This VIPR team will enlist undergrads and grad students in the ongoing search and recovery efforts of Missing in Action military service members. There are currently over 80,000 MIA U.S. military service members whose remains have not been recovered. Over the past three years, the University of Georgia has partnered with external stakeholders involved in this search and recovery including non-profit organizations like Project Recover as well as the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, part of the larger U.S. Department of Defense. At this point, five separate units at UGA are involving in developing new methods of finding MIAs.
Team Leads: Stephen Mihm (History), Laurie Reitsema (Anthropology), Magdy Alabady (Plant Biology), Sergio Bernardes (Geography), Deepak Mishra (Geography)
