{"666068":{"#nid":"666068","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Land RCSA Funding to Study Mars Samples, Develop SMART Collaborations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo Georgia Tech researchers recently landed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rescorp.org\/\u0022\u003EResearch Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA)\u003C\/a\u003E funding, which includes its core programs, the coveted \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rescorp.org\/cottrell-scholars\u0022\u003ECottrell Scholars\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rescorp.org\/scialog\u0022\u003EScialog\u00ae\u003C\/a\u003E honors. Elisabetta Matsumoto and Frances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez are the latest College of Sciences faculty to receive RCSA support for their work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERCSA\u2019s mission is to advance early stage, high-potential, basic scientific research. The association provides funding for research and sponsors conferences to support a diverse and inclusive community of early career faculty, innovative ideas for basic research, integration of research and science teaching, interdisciplinary research, and building the foundation for the academic leadership of the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Scialog\u00ae program invests in interdisciplinary, innovative, basic research on problems of high complexity that are timely and of significant value to society.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIts goal is to foster new collaborations across multiple disciplines to spark innovative ideas, stimulate significant advances on chosen topics, and attract higher levels of funding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESMART collaborations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/elisabetta-matsumoto\u0022\u003EElisabetta Matsumoto\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, was part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rescorp.org\/cottrell-scholars\/cottrell-scholars-collaborative\u0022\u003ECottrell Scholars Collaborative\u003C\/a\u003E program, in which participants are encouraged to form teams and develop collaborative projects with potential national impact in science education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMatsumoto\u2019s collaborative project, Supporting Making to Align Research and Teaching (SMART), builds off an existing Cottrell project aiming to increase awareness of making, an emerging instructional practice where students learn a discipline (and enjoy enhanced creativity and self-expression) by creating shared physical and digital artifacts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of this project is to support and document faculty training and adoption of making methods, as well as to generate examples of making activities in disciplines, such as chemistry and astronomy, that have not adopted this technique.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMars samples\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/rivera-hernandez-dr-frances\u0022\u003EFrances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez,\u003C\/a\u003E an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, is participating in the second year of the Scialog\u00ae Signatures of Life in the Universe program (the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hsfoundation.org\/\u0022\u003EHeising-Simons Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E is a program co-sponsor).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u2019s goal is to catalyze cutting-edge research with the potential to transform our understanding of the habitability of planets, of how the occurrence of life alters planets and leaves signatures, and of how to detect such signatures beyond Earth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERivera-Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s project with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/science.jpl.nasa.gov\/people\/barge\/\u0022\u003ELaurie Barge\u003C\/a\u003E, a research scientist in the Planetary Sciences division of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\u0022\u003ENASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E, is titled Mars Sample Return: Connecting Martian Environmental Chemistry to Returned Samples. It is funded by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\u0022\u003ENASA\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA rich history of RCSA support\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERCSA is a longtime supporter of College of Sciences research. Several faculty members from a variety of disciplines have been named Cottrell Scholars or joined the Scialog program over the past 29 years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences associate professors, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/glass-dr-jennifer\u0022\u003EJennifer Glass\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/reinhard-dr-chris\u0022\u003EChris Reinhard\u003C\/a\u003E, were \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/jennifer-glass-chris-reinhard-join-scialog-colleagues-search-signatures-life-universe\u0022\u003Epart of the first year\u003C\/a\u003E of the Signatures of Life in the Universe program in 2021. Glass was chosen for her research proposal, Methane from Nontraditional Abiotic Sources and Potential for False Biosignature Positives, while Reinhard proposal was Stochastic Simulation of Evolving Planetary Biospheres.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso in 2021, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/vinayak-agarwal\u0022\u003EVinayak Agarwal\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry \u003C\/a\u003Eand the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, was named a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/vinayak-agarwal-wins-2021-cottrell-scholar-award-ocean-studies\u0022\u003ECottrell Scholar\u003C\/a\u003E for his proposal, Unlocking Marine Eukaryotic Natural Product Biosynthetic Schemes in Research and Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElisabetta Matsumoto\u2019s first time as a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/elisabetta-matsumoto-2020-cottrell-scholar-research-math-and-science-behind-knitting\u0022\u003ECottrell Scholar was in 2020\u003C\/a\u003E for her research on tying together the science and mathematics behind knitting, which was featured in\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/17\/science\/math-physics-knitting-matsumoto.html\u0022\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso in 2020, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/gongjie-li\u0022\u003EGongjie Li\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Physics, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/amanda-stockton\u0022\u003EAmanda Stockton\u003C\/a\u003E, professors in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, were named Scialog\u00ae Signatures of Life in the Universe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rescorp.org\/scialog\/slu-fellows\u0022\u003EFellows\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/georgia-tech-alumnus-chad-risko-named-2018-cottrell-scholar\u0022\u003EChad Risko\u003C\/a\u003E, a former Ph.D. student in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was named a Cottrell Scholar in 2018 with the goal of developing a course-based undergraduate research experience focusing on the application of computing and data science in chemistry. Risko was a Ph.D. student of former Regents Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/bredas\/jean-luc%20\u0022\u003EJean-Luc Br\u00e9das\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/brian-hammer\u0022\u003EBrian Hammer\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences, was part of a 2015 collaborative effort for the Scialog\u00ae Molecules Come to Life Team Award for the project, Rebooting the Gut Microbial Ecosystem Using Bacterial Dueling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrevious Georgia Tech recipients of the Cottrell Scholar Award also include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/david-m-collard\u0022\u003EDavid Collard \u003C\/a\u003E(1994), professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and senior associate dean in the College of Sciences; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/michael-schatz\u0022\u003EMichael Schatz \u003C\/a\u003E(1999) and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/tamara-bogdanovi%C4%87\u0022\u003ETamara Bogdanovi\u0107\u003C\/a\u003E (2016), both professors of the School of Physics.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Elisabetta Matsumoto and Frances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez have won funding and support from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), continuing a long history of backing for leading-edge research honored by Cottrell Scholars and Scialog"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EElisabetta Matsumoto and Frances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez have won funding and support from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), continuing a long history of backing for leading-edge research honored by Cottrell Scholars and Scialog\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Elisabetta Matsumoto and Frances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez have won funding and support from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), continuing a long history of backing for leading-edge research honored by Cottrell Scholars and Scialog"}],"uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-02-22 15:36:04","changed_gmt":"2025-03-11 21:06:42","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"666110":{"id":"666110","type":"image","title":"Elisabetta Matsumoto with a scarf that represents cellular automata, a mathematical construct depicting a system\u0027s evolution over time. 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