University of Georgia

Tore Olsson

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award, Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award
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Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2014 Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2014 Tore Olsson, a recent doctoral graduate in history, has made numerous important contributions to the fields of modern U.S. and Mexican political and diplomatic history and transnational history, and he has conducted interdisciplinary scholarship in food, agricultural and...

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Daniel Streicker

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award
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Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2013 Daniel Streicker, a doctoral graduate in ecology, made extraordinarily important contributions to the field of infectious diseases while studying at UGA, where he continues his fine work as a postdoctoral researcher. Streicker’s research focuses on viruses that “jump” between species, such...

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Franklin Leach

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award, Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award
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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2012 Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2012 Franklin Leach, a recent doctoral graduate in chemistry, developed and refined new mass spectrometry methods for the structural characterization of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) carbohydrates, a particularly difficult target for such analysis. These biomolecule chains exist on the surfaces of...

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Junwen Chen

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Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2012 Junwen Chen, a recent doctoral graduate in management information systems, investigates the role of mobile devices in blurring the temporal and geographic boundaries between work and personal life domains. Her work examines the ways in which mobile technology is both beneficial...

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Haibao Tang

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Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2011 Haibao Tang, senior bioinformatics engineer, J. Craig Venter Institute, devised a novel ‘top-down’ computational method to clarify the evolution of angiosperms (flowering plants). His work set the stage for dramatic improvements in the precision of translational genomics, since his method can...

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Yuchen Liu

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Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2011 Yuchen Liu, postdoctoral candidate, Yale University, has made major contributions to scientists’ understanding of methanogenic Archaea. She investigated a regulatory histone-like protein in the methanogenic archaeon, Methanococcus maripaludis, which required her to develop new methods and modify others specifically for the...

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Darren Grem

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Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2011 Darren Grem, postdoctoral research associate, Yale University, investigated the complex dialogue between conservative Christianity and business in the Sunbelt after World War II. Rather than accepting the old trope that conservative Christianity arose out of a grassroots backlash against the political...

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Kaushlendra Singh

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award, Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award
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Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2010 Kaushlendra Singh, an assistant professor of wood science and technology at West Virginia University, developed novel technology for fractionating poultry litter to re-use in beneficial ways. Through fractionation, pyrolysis, and pelletization, Singh produced several value-added products from poultry litter. The smaller...

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Brant Faircloth

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Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2010 Brant Faircloth, a post-doctoral scholar in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California in Los Angeles, used molecular techniques to demonstrate a flexible mating system and social integration in Bobwhite quail. Contrary to the accepted dogma that the ground-nesting...

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