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...
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...
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...
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...
The Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) has a new feature on their website that will allow you to search federal funding of Social and Behavioral Science research by state. Included in this downloadable information are highlights of the total...
We are proud to announce Lilian Sattler, an OIBR Affiliate and Grantsmanship Development Program alumna, is the recent recipient of a highly competitive KL2 award as part of the Atlanta and Clinical Translational Science Institute Training Program. The proposal entitled, "Effect of...
Principal Investigator Rebecca Lieberman-Betz, an Associate Professor with the UGA Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education and a graduate of OIBR's Grantsmanship Development Program, was recently awarded a new 5 year, $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of...
Each year, the Consortium of Social Science Associations releases their college and university rankings for federal social and behavioral science research and development. This year, the University of Georgia ranked #40 with $12.7m of funding for social science. This make...
The Association for Psychological Science has named UGA Psychology Assistant Professor Justin Lavner as a 2017 APS Rising Star. This designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced...
The institute will be moving the week of December 11-15. Please bear with us as we get everything moved to our new space in Brooks Hall. Staff responses may be delayed during this time but we hope to be up...
Congratulations to Jody Clay-Warner, OIBR Fellow and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and head of the sociology department in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Maria E. Len-Rios, OIBR Affiliate and associate professor of public relations in the Grady...
The 10th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health is co-hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and AcademyHealth and is set for December 4-6, 2017 in Arlington, VA. This purpose of the conference is...
Associate Director of OIBR, Dr. Phaedra Corso, and OIBR Affiliate and Grantsmanship Development Program participant, David Okech (GDP Class of 2014-16), have been named as Fellows to the SEC Academic Leadership Development Program for the 2017-18 academic year. The SEC Academic...
The Owens Institute for Behavioral Research is proud to be a part of one of the largest research grants in our state's history! In September, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $55 million to expand a collaborative partnership that...
We are so proud of our very own Phaedra S. Corso, Ph.D.!! She is one of fifteen people profiled in the Fiscal Year 2017 Annual Report from the President's office. In addition to being the Associate Director for the...
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Please join us in congratulating OIBR Fellow, Leann Birch (Foods & Nutrition) for being appointed the new Director of the Obesity Initiative on campus. Dr. Birch has done pioneering work on obesity and...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] We welcome five UGA faculty members to participate in the Class of 2017-2019 Grantsmanship Development Program: Allen Barton, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate Human Development and Family Science Jeong-Yeob Han, PhD, Associate Professor Advertising Isha Metzger, PhD, Assistant Professor Psychology Kristen...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Please join us in congratulating Dr. Dorothy Carter and Dr. Gregory (Greg) Strauss as new Fellows with the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Dr. Dorothy Carter is with UGA’s Psychology Dept. She is a...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Please join us in congratulating Dr. Nathan Carter (Psychology) as our newest OIBR Fellow. Nate is one of our former Grantsmanship Development Program Participants, and was recently awarded major research funding from NSF...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congratulations to our GDP and Affiliate Dorothy Carter from UGA's Psychology Dept. She has been awarded a $1 million grant from NASA. This grant will fund her research exploring the facilitation of unified systems...
COSSA has analyzed the impact of the President’s proposed budget on behavioral and social sciences. NOTE- This budget is NOT final. Find it here: COSSA-FY-2018-Budget-Analysis ...
Congratulations to Jody Clay-Warner, OIBR Fellow, for receiving the 2017 William A. Owens Creative Research Award Jody Clay-Warner, Meigs Professor of Sociology, investigates injustice from both basic and applied vantage points, addressing critical problems in our society: injustice, violence, victimization, and...
Congratulations to Grace Ahn, OIBR Affiliate, for receiving the Charles B. Knapp Early Career Scholar Award 2017 Grace Ahn, assistant professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, studies how user experiences in virtual worlds shape and transform individual...
Congratulations to Rebecca Matthew, an Affiliate of OIBR and assistant professor in the School of Social Work is the Principal Investigator for her proposal entitled, " Building a network of cultural liaisons to improve the health and well-being of Athens-area...