{"247311":{"#nid":"247311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Plans Memorial, Graduate Fellowship in Harrold\u0027s Honor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing at Georgia Tech this week announced the establishment of a graduate fellowship endowment in honor of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~harrold\/\u0022\u003EProfessor Mary Jean Harrold\u003C\/a\u003E, who \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/college-computing-remembers-mary-jean-harrold\u0022\u003Epassed away last month\u003C\/a\u003E after a battle with cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, an on-campus memorial service has been planned, allowing those who were not able to attend Harrold\u2019s service in her home state of West Virginia to pay their respects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDean Zvi Galil said the fellowship, which will exist in perpetuity, honors a colleague who had earned acclaim as one of the world\u0027s leading software engineers and as an advocate for broadening participation in computing. The endowment will grow from donations from friends, colleagues and students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis fellowship will serve as an ongoing tribute to someone who served our field, this College and the School of Computer Science so ably,\u201d Galil said. \u0022Just as she did over the course of her distinguished career, this endowment will enable Mary Jean to continue making contributions to computer science and to software engineering in particular.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose wishing to make a donation should make checks out to The Georgia Tech Foundation and mail them to:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003EAtlanta, GA 30332-0280\u003Cbr \/\u003EAttention: Susan Hutcheson\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMemorial services for Harrold will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, at the Georgia Tech Catholic Center, 172 Fourth Street NW.\u0026nbsp; For those friends, faculty members and former students who wish to offer brief reflections at the service, please message Antonette Benford at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:abenford@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eabenford@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27556","created_gmt":"2013-10-18 18:31:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:09","author":"Michaelanne Dye","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10473","name":"Mary Jean Harrold"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}