{"659176":{"#nid":"659176","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Six Students Chosen for 2022 BBISS Graduate Fellows Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe second class of Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Graduate Fellows has been selected. The BBISS Graduate Fellows Program provides graduate students with enhanced training in sustainability, team science, and leadership in addition to their usual programs of study. Each two-year fellowship is funded by a generous gift from Brook and Shawn Byers and is additionally guided by a Faculty Advisory Board. The students apply their skills and talents, working directly with their peers, faculty, and external partners on long-term, large team, sustainability relevant projects. They are also afforded opportunities to organize and host seminar series, develop their professional networks, publish papers and draft proposals,\u0026nbsp;and develop additional skills critical to their professional success and future careers leading research teams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 2022 class of Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems Graduate Fellows are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOliver Chapman - Ph.D. student, School of Public Policy, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMegan Conville - Ph.D. student, School of City and Regional Planning, College of Design\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECarlos Fernandez - Ph.D. student, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESarah Roney - Ph.D. student, School of Biological Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOlianike Olaomo - Ph.D. student, School of History and Sociology, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVishal Sharma - Ph.D. student, School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Faculty Advisory Board for the BBISS Graduate Fellows is composed of the faculty who submitted the students\u0027 nominations. Nominations for Class III of the BBISS Graduate Fellows program will open in the Spring 2023. It is expected that 6 to 8 scholars will be selected for next year\u2019s group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Faculty Advisory Board for the inaugural class are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hatzell\u0022\u003EMarta Hatzell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/marilyn-a-brown\u0022\u003EMarilyn Brown\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/people\/elora-lee-raymond\u0022\u003EElora Raymond\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/kate-pride-brown\u0022\u003EKate Pride Brown\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/marc-weissburg\u0022\u003EMarc Weissburg\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/neha-kumar\u0022\u003ENeha Kumar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUpdates and outcomes will be posted to the BBISS website as the project progresses. Additional information is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sustainability\/grad-fellows-program\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sustainability\/grad-fellows-program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe second class of Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Graduate Fellows has been selected. The BBISS Graduate Fellows Program provides graduate students with enhanced training in sustainability, team science, and leadership in addition to their usual programs of study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The BBISS Graduate Fellows Program was conceived to select qualified students to receive training in sustainability, team science, and leadership, in addition to their usual programs of study."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2022-06-30 14:51:42","changed_gmt":"2025-06-18 15:07:56","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"659179":{"id":"659179","type":"image","title":"2022 BBISS Graduate Fellows","body":null,"created":"1656601298","gmt_created":"2022-06-30 15:01:38","changed":"1658261475","gmt_changed":"2022-07-19 20:11:15","alt":"Montage of portraits of the inaugural class of BBISS\u00a0Graduate Fellows. L to R, top to bottom,\u00a0Oliver Chapman, Meaghan Conville, Olianike Olaomo, Carlos Fernandez,\u00a0Vishal Sharma, and Sarah Roney.","file":{"fid":"249868","name":"2022_BBISS_Grad_Fellows_Montage_Web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022_BBISS_Grad_Fellows_Montage_Web_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022_BBISS_Grad_Fellows_Montage_Web_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":199260,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2022_BBISS_Grad_Fellows_Montage_Web_0.jpg?itok=5EQ90RX0"}}},"media_ids":["659179"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sustainability\/2021-grad-fellows","title":"2021 BBISS Graduate Fellows"}],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"142","name":"City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"87921","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"},{"id":"190765","name":"BBISS Graduate Fellows"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"194566","name":"Sustainable Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brent.verrill@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrent Verrill\u003C\/a\u003E, Research Communications Program Manager\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brent.verrill@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}