{"56483":{"#nid":"56483","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech and MIT Team Up For Diversity","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are co-organizing the National Science Foundation (NSF) Minority Faculty Development Workshop (MFDW) March 21 - 24 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The workshop theme, \u0022Engineering Faculty Success,\u0022 will offer workshop sessions designed to equip tenure track junior- and mid-level science and engineering faculty with tools and strategies to better navigate their careers.  Workshop participants come from four-year institutions from throughout the United States and represent the spectrum of engineering and science disciplines.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech President G.P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson will join MIT Provost Rafael Reif in opening the workshop. Georgia Tech Willie Pearson Jr., Professor of History, Technology and Society will serve as Monday\u0027s luncheon keynote speaker.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/release.html?nid=55034\u0027\u003EView Full Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are co-organizing the National Science Foundation (NSF) Minority Faculty Development Workshop (MFDW) March 21 - 24 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and MIT Team Up For Diversity"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2010-04-01 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:11","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"291","name":"Bud Peterson"},{"id":"736","name":"diversity"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"2924","name":"MIT"},{"id":"363","name":"NSF"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFloyd Wood\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIBB\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=fwood3\u0022\u003EContact Floyd Wood\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["floyd.wood@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}