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  <title><![CDATA[Vida Jamali Receives the Inaugural Dr. James Robert and Margaret Spencer Early Career Fellowship]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>Assistant Professor Vida Jamali is the inaugural recipient of the new Dr. James Robert and Margaret Spencer Early Career Fellowship in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE@GT).</p><p>“Her outstanding research accomplishments and contributions to the School and Georgia Tech led to this selection,” said Professor Christopher W. Jones, the John F. Brock III School Chair in ChBE@GT.</p><p>The $20,000 in discretionary funding from this one-year fellowship will support <a href="https://vidajamali.github.io/"><strong>Jamali</strong></a>’s research activities focused on developing new tools for <em>in situ</em> liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy, stochastic thermodynamics, and nanoscience-based platforms.</p><p>The Spencers established the endowment from which the term fellowship funding comes in 2017. This endowment will eventually lead to the establishment of a professorship in ChBE@GT.</p><p>“Bob Spencer is a successful alumnus who has remained connected to our chemical engineering program,” according to Jones. “His family’s gift will allow ChBE@GT to support an early career professor at a critical stage of their development—the crucial years just before their promotion and tenure review. We are grateful for their support and generosity.”</p><p><a href="https://www.chbe.gatech.edu/news/2026/05/vida-jamali-receives-inaugural-dr-james-robert-and-margaret-spencer-early-career">Read Full Story on the ChBE Newspage</a></p>]]></body>
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      <value><![CDATA[<p>Assistant Professor Vida Jamali is the inaugural recipient of the new Dr. James Robert and Margaret Spencer Early Career Fellowship in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE@GT).</p><p>“Her outstanding research accomplishments and contributions to the School and Georgia Tech led to this selection,” said Professor Christopher W. Jones, the John F. Brock III School Chair in ChBE@GT.</p><p>The $20,000 in discretionary funding from this one-year fellowship will support <a href="https://vidajamali.github.io/"><strong>Jamali</strong></a>’s research activities focused on developing new tools for <em>in situ</em> liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy, stochastic thermodynamics, and nanoscience-based platforms.</p>]]></value>
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