PICTURE A SCIENTIST A Film by Sharon Shattuck and Ian Cheney PICTURE A SCIENTIST is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. A biologist, a chemist and a geologist lead viewers...
Owens Institute for Behavioral Research Fellow, Catherine O’Neal spends her time studying how people—especially couples and families—relate to each other and how they can do it better. She began training as a marriage and family therapist but fell in love with...
American Psychological Association has awarded the Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology award to OIBR Fellow, Katie Ehrlich. Since 1974, the APA Early Career Awards have been given to recognize the large number of excellent, early career psychologists. Recipients of...
Traditional gendered patterns of child care persisted during the COVID-19 shutdown, with more than a third of couples relying on women to provide most or all of it, according to a study from OIBR Fellow and University of Georgia researcher...
The University's newest Regents Professor is OIBR's past Director, Steven R.H. Beach, Distinguished Research Professor in the department of psychology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. This honor is bestowed by the Board of Regents of the University...
For four decades, OIBR Fellow and Terry College of Business management professor Robert Vandenberg has found new ways to accurately assess the attitudes, feelings and behaviors that employees experience in the workplace. Vandenberg, who serves as head of the Department of Management and the...
[caption id="attachment_8251" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Lillian Eby joined UGA’s psychology department in 1996, participated in the mentoring program for faculty created by the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, and became OIBR director in 2013. (Photo by Beth Chang)[/caption] With 199 affiliated faculty...
[caption id="attachment_8409" align="alignright" width="435"] Photo by Amy Ware[/caption] Growing up in poverty and experiencing racial discrimination can affect physical health, and a research team led by Owens Institute Fellow, Gene Brody, a Regents’ Professor and director of the Center for Family...
Dr. Lillian Eby, director of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research at UGA, and a professor of psychology and has been named UGA’s 2020 recipient of the Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award. This award honors one individual from each SEC...
Seven faculty teams were awarded funds for projects that span 15 colleges, schools and other units at the University of Georgia. When the first Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grants were awarded in 2017, 12 faculty teams received funds totaling some $1.37...
Dr. Lillian Eby, current director of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research and a professor of psychology, has been named the incoming editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology. Having served as associate editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology as well...
Research by Greg Strauss, OIBR Fellow and Assistant Professor of Psychology at UGA shows that targeting one particular symptom of schizophrenia has a positive effect on other symptoms, offering significant promise for treating an aspect of schizophrenia that currently has...
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...
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Dr. Gene Brody Gene Brody, Regents Professor, OIBR Fellow and director of UGA’s Center for Family Research, will deliver the keynote address on Monday, Nov. 18, at the National Institutes of Health’s inaugural Rural Health Seminar in Bethesda, Maryland....
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...
[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] OIBR Fellows, Jay A. Mancini (HDFS) and K.A.S. Wickrama (HDFS) have received the Excellence in Research on Military and Veteran Families Award for 2018 (this award is sponsored by the Military Family Research...