{"294881":{"#nid":"294881","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Graduate Student Receives Ford Foundation Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristian Rivera selected for superior academic achievement.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChristian Rivera is one of approximately sixty graduate students nation-wide to receive a Ford Foundation Fellowship. Applicants were evaluated by panels of distinguished scholars selected by the National Academies and are selected for their superior academic achievement and who will serve as a role model in teaching and research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With the Ford Fellowship I hope not to only fund my research, but to pursue endeavors in teaching and education,\u0022 Rivera stated. \u0022Having completed a year as a teaching assistant I have found to really enjoy teaching. Knowing the Ford Foundation\u0027s strong commitment to education, I plan to seek other teaching opportunities in the future.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOriginally from Somerville, NJ, Rivera graduated with a Bachelor\u0027s of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University. As a second year graduate student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, he is researching sickle cell disease in associate professor Manu Platt\u0027s laboratory, with a primary focus on how strokes are occurring in young children with the disease. His unique approach uses computational fluid dynamics in order to create simulations of the blood flow in the cerebral vasculature.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough its Fellowship Programs, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation\u2019s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Christian Rivera selected for superior academic achievement"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChristian Rivera selected for superior academic achievement\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Christian Rivera selected for superior academic achievement"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2014-05-05 08:35:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:22","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"294891":{"id":"294891","type":"image","title":"Christian Rivera wins Ford Foundation Fellowship","body":null,"created":"1449244514","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:55:14","changed":"1475894993","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:53","alt":"Christian Rivera wins Ford Foundation Fellowship","file":{"fid":"199361","name":"riverachristianarticleimage5.2014.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/riverachristianarticleimage5.2014_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/riverachristianarticleimage5.2014_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":12605,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/riverachristianarticleimage5.2014_0.jpg?itok=Il1GTOVA"}},"294901":{"id":"294901","type":"image","title":"Christian Rivera, graduate student in the lab of Manu Platt, PhD","body":null,"created":"1449244514","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:55:14","changed":"1475894993","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:53","alt":"Christian Rivera, graduate student in the lab of Manu Platt, PhD","file":{"fid":"199362","name":"riverachristianarticleheadshot5.2014.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/riverachristianarticleheadshot5.2014_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/riverachristianarticleheadshot5.2014_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":72306,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/riverachristianarticleheadshot5.2014_0.jpg?itok=OiOvfVVu"}}},"media_ids":["294891","294901"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/groups.bme.gatech.edu\/groups\/platt\/","title":"Platt lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/pga\/fordfellowships\/index.htm","title":"Ford Foundation Fellowship Program"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mcdevitt@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMegan McDevitt\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector, Communications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering \u0026amp; Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mcdevitt@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}