{"540201":{"#nid":"540201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Clarissa Whitmire Awarded the J. Norman and Rosalyn Wells Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EClarissa Whitmire, a biomedical Ph.D. student working in the Garrett Stanley laboratory, has been awarded the J. Norman and Rosalyn Wells Fellowship. Her\u0026nbsp;long term research objective is to quantify\u0026nbsp;the dynamic encoding of sensory information from the periphery to perception and develop methodologies to control this flow of sensory information.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe J. Norman and Rosalyn Wells Fellowship is awarded to BME graduate students who are performing\u0026nbsp;outstanding and productive research in the field of neuro-engineering. \u0026nbsp;Clarissa has demonstrated excellence in her research, publishing 7 peer-reviewed publications and presenting over 30 oral and poster presentations at national and international conferences. \u0026nbsp;She is also a natural\u0026nbsp;mentor and teacher, successfully mentoring\u0026nbsp;several\u0026nbsp;undergraduates researchers and leading her training program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecent research news about Clarissa Whitmire:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/bursting-cells-gain-brains-attention-life-or-death-decisions\u0022\u003EClarissa Whitmire, Christian Waiblinger, Cornelius Schwarz, Garrett Stanley, \u201cInformation Coding Through Adaptive Gating of Synchronized Thalamic Bursting, (Cell Reports, 2016).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMedia Contacts:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Clarissa Whitmire Awarded the J. Norman and Rosalyn Wells Fellowship"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2016-05-25 13:23:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:46","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"540191":{"id":"540191","type":"image","title":"Clarissa Whitmire","body":null,"created":"1464706800","gmt_created":"2016-05-31 15:00:00","changed":"1475895329","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:29","alt":"Clarissa Whitmire","file":{"fid":"89580","name":"clarissa_whitmire-closercrop.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/clarissa_whitmire-closercrop.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/clarissa_whitmire-closercrop.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":533248,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/clarissa_whitmire-closercrop.jpg?itok=1VL-lMzs"}},"540211":{"id":"540211","type":"image","title":"Clarissa Whitmire - BME sign","body":null,"created":"1464706800","gmt_created":"2016-05-31 15:00:00","changed":"1475895329","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:29","alt":"Clarissa Whitmire - BME sign","file":{"fid":"89581","name":"clarissawhitmire_june2016.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/clarissawhitmire_june2016.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/clarissawhitmire_june2016.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1522370,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/clarissawhitmire_june2016.png?itok=0_GSoAfK"}}},"media_ids":["540191","540211"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1612","name":"BME"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMedia Contacts:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["wrich@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}