{"502381":{"#nid":"502381","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Three GT-AE Students Recognized by Sloan Foundation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree of the eight students chosen to receive highly selective 2015 awards from the Georgia Tech University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (GT-UCEM) are from the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHisham Ali, Brett Hiller,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Eugina Mendez Ramos\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;were selected to receive the prestigious scholarships, worth about $90,000 in total, sponsored by the\u0026nbsp; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDoctoral students Hisham Ali and Brett Hiller received Sloan Fellowships, which afford recipients an annual $10K stipend to complete their graduate studies, plus another $10K to cover professional development expenses, including books, journals, professional travel and research costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Hisham has outstanding scholarly potential and is an\u0026nbsp;outstanding candidate for this award,\u0022 said Dr. Robert Braun, Ali\u0027s faculty advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEugina Mendez Ramo received the Georgia Tech University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (GT-UCEM) scholarship, which will provide her with a $10,000 stipend to pay for professional development expenses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHiller\u0027s and Ramos\u0027s advisor, Regents Professor Dimitri Mavris, was proud but not surprised by the recognition received by his proteges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Brett and Eugina are both hard-working, very dedicated students who show a good deal of initiative and creativity in their work,\u0022 said Mavris. \u0022It\u0027s great to see them rewarded with something that will\u0026nbsp; help them go even further.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Sloan Foundation Scholarship seeks to increase the number of outstanding engineering Ph.D. graduates from under-represented populations. It provides three years of support for students who have recently completed the Ph.D. Qualifying\/ Preliminary exams.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Three of the eight students chosen to receive highly selective 2015 awards from the Georgia Tech University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (GT-UCEM) are from the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-17 17:19:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:46","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"502371":{"id":"502371","type":"image","title":"Sloan Scholars","body":null,"created":"1455904800","gmt_created":"2016-02-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895263","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:23","alt":"Sloan Scholars","file":{"fid":"204750","name":"sloan-scholars.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sloan-scholars_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sloan-scholars_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1305491,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sloan-scholars_0.jpg?itok=ovIhX6pv"}}},"media_ids":["502371"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171734","name":"Brett Hiller"},{"id":"171735","name":"Eugina Mendez Ramos"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"133111","name":"Hisham Ali"},{"id":"167161","name":"Sloan Foundation"},{"id":"169947","name":"Sloan Scholars"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}