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BBS Diversity Awards & Criteria

  • Graduate Student Diversity Research Award: Award to recognize student research that addresses important issues related to diversity (including but not limited to questions pertaining to ethnicity, race, gender, sexual identity, and/or socioeconomic status) or that are of concern to diverse populations, while ensuring that this research also makes a positive and direct impact (or that you have a plan for how to make such an impact) on the communities from which the samples are drawn.
    1. If you’re nominated by someone or are self-nominating, please submit:
      1. Abstract explaining the research (200-400 words) 
      2. A description of what you have done with this project (e.g., funding proposal, conference presentation, manuscript) and planned or completed dissemination.
  • Graduate Student Diversity Leadership Award: Award to recognize graduate student efforts towards furthering the diversity and inclusion objectives of the BBS program. Award recipients are selected for outstanding contributions in one or more of the following areas:
    1. Activities to attract or recruit students who increase the diversity of our program, or to help ensure the success of those students
    2. Collaboration with campus or community groups in the creation, sponsorship, and implementation of programs, initiatives, or projects in the area of diversity and inclusion
    3. Recognition and celebration of exemplary individual and team behaviors that promote diversity and inclusion
    4. Mentoring undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups
    5. Sponsorship or active promotion of programs, initiatives, or projects in the area of diversity and inclusion
    6. Submission criteria:
      1. If you’re nominated by someone or are self-nominating, please submit a 200-400 word document explaining why you believe you should be considered for this award given the above description of exemplary diversity leadership.
  • Faculty Diversity Leadership Award: Award to recognize faculty efforts towards furthering the diversity and inclusion objectives of the BBS program. Award recipients are selected for outstanding contributions in one or more of the following areas:
    1. Research that addresses important issues related as they pertain to diversity (including but not limited to questions pertaining to ethnicity, race, gender, sexual identity, and/or socioeconomic status) or that are of concern to diverse populations while ensuring that this research is conducted in a way that is mutually beneficial.
    2. Activities to attract, recruit, and mentor faculty, graduate students, staff, and undergraduate research assistants from historically underrepresented groups
    3. Activities to create leadership teams and organizations that promote a diverse and inclusive culture
    4. Collaboration with campus or community groups in the creation, sponsorship, and implementation of programs, initiatives, or projects in the area of diversity and inclusion
    5. Recognition and celebration of exemplary individual and team behaviors that promote diversity and inclusion
    6. Sponsorship or active promotion of programs, initiatives, or projects in the area of diversity and inclusion
    7. Submission criteria: 
      1. BBS Graduate students nominate faculty. If you’re nominating a faculty member, please submit a 200 words (maximum) document explaining why you believe your nominee should be considered for this award given the above description of exemplary diversity leadership.

 

Past Award Recipients:

 

            Graduate Student Diversity Research Award

            2021    Dominique La Barrie

            2022    Apoorva Sarmal

            2023    Daisi Brand

 

            Graduate Student Diversity Leadership Award

            2021    Chloe André,  Jacqueline Newbold,  Apoorva Sarmal  

            2022    Dominique La Barrie

            2023    Apoorva Sarmal

 

            Faculty Diversity Leadership Award

            2022    Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo

            2023    Dean Sabatinelli

 

Osborne Fellowship Recipients affiliated with BBS

R. Travis Osborne was a professor in the Psychology Department from 1946 until his retirement in 1980. Upon his death in 2013, Osborne bequeathed his estate to UGA, with which the Osborne Fellowship was created in 2019. The purpose of this fellowship is to support outstanding students who are underrepresented in their fields. 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. Awards may be made to master’s or doctoral students in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

 

            2019   Dominique La Barrie

            2021   Daisi Brand

            2022   Emily Norton

            2023   Michelle Perez

 

 

 

 

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