{"402541":{"#nid":"402541","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Discovery on Display","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESome day, Stefany Holguin would like to help bring the general public closer to science. Some day, she\u2019d like to put a human face on the complexities of bioengineering and research, and maybe she\u2019d like to be that face, but first things first. Right now, this Sloan Foundation Scholar is content making discoveries in the lab, and it\u2019s having benefits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHolguin was runner-up in two recent poster competitions at the Georgia Institute of Technology for her research poster entitled, \u2018Disruption of cell membranes via laser activated, acoustically active, carbon nanoparticles.\u2019 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe was lead author, but she was co-authored by her co-advisers, Mark Prausnitz, faculty member of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and Naresh Thadhadni, professor and chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). Also co-authoring was Michael Gray, senior research engineer and co-director of the Acoustics and Vibrations Laboratory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith Holguin taking the lead, their work took second place in the biomaterials category in third annual MSE Poster Competition and second place in overall competition in the 12th Annual Georgia Tech Technical [GT^2] Symposium. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe symposium, organized by the Black Graduate Students Association (BGSA) and Latino Organization for Graduate Students (LOGRAS), has become a premiere opportunity for minority graduate students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields to showcase their research and network with colleagues while gaining exposure to industry. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u2019s the kind of outreach that Holguin, a member of LOGRAS, is passionate about, and it dovetails with her interest in public work down the road.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cMy goal always has been to be involved with something in healthcare,\u201d says Holguin, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. \u201cI like the idea of helping to improve the lives of people, whether through translational or fundamental research. But eventually I\u2019d like to combine my technology background with something in policy.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt may sound a little audacious now, and Holguin knows it, but she sees helping to raise public awareness of science and research, helping to make it more accessible, is a likely direction for her career path.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIf the public has a better understanding of science, especially regarding health technologies, the average person will take greater initiative in their own care,\u201d she says. \u201cThey\u2019ll start asking the right questions of physicians and other medical personnel.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Holguin\u0027s poster grabs second in two competitions"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHolguin\u0027s poster grabs second in two competitions\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Holguin\u0027s poster grabs second in two competitions"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2015-05-07 09:50:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:13","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"402521":{"id":"402521","type":"image","title":"Stefany Holguin","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1475895122","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:02","alt":"Stefany Holguin","file":{"fid":"75930","name":"holguin1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holguin1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holguin1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":632002,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/holguin1.jpg?itok=dd_PnDMQ"}},"402531":{"id":"402531","type":"image","title":"Holguin poster","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1475895122","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:02","alt":"Holguin poster","file":{"fid":"75931","name":"holguin_poster.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holguin_poster.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holguin_poster.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1683730,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/holguin_poster.jpg?itok=bS12-gER"}}},"media_ids":["402521","402531"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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