{"127101":{"#nid":"127101","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumnus Mickey Wade, MSNE \u002787 and Ph.D. \u002791 Appointed VP and Director of the DIII-D National Fusion Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Mickey Wade (MSNE 1987, Ph.D. NE 1991) has been appointed Vice President and Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ga.com\/energy\/d3d.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDIII-D National Fusion Program\u003C\/a\u003E, the largest tokamak research program in the USA and one of the world\u0027s leading such programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Wade has more than 20 years of experience with DIII-D, the last seven with General Atomics as the program\u2019s Director of Experimental Science Division.\u0026nbsp; He assumed his new position on March 12, 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Wade\u2019s experience includes award-winning research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. While acting as the Senior Research Scientist at Oak Ridge, he provided the Woodruff School with a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nre.gatech.edu\/alumni\/nuc_wade.shtml\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Etestimonial\u003C\/a\u003E, in which he recalled how a book on fusion energy written by\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/stacey.shtml\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E Dr. Weston Stacey \u003C\/a\u003Einspired him to come to Georgia Tech in pursuit of his graduate degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Wade is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and is well respected in the international fusion community.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27620","created_gmt":"2012-04-27 14:46:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:04","author":"Melissa Zbeeb","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"108731","name":"School of Mechanical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"32151","name":"ME Alumnus"},{"id":"32171","name":"Mickey Wade"},{"id":"32181","name":"Woodruff School Alumni"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:\/\/communications@me.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWoodruff School Communications\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}