{"547731":{"#nid":"547731","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Simon Sponberg Awarded NSF CAREER award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/s1.sponberg.gatech.edu\/people\/\u0022\u003ESimon N. Sponberg\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, is the sixth College of Sciences CAREER awardee. Sponberg, who has a partial appointment in the School of Applied Physiology, is interested in animal locomotion. His lab studies how the versatile, agile movements of animals arise from their physiological components, from the perspectives of physics and comparative biology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI\u2019m thrilled \u2013 but not at all surprised \u2013 by the recognition of accomplishment and promise by our early-career colleagues that these NSF CAREER awards signal. Their successes reflect the vigor they bring to their respective schools and to mathematics and the sciences at Georgia Tech,\u201d says College of Sciences Dean Paul M.\u0026nbsp;Goldbart. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;CAREER awards are NSF\u2019s most prestigious grant to support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars. Through five years of sustained support, the award enables promising and talented researchers to build a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Six faculty members in the College of Sciences are among the recent recipients of the early-career grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The highly competitive awards are from the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program; they pr"}],"uid":"28004","created_gmt":"2016-06-24 09:17:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:00","author":"Dione Morton","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"547721":{"id":"547721","type":"image","title":"Simon N. Sponberg","body":null,"created":"1466784000","gmt_created":"2016-06-24 16:00:00","changed":"1475895341","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:41","alt":"Simon N. Sponberg","file":{"fid":"217945","name":"simon_sponberg.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/simon_sponberg_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/simon_sponberg_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":82635,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/simon_sponberg_0.png?itok=e-15SVM3"}}},"media_ids":["547721"],"groups":[],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDione Morton\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["dione.morton@physics.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}