{"676789":{"#nid":"676789","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Meisha Shofner Selected for ELATES National Leadership Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMeisha Shofner, professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), has been selected for the 2024-2025 class of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/drexel.edu\/provost\/priorities\/elates\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDrexel University\u2019s Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ELATES program is a national leadership development program designed to promote women in academic STEM fields and faculty allies of all genders into institutional leadership roles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am excited to be selected as an ELATES Fellow. I am grateful for the support from Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering that made this opportunity possible and especially support from Dean Raheem Beyah, Associate Dean Kim Kurtis, and MSE School Chair Natalie Stingelin. I am looking forward to learning from this amazing community of women leaders in higher education,\u201d Shofner said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was drawn to the ELATES program because of its focus on developing the skills needed to lead university initiatives with an operational focus, and I will be putting that knowledge into practice as I develop an institutional action project as part of the program.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/news\/meisha-shofner-selected-elates-national-leadership-program\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on the MSE Webpage\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMeisha Shofner, professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), has been selected for the 2024-2025 class of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/drexel.edu\/provost\/priorities\/elates\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDrexel University\u2019s Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Meisha Shofner, professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), has been selected for the 2024-2025 class of Drexel University\u2019s Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) program."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2024-09-13 14:07:11","changed_gmt":"2024-09-13 14:09:52","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674965":{"id":"674965","type":"image","title":"meisha-aug2024.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMeisha Shofner ELATES Fellow 2024-2025\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1726236442","gmt_created":"2024-09-13 14:07:22","changed":"1726236442","gmt_changed":"2024-09-13 14:07:22","alt":"Meisha Shofner ELATES Fellow 2024-2025","file":{"fid":"258539","name":"meisha-aug2024.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/09\/13\/meisha-aug2024.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/09\/13\/meisha-aug2024.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40775,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/09\/13\/meisha-aug2024.jpg?itok=k47sI56M"}}},"media_ids":["674965"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/news\/meisha-shofner-selected-elates-national-leadership-program","title":"Read Full Story on the MSE Webpage"}],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"},{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"188020","name":"go-rbi"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}