Current GDP Participants
![Michael Barger Portrait](https://oibr.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2023/08/BargerSq-150x150.jpg)
Barger, Michael
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
2023-2025 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
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Research Interests: Early childhood learning; motivation and achievement in STEM
![Galvin,Thania](https://oibr.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2024/06/GalvinThania-150x150.jpeg)
Galvan, Thania
Assistant Professor, Psychology
2024-2026 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Profile
Research Interests: Mental health disparities; Latinx youth & families; Latinx immigrants; Traumatic stress; Risk & Resilience pathways
![Erin Hamel Portrait](https://oibr.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2023/08/Hamel-Sq-150x150.jpg)
Hamel. Erin
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
2023-2025 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
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Research Interests: Early childhood teaching; workplace supports; education quality
![He, Yimin](https://oibr.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2024/06/He-Yimin-150x150.png)
He, Yimin
Assistant Professor, Psychology
2024-2026 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
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Research Interests: Occupational health psychology; organizational climate; social network; quantitative methodologies
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Lapegna, Pablo
Associate Professor, Sociology
2023-2025 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
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Research Interests: Environmental and rural sociology; social movements; political sociology; health
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Olenick, Jeffrey
Assistant Professor, Psychology
2024-2026 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
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Research Interests: Learning, training, and development; teamwork, especially in extreme environments; diversity and inclusion; the role of organizations in systems of inequality
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Ravindran, Niyantri
Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Science
2023-2025 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
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Research Interests: Dynamics of parent-child interactions; parental socialization of emotion; stress reactivity and regulation in parents and children; emotion regulation; social competence; peer relationships
![mr](https://oibr.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2023/08/mr-148x150.png)
Robertson, Melissa
Assistant Professor, Psychology
2023-2025 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
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Research Interests: Social relationships; mentoring and supervision; diversity and inclusion; health and wellbeing; measurement and methodology
![Torelli, J.](https://oibr.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2024/06/Torelli-J-111x150.jpg)
Torelli, Jessica
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Special Education
2024-2026 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
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Research Interests: Teacher professional development; preventive behavior interventions; function-based assessment and intervention; functional analysis