{"676612":{"#nid":"676612","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Martha Grover Named Thomas A. Fanning Chair in Equity Centered Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E faculty member Martha Grover has been named the College\u2019s Thomas A. Fanning Chair in Equity Centered Engineering. Grover was selected for her efforts to educate engineers who approach their work with an intent to close societal gaps of wealth, power, and privilege by ensuring equitable access to opportunity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe endowed position was established via the Southern Company Foundation by Southern Company, which has been \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.southerncompany.com\/our-community\/diversity.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eregularly recognized for its efforts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E to promote an organizational culture that ensures representation of all groups. Fanning recently retired as chairman, president, and CEO.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGrover is a systems engineer whose work addresses the complexity of molecular organization and how it can solve complicated grand challenges. For instance, she has worked with the Department of Energy for 10 years to create processes for separation and immobilization of millions of gallons of liquid nuclear waste at the Hanford Site in Washington and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. She\u2019s developed real-time process monitoring of nuclear waste slurries to increase throughput and enhance safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGrover\u2019s research also focuses on the origins of life and understanding the essential role of diversity and cooperation. Her other work includes\u0026nbsp;modeling and engineering the self-assembly of atoms and small molecules to create larger scale structures and complex functionality.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E faculty member Martha Grover has been named the College\u2019s Thomas A. Fanning Chair in Equity Centered Engineering. Grover was selected for her efforts to educate engineers who approach their work with an intent to close societal gaps of wealth, power, and privilege by ensuring equitable access to opportunity.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) faculty member Martha Grover has been named the College\u2019s Thomas A. Fanning Chair in Equity Centered Engineering. "}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2024-09-06 19:11:46","changed_gmt":"2024-09-06 19:13:33","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674874":{"id":"674874","type":"image","title":"martha-grover-small-headshot.png","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMartha Grover\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1725649912","gmt_created":"2024-09-06 19:11:52","changed":"1725649912","gmt_changed":"2024-09-06 19:11:52","alt":"Picture of Martha Grover","file":{"fid":"258438","name":"martha-grover-small-headshot.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/09\/06\/martha-grover-small-headshot.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/09\/06\/martha-grover-small-headshot.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1403063,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/09\/06\/martha-grover-small-headshot.png?itok=flzIGTDU"}}},"media_ids":["674874"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/06\/martha-grover-named-thomas-fanning-chair-equity-centered-engineering","title":"Read Story on CoE Newspage"}],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"},{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"},{"id":"188020","name":"go-rbi"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer (maderer@gatech.edu)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Engineering, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}