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Christina Boyd

William A. Owens Creative Research Award (behavioral sciences) Christina Boyd, Thomas P. and M. Jean Lauth Professor of Political Science, is one of the nation’s most important scholars researching diversity in the courts. She has published 34 refereed journal articles and two books, including “Supreme...

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Bradley Wright

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Shane Singh

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Lawrence Sweet

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Emilie Phillips Smith

William A. Owens Creative Research Award 2019 Emilie Phillips Smith, professor and former department head of Human Development and Family Science, studies the role of sociocultural variables in child and family development. She engages children and families of diverse racial-ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds in rigorously tested...

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Jody Clay-Warner

William A. Owens Creative Research Award 2017 Jody Clay-Warner, Meigs Professor of Sociology, investigates injustice from both basic and applied vantage points, addressing critical problems in our society: injustice, violence, victimization, and the laws and policies designed to control these problems. Her research broadens the understanding...

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Jennifer McDowell

Creative Research Award 2016 Jennifer McDowell, professor of psychology, is an outstanding researcher who has dedicated much of her professional career to the study of cognition and brain function in healthy humans as well as those with psychiatric disorders. She integrates behavioral and multi-modal brain imaging...

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Steve Kogan

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] William A. Owens Creative Research Award 2020 [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="25px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1586808786351{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="16314" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Steven M. Kogan is the UGA Athletic Foundation Professor of Human Development in the department of...

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Joshua Miller

William A. Owens Creative Research Award 2018 Joshua D. Miller, professor and director of clinical training in the Department of Psychology, has played a leading role in developing, testing and advocating a new model of understanding personality disorders. Mental health professionals have struggled to treat patients...

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Robert E. Rhoades

Distinguished Research Professor 2006 Robert E. Rhoades, Professor of Anthropology, works on agricultural and environmental issues in developing countries. His research, which involved studying the ways that indigenous people’s traditional knowledge of agriculture contributes to sustainable production, challenged the widespread assumptions that third world farming systems are...

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