From the Office of Research and Graduate Education: Congratulations to recent grant recipients
Promoting Rights-Based Evaluation (PRE)
- PI: Giovanni Dazzo, assistant professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
- Co-PI: Robin Lin Miller, professor, Michigan State University
- Sponsor: U.S. Department of State
- Award: $1,771,623
Congratulations to Giovanni Dazzo and his colleague for receiving a U.S. Department of State award. The long-term goal of this project is to strengthen the use of partner-centered evidence to promote equitable design, implementation, and evaluation of human rights policies and practices, reducing the disparities between disenfranchised communities’ and funders’ knowledge and values. This project is innovative in that it attempts to actionably move evaluation to a community-collaborative and transformative approach through an extensive network of community co-researchers, promoting shared stewardship over the realization of human rights objectives.
Nutritional Effects of Different Doses of Cottonseed Oil in Humans
- PI: Jamie A. Cooper, professor and department head, Department of Kinesiology
- Co-PI: Chad M. Paton, associate professor, College of Family and Consumer Sciences
- Sponsor: Cotton Incorporated
- Award: $91,793
Congratulations to Jamie Cooper and Chad Paton for receiving an award from Cotton Incorporated. This project’s long-term goal is to determine potential health benefits from cottonseed oil (CSO). They intend to do this by establishing whether CSO consumption can lower chronic disease risk in humans. In this particular project, the goal is to determine if lower doses of CSO can be equally effective as previously proven higher doses on cholesterol levels, fasting and postprandial lipid metabolism, and other markers of chronic disease risk.
Intelligent, Adaptive Program with Just-in-time Feedback for Preservice Teachers
- PI: Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, associate professor, University of Southern California
- Co-PIs: Allan Cohen, professor emeritus, Department of Educational Psychology; Jiliang Tang, University Foundation Professor, Michigan State University; Shiyu Wang, associate professor, Department of Educational Psychology
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Scholarship Program; Subaward from the University of Southern California
- UGA subaward: $381,786; Total award: $1,999,680
Congratulations to Allan Cohen and Shiyu Wang and their research team on receiving an award from the National Science Foundation. This project aims to serve the national interest by improving preservice teachers’ evidence-based teaching practices through an interactive program with personalized feedback.