Research Insights
Research Live Archive: 2023-2024
Sessions by month:
August 2023
September 2023
October 2023
November 2023
December 2023
January 2024
February 2024
March 2024
April 2024
May 2024
“Research Reporting: New Tools & More to Come for UGA Researchers”
Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, 11:30am-12:30pm
Presenters:
- Jill Tincher, Executive Director, Sponsored Projects Administration
- Shawn Hill, Director, Programs & Change Management, Office of Research/Finance Division/Graduate School
Reports, dashboards and other business intelligence tools are critical to any successful research enterprise. This is especially true at UGA as we continue our trajectory of growth in worldwide research impact. In this session, we will share our progress and our vision for developing best-in-class reporting infrastructure for our researchers, administrators and staff across the university enterprise.
“Getting to Work with Industry: A New Toolkit for Developing Successful Partnerships”
Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, 2:30-3:30pm
Presenters:
- Kyle Tschepikow, Executive Director of Business Engagement and Innovation, Office of Business Engagement
- Allison Chesnutt, Senior Director of Business Engagement & Philanthropy, Office of Business Engagement
- Richard Potter, Director of Business Engagement & Research Collaboration, Office of Business Engagement
- Stacy Stanford, Senior Director of Business Engagement & Strategy, Office of Business Engagement
In this session of Research Live, Office of Business Engagement (OBE) senior leadership will discuss the benefits to researchers of fostering relationships with industry and showcase OBE’s new Business Engagement Toolkit for Faculty. The toolkit helps investigators understand the differences between industry collaboration and other types of sponsored research, build compelling proposals for industry partnerships, and navigate the various contracts and agreements that typically accompany such partnerships.
“Strategies for Successfully Supporting Faculty Advancement & Honors”
Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Presenters:
- Shelley Hooks, Associate Vice President, Office of Internal Grants, Awards & Research Personnel
- Jessica Farmer, Assistant Director, Office of Internal Grants, Awards & Research Personnel
- Nate Nibbelink, Professor & Associate Dean for Research, Warnell College of Forestry & Natural Resources
- Denise Spangler, Dean, Mary Frances Early College of Education
- Mike Tiemeyer, Joint Director, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Center for Molecular Medicine
What makes a strong award nomination, whether it’s for a university research award or one of the national academies? How can UGA faculty and administrators best support advancement of our most productive and esteemed faculty? Join us for this session of Research Live, in which we’ll explore what characterizes the strongest nomination packages for research honors and recognitions, both on campus and off. Presenters will discuss how to identify external award opportunities and faculty professional development opportunities, how to write strong institutional support letters, and other tips for successful nominations and proposals.
“ChatGPT on Campus: Managing AI Tools in Research and the Classroom”
Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Presenters:
- John Gibbs, Associate Professor, Dept. of Theatre Studies; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Tianming Liu, Distinguished Research Professor, School of Computing; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Join faculty members Tianming Liu and John Gibbs, both of UGA’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence, for a discussion on the powerful and widely available consumer AI tools that have been released in 2023, including ChatGPT. What do these tools mean for research and teaching at UGA? How can they be leveraged to propel a research project forward? How should faculty members manage their use among students and research personnel? This webinar will explore these and other related questions, with plenty of time for audience Q&A.
“Thinking Big: How to Create & Fund Successful Interdisciplinary Research Teams”
Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, 11:30am-12:30pm
Presenters:
- Larry Hornak, Associate Vice President for Integrative Team Initiatives, Office of Research
- Jake Maas, Director, Office for Proposal Enhancement, Office of Research
- Justin Bahl, Associate Professor, colleges of Public Health and Veterinary Medicine, Institute for Bioinformatics
- Jenay Beer, Associate Professor & Co-Director, The CARE Center, College of Public Health
- Brian Bledsoe, UGA Athletics Association Professor & Director, Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, College of Engineering
- Mandy Joye, Regents’ Professor & UGA Athletics Association Professor of Marine Science, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences
- Lisa Renzi-Hammond, Associate Professor & Co-Director, The CARE Center, College of Public Health
Interdisciplinary team science is the key to solving society’s grand challenges. Federal funding agencies increasingly are reserving their most impactful, high-dollar opportunities for interdisciplinary team proposals, and UGA has stepped up its efforts to be competitive for such awards. This edition of Research Live will explore the array of funding and training programs the university has created in recent years to help faculty identify collaborators, form and develop effective interdisciplinary teams, and create funding proposals to support the teams’ work.
“Creative, Effective & Measurable Broader Impacts for Grants”
Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Presenters:
- Jake Maas, Director, Office for Proposal Enhancement, Office of Research
- Holly Bik, Associate Professor, Franklin College Department of Marine Science
- Kathrin Stanger-Hall, Professor, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences Department of Plant Biology
- XQ Wang, Associate Professor, College of Engineering
- Richard Chandler, Professor, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources
While there is wide variation on how seriously review panels take broader impacts, when they do take them seriously, they can be a real differentiator for grant proposals—for better or worse. Join us in this session of Research Live for a lively discussion on how to develop fun and effective broader impacts for NSF and other funders. Our panel of faculty will share their experience of what works and doesn’t work, both in getting a proposal funded and actually being feasible in execution.
“What in the World is Innovation, Anyway?”
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Presenters:
- Ian Biggs, Director, Director of Innovation Gateway Startups, Office of Research; Director of Innovation District Programming
- Derek Eberhart, Associate Vice President, Innovation Gateway, Office of Research
- Yuan Si, Senior Licensing Associate, Innovation Gateway
Innovation Gateway is here to help UGA researchers with all kinds of innovation. Whether your idea is a new drug with commercial potential or an organizational policy with societal impact, whatever the idea, the Innovation Gateway team is here to help. This edition of Research Live will educate you on the different paths down which your innovative ideas could take you and show you how Innovation Gateway’s Startups and Licensing teams can help you achieve maximum impact from your innovations.
“CURO & Undergraduate Research”
Friday, March 15, 2024, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Presenters:
- Andrea Silletti, Program Coordinator, Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities
- Rayna Carter, 2nd year undergraduate majoring in biology, psychology and sociology
- Julie Stanton, Associate Professor, Dept. of Cellular Biology, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences
- Haruki Takeuchi, 2ndyear undergraduate majoring in regenerative biosciences
- Ryan Weiss, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
This session of Research Live, featuring representatives from the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) as well as current CURO students, will introduce CURO and the programs it offers to facilitate and support undergraduate involvement in research at UGA. Speakers will cover how students and faculty can get involved with CURO, as well as hear from individual students and faculty mentors about how CURO has benefitted them.
“UGA’s Cancer Center: A Nexus for Oncological Research”
Friday, April 12, 2024, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Presenters:
- Eileen Kennedy, Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Pharmacy and Director, UGA Cancer Center
- Eugene Douglass, Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy
- Natarajan Kannan, Professor and Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Corey Saba, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Shaying Zhao, Professor and Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
In this webinar, UGA Cancer Center Director Eileen Kennedy and colleagues will discuss the center’s work to fight cancer on three fronts: developing new methods for early tumor detection; finding new targets for novel therapeutics, and improving prevention strategies and outreach. Presenters will also talk about the many opportunities for student research and collaborative projects, not only with colleagues at UGA but also with partner institutions around the state.
“Beyond the PI’s Grant: Alternative Models for Funding and Training Postdocs”
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 11:30am-12:30pm
Presenters:
- Shelley Hooks, Associate Vice President, Office of Research Personnel
- Erin Dolan, Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Innovative Science Education, Franklin College Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Additional speakers TBA
Postdoctoral scholars have a major impact on research productivity and innovation. Their future success has a big impact on UGA’s research reputation, and postdoctoral trainees are a key metric considered for AAU selection. The majority of UGA postdocs are funded exclusively by their faculty mentor’s grants, which can limit recruiting options and the scope of training. However, alternative models expand our options for both recruiting and training and help ensure that UGA-trained postdocs become national and international leaders in their fields of research. In this webinar, we will explore recent examples of unit-centered, institutional, and federal agency models to provide funding and professional development for this important group of researchers.