{"62850":{"#nid":"62850","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Candace Mitchell Named GT Undergraduate Woman of Distinction","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESenior computer science major Candace Mitchell was awarded the Undergraduate Woman of Distinction award at the 2010 Georgia Tech Women\u2019s Leadership Conference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitchell received the award in recognition of her impact on the Georgia Tech community. She was nominated for the award by Dana Randall, professor in the School of Computer Science.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cI have never encountered a student representative on a faculty and staff committee that has been more effective, prepared or concerned,\u201d said Randall, who served with Mitchell on a search committee for the Institute\u2019s vice president of diversity position. \u201cBut it is her commitment to change, and her devotion to making Georgia Tech a better place, that is most impressive.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMitchell is currently a fifth-year CS major doing research on improving security technology in grid databases through virtualization. She is active in the Georgia Tech community, most notably serving as president of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, community relations chair of TeamBuzz, Minority Educational Development freshman team coach, co-chair of the African-American Student Union, and a member of both the Women@CC and Minorities@CC student organizations in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESenior computer science major Candace Mitchell was awarded the Undergraduate Woman of Distinction award at the 2010 Georgia Tech Women\u2019s Leadership Conference. Source: Office of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27166","created_gmt":"2010-11-18 16:49:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:46","author":"Juliet Helms","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","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":""}}}