Research Awards | Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

University of Georgia

Jorge Majfud-Albernaz

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

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2006 Jorge Majfud-Albernaz, a doctoral student in Latin American literature and culture, has written essays, books, articles, short stories and poetry focused on globalization, human rights, Latin American democracy and women’s issues. His works have been published in French, Spanish and English....

Jason W. Solomon

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

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award, 2006 Jason W. Solomon, a doctoral student in music, concentrates on the perception and analysis of musical sounds as they relate to the nature of music and an audience’s acculturated responses to it. He has been credited with opening a “new...

John Hearn

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2006 John Hearn, a doctoral student in chemistry, studies the components of aerosol particles and how these tiny particles that are usually dispersed in gas interact in and affect the atmosphere. Hearn built his own laboratory equipment before conducting his investigations....

Thomas W. H. Ng

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2006 Thomas W. H. Ng, a doctoral student in management, studies the reconceptualization of psychological empowerment, or the perceived feelings of competence and control and internalization by employees of a company’s goals and objectives. Ng has presented multiple papers at Academy of Management...

Qi Wu

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

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2006 Qi Wu, a doctoral student in cellular biology, uses fruitflies as models for studying neural pathways that are involved in the hunger process. He recognized that an insulin signaling system regulates most aspects of hunger in Fruit flies, and this likely is...

Esther M. Skelley

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

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2005 Esther M. Skelley, a doctoral student in international affairs, studies U.S. democracy programs abroad and analyzes how to measure their results. She has found that developing democracies are likely to alternate between progression and regression for several decades. She also has concluded...

Victoria Baramidze

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

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2005 Victoria Baramidze, a doctoral candidate in mathematics, studies and develops applied mathematical methods that have applications for earth and atmospheric sciences. She specializes in the use of spherical splines, which are mathematical tools that represent functions over spherical objects like the Earth....

Peter T. Gianiodis

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

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2005 Peter T. Gianiodis, a doctoral student in strategic management, studies the process of transferring and commercializing university discoveries and technologies to industry. His work has shown that how technology transfer offices are configured affects a university’s commercialization success. For example, universities that...

Michael J. Yabsley

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

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Creative Research Medal in Natural Sciences and Engineering 2018 Michael Yabsley, professor in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and College of Veterinary Medicine, discovered an unexpected pathway of infection for dracunculiasis, also known as Guinea worm disease (GWD), which has caused widespread suffering...

John W. Amoss

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

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2005 John W. Amoss, a master’s degree candidate in printmaking, incorporates a Japanese woodblock printing technique called moku-hanga with his background in commercial illustration to create artworks that combine sculpture, painting and print media in a multicultural, multigenerational style. He carves multiple wooden...