{"386081":{"#nid":"386081","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Champion honored for undergraduate mentorship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJulie Champion, assistant professor in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering, has earned the Junior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award, issued every year by the Georgia Tech Faculty Honors Committee, honors a faculty member who has had \u201cdirect impact and involvement with undergraduates doing research, increasing their intellectual integrity and research scholarship and impact on their postgraduate success.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn selecting Champion for the award, the faculty committee noted her success in mentoring several President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Awards winners as well as heartfelt letters from students, the diversity of the students mentored and student involvement in published papers from the Champion lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMentoring undergraduates is one of the best parts of my job \u2014 to see them start fresh in the lab and mature into researchers who make important contributions to our work,\u201d Champion said. \u201cI enjoy talking with them about their future plans and weighing the choices they have as they start their new careers. I am always happy when they come back and tell me about the success they are having after they leave Georgia Tech, whether in graduate school or in industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChampion will be honored on April 17 at the Faculty and Staff Honors Luncheon.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJulie Champion, assistant professor in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering, has earned the Junior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Julie Champion, assistant professor in the School of Chemical \u0026 Biomolecular Engineering, has earned the Junior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for 2014."}],"uid":"28045","created_gmt":"2015-03-09 16:08:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:54","author":"Amy Schneider","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"380701":{"id":"380701","type":"image","title":"Julie Champion","body":null,"created":"1449246231","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:51","changed":"1475894398","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:58","alt":"Julie Champion","file":{"fid":"75264","name":"julie_champion_head_shot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/julie_champion_head_shot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/julie_champion_head_shot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":874584,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/julie_champion_head_shot.jpg?itok=PRk5Dfqr"}}},"media_ids":["380701"],"groups":[{"id":"1240","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmy Schneider\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E(404) 385-2299\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:news@chbe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enews@chbe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}