{"582879":{"#nid":"582879","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What To Do with a College of Sciences Degree","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo celebrate Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s 2016 Homecoming, we asked College of Sciences alumni to reflect on their Georgia Tech education. In the following profiles, alumni share what attracted them to Georgia Tech, the most important things they learned while pursuing their degrees in the College of Sciences, how their experiences at Tech influenced their career paths, and their vivid memories of their time at Tech. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, was named a fellow for 2014 by the American Chemical Society (ACS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, ACS named 99 members as fellows, chosen based on their outstanding accomplishments in chemistry as well as their contributions to ACS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is a wonderful thing to be recognized by my peers and the research community,\u201d said Xia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EXia specializes in creating nanomaterials, studying their properties and exploring how they can be used. He has also served as an associate editor of the ACS journal Nano Letters since 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently Xia is working on developing more efficient catalysts for hydrogen fuel cell technology, creating new scaffolding materials to be used in regenerative medicine, and cultivating contrasts and therapeutic agents for use in the fight against cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe scientists selected as this year\u2019s class of ACS fellows are truly a dedicated group, said Tom Barton, president of ACS. \u201cTheir outstanding contributions to advancing chemistry through service to the society are many. In their quest to improve people\u2019s lives through the transforming power of chemistry, they are helping us to fulfill the vision of the American Chemical Society.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new fellows will be recognized at the ACS Fellows Ceremony and Reception on Monday, August 11, 2014 during the society\u2019s 248th National Meeting \u0026amp; Exposition in San Francisco.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Younan Xia was named a fellow for 2014 by the American Chemical Society.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Younan Xia was named a fellow for 2014 by the American Chemical Society."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2014-07-30 09:50:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:48","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"253511":{"id":"253511","type":"image","title":"Younan Xia","body":null,"created":"1449243828","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:48","changed":"1475894934","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:54","alt":"Younan Xia","file":{"fid":"198154","name":"14c10302-p12-004.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c10302-p12-004_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c10302-p12-004_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1475310,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/14c10302-p12-004_0.jpg?itok=SzjbZamc"}}},"media_ids":["253511"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"743","name":"acs"},{"id":"5477","name":"American Chemical Society"},{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"919","name":"Biochemistry"},{"id":"2548","name":"biomedical"},{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"89","name":"chemistry"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"98771","name":"xia"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"214031":{"#nid":"214031","#data":{"type":"news","title":"PhD student, Tyrone Wells Awarded Gunnar Nicholson Exchange Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETyrone Wells Jr., a Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded the Gunnar Nicholson Exchange Fellowship. He will embark from the United States on a year-long research initiative at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenberg, Sweden to investigate novel strategies for biomaterial production.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis event will be in partnership with Professors H. Theliander (Chalmers) and A. Ragauskas (Georgia Tech). For this initiative, they will investigate the the utilization of inexpensive and abundant plant-derived biopolymers as precursors for carbon fiber development. By isolating and upgrading these key biopolymers as a byproduct or from the waste streams of the forestry, agriculture, and pulp and paper industry, they will illuminate novel strategies that may broaden the availability of strong and highly versatile graphite fibers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations, Tyrone!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETyrone Wells Jr., a Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded the Gunnar Nicholson Exchange Fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27275","created_gmt":"2013-05-21 11:23:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:16","author":"Shirley Tomes","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"214041":{"id":"214041","type":"image","title":"Tyrone Wells","body":null,"created":"1449180096","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:01:36","changed":"1475894876","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:56","alt":"Tyrone Wells","file":{"fid":"197017","name":"tyrone_052113.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tyrone_052113_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tyrone_052113_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3628225,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tyrone_052113_0.jpg?itok=crZ5f8ey"}}},"media_ids":["214041"],"groups":[{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShirley Tomes (404-894-0591) \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shirley.tomes@chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eshirley.tomes@chemistry.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["arthur.ragauskas@chemistry.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"199351":{"#nid":"199351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development Award - Dr. Nicholas Hud","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Nicholas V. Hud has been named to receive the 2013 GT-Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development Award at the Faculty and Staff Honors Luncheon on April 10, 2013.\u0026nbsp; Prof. Hud has led the establishment of a major research program at Georgia Tech in the area of Chemical Evolution and Prebiotic Chemistry, a program that has garnered national and international recognition. Under Prof. Hud\u0027s leadership, no less than ten laboratories at Georgia Tech are now involved in various aspects of chemical evolution and prebiotic chemistry research. The funding for this research is primarily provided by a $20 million grant (over five years) that was jointly funded in October 2010 by the NSF and NASA. These funds are managed through the Georgia Tech Center for Chemical Evolution (GT-CCE), of which Prof. Hud is PI and Founding Director.\u0026nbsp; The GT-CCE is a Phase II NSF Center for Chemical Innovation (CCI), of which only six currently exist in the nation. 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