Team Research

Seventeen projects promoting cross-disciplinary research across the University of Georgia have been awarded 2025 Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research Pre-Seed grants. In partnership with the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, the Office of Research provides pre-seed funding to facilitate interdisciplinary faculty teams and collaboration across critical and emerging research topics. To qualify, teams must consist of six to 12 faculty members from at least three disciplines. The grants’ purpose is ...

Several dozen UGA faculty members converged at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel on Nov. 20 for a daylong conversation about how to propel UGA’s research enterprise to the next level of its growth and evolution. The second annual Research Summit, “Inquiring into the Nature of Things: Convergence and Divergence in a Dynamic Research Landscape,” represented an opportunity for some of UGA’s most research-engaged faculty to wrestle with the challenges facing ...

Team of scholars come together to discuss UGA’s role in solving society’s greatest challenges AAdiverse group of UGA faculty and academic leaders convened in March to examine the university’s path forward in the kind of interdisciplinary, team-based research that increasingly is viewed as the best strategy to solve society’s grand challenges. Hosted by the Office of Research and the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost and modeled on the UGA Teaching Academy, the ...

The University of Georgia Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) is one of the world’s leading research organizations in its field. Over its nearly 40-year history, CCRC faculty have garnered many millions of dollars in research funding, not to mention a catalogue of scholarly publications and prestigious awards. At the same time, despite its sterling scientific reputation, CCRC has been described as a “diamond in the rough” or an “undiscovered gem” at UGA. This is likely due at ...

Ten university-wide projects devoted to advancing interdisciplinary research across multiple application areas have been awarded Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grants as part of the 2023 cohort. The Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant Program was launched in 2017 and offered again in 2019 and 2021 through a partnership between the offices of Research and Public Service and Outreach. Its success is reflected by the value of external grants subsequently won by teams to pursue work initiated through these seed grants ...

Flu and infectious disease. Climate change. Aging populations. Global food supply. Big problems require big solutions—and the world is full of big problems like these. Over the past several years, the University of Georgia has taken this statement as a challenge. And, with the help and support of a few carefully designed initiatives, UGA faculty are answering by teaming up with colleagues near and far to tackle problems that are simply too big for any ...

In 2020, Professor Larry Hornak from the University of Georgia College of Engineering was appointed associate vice president in the Office of Research (OoR) with the responsibility of overseeing integrative team initiatives. Building on the momentum of the 2017 launch of UGA’s Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant program and OoR’s existing Office for Proposal Enhancement, Hornak helped create more programs to incentivize, support and recognize team research that pulled together the talents of UGA faculty from multiple disciplines. These programs range from funding ...