{"649940":{"#nid":"649940","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Christine Heitsch Awarded the UIUC Department of Mathematics Alumni Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFrom the award website:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristine Heitsch\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003EBS Mathematics (with Highest Distinction and Magna Cum Laude) 1994\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nChristine Heitsch is a Professor in the School of Mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology and is Director of the Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology (SCMB), an NSF-Simons Research Center for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems. She received her PhD from University of California Berkeley in 2000. During her trail-blazing career she has leveraged mathematics, especially combinatorics, to understand the role and function of RNA in biological systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.illinois.edu\/alumni\/heitsch\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022\u003ERead more about Christine Heitsch.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChristine Heitsch was recently awarded the UIUC Alumni Achievement Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe UIUC Alumni Achievement Award is given to alumni who, by outstanding achievement, have demonstrated the value derived from a mathematics education (BS, MS, or PhD). Nominees may qualify for outstanding professional achievement; cumulative performance through the years; or recent acknowledgement by community or professional peers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Congratulations to Dr. Christine Heitsch on earning the UIUC Department of Mathematics Alumni Award!"}],"uid":"35702","created_gmt":"2021-08-20 19:42:15","changed_gmt":"2021-08-20 20:02:24","author":"mb121","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","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"}},"649944":{"id":"649944","type":"image","title":"for UICI","body":null,"created":"1629489552","gmt_created":"2021-08-20 19:59:12","changed":"1629489552","gmt_changed":"2021-08-20 19:59:12","alt":"","file":{"fid":"246690","name":"heitsch_alumni_slide2.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/heitsch_alumni_slide2_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/heitsch_alumni_slide2_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":92064,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/heitsch_alumni_slide2_0.png?itok=UCqHgknq"}}},"media_ids":["615852","649944"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/news\/external-news-christine-heitsch-awarded-uiuc-department-mathematics-alumni-awards-0","title":"External News"}],"groups":[{"id":"604684","name":"Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology (SCMB)"}],"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":""}}}