Research Awards | Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

University of Georgia

Sonia Hernandez-Divers

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2009 Sonia Hernandez-Divers, a recent doctoral graduate in ecology, conducted research on how anthropogenic changes to the landscape affect the dynamics of disease in wildlife populations and communities. Focusing on the shade-grown coffee plantations and adjacent forests in Costa Rica, Hernandez-Divers identified domestic...

John Douglas Powers

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2009 John Douglas Powers, a recent master of arts graduate in sculpture, combines metal fabrication, sound, computer technology, kinetics, animation, and foundry techniques in developing art projects. His large and psychologically charged installations reveal memory, emotion, and language, and his ability to incorporate...

Justin Brown

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2008 Justin Brown, a recent doctoral graduate in pathology, studies the ecology of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) Eurasian viruses—most notably H5N1—in wild bird populations. His research has provided the only comprehensive work related to HPAI H5n1 in North American ducks and gulls....

Jianguo Fan

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2008 Jianguo Fan, a recent doctoral graduate in physics and astronomy, investigates the properties of nanostructures. In his research on wetting nanostructured surfaces, Fan identified a clustering phenomenon, called the nano-carpet effect, that can be used to evaluate the capillary force between nanorod...

John Herbert Hayes

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2008 John Herbert Hayes, a recent doctoral graduate in history, used songs, folklore, oral histories and field studies to recover the Protestant culture of impoverished rural southerners, both black and white, in the early- to mid-20th Century. His work revealed the significance of...

John Anthony

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2008 John Anthony, a recent doctoral graduate in music, conducted research on Theo Charlier and his etudes for trumpet, providing thematic and structural analyses of the etudes and pedagogical strategies for studying them. Anthony’s historical, analytical, and pedagogical treatment of the subject fills...

Elizabeth Hohnadel

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2008 Elizabeth Hohnadel, a recent doctoral graduate in clinical and experimental therapeutics, used behavioral, pharmacological, and cellular techniques to research the roles of cholinergic neuronal systems in memory. Using animal models to help define these roles, Hohnadel gained important insights into the treatment...

Pamela Jane Bonner

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2007 Pamela Jane Bonner, a recent doctoral graduate in microbiology, made several important discoveries concerning signal transduction and developmental pathways in the bacterium Myxococcusxanthus. From this work she published seven research articles, three as first author, which appeared in top journals, including Molecular...

Giuseppe Lupis

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2007 Giuseppe Lupis, a recent doctoral graduate in music, is a virtuoso pianist whose dissertation, The Published Music of Keith Emerson: Expanding the Solo Piano Repertoire, makes a scholarly and performance-oriented contribution to the field of music. This work presents, for the first...

Tonya Westbrook

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2007 Tonya Westbrook, a recent doctoral graduate in social work, addressed a significant gap in social work knowledge in her dissertation, Initial Development and Validation of the Child Welfare Organizational Structure Inventory. It defined and measured organizational culture as an important multi-dimensional construct...