{"537061":{"#nid":"537061","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Brittain Fellow Lauren Neefe\u0027s Award-Winning Students","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMason Liu, Pranusha Ataluru, Gwyn Lando, and Ayo Aladesanmi, students in Dr. Neefe\u0027s English 1102 class entitled \u0022Romanticism\u0027s Social Media,\u0022 were the winner\u0027s of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u0027s prestigious William Gilmer Perry Award, which is awarded to the most outstanding paper or project produced in an English 1101 or 1102 course. The students\u0027 project, \u0022Staying Classy: The Introduction of Gossip-Based Social Media to Highbury,\u0022 was acknowledge for its \u201cclear, persuasive prose,\u201d combining an \u201cimaginative\u201d and creative lens with \u201cstrong critical thinking\u201d and writing that made it \u201ca pleasure to read.\u201d As one faculty reader praised: \u201cThese students\u2019 ability to identify a real-life problem in fiction and supply a solution using modern technology is impressive. The way that they approach gossip in Jane Austen\u2019s Emma has the potential both to make the novel relevant to new audiences\u201d and invites readers to \u201creconsider their own interactions with social media.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Neefe and her students were honored at LMC\u0027s annual James Dean Young Awards Dinner, which took place Wednesday, April 20 in the Crowne Plaza.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Neefe\u0027s students win 2016 William Gilmer Perry Award."}],"uid":"30268","created_gmt":"2016-05-18 08:25:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:42","author":"Monica Miller","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"537051":{"id":"537051","type":"image","title":"BF_Lauren_Neefe","body":null,"created":"1463713200","gmt_created":"2016-05-20 03:00:00","changed":"1475895324","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:24","alt":"BF_Lauren_Neefe","file":{"fid":"88867","name":"lauren_neefe_2014.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lauren_neefe_2014.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lauren_neefe_2014.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":14269,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/lauren_neefe_2014.jpg?itok=kEH7iVFc"}}},"media_ids":["537051"],"groups":[{"id":"491031","name":"Writing and Communication Program"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"11202","name":"Brittain Fellows"},{"id":"11435","name":"Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College"},{"id":"170282","name":"Lauren Neefe"},{"id":"39781","name":"LMC"},{"id":"60441","name":"William Gilmer Perry Award"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}