{"198331":{"#nid":"198331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"BioEngineering Graduate Program Announced 2013 Awardees","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 2013 BioEngineering Graduate Program awards were announced during the poster session which was held to welcome potential new recruits to the program.\u0026nbsp; This is the second year that the program has honored graduate students with the Best Thesis and Paper awards and a faculty advisor whose dedication advising and mentoring graduate students in the program goes above and beyond. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESarah Sharpe, Ph.D. candidate in Dan Goldman\u2019s laboratory in the School of Physics, was awarded the Best Paper Award for a journal article featured in the Journal of Experimental Biology entitled, \u201cEnvironmental interaction influences muscle activation strategy during sand-swimming in the sandfish lizard Scincus scincus.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Sarah\u2019s work has been ground breaking because while there has been a lot of work looking at organisms swimming in fluids, flying, and running on relatively flat rigid hard ground, there has been much less work done on the movement of organisms on and within materials like sand that can behave as fluids and solids. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECatherine Rivet, a Ph.D. graduate student supervised by Melissa Kemp, Ph.D., (BME) and Hang Lu, Ph.D., (ChBE), received the Best Thesis Award for her dissertation entitled, \u201cImpaired Signaling in Senescing T Cells: Investigation of the Role of Reactive Oxygen Species Using Mircrofluidic Platforms and Computational Modeling.\u201d This research resulted in 5 publications and Rivet was also named as the 2012 Suddath award winner. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFaculty member, Todd McDevitt, Ph.D., (BME) was recognized with the Best Advisor Award. Supporting letters for McDevitt were provided by both his graduate students as well as trainees in the National Science Foundation (NSF)- funded Integrated Graduate Education Research Training (IGERT) program which he co-directs. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGraduate students and advisors are nominated by students in the program for contributions during the 2012 calendar year, and the nominations are evaluated by the Faculty Advisory Committee. Winners receive monetary prizes and commemorative plaques.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe had very strong nominations for each of the award categories and the awardees are very deserving and reflect the strong interdisciplinary, cutting-edge, and collaborative nature of the program,\u201d said the director of the BioEngineering Graduate Program, Andr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda, Ph.D. (ME). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the first BioE Awards presented last year, Rolando Gittens (Barbara Boyan advisor) and Ed Phelps (Andr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda advisor) received the Best Paper and Best Thesis awards, respectively. Melissa Kemp, Ph.D., (BME) was recognized with the Best Advisor Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Awards given for Best Thesis, Best Paper and Best Advisor"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBioEngineering Graduate Program Announced 2013 Awardees - Awards given for Best Thesis, Best Paper and Best Advisor\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s BioEngineerings awards given for Best Thesis, Best Paper and Best Advisor"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2013-03-11 10:18:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:48","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"198351":{"id":"198351","type":"image","title":"Bioengineering program director, Andres Garcia, PhD, and Best Paper awardee, Sarah Sharpe","body":null,"created":"1449179918","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:58:38","changed":"1475894851","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:31","alt":"Bioengineering program director, Andres Garcia, PhD, and Best Paper awardee, Sarah Sharpe","file":{"fid":"196494","name":"sharpesarah_and_garciaandres_300x292.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sharpesarah_and_garciaandres_300x292_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sharpesarah_and_garciaandres_300x292_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":102066,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sharpesarah_and_garciaandres_300x292_0.jpg?itok=Yzohf8V0"}},"198361":{"id":"198361","type":"image","title":"BioEngineering program director, Andres Garcia, and Best Advisor awardee, Todd McDevitt","body":null,"created":"1449179918","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:58:38","changed":"1475894851","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:31","alt":"BioEngineering program director, Andres Garcia, and Best Advisor awardee, Todd McDevitt","file":{"fid":"196495","name":"todd-andres_300x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/todd-andres_300x300_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/todd-andres_300x300_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":59251,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/todd-andres_300x300_0.jpg?itok=TYANJ855"}}},"media_ids":["198351","198361"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bioengineering.gatech.edu\/","title":"BioEngineering website"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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