Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
The University of Georgia
Professor, Advertising Public Relations
Co-director, Grady College Center for Health & Risk Communications
website | gnowak@uga.edu
Research Interests include health communication, infectious and vaccine preventable disease communication
Professor and Assistant Department Head, Public Relations
website | yanjin@uga.edu
Research Interests include crisis, risk, conflict, misinformation, emotion, and social media
Associate Professor, Social Work
website | ager@uga.edu
Research Interests: Poverty, social policy, consumer debt, and social media
Professor, Kinesiology
2013-15 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | tab3@uga.edu
Research Interests: how commercial laws influence sport marking, and on risk management in two specialized areas: (a) preventing sexual abuse in youth sports and (b) terrorism management at sports facilities
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
2015-17 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | arroyo@uga.edu
Research Interests include intergenerational transmission of body image issues and its relation to mental and physical health outcomes (e.g. depression, eating disorders, overweight/obesity, exercise, dieting, etc.) among grandmother-mother-daughter triads
Assistant Professor, Political Science and Public Administration and Policy
website | ljanastas@uga.edu
Research Interests: American politics, bureaucracy, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and casual inference
Professor, Advertising
website | sjahn@uga.edu
Research Interests include Interactive digital media; communications; social interactions; virtual experiences; STEM
Meigs Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2023 OIBR Lillian Eby Mentoring Award Recipient
website | eldolan@uga.edu
Research Interests include research training, mentorship, and career development
