{"307511":{"#nid":"307511","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Meet with Supreme Allied Commander Breedlove","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/blogs.iac.gatech.edu\/gtintheeu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGT-EU\u003C\/a\u003E study abroad program, directed by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/birchfield\u0022\u003EVicki Birchfield\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in \u003Cstrong\u003EThe Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/strong\u003E (INTA), had the opportunity to meet with General Philip Breedlove at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBreedlove, Supreme Allied Commander Europe and a Georgia Tech alumnus (Civil Engineering 1977), and his senior officers welcomed\u0026nbsp;the group to the Comprehensive Crisis and Operations Management Centre for a detailed briefing. The briefing focused NATO\u0027s system for assessing and managing threats within Europe, the North Atlantic, Mediterranean, North Africa, Middle East, and part of Asia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt a reception following the briefing, General Breedlove mentioned how impressed he was with the students and the IAC international affairs program.\u0026nbsp;Those attending the reception included Georgia Tech President G.P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson, Provost Raphael Bras, Executive Vice President for Research Steve Cross, Vice President for International Development Marta Garcia, Dean of Engineering Gary May, The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u0026nbsp;Chair Joseph E. Bankoff, and School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair Reginald DesRoches.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/blogs.iac.gatech.edu\/gtintheeu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGT-EU\u003C\/a\u003E study abroad program, directed by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/birchfield\u0022\u003EVicki Birchfield\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in \u003Cstrong\u003EThe Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/strong\u003E (INTA), had the opportunity to meet with General Philip Breedlove at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students in the GT-EU study abroad program, directed by Vicki Birchfield, associate professor in The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs (INTA), had the opportunity to meet with General Philip Breedlove at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Euro"}],"uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2014-07-09 10:52:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:45","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"307501":{"id":"307501","type":"image","title":"Breedlove Briefing","body":null,"created":"1449244708","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:28","changed":"1475895017","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:17","alt":"Breedlove Briefing","file":{"fid":"199774","name":"breedlove_briefing.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breedlove_briefing_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breedlove_briefing_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":45619,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/breedlove_briefing_0.jpg?itok=zBX13dbd"}}},"media_ids":["307501"],"related_links":[{"url":"internal:\/GT in the EU Blog","title":"http:\/\/blogs.iac.gatech.edu\/gtintheeu\/"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7896","name":"crisis"},{"id":"97491","name":"GT-EU"},{"id":"995","name":"NATO"},{"id":"171343","name":"shape"},{"id":"166843","name":"Study Abroad"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}