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February 6, 2026<\/span><\/div>

Newest round of TIR Pre-Seed grants awarded to 17 teams<\/a><\/h4>
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\"\" el_class=\"text-container first-paragraph\"] 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 ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
\"A<\/a><\/div>\n
December 5, 2025<\/span><\/div>

Fall Research Summit participants look to face challenges, build on opportunities<\/a><\/h4>
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\"\" el_class=\"text-container first-paragraph\"] 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\u2019s research enterprise to the next level of its growth and evolution. The second annual Research Summit, \u201cInquiring into the Nature of Things: Convergence and Divergence in a Dynamic Research Landscape,\u201d represented an opportunity for some of UGA\u2019s most research-engaged faculty to wrestle ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
\"University<\/a><\/div>\n
April 18, 2025<\/span><\/div>

Inaugural Research Summit charts collaborative path forward for UGA research<\/a><\/h4>
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\"\"] Team of scholars come together to discuss UGA\u2019s role in solving society\u2019s greatest challenges AAdiverse group of UGA faculty and academic leaders convened in March to examine the university\u2019s path forward in the kind of interdisciplinary, team-based research that increasingly is viewed as the best strategy to solve society\u2019s grand challenges. Hosted by the Office of Research and the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost\u00a0and modeled on the\u00a0UGA ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
\"UGA<\/a><\/div>\n
August 28, 2024<\/span><\/div>

UGA receives $18M NSF award to democratize glycoscience<\/a><\/h4>
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\"\"] The University of Georgia\u00a0Complex Carbohydrate Research Center\u00a0(CCRC) is one of the world\u2019s 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 \u201cdiamond in the rough\u201d or an \u201cundiscovered gem\u201d at UGA. This is likely ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
\"Newest<\/a><\/div>\n
February 15, 2024<\/span><\/div>

Newest round of Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grants awarded<\/a><\/h4>
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\"\"]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\u00a0Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant Program\u00a0was 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 ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
\"No<\/a><\/div>\n
January 31, 2024<\/span><\/div>

Magnifying impact: UGA seeding formation of broad research teams<\/a><\/h4>
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\"\"] Flu and infectious disease. Climate change. Aging populations. Global food supply. Big problems require big solutions\u2014and 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 ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
\"Larry<\/a><\/div>\n
December 5, 2023<\/span><\/div>

Larry Hornak: Encouraging investigators to team up & think big<\/a><\/h4>
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\"\"] In 2020, Professor Larry Hornak from the University of Georgia\u00a0College of Engineering\u00a0was appointed associate vice president in the Office of Research (OoR) with the responsibility of overseeing\u00a0integrative team initiatives. Building on the momentum of the 2017 launch of UGA\u2019s\u00a0Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant program\u00a0and OoR\u2019s existing\u00a0Office for Proposal Enhancement,\u00a0Hornak 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 ...<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t