As Hollywood awards season closes out, the University of Georgia puts out its own red carpet for exceptional scholarship.
For 44 years, the university has honored faculty and students who have demonstrated significant achievements in their respective fields through research, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.
This year’s recipients are being honored at a banquet on April 20 as part of UGA’s Honors Week activities. The Research Awards program is sponsored by the University of Georgia Research Foundation.
The full list of winners:
Robert C. Anderson Awards
Justin Stilwell – College of Veterinary Medicine
James L. Carmon Scholarship
Alison Banks – doctoral student in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Geography
Ehsan Latif (honorable mention) – doctoral student in the School of Computing
Postdoctoral Research Awards
Ellen Haynes – postdoctoral research associate in the College of Veterinary Medicine
Vicente Kenyi Saito-Diaz – postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Molecular Medicine
Team Impact Award
The UGA Cognitive Aging Research and Education (CARE) Team – Lisa Renzi-Hammond, Jenay Beer, Sharon Liggett, Denise Dixon Everson, Don Scott, Devin Lavender and Stephen Correia
Inventor of the Year
Michael Hahn – professor in the Department of Plant Biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Entrepreneur of the Year
Puliyur MohanKumar – professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine
Research Communications Award
Andrew K. Davis – animal ecologist and assistant research scientist in the Odum School of Ecology
Non-Tenure Track Faculty Research Excellence Awards
Parastoo Azadi – associate director for service and training at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Earl “Bud” Cooper – clinical professor in the Mary Frances College of Early Education Department of Kinesiology
Robert L. Foster – senior lecturer in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Religion
Dehai Zhao – senior research scientist in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Early Career Scholar: Michael F. Adams Award
Nora C. Benedict – assistant professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Romance Languages
Early Career Scholar: Fred C. Davison Award
Lin Mu – assistant professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Mathematics
Breeanna Urbanowicz – assistant professor in the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Early Career Scholar: Charles B. Knapp Award
Emily Noble – assistant professor in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Creative Research Medals
Assaf Oshri – associate professor in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Susan Wilde – associate professor in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Jin Ye – associate professor in the College of Engineering
Albert Christ-Janer Creative Research Award
Jed Rasula – Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award
James C. Beasley – Terrell Professor in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Natarajan Kannan – professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Karen Norris – GRA Eminent Scholar in Immunology and Translational Biomedicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine
William A. Owens Creative Research Award
Bradley Wright – professor and head of the Department of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs
Distinguished Research Professors
Sujata Iyengar – professor in the Department of English in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Christopher West – professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Joshua D. Miller – professor in the Department of Psychology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences