Research Awards

Michael Baer

Posted on Mar 24, 2016 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2016 Michael Baer, a recent doctoral graduate in management, studies the concepts of trust and fairness in the workplace. His dissertation examines the motives that drive managers to engage in trusting behaviors toward their employees. Some of his other work demonstrates the...

Yiping Zhao

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Creative Research Medal, Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2016 Yiping Zhao, professor of physics, has made tremendous contributions to the field of nanotechnology. He has developed a method to rapidly and accurately detect viruses, bacteria and chemical contaminants using a technique known as surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, or SERS, which measures...

Thomas Mote

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2016 Thomas Mote, professor of geography, is a world-renowned expert on the impact of climate change and variability on the Earth’s water cycle, particularly the “cryosphere,” which includes ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice and snow cover. Some of his most notable work involves...

Elena Karahanna

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2016 Elena Karahanna, the L. Edmund Rast Professor of Business, is an exceptionally high-impact researcher and an authority on the implementation and use of information systems. In particular, her research has provided significant contributions to our knowledge about attitudinal and emotional factors that...

Roberto Docampo

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2016 Roberto Docampo, professor of cellular biology and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, is renowned for his work on Chagas disease and sleeping sickness, potentially fatal parasitic infections that have ravaged populations in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, respectively. He is credited with discovering...

Jennifer McDowell

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Creative Research Award, William A. Owens Award

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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...

Daniel Nakano

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Creative Research Award, Creative Research Medal, Distinguished Research Professor, Lamar Dodd Award

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Creative Research Award 2016 Daniel Nakano, Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics, is renowned for his contributions to representation theory, which includes the study of Lie algebras, algebraic groups and quantum groups. This important branch of mathematics impacts many fields, including chemistry and physics, as it originated...

Ed Pavlić

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Albert Christ-Janer Award, Creative Research Award, Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2016 Creative Research Award 2016 Ed Pavlić, professor of English and creative writing, is an extraordinarily productive researcher and a gifted poet. Capping an unprecedented decade of creative and scholarly activity, his monograph on the great African-American writer and social critic James Baldwin titled Who...

James Leebens-Mack

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Creative Research Medal, Distinguished Research Professor

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Steve Kogan

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Creative Research Medal, William A. Owens Award

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