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OIBR Recently Received Four New Funded Grants

Andrea Horsman on August 28, 2017

Things are really hopping at the Institute!! We are pleased to congratulate the following OIBR Affiliates and Fellow on their funded grants this summer:

Affiliate Denise Lewis (Human Development & Family Science) received $3+ million from the National Academies of Sciences and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her project Community and Family Resilience, Strength and Well-being: Sociocultural Influences on Cambodian and Laotian Refugee Communities’ Responses to Environmental Changes. More information…

Affiliate Margaret Caughy (Human Development & Family Science) received $2.8 million from NIH for her project entitled Self-regulation Development and the Transition to Middle School. More about Dr. Caughy here.

Affiliate Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn (Journalism) was awarded $3.3 million from NIH for her research project The Virtual Fitness Buddy Ecosystem: Using Digital Technology to Promote and Sustain Moderate-to-Vigorous Intensity Physical Activity in Children. More about Grace and her research can be found here.

Fellow Leann Birch (Foods and Nutrition) and Affiliate Justin Lavner (Psychology) teamed together and have been awarded $2.7 million from NIH for their project Responsive Parenting, Sleep, and Rapid Weight Gain among African American Infants. More information…

We are very proud of these faculty members and look forward to working with them on these exciting research projects! Go here if you would like more information on the benefits and services OIBR offers.

New Director of UGA Obesity Initiative Named

Andrea Horsman on August 28, 2017

Birch

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 is a leader in research for early obesity prevention. This is great news for UGA!

The mission of the Obesity Initiative is to promote transdisciplinary research that will inform effective and sustainable obesity prevention programs for children and families. The Obesity Initiative will be working in collaboration with the University of Georgia  Center for Family Research (CFR), conducting research to reduce health disparities in obesity among low-income African Americans.

OIBR Welcomes Five New Grantsmanship Development Program Particpants

Andrea Horsman on August 14, 2017

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
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Isha Metzger, PhD, Assistant Professor
Psychology

Kristen Shockley, Assistant Professor
Psychology

Sami Yli-Piipari, PhD, Assistant Professor
Kinesiology

If you would like more information about our GDP program, go here for more details.

Two New Fellows Join OIBR This Summer

Andrea Horsman on June 29, 2017

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Dorothy Carter and Dr. Gregory (Greg) Strauss as new Fellows with the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research

 

Dr. Dorothy Carter is with UGA’s Psychology Dept. She is a participant in our Grantsmanship Development Program and was recently awarded a $1 million grant from NASA. Dr. Carter is an excellent example of how OIBR can work with and support faculty members. We are so proud of you Dr. Carter!

Dr. Greg Strauss is also from UGA Psychology. He was recently awarded major research funding from NIMH (as Principal Investigator) to study anhedonia in schizophrenia. Congratulations Greg!

Nathan T. Carter announced as newest OIBR Fellow

Andrea Horsman on June 5, 2017

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 as a Principal Investigator.

 

OIBR Grantsmanship Development Participant Dorothy Carter Receives $1 Million NASA Grant

Andrea Horsman on June 5, 2017

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 of interdependent organizational networks (project FUSION). Dr. Carter’s work will help support astronaut health during the Mars mission. Find out more here: NASA Selects 7 Proposals to Support Astronaut Health on Missions to Mars

Jody Clay-Warner Receives the 2017 William A. Owens Creative Research Award

Andrea Horsman on May 4, 2017

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 the laws and policies designed to control these problems. Her research broadens the understanding of injustice by systematically examining how social structure and contextual factors affect how people perceive and rationalize injustice, as well as the emotional, cognitive and legal processes involved in responses to injustice. For example, she challenged the notion that women are always more likely to perceive gender discrimination than are men, developing a theoretical model that explained how occupational structure affected perceptions of gender bias. Her work on violence against women demonstrates the role of structural and contextual factors on women’s responses to sexual violence and on re-victimization. Carried out in a rigorous way theoretically and methodologically, her work contributes to understanding and perhaps solving some of our most pressing social problems.

Research awards are sponsored by the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.

Sun Joo “Grace” Ahn receives 2017 Early Career Scholar Award

Andrea Horsman on May 4, 2017

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 attitudes and behaviors in the physical world. Ahn was among the first in her field to call attention to the need to re-examine and extend classical theories and models of persuasion and communication in a digital era. Her work, which has advanced the scholarship of persuasive communication by integrating communication, psychology, computer science and public health, makes unique and timely contributions to our understanding of how virtual reality systems can impact attitudes and behaviors of children and adults in ways that were difficult or impossible with traditional media systems. Widely recognized as a rising star of her field, Ahn’s work will have a profound influence on our understanding of how virtual communication technologies transform the way people learn, relate and play.

Research awards are sponsored by the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.