College of Family and Consumer Sciences Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors PhD Candidate & Graduate Teaching Assistant 313 Dawson Hall 305 Sanford Dr. Athens, GA30602 scovington@uga.edu 609-992-4400 https://shamiracovington.com Curriculum Vitae Education Degree Field of Study Institution Graduation Research She received her masters degree in social work and is pursuing her Ph.D. in social work at the UGA. Award from the Department of Sociology for her thesis research, which examined how economic hardship indirectly increases the risk for risky sexual behavior among Black American adolescents through its negative impact on family processes. She hopes to mold young minds and make a difference in the world through her research, teaching, and service. As a writer, Di is currently assisting on a Disney Film, has a story she wrote being considered for series and is hoping the Consolidated Creative Feature Film script she co-wrote with another MFA Performance cohort member sees production in Maymester 2023. Peter Cassels is a graduate student and aspiring mathematician originally from Chelmsford, Massachusetts and now in his first-year at the math Ph.D. program at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include aging policy, labor policy, low-income workers, life-course labor, the retirement process, and life after retirement. She has been serving as a research and teaching assistant to Dr. Walker Swain and Dr. Richard Blissett. The SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program offers two awards to students who are pursuing Ph.D.s and plan to become college and university professors: the Dissertation Award and the Doctoral Fellowship Award. The purpose of this fellowship is to recruit, support, and encourage exceptional graduate-level students who will study and conduct research in all fields, with preference given to doctoral students at the University of Ge She is pursuing a career in clinical neuropsychology. He received UGA's Creative Research Award in 2022 and was elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America in 2018. Before moving to UGA, Yitang pursued a masters degree in Public Health at the University of Florida, developing the ability to track down risk factors and causes of diseases. Sophals scholarly interest is in traumatic stress caused by human and natural disasters. Kenya has over a decade of experience as an epidemiologist with her research interests centering on examining structural barriers impacting maternal and child survival. Hyesu Yeo is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia School of Social Work (UGA SSW). Beth decided to attend the University of Georgia for her doctoral studies due to the institutions research activity, academic rigor, and supportive culture. L). Anyas dissertation investigates womens land access in the context of a hydroelectric project and adjacent conservation area in Sierra Leone, West Africa. She loves spending time with her lab-in-training when she is not physically in her research lab. Research in the field of social work also contributes to Ms. Woodiwiss ultimate goal of advocacy, service, and becoming a mentor to other women pursuing higher education. Ana Ortiz Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors, Hanusia Higgins Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Prasana Kharel Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics & Genomics, Rachel Baugh Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She decided to attend UGA to continue her research investigating psychopathic and narcissistic personality traits. This essay explored the memory of the Radium Girls and informs her current work on memory and materiality. These experiences led her to her current research examining the intersection of the social and natural sciences. She is the departmental nominee for the UGA Dissertation Completion Award and recipient of the Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship. She was one of the recipients for the Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship (2021) and the Jane S. and W. Harry Willson Graduate Fellowship (2022) from the University of Georgia. Congratulations to Alireza - Dr.Yohannes Abate Nano Optics Research Group Currently in his first year, Peter is working hard on his classes, and is working as a teaching assistant in UGAs writing intensive program, helping with Math 3200, a class geared towards helping undergraduate math majors transition into higher level mathematics. in sociology from UGA. in Psychology from Rice University in 2021. With his growing interest in organic chemistry and love for Athens, GA (and the Georgia Bulldogs), Marshall chose to stay at UGA for graduate school. Research conducted in the Cotton Physiology lab at UGA was in tandem with Veds research interests and motivated him to join UGA for a Ph.D. degree. She hopes to utilize her leadership experience and toxicology background to provide expertise to cross-functional agencies including both biomedical and environmental organizations and thus improve public health. Her doctoral research focuses on how knowledge about the environment is produced in ways that reinforce or contest the U.S.-Mexico border wall. His other research interests include evaluation and validation of educational measures in STEM. In Spring 2021, June served as a Graduate Lab Assistant to gain experiential teaching opportunities. Congratulations Olivia! Diane Klement Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Emme Collett Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering, Erin Quinn Human Development and Family Science, Madeline Melton Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Ryan Rimple Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Yujun Lin Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors. As a graduate student at UGA, Lauren has participated in the NSF I-Corps Accelerator program, a Nature Research Scientific Writing webinar, and has received the Hamilton Lokey Graduate Scholarship. Leigha is also passionate about open science practices and has submitted her masters proposal as a registered report which, after being peer-reviewed and approved by the journal, would streamline publication regardless of results (combatting biases against null hypotheses). Established in 1910, the University of Georgia Graduate School coordinates the graduate programs of all schools and colleges at the University of Georgia. The closely related research at the University of Georgia, as well as personal recommendations of the program from professors, were key reasons for Ninas decision to work towards a Ph.D. at UGA. Alyssas current research focuses on the influence of social context on family processes and youth outcomes and the long term impact of early family dynamics on adolescent and young adult outcomes, including risk-taking behaviors, crime, and intimate partner violence (IPV). This fellowship was established to recognize excellence in graduate education. Graduate Students; Visiting Scholars; Research Fellows; Undergraduate Students; Alumni; Contact Us; Sama was awarded a Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship. Amy is from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.. Amy started at the University of Georgia in August 2020 and is currently a member of the Shariat Lab, where she studies multiserovar Salmonella populations in poultry. Since joining Chris Newtons organic synthesis lab, Marshall aims to create new methods for producing chiral ligands used in modern chemical synthesis. S., & Medvedev, K. 2022. UCF Graduate Programs Climb in U.S. News Rankings, Highlighting Nominators must demonstrate relevance to one or more of the research priorities outlined in the Universitys Great Commitments. Recipients of this award are known as Boyd Scholars. This work led River to be inducted into the Lambda Pi Eta honor society in 2018, the official communication studies honor society of the National Communication Association. Before starting her Ph.D. program at UGA, she worked as the Outcomes Measurement Manager at Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta where she gained valuable work experience in measurement, program evaluation, and non-profit management. Using ethnographic interviews and participatory mapping, Kristen will work with community members to understand local experiences of landscape change and patterns of wildlife presence across community forests, protected forest, and agricultural plantations. After completing his dissertation, he hopes to apply to post-doctoral and tenure-track positions to pursue a career in research mathematics. Departments. She moved here at the age of eleven with her mom to pursue higher education, a goal that wasnt possible in her home country. The definition of under representation should be discipline-specific and may include such factors as gender, race/ethnicity, military veteran status, disability, or first-generation student status. Amy Siceloff attended Florida State University and graduated in May 2020 with abachelors degree in biology and a minor in computer science. Her work has only been possible through the support and encouragement of Dr. Kevin Moore, Dr. Amy Ellis, and Dr. Carlos Castillo-Garsow. Annas research focuses on human-wildlife interfaces and how these human-modified habitats change wildlife behavior, diet, and health. Nominations must come from the graduate coordinator. Wanting to devote his scholarly attention to developing and testing social geometric theory, Daniel decided to pursue his Ph.D. at UGA under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Cooney. Upon graduation, Molly hopes to continue her research in an academic setting. For her dissertation, she is studying population processes and monitoring methods for diamondback terrapins, an estuarine turtle species that occurs along the East and Gulf Coasts of the United States, including Georgia. Students must be nominated by their program, and nominations are reviewed by a faculty panel. Recently, he received the Graduate Education Advancement Board Graduate Fellowship. Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship The University of Georgia 2019 Scholarship for Graduate Studies Turkish Ministry of National Education 2015 Organizations Kappa Delta. These assistantships allow the student to devote time to the completion of their dissertation by relieving them of departmental teaching or research duties. She explores human-environment relations across local and global scales. He decided to return to UGA to work with his longtime mentor, Dr. Hart. To search for funds that may not be listed by category, leave the . Departments Home Agricultural & Applied Economics Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communication Animal & Dairy Science Crop & Soil Sciences Entomology Horticulture Plant . Lauren plans to complete her graduate studies in May 2024 and afterward, hopes to secure an industry job in control systems for a biomedical-related company. Jana L. Woodiwiss is a third year Ph.D. student at the UGA School of Social Work. Her dissertation work applies W.E.B. UCF, a top-tier public research university renowned for driving innovation and delivering broad-based prosperity, continues to distinguish itself in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings. The money from this award will enable her to take her research to new avenues and allow her to explore new opportunities that werent possible before. His current research focuses on investigating the causal associations of lifestyle and nutritional factors with diseases. After graduation, Anna plans to start an academic lab and work closely with museums and managers to study the historic, ongoing, and potential spread of parasites between wildlife and people. Her research goals are to assess how pathogens are able to evade the host immune system to cause disease and subsequently how we can combat these mechanisms to prevent serious illness. PDF SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS - neuroscience.uga.edu Colleen Sedney is currently a third year Ph.D. student in the department of Infectious Diseases in the College of Veterinary Medicine. M. Inam Jameel is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Genetics. Recipient(s) should be of high moral character and engaged in community service, volunteering, and/or leadership activities. He has won several awards including a 2022-2023 Dissertation Completion Award, a UGA Graduate School assistantship given annually to outstanding students so they can devote time to the completion of their doctoral research. . This fellowship encourages exceptional graduate-level study and research in any and all areas related to aspects of aging, including but not limited to, applied social sciences, fields of gerontology, geriatrics, mental health, public health, social work, as well as interdisciplinary and emerging fields of study. Her primary sociological interests are criminology and deviance (specifically victimization), social inequalities, and social psychology. One of the things that drew her to UGA was its strong number theory research team, as well as the welcoming nature of the math department. After completing her masters, she has come to the University of Georgia to pursue her Ph.D. in mathematics. Momo chose UGA for her Ph.D. degree because of the excellent research training she could get from a group of world-class plant scientists here. Cade Prize. Current recipients of this award are eligible to be nominated again (competitive renewal). At the completion of the assistantship award, the student is expected to have finished the dissertation and graduated. Her current work is focused on community-based child labor trafficking survivor services in West Africa. The fellowship can be renewed for two years for a Masters candidate and five years for a Ph.D. candidate. Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. The purpose of this scholarship is to attract and retain students who can meet the high standards of Dr. Boyd, who dedicated his life to education and research. 2015-2016 Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship Awarded to Charles Stanton Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - 10:35am Congratulations to Charles Stanton on being named the recipient of the Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship for the 2015-2016 academic year! His masters project continued his work on SIRS, investigating alternative therapies for horses, and was recognized as the best large animal resident abstract at the International Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Symposium in 2020. Her research involves the post-translational modifications of cancer-related proteins, from which she was selected by SERYM faculty members for recognition of her outstanding presentation. Congratulations Olivia! Preference is given to doctoral students. GRAD - Donation Form - Alumni, Donors & Friends - UGA June also gained experience presenting in academic settings, delivering a 45 minute talk at the departmental graduate seminar. Sophal has been building her expertise in traumatic stress and multi-systemic interventions among refugee families. She chose to attend UGA for her graduate studies because of her interests in conducting experimental research and because UGAs department of sociology houses the Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction (LaSSI) where she served as both a Project Manager and as Lab Manager. Nominations for this award are presented to the Graduate School by individual departments in early February. Her undergraduate research was focused on studying coral reef lagoon dynamics. graduate education advancement board fellowship uga Sha'Mira Covington | UGA FACS At UGA, she is pursuing a Quantitative Methods certificate to apply rigorous statistics to real-world problems and innovate ways to test them through social psychology. In the future, she hopes to direct her own psychology lab at a research-intensive institution and serve as a faculty member. Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship: UGA Graduate School: 2020: Graduate Research Award: Willson Center for Humanities and Art: 2021: SEC Emerging Scholar: . Following the completion of his Ph.D, he hopes to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship at the interface of organic chemistry and chemical biology. Her research is focused on understanding the roles of chromatin structure and its impact on genome function and stability. She has explored a lot of areas of mathematics and computer science from working on a stream cipher in Cryptography to being a Machine Learning Intern for 6 months at a startup. One of the primary reasons she chose to attend University of Georgia, Athens, was because of the abundance of faculty and resources available for students. We offer financial support to assist building projects in schools. Olivia Thompson selected as a recipient of the Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year. Because of her parents value in education and horrific genocide experienced by her family and country, Sophal has grown her interest in education and mental health. Her research spans several domains, including the role of gender at work, remote work, work recovery, and the intersection of work and nonwork domains. She has had a high amount of training in multidisciplinary research integrating social work, economics, and gerontology from her Ph.D. program at the UGA SSW and varying workshops which has helped her realize her career goal. PDF VITA - fcs.uga.edu The tripartite mission of the Graduate School is: to enhance the quality of graduate education across all programs, assist faculty and administrators in building world-class graduate programs, and support graduate students by providing outstanding discipline-specific training and broader professional development. Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship (71150003) Graduate Experiential Professional Development Fund (9027200) Graduate Student Emergency Fund (90271000) Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication Default Designation: COJ Dean's Excellence Fund (91613000) Charlayne Hunter-Gault Giving Voice to the Voiceless Fund (71814003) Alps future goals include pursuing postdoctoral training to enhance his understanding of both socio-emotional and neurocognitive correlates of fathering in preparation for further developing his independent research program. Elyssa Schroeder is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia School of Social Work and a Fellow at the Center on Human Trafficking Research and Outreach (CenHTRO). Mariam believes that her studies at the UGA have been a valuable experience that has prepared her to achieve a faculty position in the future. Grad Student Abed Mohamadzade selected as a recipient of the - UGA Jinans research interest includes power electronic-based smart grid, microgrids, renewable energy integration, cyber-physical security, attack detection and diagnosis, resilient control, and machine learning techniques application in power systems. Michael Flynn Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Melanie Kunkel Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Jiabao Song Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences, Eun Young Yeom Language & Literacy Education. Alexander Morales Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Communication Studies, Damion Dixon College of Engineering Chemical Engineering, Huimin Cheng Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Statistics. She also rotated in the Kissinger Research Group and has chosen Dr. Jessica Kissingers lab to complete her Ph.D. thesis on the Toxoplasma gondii mitochondrial genome structure and DNA replication and repair mechanisms. Felicia Ebot-Ojong is an immigrant from Cameroon, Africa. Leading by the transformative journey, her research agenda focuses on the education inequities faced by racially, linguistically and socioeconomically minoritized students, critical educational policy analysis, youth participatory action research, and culturally sustaining pedagogy. She currently focuses on studying the trends of older workers labor market participation in the U.S. for her dissertation. Scholarships & Fellowships - UGA Graduate School The 2022 UGA Tifton Campus Award recipients . Felicia was first introduced to scientific research when she started working in Dr. Allen Moores lab as a work-study student. As part of her curriculum, she also worked as an intern with Kimberly Clark Corporation on a project related to integrating diapers into organic recycling processes. At the University of Georgia, Jameel is interested in teasing apart the interactions of environment and genetic variation to produce quantitative traits in plants. Molly seeks to answer her research questions using advanced statistical modeling and is actively training to receive a minor in quantitative analysis during her doctorate. Ron Walcott, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School congratulates the 2022 scholarship and fellowship recipients at the UGA Graduate School Fall Awards Reception on August 31, 2022. Her research has led her to new interests which have led her to work with faculty in African American Studies, explore sound art, papermaking, and book arts. Until now, she has published 3 papers: Qualitative and quantitative profiles of jejunal oligosaccharides and cecal short-chain fatty acids in broiler chickens receiving different dietary levels of fiber, protein and exogenous enzymes (Lin and Olukosi, 2021); Exogenous Enzymes Influenced Eimeria-Induced Changes in Cecal Fermentation Profile and Gene Expression of Nutrient Transporters in Broiler Chickens (Lin and Olukosi, 2021), and The effects of xylo-oligosaccharides on regulating growth performance, nutrient utilization, gene expression of tight junctions, nutrient transporters, and cecal short chain fatty acids profile in Eimeria-challenged broiler chickens (Lin and Olukosi, 2022). She was born into a Black single parent lower-middle class family in the heart of St. Louis, Missouri, a city that remains one of the major homicide capitals in the country. Upon hearing about UGAs commitment to anti-trafficking research through CenHTRO, she decided to become a Double Dawg and pursue a Ph.D. in Social Work. His research focuses on the development of synthetic reactions to access the trisubstituted hydroxylamine moiety and their applications as bioisosteres in small molecule drug discovery. Adurangba Victor Oje is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Engineering at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the toxic effects of flame retardants on the body, especially on the brain. She served as a middle/high school English teacher in South Korea for 12 years and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. Last year we provided 110,000 of grants to individuals and organisations supporting education or co-curricular activities in Lytham St Annes. She chose UGA for her graduate education because of UGAs commitment to intensive learning, access to rigorous research opportunities, and interdisciplinary graduate curricula. Shuyang Wang is currently a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Educational Administration and Policy Program at Mary Frances Early College of Education. He has accumulated rich distribution grid operation experience that complements his research, especially in the simulation and control of renewable energy and distribution. in Biological Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, with Honors. Dissertation completion assistantships are awarded to doctoral students in their final year of study on a competitive basis. For the 2021-2022 academic year, the annual assistantship stipend per MBA will be approximately $10,244 for 10 He is passionate about innovative methods, such as machine learning and deep learning, and their application to addressing the security, stability, and resilience in power systems. The 2021-2022 Hamilton Lokey Graduate Scholarship has been awarded to June Haeun Kim. BRAIN Initiative Fellows: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Recent Projects. Nominators must demonstrate relevance to one or more of the research priorities outlined in the Universitys Great Commitments. This fund was established to provide scholarships to first year graduate students who have achieved a GRE score comparable to at least a 1400 SAT on a 1600 scale. This interest was a main driver in Peters decision to attend UGA. Molly E. Hale is a third-year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Georgia. In particular, Amys research focuses on the live production side of the poultry industry, and her research will provide important information about Salmonella population dynamics and support the industry in developing effective mitigation strategies. Since joining her program, she has thrived and has published works in three journals. The applicant must possess demonstrated leadership skills and strong academic accomplishment. With more than a hundred years of history, the department of poultry science at UGA has educated many poultry specialists and greatly contributes to the agricultural industry. The purpose of the Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship is to recruit, support, and encourage exceptional graduate-level students who will study and conduct research in all fields. Within these fields, she would like to continue to work in examining the structural inequalities that contribute to and/or interact with the victimization of at-risk populations. NSF 2016 UGA Graduate School Campus Index Libraries In 2018, Morgan chose to study at the University of Georgia for her doctoral degree. Di Quons feature film acting debut as Lily Kim, hotel seamstress in Maid In Manhattan starring Jennifer Lopez and directed by Wayne Wang was followed by over a dozen television credits (many of them recurring characters), fifty-ish commercials, several independent films and a lead role in the hit Grown Ups starring Adam Sandler. He is originally from Nepal where he completed his bachelors and came to the US for his higher studies in 2017. Faculty's Project-based Research Funding (HK$60,000) Co-Investigator . Her research actively seeks to improve the experiences of historically underrepresented communities. Here she led efforts to develop a surveillance system for detecting emerging infectious diseases, including COVID-19, and other antibiotic-resistant outbreaks in healthcare settings. The Emerging Leaders Program is competitively selected leadership program sponsored by the Graduate School. Sha'Mira Covington | UGA FACS The purpose of the fund is to provide financial support for graduate students at UGA who are from South Georgia. Congratulations to Charles Stanton on being named the recipient of the Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship for the 2015-2016 academic year! She then earned her Bachelor of Science in mathematics at the University of Dallas where she served as an officer for the Women in STEM club, was inducted in Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, received a Clare Boothe Luce scholarship, was named Outstanding Math Major of the Year for her graduating class, and passed the Mathematics Comprehensive Exams with distinction. Other ways that Elyssa has shown her commitment to gender-based violence survivors include co-developing a health & wellness program with women living in India, increasing capacity in global human trafficking service programs, working as a trauma therapist, creating a Victim Services Department in rural Texas, and serving on the Board of a local anti-trafficking nonprofit in Athens, GA. Apoorva Sarmal is a third-year graduate student in the Psychology Department at UGA.
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