{"598741":{"#nid":"598741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Class of Petit Scholars Announced","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new group of talented undergraduate students will soon get busy in labs affiliated with the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience with the introduction of the 2018 class of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/petitinstitute.gatech.edu\/petit-undergraduate-research-scholars-program\u0022\u003EPetit Undergraduate Research Scholars\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince it was launched in 2000, the Petit Scholars program has provided a comprehensive research experience for hundreds of students who have gone on to careers in research, medicine, and industry. Originally established as a summer research experience for undergrads at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the program now provides a full-year opportunity for undergrads from colleges and universities across metro Atlanta area.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd the number of students continues to grow, from seven scholars that first year, to 23 in the class of 2018, which includes 20 students from Georgia Tech and one student each from Agnes Scott College, Emory University, and Morehouse College.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow in its 19\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E year, the program has funded more than 260 scholars so far. The new class of students come from seven different schools or departments. Nine of the students are majoring in biomedical engineering (including eight from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech and Emory University).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese students are on pace to become the next generation of leaders in bioengineering and bioscience. Meet the 2018 class of Petit Scholars:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlina Ulezko Antonova, Emory, Biology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnthony Aportela, Georgia Tech, Physics\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJi Bok, Georgia Tech, Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlexander Choi, Georgia Tech, Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKamaria Dansby, Georgia Tech, Biological Sciences\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWill Flanagan, Georgia Tech, Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJames Forsmo, Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBryan Jenkin, Georgia Tech, Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJustin Kahla, Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHarish Kamath, Georgia Tech, Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZahra Mousavi Karimi, Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERichard Kim, Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEun Chan Kwak, Georgia Tech, Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYueyi Li, Georgia Tech, Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWesley Matingou, Morehouse, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERenee Julia Manalo, Georgia Tech, Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJonathan Mitchel, Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStephanie Sanchez, Agnes Scott College, Undecided\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAndrea Santiago, Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFiona Splaine, Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESamantha Torres, Georgia Tech, Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmitej Venapally, Georgia Tech, Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECaroline Wu, Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFunding for the Petit Scholars is supported by a number of individual donors and families, as well as corporations and foundations, including the Beckman Coulter Foundation, Children\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta, Cook Regentec, Medtronic, and UCB Pharma.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2017 class of Petit Scholars are completing their independent research projects now. The 2018 Petit Scholars will begin developing their projects in January in state-of-the-art labs in the Petit Institute and other bio-focused Georgia Tech labs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Undergrad researchers will begin developing independent research projects in January 2018"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUndergrad researchers will begin developing independent research projects in January 2018\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Undergrad researchers will begin developing independent research projects in January 2018"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2017-11-14 13:26:15","changed_gmt":"2017-11-14 13:29:42","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"598740":{"id":"598740","type":"image","title":"Petit Scholar Cell Wall","body":null,"created":"1510665628","gmt_created":"2017-11-14 13:20:28","changed":"1510665628","gmt_changed":"2017-11-14 13:20:28","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228256","name":"scholar looking.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/scholar%20looking.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/scholar%20looking.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4399912,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/scholar%20looking.jpg?itok=VS97YFjD"}}},"media_ids":["598740"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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