{"86571":{"#nid":"86571","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Kathy Woody Receives Barbara Filner Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKathy Woody has been selected as the first recipient of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Barbara Filner Award.  The AWIS recognizes outstanding women, who are pursuing careers in a broad range of sciences and related fields while helping other women succeed in these fields.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKathy has been active in several student organizations, such as Graduate Student Forum and Women in Chemistry (serving as Co-Chair of Women In Chemistry (WIC) this past year) at Georgia Tech and recently helped organize a Graduate and Postdoctoral Diversity Summit at the National American Chemical Society Meeting this past spring in San Francisco.  She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Professor David Collard\u00e2\u0080\u0099s group.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award is named in honor of Dr. Barbara Filner (1941-2009), a strong supporter, mentor, and leader in encouraging women to enter the sciences.   Dr. Filner graduated from Queens College, New York, and received a PhD in Biology from Brandeis University in Massachusetts. She was an assistant professor at Columbia University before choosing to pursue a career in science policy and grants administration.  Dr. Filner wanted to be remembered as a \u00e2\u0080\u009cMentor to Women Scientists.\u00e2\u0080\u009d  Thanks to the generosity of her family, friends, and colleagues, the Barbara Filner Award is helping to preserve her legacy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations, Kathy!\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Kathy has been selected as the first recipient of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Barbara Filner Award.  The AWIS recognizes outstanding women, who are pursuing careers in a broad range of sciences and related fields while helping other women succeed in these fields.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Award given by the Association for Women in Science"}],"uid":"27275","created_gmt":"2010-08-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:18","author":"Shirley Tomes","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-08-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-08-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"86581":{"id":"86581","type":"image","title":"Kathy Woody","body":null,"created":"1449178119","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:39","changed":"1475894621","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:41"}},"media_ids":["86581"],"groups":[{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EShirley Tomes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=st81\u0022\u003EContact Shirley Tomes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-0591\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shirley.tomes@chemistry.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}