{"55273":{"#nid":"55273","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Receives Prestigious Hertz Foundation Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAndrea Barrett, a biomedical engineering student from the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been awarded a Hertz Fellowship. She is one of four women and 11 men selected from an elite pool of nearly 600 applicants and is the only student from the southeastern United States to receive the fellowship this year. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EValued at more than $250,000, Hertz Fellowships are a unique no-strings-attached award that allow exceptional applied scientists and engineers the freedom to innovate.\u0026nbsp; The awards provide support lasting up to five years of their graduate studies. Considered the nation\u2019s most generous Ph.D. fellowships, the Hertz Fellowship are provided by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, one of the nation\u2019s leading non-profit organizations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EScheduled to graduate in May 2010, Barrett is a recipient of the President\u2019s Scholarship, the highest merit award given at Georgia Tech. In 2008, she received the Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious national award for undergraduates pursuing graduate education in science or engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWinning the Hertz Fellowship is an amazing honor that I am so thrilled to receive,\u201d said Barrett.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThe Hertz Fellows are some of the most distinguished and accomplished scientists in the country, and I look forward to learning all I can from them. Earning this fellowship is a remarkable way to culminate my undergraduate career in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech, and I know it will change my life tremendously with all it has to offer for my graduate career.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBarrett\u2019s undergraduate research experiences have spanned multiple disciplines and international boundaries, resulting in two conference publications and contributions to several other manuscripts. She has worked in labs at Georgia Tech, Harvard Medical School, Osaka University in Japan, and the National Cancer Institute, leading the way on projects studying chromosome structure using genomic sequencing techniques, manipulating optical laser set-ups to improve biological microscopic imaging, developing data combination strategies for microarray data and graphical user interfaces for mass spectrometry imaging data, and measuring the effects of a potential skin cancer drug in mouse primary keratinocytes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBuilding on her undergraduate coursework and research experience in various facets of biomedical engineering, Barrett plans to pursue a Ph.D. in bioinformatics and computational biology and eventually a career in academia as a research professor at a top research institution. Beyond the research laboratory, Barrett plays the violin in the Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra and has performed with a pre-professional ballet company. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBarrett\u2019s leadership and mentoring experience includes serving as a team leader for a freshman seminar course, helping found the President\u0027s Scholar Mentoring Program, serving campus organization leaders as the vice chair of the Presidents\u0027 Council Governing Board and serving as an active participant in the leadership honor society Omicron Delta Kappa. The daughter of Richard and Linda, Barrett is a graduate of Brookwood High School in Snellville, Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Biomedical engineering student among 15 in the U.S. to receive $250,000 fellowship"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAndrea Barrett, a biomedical engineering student from the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been awarded a Hertz Fellowship. She is one of four women and 11 men selected from an elite pool of nearly 600 applicants and is the only student from the Southeastern United States to receive the fellowship this year.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Andrea Barrett, a biomedical engineering student from the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been awarded a Hertz Fellowship"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2010-04-06 16:40:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:49","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55271":{"id":"55271","type":"image","title":"Hertz Foundation Fellowship Winner Andrea Barrett","body":null,"created":"1449175507","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:07","changed":"1475894489","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:29","alt":"Hertz Foundation Fellowship Winner Andrea Barrett","file":{"fid":"190264","name":"Andrea_Barrett.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Andrea_Barrett_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Andrea_Barrett_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":52518,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Andrea_Barrett_0.jpg?itok=1qqelm4U"}}},"media_ids":["55271"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.hertzfoundation.org\/dx\/newsevents\/newsrelease.aspx?d=109","title":"Hertz Foundation Fellowships News Release"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9110","name":"Hertz Foundation Award"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mattnagel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}