{"149661":{"#nid":"149661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Boyan Named Dean of VCU School of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBarbara D. Boyan, currently the associate dean for research in Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering and the Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering at Georgia Tech, as well as a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, has been named as the new dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoyan\u0027s new position will be effective Jan. 1, 2013.\u0026nbsp; She will be working with faculty, staff, students and administrators during the fall semester, however, to ensure a successful ABET accreditation site visit and forward progress on a strategic vision for the School of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Under Barbara\u0027s leadership as our associate dean for research and innovation, the College of Engineering has made extraordinary progress in the areas of collaborative research with Emory University, Children\u0027s Healthcare, industry, and other partners,\u201d said Gary S. May, dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp; \u201cShe has brought a cutting edge vision to biomedical research and translational research especially in the areas of pediatric devices and regenerative medicine.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoyan is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in the American Institute of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering.\u0026nbsp; In 2012, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and just this past June inducted into the Fellows of the World Congress of Biomaterials. Boyan is also the recipient of numerous awards, the author of more than 370 peer-reviewed papers, reviews, and book chapters and holds 14 U.S. patents.\u0026nbsp; She received her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in biology from Rice University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBarbara D. Boyan, currently the associate dean for research in Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering\u0026nbsp;and the Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering at Georgia Tech, as well as a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, has been named as the new dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Barbara D. Boyan, currently the associate dean for research in Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering, will assume the new position Jan. 2, 2013."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2012-08-27 15:40:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:43","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"109231":{"id":"109231","type":"image","title":"Dr. Barbara Boyan","body":null,"created":"1449178201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:01","changed":"1475894728","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:28","alt":"Dr. Barbara Boyan","file":{"fid":"194040","name":"boyan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/boyan_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/boyan_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4865995,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/boyan_0.jpg?itok=r0zlIPUJ"}}},"media_ids":["109231"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/facultystaff\/faculty_record.php?id=48","title":"Barbara Boyan"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"9548","name":"Barbara Boyan"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKay Kinard,\u0026nbsp;College of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-7358\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kay.kinard@coe.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}