGA. Larson worked with his advisors and other researchers on projects involving a central theme: the application of a social science research to address...

NaJuana Lee

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2012 NaJuana Lee, a recent doctoral graduate in art, researches art education pedagogy as a means of addressing implicit and explicit racism. For her dissertation, Lee used a mixed-methods approach with both quantitative and qualitative methodology to develop a transformative pedagogy through which...

Austin Lacy

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2012 Austin Lacy, a recent doctoral graduate of the Institute of Higher Education, researched and wrote a dissertation that uses Bayesian analysis to further the understanding of state-level higher education governance systems. By arraying states along a continuum of governance centralization, Lacy’s analysis...

Qing Liu

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2012 Qing Liu, a recent doctoral graduate in psychology, studies wild capuchin monkeys and their skilled use of stone tools to crack tough palm nuts, a phenomenon that was discovered just seven years ago and has been studied by Liu’s team since 2005....

Swati Agrawal

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2012 Swati Agrawal, a recent doctoral graduate in cellular biology, researched and wrote her dissertation onToxoplasma gondii, a unicellular parasite and cause of toxoplasmosis. Specifically, Agrawal used a combination of genetics and biochemistry to discover how proteins travel across four membranes to support...

Denita Williams

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2011 Denita Williams, a recent postdoctoral graduate in toxicology, researched the problem of spontaneous abortion in women who unknowingly consume food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. She developed an animal model, the guinea pig, to simulate human listeriosis during pregnancy, and then used that...