{"410331":{"#nid":"410331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ravi Bellamkonda Lends Biomedical Expertise to GPB Radio","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Georgia Public Broadcasting\u2019s (GPB) popular radio show, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gpb.org\/on-second-thought\/episodes\/264\u0022\u003EOn Second Thought\u003C\/a\u003E, June 3, Ravi Bellamkonda, the Wallace H. Coulter Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering said, \u201cWe are very fortunate to have so many high quality institutions in this city. And this department is a collaboration, a public-private partnership between Emory and Georgia Tech that is highly ranked. We are in the top five for both undergraduate and graduate degrees. And that brings students from around the world to our program, as well as companies that want to hire those students [to the state of Georgia].\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA report from Georgia\u2019s Department of Labor predicts how the Georgia workforce will look in 2020, and it predicts a shift from farmers to careers such as biomedical engineering. The show\u0027s host, Celeste Headlee, talks about the job changes coming with Emory finance professor Tom Smith, Ravi Bellamkonda of the Biomedical Engineering department at Georgia Tech, and cotton farmer Matt Coley.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EListen to GPB\u0027s June 3, 2015, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/onsecondthought\/whats-the-hottest-job-to-have\u0022\u003EOn Second Thought radio interview below\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Ravi Bellamkonda discusses biomedical engineering jobs on Georgia Public Broadcasting\u0027s radio show, On Second Thought."}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ravi Bellamkonda discusses biomedical engineering jobs on Georgia Public Broadcasting\u0027s radio show, On Second Thought."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2015-06-04 09:01:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:29","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"410291":{"id":"410291","type":"image","title":"Ravi Bellamkonda, Wallace Coulter Biomedical Engineering Dept. Chair","body":null,"created":"1449254195","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:35","changed":"1475895139","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:19","alt":"Ravi Bellamkonda, Wallace Coulter Biomedical Engineering Dept. Chair","file":{"fid":"202253","name":"ravi_picture-walterlikes.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ravi_picture-walterlikes_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ravi_picture-walterlikes_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":247051,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ravi_picture-walterlikes_0.png?itok=HLDdMFJH"}}},"media_ids":["410291"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"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\u003EWalter Rich\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["wrich@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}