Maher wins 2025 UNCG Research Mentor award
The kinesiologist, who examines factors motivating physical activity engagement, has mentored 54 undergraduates in independent studies at UNCG.
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2023 Brittany Cassidy
Dr. Brittany Cassidy is the recipient of the 2023 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for pre-tenured faculty. Since joining UNCG five years ago, Cassidy has mentored 30 undergraduates in her Social Cognition Lab, which focuses on how people think, interpret, and evaluate each other. “Participating in research as an undergraduate has enormous benefits,”… Continue reading…
2023 Kimberly Peterson
Dr. Kimberly Petersen is the recipient of the 2023 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for tenured faculty. Since joining UNCG 12 years ago, she has mentored 35 undergraduates in her research group, which focuses on developing new ways to synthesize molecules. Eight of her students have been published as undergraduates, two received travel… Continue reading…
2022 Jaclyn Maher
Dr. Jaclyn Maher is the recipient of the 2022 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for pre-tenured Faculty. Assistant Professor Jaclyn Maher is a kinesiologist with a research focus on motivational processes, the impact of physical activity and sedentary behavior on psychological well-being, and the use of technology to capture the dynamics of motivation, behavior,… Continue reading…
2022 Asa Eger
Dr. Asa Eger is the recipient of the 2022 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for tenured faculty. Associate Professor Asa Eger is a historian whose research interests include Islamic and Byzantine history and archaeology, the eastern Mediterranean, frontiers and borderlands, and environmental history. Since joining UNCG in 2009, Dr. Eger has mentored 12… Continue reading…
2021 Aileen Reid
Dr. Aileen Reid is the recipient of the 2021 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for Non-tenured faculty. Dr. Aileen Reid approaches research, teaching, and mentoring through the lens of her lived experiences, her commitment to social justice, and her desire to transform the educational research and policy landscape. Her current research centers on… Continue reading…
2021 Chris Wahlheim
Dr. Chris Wahlheim is the recipient of the 2021 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for pre-tenured faculty. Dr. Chris Wahlheim is a cognitive psychologist with expertise in memory, metacognition, and cognitive aging. He teaches undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology and human memory, and graduate seminars in everyday cognition, and memory and aging. He… Continue reading…
2021 Sudha Shreeniwas
Dr. Sudha Shreeniwas is the recipient of the 2021 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for career (post-tenure). For 10 years, Dr. Morrison and Dr. Shreeniwas have worked together to apply a transformational approach to their classroom teaching and mentoring economically and ethnically diverse UNCG undergraduates in research. Their practices align with the School… Continue reading…
2021 Sharon Morrison
Dr. Sharon Morrison is the recipient of the 2021 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for career (post-tenure). For 10 years, Dr. Morrison and Dr. Shreeniwas have worked together to apply a transformational approach to their classroom teaching and mentoring economically and ethnically diverse UNCG undergraduates in research. Their practices align with the School… Continue reading…
2020 Blair Wisco
Dr. Blair Wisco is the recipient of the 2020 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for Early Career Faculty. Dr. Wisco joined the faculty at UNCG in 2013 as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Clinical Psychology Program. Since then, she has mentored many undergraduates—nearly 25 in her PSY 433: Research Experience… Continue reading…