{"667872":{"#nid":"667872","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Shemyakina to Lend Expertise to the State Department Through Jefferson Science Fellowship ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOlga Shemyakina, associate professor in the School of Economics, has been selected for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/PGA\/Jefferson\/index.htm\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJefferson Science Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E. She is one of nine fellows chosen from around the country this year, including Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, an ADVANCE Professor at the Georgia Tech College of Sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Jefferson Science Fellows Program aims to build science, technology, and engineering expertise in the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The fellows bring up-to-date knowledge to the offices to help the agencies make policy decisions in these rapidly changing fields.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShemyakina was selected for her research expertise in the impacts of armed conflict on population. Her work uses large-scale datasets to examine the effects of violent conflict, and the economic and political instability that often follows, on households in fragile settings and developing countries. She also studies the relationship between armed conflict and food security.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the next year, she will work at the Office of Advanced Analytics in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations in Washington, where she expects to help with issues related to fragile and conflict-affected economies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I hope to positively impact the area that I have been working on for most of my research career,\u0022 Shemyakina said. \u0022I\u0027m looking forward to applying my knowledge to real-world problems and learning more about foreign policy in the area.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOlga Shemyakina, associate professor in the School of Economics, has been selected for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/PGA\/Jefferson\/index.htm\u0022\u003EJefferson Science Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E. She is one of nine fellows chosen from around the country this year, including Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, an ADVANCE Professor at the Georgia Tech College of Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Olga Shemyakina, associate professor in the School of Economics, has been selected for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Jefferson Science Fellowship."}],"uid":"36324","created_gmt":"2023-05-24 14:41:05","changed_gmt":"2023-05-24 15:15:39","author":"mm479","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670863":{"id":"670863","type":"image","title":"OlgaShemyakina.png","body":null,"created":"1684941239","gmt_created":"2023-05-24 15:13:59","changed":"1684941239","gmt_changed":"2023-05-24 15:13:59","alt":"Photo of Olga Shemyakina","file":{"fid":"253807","name":"Copy of 16x9 headshot template.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/24\/Copy%20of%2016x9%20headshot%20template.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/24\/Copy%20of%2016x9%20headshot%20template.png","mime":"image\/png","size":540244,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/05\/24\/Copy%20of%2016x9%20headshot%20template.png?itok=xoAylKyE"}}},"media_ids":["670863"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"602","name":"economics"},{"id":"190349","name":"armed conflict"},{"id":"50231","name":"food security"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Pearson\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}