Workplace wellness programs aim to improve employee health and lower employers’ health care costs, but not all programs have the same impact or cost the same. Much of a program’s success—and whether it was worth an employer’s investment—depends on how it’s...
OIBR Affiliate and 2016 Grantsmanship Development Program participant, Y. Joon Choi conducts research that addresses issues such as substance abuse and intimate partner violence while also educating future social work professionals and researchers. Learn more about Dr. Choi here ...
OIBR Fellow, Dorothy Carter, Assistant Professor in Psychology, applies I/O psychology principles to help organizations, researchers and companies solve big challenges. In her Leadership, Innovation, Networks, and Collaboration, or LINC, Laboratory, she and her research team work to help provide...
In This Issue FEATURED NEWS NIH Releases Data Science Strategic Plan COSSA IN ACTION Letters & Statements CONGRESSIONAL NEWS Congress Moves Forward on FY 2019 Spending FEDERAL AGENCY & ADMINISTRATION NEWS Census Issues Request for Comment on Decennial Data Collection Minerva Initiative Releases 2018 Funding Opportunity Announcement, Topics of...
In This Issue FEATURED NEWS House Panel Passes FY 2019 Funding for NSF, Census, NIJ COSSA IN ACTION COSSA Presents Rep. Dan Lipinski with Distinguished Service Award Letters & Statements CONGRESSIONAL NEWS House and Senate Committees Approve FY 2019 Agriculture Funding Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing on 2019 NIH...
In This Issue FEATURED NEWS House Appropriations Subcommittees Begin Marking Up Spending Legislation COSSA IN ACTION CJRA and COSSA to Host "Ask a Criminologist" Panel on How the Opioid Epidemic and Police-Community Relations Impact Homicides Letters & Statements CONGRESSIONAL NEWS Congress Questions Commerce, Census on Citizenship Question FEDERAL...
We are excited to welcome Dr. Joshua A. Gordon, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to our campus on Tuesday, May 1 to present the 2018 William A. Owens lecture. This event is free to open to anyone...
The 2018 First-Year Odyssey Teaching Award goes to Jamie Cooper, an OIBR Affiliate and an associate professor of food and nutrition in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Dr. Cooper uses her research on reducing obesity to give her...
Brett Clementz, OIBR Fellow and a professor in the psychology department, has rapidly advanced the understanding of the biological bases of psychoses with the use of brain scan technologies, batteries of patient tests and sophisticated data analysis. His early goal was...
Joshua D. Miller, OIBR Fellow and a professor and director of clinical training in the psychology department at Franklin College, has played a leading role in developing, testing and advocating a new model of understanding personality disorders. Mental health professionals have...
In This Issue FEATURED NEWS Recap of the 2018 COSSA Science Policy Conference COSSA IN ACTION Social Science Advocates Take to Capitol Hill COSSA Submits Testimony in Support of Science Funding Senators Join Together in Support of the Institute for Education Sciences FEDERAL...
Over the course of a five-year project, Emilie Smith, OIBR Fellow and head of the human development and family science department at UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and her team from Pennsylvania State University studied 72 community-based after-school...
In This Issue FEATURED NEWS Psychologist Kristina R. Olson Receives Alan T. Waterman Award COSSA IN ACTION Less Than Two Weeks Until COSSA's Science Policy Conference and Advocacy Day Letters & Statements CONGRESSIONAL NEWS Jerry Moran Tapped to Lead Senate CJS Subcommittee House Subcommittee Discusses 2019 NIH Budget FEDERAL...
In This Issue FEATURED NEWS 2020 Census to Ask About Citizenship; COSSA Releases Statement and Action Alert COSSA IN ACTION Science Policy Conference Program Taking Shape; Hotel Block Extended to April 6 COSSA to Present 2018 Distinguished Service Award to Rep. Dan Lipinski, NIH's Bill...
Our Cocktails & Collaboration event last year was a big success, so we have decided to do it again! This event is designed for those of you actively seeking research collaborators and/or new research opportunities. We are also encouraging you to...
COSSA Member Spotlight on the University of Georgia & OIBR...
Congress Moves FY 2018 Spending Bills Ahead of August Recess...
White House Outlines FY2019 R&D Budget Priorities, Emphasizes Role of Industry...
House Passes Omnibus Spending Bill Along with Problematic NSF Amendment...
New NIH "Clinical Trials" Definition to Impact Basic Social and Behavioral Science Research...
COSSA, SAGE Host Why Social Science? Congressional Briefing...
COSSA Joins Societies in Requesting Changes to NIH Clinical Trial Policy...
House and Senate Release Bipartisan Evidence-Based Policymaking Bill...
Save the Date: 2018 COSSA Science Policy Conference and Social Science Advocacy Day - April 30 & May 1...
Congress Passes Two-Week Stopgap Funding Bill, Returns to Debate Spending and Taxes...
Early Bird Registration Open for 2018 COSSA Science Policy Conference...
After Three-Day Shutdown, Congress Passes Funding through February 8...
Senate Commerce Committee Hears Updates from NSF, NIST Leaders...
Trump Releases FY 2019 Budget Request; Read COSSA's Analysis of Social Science Impacts...