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Columns::April 8, 2002
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Online journal features undergrad research in humanities and arts
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UGA honors
Research, scholarly endeavors recognized
By Lauren Stanchek and Natasha Splaine
rcomm@ovpr.uga.edu
The university honored outstanding faculty and graduate students April 3 at the 20th annual research awards banquet sponsored
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| Clifton Baile |
by the non-profit University of Georgia Research Foundation. The event recognized exceptional accomplishments in UGA research and scholarly endeavors.
Creative Research Awards went to Clifton A. Baile, Peter H. Hauschildt and Karen S. Calhoun. Both Baile and Hauschildt received the Lamar Dodd Award, which recognizes exceptional research activity in the sciences. Calhoun received the William A. Owens Award for her scholarly and creative activities in the social and behavioral sciences.
Baile is professor of animal and dairy sciences and foods and nutrition as well as the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of Agricultural Biotechnology. He helps transfer UGA research findings to industry by coordinating and advising faculty whose findings may have economically viable applications.
Baile works to recruit high-caliber faculty to UGA and improve UGA biotechnology research facilities through collaborations and successful grant writing. Since coming to UGA in 1995, he has helped procure a $38 million investment for new facilities, laboratories and equipment.
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| Peter Hauschildt |
Hauschildt, associate professor of physics and astronomy, develops computational models of stellar atmospheres. He developed the PHOENIX computer code, which is applied to a broad range of astrophysical problems and is noted for its value in interpreting spectroscopic observations.
Since joining the UGA faculty in 1996, Hauschildt has generated nearly $1.5 million in external research grants from sources such as the National Science Foundation and NASA. This is a highly unusual record in the realm of theory and computation.
Calhoun is professor of psychology. Her research on sexual violence is significant for defining the scope and consequences of sexual assault as well as its treatment and prevention.
Seeking to develop a deeper understanding of sexual violence by deciphering its causes and consequences, Calhoun focuses on both the victim and the perpetrator. With her colleagues at UGA and the University of Ohio, she has developed a preventive intervention program that shows promise in reducing sexual assault rates.
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| Karen Calhoun |
Five receive Creative Research Awards
Five Creative Research Medals were given to UGA faculty for outstanding research or creative activity on a single theme performed while at UGA in the past five years.
Recipients were Joseph H. Bouton, Yen-Con Hung, Elham Izadi, Doris Y. Kadish and Hubert H. McAlexander.
Bouton, professor of crop and soil sciences, has developed a new tall fescue product that is significantly improving livestock performance. Tall fescue is a widely used pasture grass that harbors a toxic fungus. The fescue needs this fungus for survival, but the toxin it produces causes negative effects on grazing livestock. The fungus results in reduced growth and reproduction among livestock and constitutes an annual loss of $1 billion to U.S. beef producers alone.
Working in collaboration with New Zealand’s Grasslands Research Centre, Bouton has created a new strain of tall fescue that sustains a non-toxic fungus. Commercialized under the name “MaxQ,” this new product has gained a reputation among producers for its positive impact on the livestock industry.
Hung, professor of food science and technology, has developed an alternative to chemical and heat treatments used by the food industry to sanitize the foods we eat. This alternative method uses electrolyzed oxidizing water, which effectively destroys harmful bacteria, preserves the nutrients normally destroyed by heat and eliminates excess chemicals in wastewater.
Hung was the first to use EO water in the food industry and interest in his work is spreading across the globe. He currently is working with Kagoshima University, the National Food Research Institute and the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan to apply his EO water technology.
Izadi, associate professor of mathematics, has provided the final step of an algebraic geometry problem that has eluded world experts for more than three decades. The theory of algebraic curves is vital to the development of mathematics and has led to the advancement of such fields as differential geometry, algebraic geometry, complex analysis and calculus. In the past, mathematicians realized that the geometry and analysis of algebraic curves could be better understood from an associated abelian variety called the Jacobian and specific functions on the Jacobian named theta-functions.
Izadi has solved the final, most technically difficult step in the analysis of the Jacobian of a curve and of its theta divisor. This work has attracted funding from the National Science Foundation and established Izadi as a leading expert in the field.
Kadish, professor of women’s studies and Romance languages, is generating new interest in the emerging field of French slavery studies through her research. Slavery in France and its overseas colonies is one of the least understood components of 19th-century French studies. Bringing together such diverse fields as drama, history, journalism, linguistics and literature, Kadish is highlighting the need for 19th-century scholars to recognize the integral role of colonialism and slavery in French literary history.
Her work focuses on the experiences of women in slavery, the writings of 18th-century French women and the works of contemporary women who write about slavery. These studies enable scholars to make connections between literary texts and the social issues that underlie them.
McAlexander, professor of English, studies the life and works of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Peter Taylor, whom critics consider one of the finest writers of short fiction in 20th-century America.
Throughout the course of his research, McAlexander has edited a collection of Taylor interviews and critical essays about Taylor’s work. His biography, Peter Taylor: A Writer’s Life, was recently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. McAlexander also was nominated for Georgia Author of the Year in Creative Nonfiction for this work.
Each year five UGA faculty members are named Distinguished Research Professors, an honor given to academicians whose work is recognized as being of the highest levels of creativity by national and international leaders in the discipline. This year’s recipients were Gary A. Dudley, exercise science; Arthur M. Horne, counseling and human development services; Jared S. Klein, linguistics, classics, and Germanic and Slavic languages; James N. Moore, large animal medicine; and Andrew H. Paterson, crop and soil sciences.
Chung K. “David” Chu, Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Pharmacy, received the Inventor’s Award, given for a unique, creative and innovative discovery that has made an impact on the community. |
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