{"674525":{"#nid":"674525","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wolfe Wins Helen Grenga Award for Fostering Inclusivity in Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFourth-year Georgia Tech electrical engineering student Jennifer Wolfe was honored with the 2024 Helen Grenga Outstanding Woman Engineer Award at the College of Engineering\u2019s Women in Engineering Banquet on April 11.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award, which is named after Georgia Tech\u2019s first full-tenured female engineering professor, is given annually to one female-identifying student who excels in their academic pursuits and also works to create a more inclusive and diverse engineering community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWolfe was nominated by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ECE) for her passionate efforts in encouraging women to pursue engineering degrees and careers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe\u2019s heavily involved in all three Georgia Tech women in engineering organizations: Society of Women Engineers, Women in Engineering, Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering, participating as a mentee as well as a mentor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe\u2019s also a peer leader in ECE 1100, and a respected teaching assistant in ECE 2035.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a transfer student herself, the importance of finding community is something Wolfe knows very well. Her impact on other students has been significant, with many peers saying she\u2019s helped foster a sense of belonging not just in ECE but across the entire Institute.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer passion also comes through in her many research projects. Wolfe was a research assistant for ECE Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/linda-m-wills\u0022\u003ELinda Wills\u003C\/a\u003E and Professor of the Practice \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/thomas-r-collins\u0022\u003ETom Collins\u0027 \u003C\/a\u003E\u201cRelatable Rebound Story.\u201d The project, which won a grant from Transformative Teaching and Learning (TTL), collects stories of overcoming adversity from students in ECE 3025 and shares them with future students to help encourage completion of the notoriously difficult class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn top her Georgia Tech responsibilities, she\u2019s also held a software internship at Apple and completed three co-op rotations at NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduating this spring, Wolfe will be taking her talents to AT\u0026amp;T as a network engineer through their Technical Development Program. She also plans to pursue an online master\u2019s in computer science through Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJennifer Wolfe was recognized for her involvement in continuing to make ECE a welcoming community and for service to her fellow students.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jennifer Wolfe was recognized for her involvement in continuing to make ECE a welcoming community and for service to her fellow students."}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2024-05-06 16:04:19","changed_gmt":"2024-05-06 16:09:08","author":"zwiniecki3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673950":{"id":"673950","type":"image","title":"Wolfe.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1715011466","gmt_created":"2024-05-06 16:04:26","changed":"1715011466","gmt_changed":"2024-05-06 16:04:26","alt":"Jennifer Wolfe","file":{"fid":"257407","name":"Wolfe.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/05\/06\/Wolfe.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/05\/06\/Wolfe.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":23914226,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/05\/06\/Wolfe.jpeg?itok=Ibhu8PvE"}}},"media_ids":["673950"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2921","name":"Helen Grenga"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZachary Winiecki\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["zwiniecki3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}