{"650344":{"#nid":"650344","#data":{"type":"news","title":"PhD Student Creates Community through Virtual Book Club","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the pandemic dragged into 2021, Maria Warren found herself reading more and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith Covid-19 shelving her go-to leisure activities like playing soccer and meeting friends for coffee, the PhD student turned to books in her spare time and decided reread one of her favorites:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.romatheengineer.com\/Books\/BUILT\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBUILT\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Eby Roma Agrawal.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This book made me fall in love with structural engineering again,\u0026rdquo; Warren said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2020, Warren was selected as one of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/future-faculty-fellows-bring-passion-teaching-research\u0022\u003EFuture Faculty Fellows\u003C\/a\u003E. The four-year-old program supports students pursuing careers in academia through a $1,000 stipend to guide their development as educators and help them build their research and professional relationships.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut like soccer and coffee shops, Covid-19 took traveling to conferences off the table, and spending the money to attend virtual conferences just didn\u0026rsquo;t have the same appeal for Warren.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo she came up with the idea of bringing the CEE community together for a book club to read and talk about the book that had been so influential for her.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In 2020, Warren was selected as one of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u2019s Future Faculty Fellows. The four-year-old program supports students pursuing careers in academia through a $1,000 stipend to guide their development as educators."}],"uid":"27706","created_gmt":"2021-09-01 14:23:07","changed_gmt":"2021-09-01 14:23:07","author":"Eric Sembrat","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"650343":{"id":"650343","type":"image","title":"PhD Student Creates Community through Virtual Book Club","body":null,"created":"1630506178","gmt_created":"2021-09-01 14:22:58","changed":"1630506178","gmt_changed":"2021-09-01 14:22:58","alt":"Maria Warren holds her copy of BUILT, the book she selected to kickoff the book club she created for the CEE Community. Photo: Amelia Neumeister","file":{"fid":"246817","name":"MariaWarren900x600.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MariaWarren900x600.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MariaWarren900x600.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":343683,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/MariaWarren900x600.jpg?itok=2p06pZql"}}},"media_ids":["650343"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/phd-student-creates-community-through-virtual-book-club","title":"Full Story"}],"groups":[{"id":"289141","name":"Women in Engineering (WIE)"}],"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":""}}}