{"615851":{"#nid":"615851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Christine Heitsch receives Petit Institute \u0022Above and Beyond\u0022 Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Christine Heitsch received the\u0026nbsp;Petit Institute \u0026quot;Above and Beyond\u0026quot; Senior Faculty Award December 14, 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Heitsch is Professor of Mathematics at Georgia Tech, with courtesy appointments in Biological Sciences and Computational Science \u0026amp; Engineering as well as an affiliation with the Petit Institute for Bioengineering \u0026amp; Bioscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe is also Director of the new Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology (SCMB), an NSF-Simons MathBioSys Research Center, and finishing her tenure directing the GT Interdisciplinary Mathematics Preparation and Career Training (IMPACT) Postdoctoral Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHeitsch\u0026#39;s research interests lie at the interface between discrete mathematics and molecular biology, specifically combinatorial problems \u0026quot;as motivated by\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;with applications to\u0026quot; fundamental biomedical questions like RNA folding.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Prof. Heitsch received the Petit Institute \u0022Above and Beyond\u0022 Senior Faculty award December 14, 2018"}],"uid":"34829","created_gmt":"2019-01-03 20:00:24","changed_gmt":"2019-01-03 20:05:35","author":"Kimberly Short kshort6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"615852":{"id":"615852","type":"image","title":"Christine Heitsch","body":null,"created":"1546545752","gmt_created":"2019-01-03 20:02:32","changed":"1546545752","gmt_changed":"2019-01-03 20:02:32","alt":"Christine Heitsch receives \u0022Above and Beyond\u0022 award","file":{"fid":"234447","name":"Christine2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Christine2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Christine2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3210718,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Christine2.jpg?itok=kJsGHd7N"}}},"media_ids":["615852"],"groups":[{"id":"604684","name":"Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology (SCMB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8586","name":"applied mathematics"},{"id":"858","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute"},{"id":"9540","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"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":[],"email":["scmb@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}