{"657963":{"#nid":"657963","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumni Honor Retired German Professor With Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo new endowed scholarships aim to support tomorrow\u0026#39;s leaders through what their sponsors describe as critical experiences at Georgia Tech. Kelly Kloster Hon, ME 2011, M.S. ME 2012, and Ryan Paul Hon, NRE 2011, M.S. NRE 2013, Ph.D. NRE 2016, have funded the Dr. Bettina F. Cothran Scholarship and the Dr. Carole E. Moore Scholarship, named after two of Kelly\u0026#39;s Georgia Tech mentors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;We wanted to support programs we are connected to, so we saved our money over the years in order to create these long-term, personal investments for Georgia Tech,\u0026quot; Kelly said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Dr. Bettina E. Cothran endowment honors the professor for her exemplary teaching skills, her dedication to graduating good global citizens, and her leadership of the German Language for Business and Technology (LBAT) program. Kelly, who participated in the program, said Cothran \u0026quot;taught with a well-rounded approach to language learning, not the same exercises over and over, while incorporating culture, history, and current events.\u0026quot; The need-based scholarship is for engineering students who wish to participate in the German LBAT program but lack the means to do so.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I valued the program\u0026#39;s incorporation of business and technology\u0026nbsp;with language and culture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nlearning,\u0026quot; Kelly said. \u0026quot;The summer I spent living and studying in Germany included visits to several German manufacturing facilities. It really opened my\u0026nbsp;eves to alternative professional paths I hadn\u0026#39;t considered before.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Dr. Carole E. Moore endowment honors Moore for her work with and for women students and her exemplary leadership in women\u0026#39;s advocacy at Georgia Tech. Moore served as an advisor to Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s Society of Women Engineers (SWE) section when Kelly\u0026nbsp;was the treasurer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;She coached and encouraged our section leadership. We had the largest region\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nbudget because she made sure we had sufficient and sustainable funding,\u0026quot; Kelly said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThanks to Moore\u0026#39;s leadership, funding was in place \u0026quot;both to execute her programs and to sponsor as many students as possible to attend the annual and regional SWE conferences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\neach year.\u0026quot; The merit-based scholarship is for the top academic WE member pursuing mechanical engineering and is designed to recognize academic excellence while supporting the advancement of women\u0026nbsp;in STEM fields. Kelly remains active in SWE today as\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nthe San Diego section president, where she empowers women to achieve their full potential in careers as engineers and leaders\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Hons live in Southern California, where she is a research and development manager for Becton Dickinson, a global medical technology company,\u0026nbsp;and he is a nuclear engineer for General Atomics. a defense and diversified technologies company.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;My husband and I benefited a lot from our time at Georgia Tech,\u0026quot; Kelly said. \u0026quot;These two mentors and the programs they valued helped shape me into the change-maker I am today. They ensured that I had a diverse global perspective, varied academic experiences, a strong\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nnetwork, and a passion to give back to help the next generation. Ryan and I hope that these two scholarships will help mold their recipients into passionate,\u0026nbsp;empathetic, generous global leaders.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article was originally published in the Winter 2022 edition of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/development.gatech.edu\/impact\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026#39;s Philanthropy Quarterly.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Dr. Bettina E. Cothran Scholarship will provide funding for engineering students who wish to participate in the German LBAT program but lack the means to do so."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2022-05-04 18:43:20","changed_gmt":"2022-05-05 15:46:43","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591138":{"id":"591138","type":"image","title":"Bettina Cothran","body":null,"created":"1493411641","gmt_created":"2017-04-28 20:34:01","changed":"1493411641","gmt_changed":"2017-04-28 20:34:01","alt":"Bettina Cothran","file":{"fid":"225234","name":"BettinaCothranWeb_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BettinaCothranWeb_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BettinaCothranWeb_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40298,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/BettinaCothranWeb_1.jpg?itok=B7rXX_cr"}}},"media_ids":["591138"],"groups":[{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"},{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJennifer Carlile\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jennifer.carlile@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejennifer.carlile@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}