{"661349":{"#nid":"661349","#data":{"type":"news","title":" Astros Fellowship Sends Azalia Cyphers to Women in Sports Data Symposium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate Azalia Cyphers finally will be able to merge her passions for biomedical engineering and sports at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.womeninsportsdata.org\/\u0022\u003EWomen in Sports Data Symposium\u003C\/a\u003E in late August, courtesy of the Houston Astros.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Major League Baseball team has selected Cyphers for an inaugural Women in Sports Data Fellowship, supporting her attendance at the symposium in Brooklyn and giving her the \u0026ldquo;very rare opportunity of pursuing my interests and dreams,\u0026rdquo; according to the third-year student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was already surreal discovering the Women in Sports Data initiative and how MLB really wanted to pour into women that aspire to work in technical roles through the fellowship, so to be selected felt like a dream come true,\u0026rdquo; Cyphers said. \u0026ldquo;I was inspired by the women behind the scenes of professional sports. As a former athlete and manager\u0026nbsp;for my high school baseball team, I\u0026rsquo;ve always wanted to examine the intersection of biomedical engineering for injury prevention and recovery.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/astros-fellowship-sends-azalia-cyphers-women-sports-data-symposium\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EClark Scholar wants to learn more about using data and biomechanics to help athletes prevent and recover from injuries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Clark Scholar wants to learn more about using data and biomechanics to help athletes prevent and recover from injuries."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-08-17 13:45:32","changed_gmt":"2022-09-26 21:11:33","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"661348":{"id":"661348","type":"image","title":"Azalia Cyphers","body":null,"created":"1660742482","gmt_created":"2022-08-17 13:21:22","changed":"1663723273","gmt_changed":"2022-09-21 01:21:13","alt":"Azalia Cyphers","file":{"fid":"250518","name":"Cyphers-Azalia-coe-t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cyphers-Azalia-coe-t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cyphers-Azalia-coe-t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":331605,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Cyphers-Azalia-coe-t.jpg?itok=fL-zHh7m"}}},"media_ids":["661348"],"groups":[{"id":"551651","name":"Center for Engineering Education and Diversity (CEED)"},{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"289141","name":"Women in Engineering (WIE)"},{"id":"604685","name":"Clark Scholars"}],"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":""}}}