Research Awards | Lamar Dodd Award

University of Georgia

Rick L. Tarleton

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor, Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Award 2012 Rick Tarleton, Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in the Biological Sciences and Distinguished Research Professor, is internationally recognized for his ground-breaking research on Chagas disease and its cause, the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Since its establishment at UGA in 1984, the Tarleton laboratory has been...

Larry R. Beuchat

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor, Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Award 2007 Larry R. Beuchat, Distinguished Research Professor of Food Microbiology, has, through his extraordinary research, advanced understanding of the environmental and ecological conditions that influence the survival and growth of foodborne bacteria, molds and yeasts. He conducted pioneering work on the storage and processing...

Geert-Jan Boons

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Inventor of the Year Award, Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Award 2015 Geert-Jan Boons, Distinguished Professor in biochemical sciences, is a world leader in glycoscience and synthetic chemistry. His discoveries have provided new insights into a variety of infectious and immunological processes, and many of the compounds developed in his laboratory are entering clinical evaluation....

Jeffrey Bennetzen

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Award 2014 Jeffrey Bennetzen, Norman and Doris Giles Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, has established an outstanding national and international reputation as a leader in plant genetics and genomics. He was the first to isolate and sequence a plant transposable element, which is...

Michael Duncan

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor, Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Award 2011 Michael Duncan, Franklin Professor and Regents Professor of Chemistry, is internationally recognized as a leader in ion and metal cluster spectroscopy. He measures the structures of molecules in their ionized state of “clusters” — aggregated groups of a few molecules caught in the...

Bi-Cheng Wang

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Award 2008 Bi-Cheng Wang, professor and GRA Eminent Scholar of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is internationally known for his major contributions to structural biology, crystallographic education, and structural genomics. Developer of the solvent-flattening method, Wang has more recently pioneered a new technique, direct crystallography, to...

William M. Yen

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Award 2005 William M. Yen has been studying the optical properties of solids, especially those that emit light, for more than 40 years. He began working in this area as a post doctoral associate in Nobel Laureate Arthur Schawlow’s laboratory at Stanford University. His research...

David J. Benson

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor, Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Award 2004 David J. Benson, Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics, is internationally recognized for important contributions to basic mathematical research, particularly in the areas of algebra and topology. "He is quite unique in the way his work depends and uses the two different areas [algebra and...

David P. Landau

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Award 2003 David P. Landau, distinguished research professor and director of the Center for Simulational Physics, received the Lamar Dodd Award. Landau uses supercomputer simulations to study how solids and liquids behave at atomic levels. His research on the behavior of magnets has applications for...

Peter H. Hauschildt

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Lamar Dodd Award

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Lamar Dodd Award 2002 Peter H. Hauschildt, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, is recognized by top astronomers as "the world leader, genuinely peerless," in the development of the computational modeling of stellar atmospheres. With the development of his PHOENIX computer code, Dr. Hauschildt is able to...