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Abraham, Anna
E. Paul Torrance Professor, Educational Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2014-2015
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Research Interests: Creativity; Imagination; Neuroscience; Cognition

Acheme, Doris
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
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Research Interests:  Intergroup and intercultural communication; Social identity negotiation; Language attitudes; Racial ideologies

Adah Miller, Emily
Assistant Professor, Math, Science, and Social Studies Education
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Research Interests:  Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Environment and Ecosystems, STEM

Ager, Mary
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
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Research Interests:  Consumer debt/credit; Social policy; Poverty; Economic survival strategies

Ahn, Daehwan
Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
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Research Interests:  Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Experimental Methods, Higher Education, Infant and Child Development, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Organizations, STEM, Work and Occupations

Anastasopoulos, Jason
Assistant Professor, Public Administration and Policy
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Research Interests:  American Politics; Bureaucracy; Bayesian Statistics; Machine Learning; Casual Inference

Anjum, Javad
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
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Research Interests:  Eye tracking; Stroke; Cognition; Language

Antonoudi, Efthymia (Effie)
Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
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Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Education and Learning, Immigration, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, Substance Use and Addiction

Arroyo, Analisa
Associate Professor & Associate Head, Communication Studies
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2015-2017
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Research Interests:  Body image issues; Psychological well-being; Mental health; Health related outcomes of communication; Body Communications

Bagdy, Lauren
Assistant Professor, Workforce Education and Instructional Technology
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Research Interests: Assessment and Evaluation, Education and Learning, Higher Education, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Bagwell Adams, Grace
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management
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Research Interests:  Health policy; Program Evaluation; Food insecurity; Maternal/Child health.

Bailey, Lynn
Emeritus Professor, Nutritional Sciences
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Research Interests:  Folate status and metabolism; Maternal health; Fetal development

Baker III, Thomas
Professor, Kinesiology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2013-2014
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Research Interests:  Branding legality; Brand equity; Image rights; Advertising regulations; Social media; Sexual violence in youth sports

Banks, Leon
Assistant Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests:  Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Culture, Diversity, Mental Health, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Barany, Deborah
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
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Research Interests:  Motor control, fMRI, Sensorimotor decision-making, Neurostimulation, Neurorehabilitation

Barger, Michael
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2023-2025
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Research Interests: Early childhood learning; motivation and achievement in STEM

Bauer, Brian
Assistant Professor, Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2022-2024
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Research Interests:  Suicide; Behavioral economics; Decisions

Boyd, Christina
Professor, Political Science
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Research Interests:  Judicial behavior; Gender and racial diversity; Political institutions

Bradford, W. David
Professor, Public Administration and Policy
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Research Interests:  Time and risk preferences; Health care related decisions; Behavioral economics; Consumer choice

Brickman, Peggy
Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Plant Biology
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Research Interests:  Learning objectives; Science literacy; Collaborative learning

Bub, Kristen
Professor, Educational Psychology
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Research Interests:  Social competence; Self-regulation; Executive function; Early childhood; Research methods

Cacciatore, Michael
Associate Professor, Public Relations
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2018-2020
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Research Interests: Media depictions of science and risk issues; social media; and media communication process

Cagliani, Rachel
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
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Research Interests:  Autism Spectrum Disorder; Communication; Behavior analysis

Cahnmann-Taylor, Melisa 
Meigs Professor, Language and Literacy Education
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Research Interests:  TESOL, Bilingual Education, Foreign Language Education, Poetry, Theatre

Calabria, Jon
Professor, Landscape Architecture
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Research Interests:  Assessment and Evaluation, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Environment and Ecosystems, Geographic Information Systems, Survey Methods

Card, Noel
Professor, Human Development and Family Science
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Research Interests:  Peer Relations; Aggression; Meta-analysis; and Longitudinal modeling

Carswell, Andy
Professor, Financial Planning, Housing, and Consumer Economics
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2019-2021
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Research Interests:  Housing counseling; sprawl/growth management initiatives; residential mobility programs; predatory lending & mortgage fraud; affordable lending programs and access to financing

Chacon, Dustin
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
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Research Interests:  Cognition, Experimental Methods, Infant and Child Development, Neuroscience

Chapman-Hilliard, Collette
Associate Professor, Counseling and Human Development Services
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Research Interests:  Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Culture, Diversity, Higher Education, Identity, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Survey Methods, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Chen, Zhuo “Adam”
Associate Professor, Health Policy & Management
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Research Interests:  Mental Health; Health Policy; Economics of genomics; Economic evaluation

Clark, Malissa
Associate Professor & Associate Head, Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2014-2015
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Research Interests:  Workaholism; Work/family conflict; Enrichment; Employee health and well-being; Gender; Mood/emotions

Clay, K. Chad
Associate Professor, International Affairs
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Research Interests:  Human rights; Political processes; Policy outcomes; Advocacy; Economic and Labor rights

Cooper, Alexander
Post-doctoral Researcher, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Research Interests: Instructor reasoning; Research teaching; Science practice instruction

Cooper, Jamie
Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Director, UGA Obesity Initiative
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Research Interests:  Human health and Chronic disease risk reduction

Cotterell, Michael
Senior Lecturer, Computer Science
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Research Interests:  Computer Science Education, Open Science, Functional Data Analysis

Cotwright, Caree
Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
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Research Interests:  Wellness best practices; Childhood obesity prevention; Early childhood obesity; Nutrition intervention

Coverdill, James
Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Sociology
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Research Interests:  Professions; surgeons; medical education; work hours; fatigue

Crepaz, Markus
Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Political Science and International Affairs
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Research Interests:  European politics; Comparative political economy; Immigration; Research design; Political institutions; Political development

Dazzo, Giovanni
Assistant Professor, Lifelong Education, Administration & Policy
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Research Interests:  Adolescents, Children and Youth; Culture; Education and Learning; LGBTQ; Methods Specialization

DeMeester, Karen
Public Service Associate, Carl Vinson Institute of Government
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Research Interests:  Decision making; Designing methods/instruments for collecting data; Translating data into actionable findings

Dumas, Denis
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
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Research Interests: Creativity; Psychometrics; Reasoning; Test development; Learning

Dunnigan, Allison
Assistant Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests:  Macro- and mezzo- level child welfare structural factors of youth and family outcomes; Policy and practice interventions

Elkins, Jennifer
Associate Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests:  Sexual abuse; Child maltreatment; Multigenerational trauma; Violence and loss; PTSD; Trauma related disorders

Ellis, Amy
Professor, Math, Science, and Social Studies Education
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Research Interests:  Cognition, Education and Learning, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Ellison, Tisha Lewis
Associate Professor, Language and Literacy Education
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Research Interests:  Family literacy; Digital literacy; Multimodal literacy; Community literacy; African American families

Emerson, Kerstin Gerst
Clinical Associate Professor, Health Policy & Management
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2019-2021
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Research Interests:  Loneliness and social engagement as a public health issue among older adults

Evans, Nate
Associate Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2019-2021
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Research Interests: Health communication; consumers interaction; and processing of messaging

Fan, Lu
Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
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Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Cognition, Education and Learning, Emotion, Gender, Mental Health, Personality, Social Psychology, Survey Methods, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Fazlul, Ishtiaque
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management and International Affairs (Jointly)
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Research Interests: Health Economics; Education Economics

Fields-Smith, Cheryl
Professor & Graduate Coordinator, Educational Theory & Practice
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2012-1013
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Research Interests: Family involvement Multicultural learning; Homeschooling; African American families

Fisher, Sycarah
Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator, Educational Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2020-22
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Research Interests:  Minority Health; Implementation Science; Substance Abuse; School-based Interventions

Frick, Janet
Associate Professor, Psychology
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Research Interests:  Developmental psychology; Infancy; Visual attention; Joint attention

Fusco, Rachel
Interim Associate Dean for Faculty & Academic Affairs
Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests:  New mothers with opioid use disorders; Treatment adherence; Safe parenting

Futris, Ted
Georgia Athletic Association Professor, Human Development & Family Science
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Research Interests: Couple relations; Co-parenting; Relationship enrichment; Marriage; Marital quality, Marital stability

Galvan, Thania
Assistant Professor, Psychology
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Research Interests: Mental health disparities: Latinx youth & families: Latinx immigrants; Traumatic stress; Risk & Resilience pathways

Gay, Jennifer
Associate Professor, Health Promotion & Behavior
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2018-2020
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Research Interests: Physical activity; children; adolescents; occupational health; growth & maturation; and measurement & methodological issues

Geier, Charles
Professor, Human Development and Family Science
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Research Interests:  Cognition, Computational Methods, Diversity, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Food & Nutrition, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Networks, Neuroscience, Obesity, Physical Health and Well-being, Psychophysiology, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

German, Laura
Professor, Anthropology
Director, Center for Integrative Conservation Research
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Research Interests:  Land and environmental governance, property rights, sub-Saharan Africa.

Gibbs, Daniel
Assistant Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests: Child well-being, Professional decision-making, Foster care, Data science, Social work and the law

Gibbs, Jeremy
Assistant Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests: Sexual minority youth; Behavioral health outcomes; Technology and health research; Religious identity dissonance; Spatial analysis; Social network analysis.

Gonlin, Vanessa
Assistant Professor, Sociology
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Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity; Inequality

Graizbord, Diana
Assistant Professor, Sociology
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Research Interests:  Sociology of science; Political sociology; Globalization; Development and Social change; Culture

Haas, Brian
Associate Professor, Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2011-2012
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Research Interests:  Social and affective functioning in humans; Culture; Decision making; Individual differences

Haider, M. Rifat
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2022-2024
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Research Interests:  HIV/AIDS; Substance abuse; Maternal & child health

Haire, Susan
Professor & Department Head, Political Science
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Research Interests include: Judicial behavior; Gender; Race; Ethnicity

Halmo, Stephanie
Postdoctoral Research Associate,  Cellular Biology
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Research Interests include: Student thinking, Metacognition, Problem solving, Group work

Hamel, Erin
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2023-2025
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Research Interests include: Early childhood teaching; workplace supports; education quality

Han, Jeong-Yeob
Associate Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2017-19
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Research Interests:  eHealth communication; Social media; Online communities; Cancer communication; Media effects

Hansen, Nathan
Professor,  Health Promotion & Behavior
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Research Interests:  Mental Health; Sexual Health; Substance use; HIV prevention and care; Traumatic stress

Han, Seung-hyun (Caleb)
Associate Professor,  Lifelong Learning, Administration and Policy
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Research Interests:  Knowledge Sharing, Organization Learning, Quantitative Research, Social Capital, Social Network Analysis

Harrison, Ashley Johnson
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2015-17
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Research Interests:  Autism; Eye-tracking; Cross-cultural; Attention; Global

He, Yimin
Assistant Professor, Psychology
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Research Interests:  Culture, Mental Health, Networks, Organizations, Physical Health and Well-being, Survey Methods, Work and Occupations

Himelboim, Itai
Associate Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
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Research Interests: Computer-mediated social networks; Political communication; International communication; News

Holloway, Steve
Professor, Geography
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Research Interests:  Urban nature; Race; Racialization; Inequality; Housing; Labor

Jaskyte, Kristina
Professor, Social Work
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2011-2012
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Research Interests:  Nonprofit organizations; Organizational culture; Cross-cultural studies; Individual creativity

Jin, Yan
C. Richard Yarbrough Professor in Crisis Communication Leadership
Professor of Public Relations
Director, Crisis Communication Think Tank
Associate Director, Center for Health & Risk Communication, Grady College
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2016-18
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Research Interests:  Crisis communication; Risk communication; Social media; Conflict; Emotion; Disaster

Jo, Jeyeon
Assistant Professor, Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors
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Research Interests: Computational Methods, Exercise, Physical Health and Well-being, Work and Occupations

Knight, Jessica
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2021-2023
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Research Interests: Child health, Cardiovascular disease, Chronic disease, Epidemiology, and Birth defects

Kopcha, Theodore
Professor, Workforce Education & Instructional Technology
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Research Interests: Embodied cognition; multimodal analysis; embodied interaction; STEM education

Koss, Kalsea
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Science
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2018-2020
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Research Interests:  Stress; Child adversity; Epigenetics; Resilience

Krimm, Hannah
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Special Education
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Research Interests: Developmental language disorders, reading, writing, and dyslexia

Kurtz, Hilda
Department Head and Professor, Geography
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Research Interests:  Communication, Environment and Ecosystems

Lai, Ming-Jun
Professor, Mathematics
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Research Interests:  Multivariate splines; Wavelets; PDE

Lapenga, Pablo
Associate Professor, Sociology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2023-2025
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Research Interests:  Environmental and rural sociology; social movements; political sociology; health

Lei, Man Kit (Karlo)
Associate Professor, Sociology
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Research Interests:  Social Determinants of Health and Aging; Quantitative methods; Neighborhood studies; Criminology

Li, Niying
Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
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Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Immigration, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Survey Methods

Lieberman-Betz, Rebecca
Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Special Education
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2014-16
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Research Interests:  Early childhood special education; parent responsibility; Communication development; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Developmental disabilities

Lu, Peng
Assistant Professor, Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication
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Research Interests:  Communication, Education and Learning, Emotion, Environment and Ecosystems, Experimental Methods, Food & Nutrition, Higher Education, STEM

Luther, Lauren
Assistant Research Scientist, Psychology
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Research Interests:  Cognitive processes and emotions

Ma, Ping
Distinguished Research Professor, Statistics
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Research Interests:  Bioinformatics, imaging, functional data analysis, big data analytics, high performance computing

Majewska, Ania
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
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Research Interests: Culture, Education and Learning, Higher Education, Infectious Disease, STEM, Survey Methods

Mammadov, Sakhavat
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
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Research Interests: Education and Learning, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Personality, Physical Health and Well-being, STEM, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Matthew, Rebecca
Associate Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests: Community health and well-being ; Cooperatives and the solidarity economy; Community-based participatory research and practice; Environmental justice

McAndrews, Laura
Assistant Professor, Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors
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Research Interests:  Global apparel supply chain; Organizational dynamics; Living with disabilities; Clothing-related barriers

McFarlane, Soroya Julian
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2021-2023
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Research Interests:  Health communication; health disparities; culture; new prevention technologies; participatory research methods

McNulty, Thomas
Associate Professor, Sociology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2004-2005
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Research Interests:  Race; Ethnicity; Inequality; Crime and law; Deviance

McPherson, Jane
Associate Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests:  Human rights

Mihm, Stephen
Professor and Department Head, History
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Research Interests:  Economic history; History of organizations

Melcher, Katherine
Associate Professor, College of Environment and Design
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Research Interests:  Aging and Gerontology, Cognition, Culture, Environment and Ecosystems, Ethnography, Gender, Geographic Information Systems, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Identity, Mental Health, Obesity, Organizations, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Prevention and Implementation Science, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Moore, Kevin
Professor, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education
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Research Interests: Cognition, Education and Learning

Mote, Thomas
Distinguished Research Professor, Geography
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Research Interests: Meteorology; Climatology; Hydroclimatology

Mowbray, Orion
Associate Dean for Research
Professor, Social Work
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2015-17
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Research Interests: Substance use treatment initiation; Implementation of evidence-based practices

Mu, Lan
Assistant Professor, Geography
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Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Environment and Ecosystems, Food & Nutrition, Geographic Information Systems, Mental Health, Physical Health and Well-being, STEM

Muilenburg, Jessica
Assistant Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Assessment
Professor, Health Promotion and Behavior
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2006-2007
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Research Interests: tobacco cessation in substance abuse treatment facilities, tobacco use in adolescents and young adults, tobacco disparities in African Americans, substance abuse, adolescent risky behaviors

Mustard, David
Professor, Economics
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Research Interests:  Microeconomics; Crime; Gambling; Law; Gun control; Merit-based aid

Nelson, Don
Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Anthropology
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Research Interests:  Vulnerability and adaptation studies; Food and water security; Global climate and environmental change; Land-use and land-cover change; Water governance and ethics; International development

Niying, Li
Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
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Research Interests:  Aging and Gerontology, Immigration, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Survey Methods

Noble, Emily
Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
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Research Interests:  Cognition, Exercise, Food & Nutrition, Neuroscience, Obesity, Substance Use and Addiction, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Nowak, Glen
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
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Research Interests:  Vaccination; Infectious Diseases; Health Communication; Risk Communication; News Media; Advertising

Olenick, Jeffrey
Assistant Professor, Psychology
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Research Interests:  Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Diversity, Education and Learning, Organizations, Work and Occupations

Outland, Neal
Assistant Professor, Psychology
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Research Interests:  Teams; networks; nonlinear dynamics; computational models

Ovid, Dax
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
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Research Interests:  Curriculum studies; Higher education; Instructor talk; Study abroad

Owsiak, Andrew
Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, International Affairs
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Research Interests:  Countries fighting one another; Peaceful relations; Ending conflict

Padilla, Heather
Assistant Professor, Health Promotion & Behavior
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Research Interests: Evaluation; Nutrition; Physical activity; Worksites; Rural communities

Pjesivac, Ivanka
Associate Professor, Journalism
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2019-2021
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Research Interests: Media effects; International and cross cultural communication; Virtual reality journalism

Quinn, Shannon
Associate Professor, Computer Science
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Research Interests:  Distributed computing; Deep learning; Computer vision; Bio-imaging; Public health informatics; Bio-surveillance

Rajbhandari-Thapa, Janani
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management
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Research Interests:  Policy; Program planning and evaluation, Application of behavioral economics; Childhood obesity; Food behavior

Ratcliff, Chelsea
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2021-2023
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Research Interests: Alcohol, Drug Use and other Addictive / Risky Behaviors, Cognitive Processes and Emotions, Communications, Genetics, Obesity and other Chronic Diseases

Ravindran, Niyantri
Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Science
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2023-2025
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Research Interests: Dynamics of parent-child interactions; parental socialization of emotion; stress reactivity and regulation in parents and children; emotion regulation; social competence; peer relationships

Read, Glenna
Associate Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2022-2024
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Research Interests:  Video surveillance; Video interpretation bias; Media effects; Social representation and message processing; Decision-making

Robertson, Melissa
Assistant Professor, Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2023-2025
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Research Interests:  Social relationships; mentoring and supervision; diversity and inclusion; health and wellbeing; measurement and methodology

Robinson, Michael A.
Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests:  Photovoice; African Americans; Youth; Police encounters

Roth, Cassia
Associate Professor, History
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Research Interests:  Reproductive health; Public health; Latin America; Abortion; Childbirth

Russo-Tait, Tatiane
Assistant Professor, Cellular Biology
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Research Interests:  Critical consciousness; Equity; Social justice in STEM

Sabatinelli, Dean
Associate Professor, Psychology
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Research Interests:  Anxiety; Brain Connectivity; Depression; Functional Imaging; Sex Differences

Safadi, Hani
Associate Professor, Management Information Systems
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Research Interests:  Healthcare IT; Open-source organizing; Social media; Online Communities

Sattler, Lilian
Assistant Professor, Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2015-17
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Research Interests:  Nutrition; Cardiovascular health; Pharmacotherapy; Global health

Schecter, Aaron
Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems
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Research Interests:  Computational Methods, Experimental Methods, Networks, Organizations

Schlesinger, Ari
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
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Research Interests:  Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Communication, Computational Methods, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Ethnography, Gender, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Identity, Media, Organizations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Sexuality and Sexual Identity, STEM, Work and Occupations

Sekandi, Juliet
Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
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Research Interests:  Tuberculosis & HIV/AIDS; Urban Community-based Health Research; Patient Satisfaction; Mobile Health (mHealth); Maternal and Reproductive Health

Seock, Yoo-Kyoung
Professor & Graduate Coordinator, Textiles, Merchandising & Interiors
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Research Interests:  Consumer psychology and behavior, cross-cultural study, adolescents’ behavioral study

Seponski, Desiree
Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2015-17
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Research Interests:  Culturally Responsive Therapy; Responsive methodologies; Southeast Asia families; Trauma

Shannon, Jerry
Associate Professor, Geography
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Research Interests:  Community engaged research; Food security/Food access; Housing; Urban development; Critical GIS

Shannon, Sarah
Meigs Professor, Sociology
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Research Interests:  Inequality; Family; Life course; Aging; Crime; Law; Deviance

Sheagley, Geoffrey
Associate Professor, Political Science
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Research Interests:  Political psychology; political polarization; decision-making; political knowledge

Singh, Shane
Professor, International Affairs
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Research Interests:  Elections; Democracy; Political attitudes; Electoral behavior; Electoral rules

Sinha, Gaurav R.
Assistant Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests:  Computational Methods, Higher Education, Mental Health

Skinner-Dorkenoo, Allison
Assistant Professor, Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2019-2021
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Research Interests:  Transmission of social bias and prejudice among both children and adults

Slatcher, Richard
Gail M. Williamson Distinguished Professor, Psychology
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Research Interests:  Social relationships; health & well-being; asthma; and psychoneuroimmunology

Song, Suhang
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
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Research Interests:  Health disparities; Health policy; Health economics; Non-communicable diseases; Cognitive aging

Stauffer, Katelyn
Assistant Professor, Political Science
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Research Interests:  Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Experimental Methods, Gender, Identity, Survey Methods

Stefaniak, Jill
Associate Professor, Workforce Education and Instructional Technology
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Research Interests:  Education and Learning

Terui, Sachiko
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2022-2024
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Research Interests:  Health communication, Intercultural communication; Interpersonal communication; Health disparities

Thompson, Jennifer Jo
Associate Research Scientist, Crop and Soil Sciences
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Research Interests:  Food systems; Social justice; Policy outcomes; Risk perception; Sustainable food

Tinkler, Justine
Associate Professor, Sociology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2013-15
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Research Interests:  Social psychology; Law; Sexual misconduct; Policy; Gender; Race

Tuma, Trevor
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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Research Interests:  Assessment and Evaluation, Diversity, Education and Learning, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, STEM

Verma, Amitabh
Associate Professor, College of Environment + Design
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Research Interests:  Mental health; Stress/Anxiety alleviation; Design communication; Sketching; Drawing

Vick, Alfred
Georgia Power Professor in Environmental Design, College of Environment + Design
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Research Interests:  Environment and Ecosystems, Exercise, Geographic Information Systems, Obesity, Physical Health and Well-being

Wang, Shiyu
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
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Research Interests:  Latent variable modeling; Adaptive design; Educational measurement; Statistics; Psychometric

Warmath, Dee
Associate Professor, Financial Planning, Housing, & Consumer Economics
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Research Interests:  Well-being; Financial decision-making; Decision skill; Overconfidence; economic empowerment

Washington, Tiffany
Associate Professor, Social Work
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2015-2017
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Research Interests:  Health disparities; Disease self-management; Older Adults; Dementia care giving; Intervention research; Implementation science

Watkins, Kimberly
Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
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Research Interests:  Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Emotion, Gender, Identity, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, Personality, Physical Health and Well-being, Sexuality and Sexual Identity, Social Psychology, Survey Methods

Weatherly, Christopher
Assistant Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests:  Environment and Ecosystems, Ethnography, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders

Weliweriya, Nandana
Lecturer, Physics and Astronomy
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Research Interests:  Assessment and Evaluation, Education and Learning, Higher Education, STEM

Whalen, Christopher
Distinguished Research Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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Research Interests:  Tuberculosis and HIV

Wieling, Elizabeth
Professor, Human Development and Family Science
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Research Interests: Traumatic Stress, Evidence Based Interventions for Parenting, Latinx families, Children and families

Wojdynski, Bartosz
Associate Professor, Journalism
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Research Interests:  Design; Visual attention; News; Advertising; Effects of images on persuasion

Wright, Theresa
Associate Director, Carl Vinson Institute of Government
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Research Interests:  Evaluation; Performance measurement; Survey research

Xie, Lusi
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
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Research Interests:  Behavioral economics; Agri-environmental policies; Ecosystem services

Xu, Jing
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
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Research Interests:  Skill learning; Human dexterity; Cognition; Motor control; Neurorehabilitation

Yao, Xiaobai Angela
Professor, Geography
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Research Interests:  GIScience; Urban Growth and Transportation; Public Health; Data Analysis and Modeling; Geocomputation; Qualitative GIS

Ye, Kaixiong (Calvin)
Assistant Professor, Genetics
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Research Interests: Human Genetics; Nutrition; Direct-to-consumer Genetic Testing

Yi, Hui
Research Scientist, School of Social Work
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Research Interests: Statistics; Data analytics; Hidden population estimation; Genetics

Yingying, Zeng
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
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Research Interests: Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Gender, Immigration, Mental Health, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Yli-Piipari, Sami
Associate Professor, Kinesiology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2017-2019
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Research Interests: Obesity; Motivation; Physical activity; Serious games; Wellness; Exercise

Young, Henry
Department Head and Professor, Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy
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Research Interests:  Health outcomes; Minority populations; Under served populations

Young, Nicholas
Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy
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Research Interests:  Assessment and Evaluation, Education and Learning, Higher Education, STEM

Zeng, Yingying
Assistant Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests:  Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Gender, Immigration, Mental Health, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Zhai, Xiaoming
Associate Professor, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education
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Research Interests:  Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Education and Learning, STEM

Zhang, Liwei
Assistant Professor, Social Work
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Research Interests:  Infant and Child Development, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Violence and Injury

Zhong, Wenxuan
Professor, Statistics
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Research Interests:  Bioinformatics, imaging, dimension reduction, big data analytics, high performance computing