Assessment and Evaluation

Ardoin, Scott
Professor, Educational Psychology
Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Education
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | spardoin@uga.edu
Research Interests include reading comprehension, eye tracking, behavior analysis, and classroom management

Bagwell-Adams, Grace
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management
website | gbagwell@uga.edu
Research Interests: food assistance policy, obesity policy, effect of health policy on vulnerable populations, program evaluation

Brickman, Peggy
Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Plant Biology
website | brickman@uga.edu
Research Interests include group work, collaborative learning, undergraduates, and professional development

Carswell, Andy
Professor, Financial Planning, Housing, and Consumer Economics
website | carswell@uga.edu
Research Interests include housing counseling, sprawl/growth management initiatives, residential mobility programs, predatory lending, affordable lending programs, and mortgage fraud

Dazzo, Giovanni
Assistant Professor, Lifelong Education, Administration & Policy
website | giovanni.dazzo@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Adolescents; Children and Youth; Culture; Education and Learning; LGBTQ; Methods Specialization

DeMeester, Karen
Public Service Associate, Carl Vinson Institute of Government
website | karend@uga.edu
Research Interests include evaluation, designing evaluations, and research projects evaluations

Dolan, Erin
Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Innovative Science Education, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | eldolan@uga.edu
Research Interests include research training, mentorship, and career development

Fazlul, Ishtiaque
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management and International Affairs (Jointly)
website | ifazlul@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Health economics; Education economics

Futris, Ted
Georgia Athletic Association Professor, Family & Consumer Sciences
website | tfutris@uga.edu
Research Interests include couples, relationships, outreach, evaluation, and community engagement

Graizbord, Diana
Assistant Professor, Sociology
website | dgraizbord@uga.edu
Research Interests include sociology of science, political sociology, globalization, and development and social change

Han, Jeong-Yeob
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | jeonghan@uga.edu
Research Interests include eHealth communication, social media, online communities, cancer communication, and media effects

Krimm, Hannah
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
website | hannah.krimm@uga.edu
Research Interests include developmental language disorders, reading, writing, and dyslexia

Lemons, Paula
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Associate Dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | plemons@uga.edu
Research Interests include pedagogy, assessment, cognition, and organizational change

McAndrews, Laura
Assistant Professor, Textiles, Merchandising & Interiors
website | lauraemc@uga.edu
Research Interests include global apparel supply chain, organized dynamics, living with disabilities, and clothing-related barriers

McDowell, Jennifer
Associate Director, OIBR
Professor, Psychology
website | jemcd@uga.edu
Research Interests include cognition, psychotic disorders, neuroimaging, and eye movement

Neuharth-Pritchett, Stacey
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Education
Professor, Educational Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sneuhart@uga.edu
Research Interests include young children, poverty, health, Head Start, and ACEs

Padilla, Heather
Assistant Professor, Health Promotion & Behavior
website | hmpadilla@uga.edu
Research Interests include evaluation, nutrition, physical activity, worksites, and rural communities

Song, Suhang
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
website | suhang.song@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Health disparities; Health policy; Health economics; Non-communicable diseases; Cognitive aging

Wright, Theresa
Sr. Public Service Associate, Carl Vinson Institute of Government
website | tawright@uga.edu
Research Interests include program evaluation, QUAL data collection, performance measurement, and survey research

Young, Nicholas
Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy
website | nicholas.young@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Education and Learning, Higher Education, STEM

Zeng, Yingying
Assistant Professor, Social Work
website | yzeng@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Gender, Immigration, Mental Health, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Zeng, Yingying
Assistant Professor, Social Work
website | yzeng@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Gender, Immigration, Mental Health, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Zhong, Wenxuan
Professor, Statistics
website | wenxuan@uga.edu
Research Interests include bioinformatics, imaging, dimension reduction, big data analytics, and high performance computing