{"648751":{"#nid":"648751","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sheft Earns Spot in Fulbright Canada Summer Research Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineering student Maxina Sheft is spending her last summer as an undergraduate working as a researcher with the support of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fulbright.ca\/\u0022\u003EFulbright Canada program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESheft has joined \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.uwinnipeg.ca\/physics\/people\/melanie-martin.html\u0022\u003EMelanie Martin\u0026rsquo;s lab at the University of Winnipeg\u003C\/a\u003E to work on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to determine the diameter of axons in the human brain. Axons are the long, thin part of nerve cells that transmit impulses, and diameter influences how fast the information is conducted. She\u0026rsquo;s one of two undergraduates from Georgia Tech selected for the program this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was attracted to the program by the variety of project opportunities and the availability of researchers in my field of interest,\u0026rdquo; said Sheft, who is entering her fourth year of studies in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESheft was able to select several potential projects from faculty members across Canada. She interviewed with Martin\u0026rsquo;s lab and was invited to join in their work. Though she wasn\u0026rsquo;t able to travel to Canada because of the ongoing pandemic, she\u0026rsquo;s been deeply involved in data analysis and writing papers and grants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESheft said she\u0026rsquo;s planning to graduate in December and will be applying to Ph.D. programs in the fall \u0026mdash; making the Fulbright Canada program a valuable experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate Maxina Sheft is working on a project at the University of Winnipeg using MRI techniques to determine the diameter of axons in the brain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Undergraduate Maxina Sheft is working on a project at the University of Winnipeg using MRI techniques to determine the diameter of axons in the brain"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-07-14 15:27:48","changed_gmt":"2021-07-14 15:27:48","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648750":{"id":"648750","type":"image","title":"Maxina Sheft (vertical)","body":null,"created":"1626276174","gmt_created":"2021-07-14 15:22:54","changed":"1626276174","gmt_changed":"2021-07-14 15:22:54","alt":"Maxina Sheft headshot","file":{"fid":"246259","name":"Sheft-Maxina-v.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sheft-Maxina-v.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sheft-Maxina-v.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":160005,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sheft-Maxina-v.jpg?itok=2HGyCX8D"}}},"media_ids":["648750"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.fulbright.ca\/","title":"Fulbright Canada"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.uwinnipeg.ca\/physics\/people\/melanie-martin.html","title":"Melanie Martin Lab \u2013 University of Winnipeg "}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188256","name":"Maxina Sheft"},{"id":"188257","name":"Fulbright Canada"},{"id":"453","name":"undergraduate research"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}