{"112281":{"#nid":"112281","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Three Georgia Tech Researchers Honored as Sloan Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree faculty members from the Georgia Institute of Technology were awarded\n2012 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGrigoriy Blekherman, Prasad Raghavendra and Frank Stewart were among the 126\noutstanding researchers selected from across the country and were the only\nrecipients from the University System of Georgia. The fellowships, given\nannually since 1955, honor early-career scientists and scholars whose\nachievements and potential identify them as the next generation of scientific\nleaders. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBlekherman and Stewart are both assistant professors in the College of Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nIn the School of Mathematics, Blekherman works in the area of convex algebraic\ngeometry, which has applications in both engineering and computer science. His primary\nresearch focuses on understanding systems of inequality, and effective ways to\nexplain the lack of solutions in those systems. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAn assistant\nprofessor in the School of Biology, Stewart\u2019s research is focused on understanding\nhow a lack of oxygen affects the biological diversity and ecological function\nof marine ecosystems. He studies regions of the ocean that are, for the most\npart, permanently devoid of oxygen, also known as oxygen minimum zones. This\naward will help him to better understand the genomic diversity, evolution and\nmetabolism of the unique bacteria residing in these oxygen minimum zones that\nuse sulfur for energy in the way other organisms use carbon or nitrogen.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore\njoining the College of Computing faculty in 2010, Raghavendra spent a year\ndoing postdoctoral work for Microsoft Research New England. Also a 2012\nrecipient of an NSF CAREER Award, his research is focused on designing efficient\napproximation algorithms and understanding their limits. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAdministered and funded by the Sloan Foundation, the fellowships are awarded\nin close cooperation with the scientific community. Potential fellows must be\nnominated for recognition by their peers and are subsequently selected by an\nindependent panel of senior scholars.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe $50,000 fellowships are historically awarded in chemistry, computer\nscience, economics, mathematics, evolutionary and computational molecular\nbiology, neuroscience and physics. The fellowships were expanded this year to\ninclude awards for eight young researchers working in ocean sciences. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Prestigious award given to \u201crising stars\u201d"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree faculty members from the Georgia Institute of Technology were awarded\n2012 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Grigoriy Blekherman, Prasad Raghavendra and Frank Stewart were among the 126\noutstanding researchers selected from across the country and were the only\nrecipients from the University System of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Three faculty members from the Georgia Institute of Technology were awarded 2012 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2012-02-24 16:48:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:44","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.sloan.org\/fellowships\/page\/2","title":"Alfred P. Sloan Foundation"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/people\/index.php?id=frank-stewart","title":"Frank Stewart"},{"url":"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/grrigg\/","title":"Grigoriy Blekherman"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/praghave\/","title":"Prasad Raghavendra"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"25071","name":"2012 Sloan"},{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"5731","name":"fellowships"},{"id":"169413","name":"Sloan"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer, 404-385-2966\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jason.maderer@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}