Congratulations to the Owens Institute Fellows and Affiliates who have been awarded funds through the second round of Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grants. The winning proposals and faculty teams are: Overcoming Physical Distances with the Virtual Family Room: Virtual and Augmented Reality...
UGA Today recently featured Dr. Assaf Oshri for their Focus on Faculty article. Dr. Oshri is a Fellow with OIBR and an associate professor in the College of Family and Consumer Science. He is also the Director of the Stress, Trauma,...
Fifty years ago this month, NASA put two astronauts on the moon. NASA’s next giant leap will be sending humans to Mars, projected for the 2030s, and a University of Georgia researcher is partnering with the space agency to explore...
[caption id="attachment_7907" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Catherine O'Neil[/caption] Research led by OIBR Fellow and research scientist Catherine O’Neal, with UGA's College of Family and Consumer Sciences, says enhancing community connections for service members and their civilian spouses may be important in supporting their...
Tessa Andrews, OIBR Fellow and assistant professor of Genetics, was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation CAREER program, which supports research and outstanding teaching by junior faculty. Dr. Andrews will lead a five-year, national scale research and education...
There are approximately 14,000 full-time, tenured faculty members in the Southeastern Conference, and to be eligible for a SEC Faculty Achievement award the individual must have achieved the rank of full professor; have a record of extraordinary teaching; and have...
The week of April 1-5 is Honors week at UGA and a great time to celebrate the accomplishments of some of the Fellows and Affiliates with the Owens Institute. 2019 Research Awards: Nathan T. Carter, OIBR Fellow, Associate Professor, Psychology Creative Research Medal...
Dr. Sarah Shannon, OIBR Affiliate and Assistant Professor in Sociology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been named one of three recipients of the Richard B. Russell Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. This award is the...
Tessa Andrews, OIBR Affiliate and assistant professor of genetics in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is one of two faculty members in the system to receive a Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award. Dr. Andrews is a nationally...
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We are bursting with pride for our own Center for Family Research, which has been awarded the inaugural Presidents’ Award of Distinction for Team Science from the Georgia CTSA! This honor is bestowed upon a multi-disciplinary research team in recognition...
Each year, the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) releases their college and university rankings for federal social and behavioral science research and development. This year, the University of Georgia ranked #28 with $16.3m of funding for social science for...
Yan Jin, a graduate of the 2016 OIBR Grantsmanship Development Program and a Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Grady College, was recently awarded an external grant from WhatsApp Research. Yan Jin (Co-PI). “Misinformation Vulnerabilities among Elderly during Disease Outbreaks”. WhatsApp Research Awards...
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Dr. Paula Lemons (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology), Director of SEER Center and OIBR Fellow, received a $3M NSF grant for her project, “STEM Education at a Research 1 University through Multi-Level Action Teams” to help students better develop STEM knowledge...
OIBR Fellow, Katie Ehrlich, assistant professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of Psychology, recently received $2.3 million for the Director's New Innovator Award from the National Institute of Health Common Fund's High-Risk, High Reward Research program....
Self-regulation may hold the key to helping young adults overcome their risk for developing alcohol and drug problems, according to recent research led by OIBR Fellow Assaf Oshri, an associate professor in the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences. The...
Analysis of the Final FY 2019 Labor, Health Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill On September 28, President Trump signed into law a fiscal year (FY) 2019 funding package containing two of twelve appropriations bills, the Defense Appropriations bill...
Please join us in congratulating the following new Fellows of OIBR! Geoffrey Brown (HDFS) Former Grantsmanship Development Program Participant, Dr. Geoff Brown (HDFS) received an R01 from NIH to study how rural environments, social networks and paternal factors contribute to infant development...
Join OIBR and researchers across the Georgia CTSA for an evening of energetic and dynamic networking on Tuesday, October 30 from 5pm - 7:30pm. This is a great opportunity to meet potential collaborators from both clinical and basic science areas. The...
We are pleased to announce Dr. Emilie Smith, OIBR Fellow, has been named as one of the first Scholars-in-Residence with the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). The scholar-in-residence program, which was announced earlier this year, is designed to provide...
Scott Ardoin, OIBR Fellow, and Thomas Mote, OIBR Affiliate, are two of four faculty members that were selected as the university's 2018-2019 SEC Academic Leadership Development Program Fellows. The SEC Academic Leadership Development Program, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year,...
We congratulate four Psychology faculty members who have recently received national grant awards: Dr. Katie Ehrlich (Affiliate) received TWO awards! The first NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation will focus on proinflammatory phenotypes and depression risk...
The Owens Institute for Behavioral Research (OIBR) is seeking applications for faculty seed grant projects in the areas of social and behavioral science. All faculty in the social and behavioral sciences are encouraged to apply, but OIBR will give preference to...
Dr. Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn is an Associate Professor in Advertising at Grady College. She teaches undergraduate-level research methods, graduate-level user experience research, communication theory, and advertising and society. Her research examines how social media, video/internet games, and immersive virtual...
Congratulations to Dr. Gene Brody, an OIBR Fellow, who has recently been appointed to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Director's Strategic Planning Committee. In this role, one of his responsibilities will be...
University of Georgia President Jere W. Morehead has appointed a search committee to recruit and review candidates to be the next senior vice president for academic affairs and provost of the institution. Among this impressive committee are our very own...
Congratulations to Leann Birch, William P. "Bill" Flatt Childhood Obesity Professor with UGA's College of Family and Consumer Sciences and an OIBR Fellow, on the release of a great article from NIH regarding an intervention designed to help first-time mothers...
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...