{"55532":{"#nid":"55532","#data":{"type":"news","title":"PhD Student Kunda Wins Anita Borg Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFourth-year CS Ph.D. student Maithilee Kunda has been awarded a 2010-11 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, the company announced May 3.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EKunda, a native of Chattanooga, Tenn., earned her bachelor\u0027s degree in mathematics from MIT. Her research focuses on autism. Inspired by Temple Grandin\u0027s book \u003Cem\u003EThinking in Pictures\u003C\/em\u003E, she and a fellow student adapted Raven\u2019s intelligence test as a context for\nunderstanding analogical representations of visuo-spatial knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I want to continue to do research in cognitive science, in the area of visual thinking, especially as it is emerging as possibly a very important aspect of autism,\u0022 Kunda said. \u0022I also think studying visual thinking in the context of autism can give us insights into the nature of cognition and mind in general.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKunda\u0027s Anita Borg Scholarship is worth $10,000 for the 2010-11 year. For a full list of 2010 scholarship winners, visit the Google \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/introducing-googles-2010-anita-borg.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBlog\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFourth-year CS Ph.D. student Maithilee Kunda has been awarded a 2010-11\nGoogle Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, the company announced May 3. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2010-04-30 16:55:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:53","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}