{"175431":{"#nid":"175431","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Four-Legged Visitors bring Students Stress Relief","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOften the mention of dogs on campus can mean a certain rival university\u0027s coming to town, but this week it means there are four-legged friends on campus that have come to love on students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Library and CAREing Paws, a local group of therapy teams, are helping students de-stress during dead week by bringing therapy dogs to the library. The dogs will be in the Neely Room Dec. 4\u20135 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is the first time I\u2019ve smiled all week \u2014 well, all month really,\u0022 said Christine Delacerna, a senior biomedical engineering major from New Jersey, who took a break from studying Tuesday to spend time with the dogs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/careingpaws.org\/\u0022\u003ECAREing Paws\u003C\/a\u003E uses nationally registered animal-owner\/handler therapy teams who visit schools, libraries and other settings. Economics librarian Ameet Doshi reached out to the group in hopes of helping Tech students cope with the stress of dead week and final exams.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Therapy dogs have become a trend among many libraries,\u0022 Doshi said. \u0022In the Atlanta area, Georgia Perimeter College has done it in the past and Emory is doing it this semester.\u0022 Therapy dogs have also received media attention at schools such as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/22\/education\/22dog.html\u0022\u003EYale\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2012\/11\/28\/puppy-room-dalhousie-university_n_2205804.html\u0022\u003EDalhousie\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollowing the therapy dog visits, the Library will host StressBuzzters on Thursday, Dec. 6, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on 2West. Students will receive free snacks, bottled water, tips on reducing stress, stress balls and massages.\u0026nbsp;The event is sponsored in collaboration with the Campus Recreation Center, Office of Health Promotion and the Counseling Center.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETherapy dogs are visiting students at the Library this week.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Therapy dogs are visiting students at the Library this week."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2012-12-04 16:16:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:18","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"175441":{"id":"175441","type":"image","title":"Therapy Dogs Visit Students at the Library","body":null,"created":"1449179022","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:43:42","changed":"1475894816","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:56","alt":"Therapy Dogs Visit Students at the Library","file":{"fid":"195844","name":"therapydog-1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/therapydog-1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/therapydog-1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":298676,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/therapydog-1_0.jpg?itok=XIEUwdiu"}}},"media_ids":["175441"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/library.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Library"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"659","name":"Georgia Tech Library"},{"id":"1205","name":"Library"},{"id":"52161","name":"therapy dogs"}],"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:tearanny.street@library.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETearanny Street\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Library\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}