Research Insights
Research Live Archive: 2024-2025
Sessions by month:
September 2024
October 2024
November 2024
January 2025
- Sustainability and the Scientific Process: Walking the Walk in University Research
- Humanities & Arts as Competitive Difference
February 2025
March 2025
May 2025
“Introducing the UGA NAGPRA Initiative”
Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, 2:30-3:30pm
Presenters:
- Amanda Roberts Thompson, Chair of UGA NAGPRA Committee & Operations Director, Laboratory of Archaeology
- Randolph Carter, Chief of Staff & Special Assistant to the Associate Vice President of Auxiliary Services
- RaeLynn Butler, Secretary of Culture & Humanities, Muscogee (Creek) Nation
- Mary Hill, NAGPRA Coordinator, Office of Research Integrity & Safety
- Channette Romero, Assistant Professor of English & Native American Studies, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences
- Victor Thompson, Distinguished Research Professor and Director, Laboratory of Archaeology
To guide its efforts in complying with the federal Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), UGA has created a new NAGPRA Committee that will conduct a campuswide census this year to locate and identify NAGPRA-related holdings. In this webinar, NAGPRA Committee members will explain the scope of the law, its relation to university material holdings and research activities, and the collaborative work underway with UGA’s tribal partners to ensure any NAGPRA-related materials are repatriated.
“Sponsored Projects Reporting: Better Tools, Better Outcomes”
Thursday, Oct. 31, 2:30-3:30pm
Presenters:
- Jill Tincher, Executive Director, Sponsored Projects Administration
- Cathy Cuppett, Director of Pre-Award, Sponsored Projects Administration
- Brad Langford, Director of Post-Award, Sponsored Projects Administration
With input from UGA faculty, the Sponsored Projects Administration continues to create tools to help investigators track and plan spending on their sponsored awards. This session will highlight available sponsored projects reporting tools, along with a sneak preview of what’s upcoming. How much do you have available to spend on your project? What are your proposal, award, and expenditure trends? How is your department trending in proposals, awards, and expenditures? What is the current state of research expenditures? How do you certify payroll? This webinar will cover these topics and more.
“NIH: It’s All Out There if You Care to Look”
Tuesday, Nov. 19, 3:30-4:30pm
- Susan Sanchez, Professor of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine
Susan Sanchez sits on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Council of Councils. The council advises the NIH director and the director of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) on policies and activities. It also makes recommendations regarding research in emerging scientific opportunities, public health challenges, or knowledge gaps that require special emphasis and would benefit from collaboration between two or more national research institutes or centers. In this session, Sanchez will share insights for developing relationships with NIH program managers and crafting successful funding proposals. She will also discuss priorities and strategies related to biomedical research as articulated in NIH’s strategic plan.
“Sustainability and the Scientific Process: Walking the Walk in University Research”
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2:30-3:30pm
Presenters:
- Star Scott,Manager & Founder, UGA Sustainable Science & Green Labs
- Mark Hunter, Dean & Eugene P. Odum Professor, Odum School of Ecology
This edition of Research Live will explore opportunities to redefine what it means to “do good science” by engaging in Sustainable Science and Green Labs practices. Despite the many positive contributions of the global research enterprise, scientific operations have significant social and environmental impacts that require ongoing attention by scientists and their teams. Join us as we explore opportunities to make UGA research more sustainable through the guidance of the Odum School of Ecology and the UGA Green Labs program.
“Humanities & Arts as Competitive Difference”
Thursday, Jan. 30, 2:30-3:30pm
Presenters:
- Nicholas Allen, Baldwin Professor in Humanities & Director, Willson Center for Humanities & Arts
- Mark Callahan, Artistic Director, UGA Arts Collaborative; Associate Academic Director, Willson Center
- Elizabeth Wright, Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish Literature & Associate Academic Director, Willson Center
The arts and humanities at UGA are engaged across campus in creating competitive difference. Our community engages with federal agencies, private foundations, and philanthropy to support diverse inquiries into all forms of creative thinking and practice, from the arts partnering with mathematics to the humanities with marine science. This conversation will share recent opportunities and innovations, and give a sense of our collective future plans.
“A Lab Full of VIPs: Vertically Integrating Your Research Projects”
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Presenters:
- Thomas Mote, Distinguished Research Professor of Geography, Franklin College; Associate Vice President for Instruction, Office of Instruction
- Art Edison,GRA Eminent Scholar, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center; Professor of Genetics and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Franklin College
- Chloe Crump, undergraduate student & biology major
UGA’s Vertically Integrated Projects-Research (VIPR) program is built on a time-tested national model for engaging both undergraduates and graduate students in ambitious, long-term, large-scale, multidisciplinary research projects led by faculty. In this webinar, VIPR leadership and participating faculty and students will talk about the significant benefits of VIPR for participants at all levels, as well as discuss the wide-ranging opportunities at UGA for establishing VIPs in research environments across a variety of disciplines.
“Core Strength: Inside UGA’s Core Research Facilities, Part 1”
Friday, March 14, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Presenters:
- Parastoo Azadi, Associate Director of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center for Service & Training; Executive Technical Director of CCRC
- Carl Bergmann, Special Advisor to the Vice President for Research
- Carla Hadden, Director & Research Scientist, Center for Applied Isotope Studies
- Tina Salguero, Academic Director, Georgia Electron Microscopy
University of Georgia core research facilities offer a range of services to serve the diverse research needs of faculty and student investigators across a wide range of disciplines. In the first installment of this tour through UGA’s cores, you will hear from the directors of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center’s Analytical Services & Training unit, the Center for Applied Isotope Studies, and Georgia Electron Microscopy about how they can help get your research moving forward. You’ll also learn about how UGA’s membership in the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Core Exchange enables greater sharing of core facilities and equipment across all GRA institutions.
“Plumbing the Depths and the Shallows: UGA’s Coastal Research Units”
Tuesday, May 13, 11:30am-12:30pm
Presenters:
- Merryl Alber, Professor & Director, UGA Marine Institute
- Clark Alexander, Professor & Director, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
- Mona Behl, Associate Director, Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant
The University of Georgia has a long history of research, education, and service on the Georgia coast. Skidaway Institute of Oceanography is an internationally recognized, multidisciplinary research institution that conducts cutting-edge oceanographic research and experiential education in Georgia’s coastal waters and around the world. The UGA Marine Institute on Sapelo Island is a world-renowned field destination for the study of salt marshes and estuaries. This webinar will highlight opportunities at UGA’s coastal research units to advance discoveries in both basic and applied science, to train students at all levels, and to support coastal communities.