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ABC News correspondent and UGA alumna Deborah Roberts听will give the 快猫短视频鈥檚 spring undergraduate Commencement address May 10 at 7 p.m. in Sanford Stadium.

Loch Johnson, Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the 快猫短视频, will deliver the spring graduate address on the same day at 9:30 a.m. at Stegeman Coliseum. Tickets are not required for either ceremony.

Since graduating from UGA in 1982 with a degree in broadcast news from the听, Roberts has risen through the ranks of television news, received numerous awards and been a regular reporter and contributor for programs such as 鈥淒ateline NBC,鈥� 鈥�20/20,鈥� 鈥淣ightline,鈥� and 鈥淕ood Morning America鈥� to name a few.

Born in the small town of Perry, Georgia, Roberts was one of nine children. She began her post-college career at WTVM-TV in Columbus, Georgia, and subsequently worked at WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she gained notice for her coverage of the state legislature.

Roberts further honed her reporting skills as bureau chief of WFTV-TV, the ABC affiliate in Orlando, from February 1987 to May 1990, where she also served as the station鈥檚 field anchor at the Kennedy Space Center and co-anchor of the weekend news.

In 1990, Roberts began her network career with NBC News as a general assignment correspondent. She covered stories in the Southeast from the Atlanta and Miami bureaus and was dispatched to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait reporting on the lead up to the Persian Gulf War. Roberts was later named a magazine correspondent for 鈥淒ateline NBC鈥� and reported from Barcelona during the 1992 Summer Olympic games, earning an Emmy nomination for this coverage.

In 1992, she received a 快猫短视频 Distinguished Alumnus Award, presented annually to recent graduates who have excelled rapidly in their professions.

Roberts joined ABC 20/20 in 1995. Since then her curiosity has taken her around the world, from Bangladesh to report on women鈥檚 maternal health to Africa where she has traveled extensively, telling stories about the HIV/AIDS crisis and an Emmy-winning report on a woman who discovered her long lost mother in an African village. Roberts has won numerous awards for her work including a Clarion award for coverage of abuse within the Amish community.

In 2006, Roberts delivered UGA鈥檚 Holmes-Hunter lecture, and in 2016 she presented an Alumni Seminar. Earlier this year, she participated in a panel discussion entitled 鈥淕rady Greats: A Conversation on the Enduring Values and Power of Journalism.鈥�

Johnson, who also holds the title of听, is an accomplished scholar in political science, with numerous awards for his teaching prowess and research.

During his career at UGA, Johnson authored more than 30 books and over 200 articles on intelligence agencies, foreign policy and national security. He served as editor of the journal听Intelligence and National Security听and as a member of the editorial boards of the听Journal of Intelligence History,听International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence,听听Intelligence and National Security听补苍诲听The听Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence, among many others. His latest book is entitled听Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States听(Oxford, 2018). Johnson was a driving force in the creation of the School of Public and International Affairs in 2001. In 2012, the fourteen universities that comprise the Southeast Conference selected him as the inaugural recipient of its now annual prize: 鈥淭he SEC Professor of the Year.鈥�

After receiving his doctorate in political science from the University of California at Riverside in 1969, he taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, California State University (San Francisco) and Ohio University, where he was tenured in 1974.

From 1975 on, Johnson also served as a political consultant and congressional staff member, pushing for increased oversight of intelligence agencies. He was Special Assistant to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which investigated the nation鈥檚 spy agencies and led to the establishment of oversight committees in the Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives to monitor intelligence activities.

Additionally, Johnson served on the staff of the Senate鈥檚 Committee on Foreign Relations, as staff director of the House Subcommittee on Intelligence Oversight and on the staff of the House Subcommittee on Trade and International Economic Policy.

He became a member of the UGA faculty in the听Department of Political Science听in 1979, becoming a full professor in 1985. He took a year鈥檚 leave from the university in 1995 to work on the Aspin-Brown Commission on Intelligence. He has also taught at Yale University and Oxford University as a Distinguished Visiting Professor, and he has presented addresses on national security and foreign policy topics at over 150 colleges and universities in North America, Europe, and New Zealand.

During his time at UGA, Johnson has been involved in both local and national politics, including writing Friend of the Court petitions in intelligence-related court cases, serving as a member of the Georgia State Board of Elections and leading the SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) campaign to finance a new Cedar Shoals High School and renovate public schools throughout Athens-Clarke County.

Johnson will retire at the end of the spring semester after more than 40 years at UGA.

For more information on UGA鈥檚 Commencement ceremonies, visit听

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Financial incentives provided by pharmaceutical companies may be changing the way doctors prescribe opioids. As 快猫短视频 Professor David Bradford’s shows, there is a high correlation between doctors receiving money from an opioid manufacturer and writing more prescriptions.

Bradford, in collaboration with two researchers at the University of Indiana, studied the prescription data of nearly 900,000 U.S. physicians who prescribed medications through Medicare. Bradford and his team found that the doctors studied received over $50 million in payments from opioid manufacturers between 2014 and 2016.

The study revealed that doctors who receive direct payments from opioid manufacturers, on average, tend to prescribe more opioids than doctors who receive no such payments. Those who were paid, prescribed over 8,784 daily doses of opioids per year more than their unpaid colleagues. Overall, receiving a 1 percent increase in payment was associated with an increase of 50 daily doses of opioid prescription.

As the nation grapples with the worst opioid epidemic in American history, research like this becomes increasingly important. Examining the factors that motivate doctors to prescribe more opioids could potentially lead to policy change that reduces opioid addiction.

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Margaret (Molly) Ariotti received her PhD from Pennsylvania State University with a focus in Comparative Politics, Political Methodology, and Geography. Her research interests include African politics (Francophone), institutions, government composition and formation, state capacity, local governance, bureaucracy, and public goods provision. Ariotti was a 2016-2017 recipient of the David L. Boren Fellowship of the National Security Education Program. She will be teaching Introduction to Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Institutions this fall.

Mollie Cohen received her PhD in Political Science from Vanderbilt University. From 2017-2018, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Latin American Public Opinion Project and a postdoctoral researcher with the Trans-Institutional Brazil Health Policy Project. Cohen鈥檚 research focuses on elections, public opinion, voting behavior, and political representation, especially in the Latin American region. She will be teaching Introduction to Comparative Politics this fall.

Emily Lawler received her PhD in Economics from Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses include health economics, development economics, and applied microeconomics. Lawler is particularly interested in analyzing the effects of public policies on maternal and child health. Her dissertation work focuses on the effects of vaccination policies on health and health behaviors. Lawler is teaching Foundations of Policy Analysis this fall.

Michelle Lofton received her PhD in Public Administration from Syracuse University. She is also an alumna of UGA鈥檚 MPA program. Her research interests broadly explore the intersection of public finance and public management by investigating financial tools and techniques to better inform management, strategy, and policy decisions. Lofton will be teaching Public Management and Public Financial Administration this fall.

Ryan Powers received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison in 2017. Prior to starting at the 快猫短视频, he was a Postdoctoral Associate with the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. He specializes in international relations and comparative politics. This fall Powers is teaching Introduction to International Relations and the Graduate Pre-seminar in International Relations.

Geoffrey Sheagley received his PhD from the University of Minnesota where he has since been an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research and teaching focuses on political behavior, public opinion, and political polarization. He is particularly interested in the factors that lead citizens to hold more accurate and thoughtful opinions as opposed to being more biased and misinformed about the political process. Sheagley is teaching Introduction to Political Science this fall.

Megan Turnbull received her PhD in Political Science from Brown University. She studies political order, violence, and democratization with an empirical focus in Sub-Saharan Africa. 听Her book project examines the relationship between democracy and state-building through the lens of government strategies toward armed groups. Turnbull is teaching Introduction to Comparative Politics this fall.

Eric Zeemering is MPA Director and Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. His research investigates local governance and intergovernmental relations, including interlocal contracting for municipal service delivery and the design and performance of networks for local environmental governance. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University in 2007.

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