Tag: Faculty Profile

Franklin College professor focuses on making research data more accessible

Jessica Kissinger is a molecular geneticist whose research on the evolution of disease and the…
Professor prepares students to be engineers, community leaders

When Stephan Durham teaches his students about civil engineering, he hopes they take away not…
Extension specialist helps growers with peach concerns

As UGA’s new peach specialist, Dario Chavez’s first order of business is to listen. Since…
Professor specializes in aquatic animal disease diagnosis

Al Camus is on call 24 hours a day, but he’s not rushing into hospitals…
Administrator expands Russell Library’s ‘digital realm’

Jill Severn is a big-picture person.”I’m probably the only person who works in a library…
Brody’s career shaped by work with Native American children

Forty years ago, on an Native American reservation in southwest Arizona, Gene Brody’s career took…
SPIA professor studies extremism in democratic nations

Cas Mudde, an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs, doesn’t shy…
Professor drawn to ‘human component’ of waste management

Jenna Jambeck, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering, is obsessed with trash.
Morgan builds business law, ethics program

Carol Morgan grew up wanting to be a teacher, but her path to the classroom…
Professor studies domestic violence among female, Korean immigrants

America is known as “the land of the free.” For Korean immigrant women trapped in abusive…
PSO Fellow applies service-learning methodology to environmental design

Alfie Vick is serious when he recounts his first spoken words-“Do it!” followed by “More…
Lecturer, playwright finds inspiration from various sources

When John Patrick Bray watches a play he’s written being performed on stage for the…
Romance languages professor makes his mark at university

Francis Assaf has introduced generations of students to the joys of the French language and…
Speaking the same language

Working with university students often has a way of making Victor Wilson, UGA’s vice president…
Public Health prof tackles indoor air pollution in developing countries

Traveling from Guatemala, Peru and Chile to India, Luke Naeher has spent his career studying…
Balancing the scale: Professor explores healthy weight loss for older adults

Ellen Evans wants to make a difference in the quality of people’s lives-particularly, in older…
Professor researches ways to turn trees into biofuel

Chung-Jui “C.J.” Tsai has a lot of patience. Anyone studying forestry does, as trees don’t…
Ecology professor helps students become ‘data’ scientists

For a scientist equally passionate about teaching and research, what could be better than working…
Teachable moments

Sporting rectangular glasses and a neatly knotted bow tie, Craig H. Kennedy’s erudite appearance suggests…
Ruffled feathers

Chickens don’t commute to work and they don’t balance checkbooks, but they do get stressed.
Moving stories

This past spring, Kimberly Skobba took her students to a part of Athens most had…
The best medicine

Perry Buffington, a psychology lecturer teaching at UGA’s Griffin campus, offers a piece of vocational…
Prof studies what makes successful African-American marriages work

In wedding ceremonies, as marriages just begin, it’s traditional for the couples to vow commitment…
Librarian seeks to boost access to scholarly materials repository

Mariann Burright is on a mission.