{"341441":{"#nid":"341441","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NSF honors Georgia Tech veteran","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoshua Jarrell understands how the military prepares and motivates students for graduate school and research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJarrell, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in applied physiology in the College of Sciences, is sergeant-first class and senior medic in the Alabama National Guard, with 16 years of service and two combat tours to Iraq.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe shared his experiences during the National Science Foundation\u2019s annual Saluting Veterans in STEM symposium held Wednesday in Arlington, Va. Jarrell delivered a keynote speech during the event, which featured 11 military veterans in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJarrell said he was humbled and honored to speak on behalf of veterans. He talked about how the military instilled in him the value of teamwork, discipline and courage \u2013 skills that are helping him thrive at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs student veterans, we are already non-traditional students who didn\u2019t take the typical path to college,\u201d Jarrell, 33, said, before the event. \u201cBut our experiences mean we are not as intimidated by obstacles and the unknown.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of Thursday\u2019s event, Jarrell and the other fellows shared their research and motivations for pursuing graduate school. He studies direct skeletal attachment of limb prostheses under Boris Prilutsky, an associate professor in the School of Applied Physiology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Annual symposium features 11 military veterans with NSF Graduate Research Fellowships"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoshua Jarrell was a keynote speaker at the National Science Foundation\u2019s annual Saluting Veterans in STEM symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Joshua Jarrell was a keynote speaker at the National Science Foundation\u2019s annual Saluting Veterans in STEM symposium."}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2014-11-05 11:47:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:26","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"342321":{"id":"342321","type":"image","title":"Joshua Jarrell  at National Science Foundation\u2019s annual Saluting Veterans in STEM symposium","body":null,"created":"1449245639","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:13:59","changed":"1475895062","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:02","alt":"Joshua Jarrell  at National Science Foundation\u2019s annual Saluting Veterans in STEM symposium","file":{"fid":"200809","name":"img_1260.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_1260_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_1260_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":98661,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_1260_0.jpg?itok=_tqVWmK5"}},"341231":{"id":"341231","type":"image","title":"Joshua Jarrell","body":null,"created":"1449245595","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:13:15","changed":"1475895060","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:00","alt":"Joshua Jarrell","file":{"fid":"200740","name":"jarrell_at_wcb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jarrell_at_wcb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jarrell_at_wcb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":570995,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jarrell_at_wcb_0.jpg?itok=31xrvjLF"}}},"media_ids":["342321","341231"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"55581","name":"military veterans"},{"id":"167863","name":"School of Applied Physiology"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}