{"359471":{"#nid":"359471","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Emory Pediatric Bioengineering Summer Program Accepting Undergraduate Applications","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETen undergraduate students from across the country will have the unprecedented opportunity to participate in the Nation\u2019s only pediatric bioengineering program.\u0026nbsp; The program is made possible due to the collaborative efforts of Emory University and Georgia Tech\u2019s Biomedical Engineering Department, the Department of Pediatrics within Emory University\u0027s School of Medicine, Emory College\u2019s Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURE), and Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta.\u0026nbsp; Students will have the opportunity to not only work in a lab doing Pediatric Engineering research, but also will shadow clinicians to better understand pediatric medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is one of the only training programs in the country focused solely on pediatric bioengineering,\u0022 says Michael E. Davis, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory and director of the Pediatric Center for Cardiovascular Biology at Emory and Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta.\u0026nbsp; Nearly $500,000 in funding over five years will allow 10 talented undergraduate students each year from around the United States to work for a pediatric engineering project over the summer. The students also will shadow clinicians to better understand childhood diseases and receive training in scientific reading, writing, and scientific processes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll interested students should apply directly to the Emory SURE Program by clicking \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.emory.edu\/home\/projects\/students\/sure.html\u0022\u003EHERE\u003C\/a\u003E, and select the PERSE program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Application deadline February 2, 2015"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EApplication deadline February 2, 2015\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Application deadline February 2, 2015"}],"uid":"27159","created_gmt":"2014-12-30 13:58:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:46","author":"Vickie Okrzesik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"359461":{"id":"359461","type":"image","title":"SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience)","body":null,"created":"1449245775","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:15","changed":"1475895096","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:36","alt":"SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience)","file":{"fid":"201532","name":"sure-program.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sure-program_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sure-program_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1059521,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sure-program_0.png?itok=HvAahMDT"}}},"media_ids":["359461"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cse.emory.edu\/home\/projects\/students\/sure.html","title":"SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.pedsresearch.org\/","title":"Emory+Children\u0027s Pediatric Research Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"113241","name":"Emory Pediatric Bioengineering Summer Program"}],"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":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}