Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health<\/strong><\/p>\n Three faculty members in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health were featured in \u201cPediatrics,\u201d the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics for a collaborative study that studied parents\u2019 perceptions of their children\u2019s weight. Andrew Hansen, Dr.P.H., Yelena Tarasenko, Dr.P.H., and Jian Zhang, M.D., Dr.P.H., examined height and weight data of about 3,000 children, ages six to 11, between 1988 and 1994, and a similar cohort from 2005 to 2010. In the 2005-10 survey, 78 percent of parents perceived their overweight daughter as \u201cabout the right weight\u201d and 83 percent of parents said the same about their overweight boys. Earlier, in the 1988-94 survey, 61 percent of parents perceived their overweight girl to be \u201cabout the right weight,\u201d while 78 percent of parents said the same for their overweight boys. The surveys\u2019 results signal a generational shift of parental perceptions about children\u2019s weight. The researchers noted that parents\u2019 failure to recognize their child as overweight might account for the poor results of pediatric obesity prevention and control.<\/p>\n College of Science and Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n Department of Biology Professor Subhrajit Saha presented his agroecological research before an international symposium hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in September. He was among more than 50 experts from around the globe who made presentations at the forum in Rome, Italy. With the threat of global warming, agroecology is being recognized more and more as a climate-smart method of producing high quality food. Saha\u2019s participation in the symposium also exposed Georgia Southern\u2019s research initiatives to a global community of researchers, policymakers and international agencies and organizations.<\/p>\n College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n Chad Posick, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, is the recipient of the \u201cNew Scholar Award\u201d in the Victimology Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. The award recognizes the achievements of scholars who show outstanding merit early in their career. Posick is currently in his second year at Georgia Southern and his research has been published in \u201cPsychology of Violence,\u201d \u201cJustice Quarterly,\u201d \u201cJournal of Interpersonal Violence,\u201d and the \u201cJournal of Contemporary Criminal Justice.\u201d His primary research interests include the intersection of victimization and offending, the role of emotions in human behavior, and measurement issues in criminology and criminal justice.<\/p>\n College of Business Administration<\/strong><\/p>\n Associate Professor for Quantitative Analysis Xinfang Wang, Ph.D., recently received confirmation that her paper, \u201cEfficiency and Equity Tradeoffs in Voting Machine Allocation Problems,\u201d has been accepted for publication in the \u201cJournal of Operational Research Society.\u201d This subject was particularly timely during the recent election season. Efficiency and equity are the two crucial factors to be considered when allocating public resources such as voting machines. Currently, voting machine allocations look at either efficiency (ease of assignment) or equity (number of voting machines for a given precinct). The study examines the tradeoff between the two competing objectives. The new model quantifies the sacrifice in efficiency in order to achieve a certain improvement in equity and vice versa. Using data from the 2008 United States Presidential election in Franklin County, Ohio, the research demonstrates that our model is capable of producing significantly more balanced allocation plans, in terms of efficiency and equity, than current practice or other competing methods.<\/p>\n College of Health and Human Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n The School of Nursing recently received more than $2.2 million in grant funding, which will help establish a Center for Nursing Scholarship and Research, introduce a new graduate level Chronic Illness Certificate Program and provide scholarships to students pursuing a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) degree. The University System of Georgia awarded one grant and two came from the Health Resources Services Administration.<\/p>\n Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Information Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n Department of Electrical Engineering Professor Danda Rawat, Ph.D., has been awarded a $228,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support his research of \u201cReal-Time Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Cloud-Based Cognitive Radio Networks (ROAR).\u201d The grant will allow Rawat to develop a testbed to design and evaluate projects that use the Cloud to address the challenges of providing wireless spectrum access over large geographic areas. 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Professor Honored<\/h2>\n
Prestigious Journal Accepts Professor’s Paper<\/h2>\n
$2.2 Million in Grant Funding<\/h2>\n
Professor Awarded NSF Research Grant<\/h2>\n